Abstract: A collaborative contract management system integrates the collaborative creation of contract documents, the collaborative negotiation of the contents of those documents, and the management of executed contracts, thereby enabling multiple parallel users to work collectively on the creation, negotiation, and management of contracts. The multiple parallel users communicate with a contract server to access a database containing electronic contracts documents arranged into a plurality of files based on a contract status. A graphical user interface presented through a display at any active user terminal includes graphical representations of the files. The multiple parallel users can easily navigate through the database using the graphical user interface to create and view contract documents, view relationships between contract documents, track versions of contracts, access documents for editing, copying, or annotating during negotiation, track executed documents, and otherwise manage executed contracts.