A practical guide for legal teams on identifying the key issues and reducing the evidentiary risk of modern attachments in Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace matters.

Why this matters

Cloud links are fast becoming the default way to share documents. For Australian legal teams, these modern attachments are now a mainstream discovery issue. Standard collection captures the link, not always the document behind it.

Even when the file is collected, it may not be the version that was sent. A review can look complete yet miss the key document in a thread, simply because it was shared as a link.