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A summary of important releases and updates from LawVu Developer.

2025

API V2 endpoints - now generally available

August 4, 2025

Concluding a successful beta period, we are now making V2 API endpoints generally available to our Developer community.

  • Simplified, more intuitive payloads
  • Improved field identifiers
  • Enhanced reference documentation
  • Improved API responses

See frequently asked questions for more information on API V2 endpoints and V1 deprecation.

Related: V2 API reference, FAQs

API V2 endpoint beta

June 3, 2025

A new set of V2 API endpoints released to a beta group, allowing us to incorporate feedback from our developer community before general availability.

Related: V2 API reference, FAQs

2024

API endpoint changes

December 20, 2024

We've updated our API endpoints for production and sandbox environments. You no longer need to target a specific region endpoint for production.

  • Production: api.lawvu.com
  • Sandbox: api-sandbox.lawvu.com

FAQ

  • Existing region specific endpoints (*.public-api.lawvu.com) continue to be supported.
  • The web host used to retrieve an auth code is unchanged.
  • For sandboxes created prior to 21 February 2024, continue to use integrations.public-api.lawvu.com

Related: Authentication guide

Files API – Create folder endpoint

June 27, 2024

Added the ability create a folder (or subfolder) in a matter or contract

Related: Files API > Create folder

March 11, 2024

Fixed an issue preventing a file from being moved from a folder into the root folder of a matter or contract Added ParentRecordType and ParentRecordId properties to the Get File response

Related: Files API > Get file Files API > Move file

Removed Subscription Key requirement

February 26, 2024

We’ve removed the requirement for subscription keys when making requests to all APIs.

Your integration no longer needs to include the ‘Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key’ header. If included, it will be ignored and not impact responses.

Added new “take” parameter when using find endpoints

February 15, 2024

We’ve added a new “take” parameter to the “Find matters” and “Find contracts” endpoints, allowing you to control the maximum number of results returned.

Related: Matters API > Find matters Contracts API > Find contracts

2023

Matter and contract filtering enhancements

November 23, 2023

Updated “Get contracts” and “Get matters” endpoints to support the following:

Added support for filtering on a single field or multiple fields Added ability to specify which fields are included in the response

Related: Matters API > Get matters Contracts API > Get contracts

Account API – financial settings endpoint

August 21, 2023

Added ability to retrieve financial settings for the active user’s organization Related: Account API > Organisations

Added Team ID to “Get contract” response

August 3, 2023

Added Team ID to “Get contract” response, allowing retrieval of a contract’s currently assigned team.

See: Contracts API > Contracts

Added the ability to retrieve contracts’ key dates

July 17, 2023

Retrieve a list of key contract dates for a given contract ID and use contract.keydate.created and contract.keydate.updated webhook topics to get visibility.

Added ability to retrieve a list of key dates for a given contract ID Added contract.keydate.created and contract.keydate.updated webhook topics Related: Contracts API > ContractKeyDate, Webhooks guide

Added ability to retrieve a list of matter tasks.

March 23, 2023

This new endpoint supports filtering, pagination and custom sorting.

Example use cases:

Sync a user’s tasks across all matters to an external system (e.g. reporting or kanban view) Retrieve all incomplete tasks across the legal team Related: Matters API > Organisations

Added “Get file” endpoint

February 17, 2023

Added a new “Get file” endpoint, allowing for the retrieval of metadata for a single file by File ID.

Related: Files API > Get file

Added Webhooks functionality

January 27, 2023

Leverage LawVu’s webhooks framework in order to receive event notification to a publicly accessible URL, allowing near-real-time automation + integration workflows.

Related: Webhooks Guide

Added ability to retrieve a list of contract members

January 23, 2023

Added a new “Get contract users” endpoint, allowing for the retrieval of a given contract’s members.

Related: Contracts API > Get contract users

2022

More actions on your matters and contracts

October 4, 2022

New capabilities added:

  • post a status message to a matter
  • add a task template to a matter
  • retrieve a list of task templates
  • add a member to a contract, or assign a contract owner

Related: Matters API > Add status message to a matter Matters API > Add a task template to a matter Matters API > Get task templates Contracts API > Add user to a contract

Matters and contracts endpoint enhancements

June 13, 2022

New capabilities added:

Added context parameter to Get Matters Default Get contracts context parameter to Personal (aka “my contracts”) Related: Matters API > Get matters Contracts API > Get contracts

Pagination update – 50 item default

June 8, 2022

The default “take” parameter has been updated to 50 items. Impacts on all paginated endpoints.

Lookup field enhancement

May 19, 2022

Added ability to add options to a Lookup (single) field

Related: Fields API > Add a choice to the single lookup field

Field value enhancements

February 10, 2022

New field value-related capabilities have been added to the API:

Added ability to retrieve matter field values Added ability to update (patch) matter fields values Added ability to update (patch) contract fields values

Related: Matters API > Get matter fields Matters API > Update fields Contracts API > Update fields

User search improvement

January 11, 2022

Updated “Search users” endpoint to add ability to filter by user organisation and to active users only. Related:

Account API > Search users