[babs474]

I've always wondered if some programming tools couldn't help out in the legal world.

It seems to me version control and diffing tools could be very applicable. I wonder if the concept of branching could help for very complex contract negotiations.

Also library dependency management. Contracts often include well established clauses that can change incrementally over time. Maybe even transitive dependencies?

From what I've seen the legal industry kind of sucks a technology and they tend to brute force things with hordes of junior lawyers and microsoft word.