When a class action suit is filed against a company it involves many depositions, pleadings and other court activities. Servant7 gives attorneys, court officials and subject matter experts a central place to access and store information about each case.

First, an attorney working on a new class action suit logs into Servant7 to create a new case. Then, he or she can upload corresponding documentation (in PDF format) and assign read-write privileges to other application users. They may also assign a relevancy rating to documents in order to prioritize important pieces of information.

Adding or editing a file allows the administrator to grant user security.

Court officials, subject matter experts and other attorneys may login to Servant7 to view the documentation they’ve been granted access to or to upload new documents. For example, court officials login to the application to add court scripts and translation documents for attorney review.

The My Profile page allows each user to change their name and password without administrative assistance.

Other important features in Servant7 include:

	Version control – Often times an Attorney needs to download, make changes and upload a new version of a document to Servant7. The system always displays the latest version of a document and maintains an audit trail of changes by user and version.
	Security – Application users can only see cases they are granted access to. Files are marked ‘read only’ unless the user in question is given special permission to edit the document by its creator.
	Audit Trail – The system audit log records major activities including: user login, user IP address, file upload/download, changes to user accounts and more.

Audit Trail tracks key activities throughout the system.

Several thousand Servant7 users process 10,000 transactions each month.

The User table displays users along with relevant information.

Major code customizations include:

	Upload documents to the file system instead of a database
	Download files from a file system instead of a database
	Audit logging of key activities in the system
	Automatically add a row linking the current user with the file they just uploaded by inserting a new row to the intersection (many to many) table when a file is received and a row saved in the File table

Clicking the document title will download the file.

The File Metadata Vote page allows the user to rank many files at once.

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