As NetDocuments rolls out a very redesigned person expertise, a brand new Microsoft 365 integration, and real-time co-authoring, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi speaks with Chief Product Officer Dan Hauck in an episode recorded stay on the firm’s Encourage convention in Orlando in October. Hauck, who final appeared on the show in 2022, explains how the corporate rethought its interface for an agent-ready world, why clients can swap freely between the outdated and new experiences with no compelled migration, and the way the brand new M365 add-in replaces legacy desktop integrations so legal professionals can work throughout Home windows, Mac and cell gadgets.
(That is the second of three episodes we recorded at Encourage. Final week, we posted Bob’s interview with Josh Baxter, CEO of NetDocuments.)
Hauck additionally digs into the authorized context graph, the proprietary data infrastructure the corporate launched earlier this 12 months that constantly maps the relationships amongst each matter, doc, communication and particular person throughout a agency’s total doc repository. He explains the way it works, the way it helps brokers carry out higher, and the way it can dramatically cut back the price of token consumption. He additionally walks by way of different NetDocuments’ bulletins, together with the overall availability of tabular evaluation, new doc technology and redlining within the NetDocuments assistant, interactive HTML stories, and a beta MCP connector with Legora that joins current connectors to Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, and others.
A former litigator who based ThreadKM earlier than NetDocuments acquired it, Hauck attracts parallels between in the present day’s AI shift and the early days of technology-assisted evaluation in e-discovery, when legal professionals first realized to pair human judgment with machine pace. He discusses why NetDocuments retains investing in its personal interface whilst MCP lets customers attain their paperwork from different AI platforms, how smaller and midsized companies can profit from the context graph with out devoted data administration workers, and what an agentic DMS would possibly appear to be in each day observe.
Hear right here:
Watch right here:
Thank You To Our Sponsors
This episode of LawNext is generously made attainable by our sponsors. We respect their assist and hope you’ll test them out.
In the event you take pleasure in listening to LawNext, please go away us a evaluation wherever you take heed to podcasts.