Approve or reject a legal request or its attachment

  • Versão de lançamento: Australia
  • Atualizado 12 de mar. de 2026
  • 2 min. de leitura

    • Review a legal request or attachment and approve or reject it.

    Antes de Iniciar

    You must have received an email notification with a link to the legal item for approval.

    Role required: none approver_user and legal_user

    Procedimento

    1. Open the approval record from the email notification, Legal Counsel Center, Self-Service, or Employee Center portal.
      OptionsSteps
      From the email notification Click the link in the email to open the record that needs approval.
      From Legal Counsel Center
      Nota:
      The request_fulfiller role is required to access Legal Counsel Center.
      1. Navigate to All > Legal Request > Legal Counsel Center.
      2. Click the list icon (List icon).
      3. In the Lists tab, under My Work, click Items Pending Approval.
      4. In the Items Pending Approval list, click a record to open for approval.
      From Self-Service
      1. Navigate to All > Self-Service > My Approvals.
      2. In the My Approvals list, click a record to open for approval.
      From Employee Center
      1. In the Employee Center portal, on the menu bar, click the My Tasks.
      2. In the My To-dos list, click a record under the Open tab to open for approval.
    2. Review the record and either approve or reject:
      • To approve the record, click Approve.
      • To reject the record, enter comments for rejection in the Comments field and click Reject.

    Resultado

    The following table shows the result of approve and reject actions on the approval record.
    Tabela 1. Result of approving or rejecting a legal item
    Approve Reject
    • The approval record's state updates from Requested to Approved.

      If the requested item was assigned to a user group for approval, then the state of the approval records for the remaining users updates from Requested to No Longer Required.

      Nota:
      If the approval was for an attachment of a legal request, the attachment cannot be deleted from the legal request.
    • Any approver who isn’t added to Watch list in the legal request would lose access to the approved item.
    • The approval record's state updates from Requested to Rejected.

      If the requested item was assigned to a user group for approval, then the state of the approval records for the remaining users updates from Requested to No Longer Required.

    • The rejection comments posted by the approver is added to the legal request's Activities section.
    • Any approver who isn’t added to Watch list in the legal request would lose access to the approved item.
    • Any approver who isn’t added to Watch list in the legal request would lose access to the approved item.
    • Request fulfiller and collaborators get an email notification about the approval or rejection.