Client
A global law firm, well-known for its remarkable legal abilities and cross-border expertise, partnered with us recently. Serving clients across the globe, including businesses, financial institutions, and government bodies, the firm maintains a strong international presence by operating a huge network of partners and attorneys. The company generally handles complex cross-border transactions, high-stakes disputes, and large-scale legal matters.
Problem Statement
The client’s legal team spent more time manually comparing clauses, cells, and paragraphs across various documents, the time that could have been better spent on strategic initiatives. These documents included large regulatory and contract files, which needed a detailed view to detect additions, deletions, or modifications within specific sections or table cells. As there was no centralized interface to monitor tracking, approvals, and comments, the process often resulted in duplicated work and inconsistencies, leading to reduced efficiency and overall productivity.
Solution
A solution was implemented to identify edits made in the documents via cell-level and inline text comparison, using strikethrough for deletions and highlighting for additions. The workflows were properly managed by connecting their system to Dataverse for secure version storage, access control, and historical tracking. With Power Automate, stakeholders were delighted to get quick notifications on the detection or approval of changes. In practice, whenever a user submitted an updated document, the React app would call a backend API to compare it with the earlier version. The system checked the content line by line or cell by cell to spot what had changed.
The differences engine detected:
- Additions: Highlighted in green or underlined
- Deletions: Shown with red strikethrough
- Modifications: Highlighted in yellow or annotated inline
Business Outcome
- Enhanced Transparency: Legal users instantly saw what changed, including additions, deletions, or modifications, in a detailed way.
- Improved Review Efficiency: Reduced manual document comparisons by 80–90% leading to fast approval cycles.
- Centralized Control: Maintained a complete audit trail of document updates and editor activity.
- Consistent Legal Updates: Ensured all team members worked from the latest approved versions, minimizing compliance risk. Seamless Collaboration: Enabled cross-team visibility and review, with inline commenting and status tracking.