NetDocuments, the #1 trusted intelligent document management system for legal professionals, today introduced a fundamentally reimagined platform experience built around an industry-first legal context graph. It is the first system that continuously maps how every matter, document, and communication in a firm connects across hundreds of millions of records – while respecting each firm’s existing permissions and ethical walls. Private preview opens today.
This is not a refreshed interface. It is a fundamental shift in what the platform is, moving from a system that stores legal work to a system that truly understands it. A lawyer opening an unfamiliar matter now sees it in full context, including the summary, key parties, activity timeline, the precedent the firm has already built, and the people who have done this work before. AI agents working inside NetDocuments, as well as those working in external tools via MCP, including Claude, ChatGPT, and other legal AI applications via ndConnect, operate from the firm’s true institutional knowledge, rather than a single session’s uploads.
For thirty years, legal technology has stored what was done. Now, NetDocuments’ reimagined platform understands it, surfaces it, and acts on it.
Years of research and AI-first design have gone into these advancements, and the context graph is grounded in a reality every legal team recognizes: critical context is everywhere in a firm, but rarely accessible when it matters. A new lawyer joins a complex matter and spends days reconstructing context that already exists. A partner asks whether the firm has handled something similar, and the answer depends on who’s in the room. A senior lawyer retires, and decades of judgment, precedent, and hard-won insight walk out the door.
“Legal data is fundamentally different. It is language, not fields, and unlocking its meaning requires understanding it as a connected whole — every matter, every document, every communication, at firm scale,” said Josh Baxter, Chief Executive Officer at NetDocuments. “That kind of context has never been engineered into a legal platform before. It is what we have built, and it is the foundation lawyers and AI agents both need.”
Built for legal scale, with leading technology partners
Legal work is fundamentally more complex than traditional enterprise systems, given the volume of unstructured and highly nuanced data it involves. Building and operating a context graph at this scale required breakthroughs in how legal work is modeled, connected, and made usable.
NetDocuments worked closely with partners including AWS and Elastic to design a system that continuously processes and connects hundreds of millions of documents under strict governance.
“What NetDocuments has built with AWS sets a new standard for what’s possible at this scale. Semantically understanding and continuously connecting hundreds of millions of legal documents, under each firm’s own governance model, is the kind of work that defines enterprise-grade AI infrastructure for regulated industries,” said Carol Potts, General Manager, ISVs, Amazon Web Services.
For AI in legal, the shift is just as consequential. Until now, AI applications have operated on whatever a lawyer could upload into a single session, a model that breaks down in a profession where the most valuable expertise is built over years. The context graph gives AI agents organization-wide context, with the firm’s permissioning and ethical walls fully preserved. The result is AI that can surface relevant precedent, avoid duplication, and reflect how legal work actually gets done.
What lawyers will experience with NetDocuments’ reimagined platform:
- Search by meaning, across the full firm. Every document and communication is searchable by what it is actually about, not just keywords, with permissions and ethical walls preserved.
- Institutional knowledge that doesn’t walk out the door. By mapping how documents, matters, people, and expertise connect, NetDocuments turns what once lived in lawyers’ heads into something structured, searchable, and continuously evolving.
- Every matter starts with clarity, not a blank page. Opening a matter surfaces an automatic overview including a summary, key documents, parties, timelines, and the work product that matters most, eliminating hours or days of manual reconstruction.
- AI in the tools lawyers already use. AI-powered drafting, redlining, playbook generation, and document comparison now run across NetDocuments and Microsoft 365 in a modern interface designed for adoption.
- A firm’s real knowledge, available to any AI. Inside NetDocuments and through external tools via MCP, AI agents draw from a connected, permission-aware source of truth instead of a single session’s uploads.
“One lawyer described it to us as the picture of a matter that has always lived in a lawyer’s head, now made visible, interactive, and ready for an agent to work with,” said Dan Hauck, Chief Product Officer at NetDocuments. “This is the deepest piece of platform engineering we have ever shipped, and it is the one that matters most. You cannot retrofit this. It has to be built into the core.”
Where the industry is headed
The shift is one analysts and investors have been pointing to. Gartner has named “context engineering” a strategic priority for AI leaders. Foundation Capital has called context graphs the next defining shift in enterprise AI, arguing the value lies not in who owns the data but in who can explain why decisions were made. Without that foundation, AI hallucinates, duplicates work, or misses the precedent that matters most. With it, AI becomes meaningfully more useful.
While the new platform launches with a focus on the realities of law firm practice, it is built for the full range of organizations, including corporate and public organizations who face the same fundamental challenge of activating institutional knowledge. NetDocuments will share more for these audiences in the coming weeks.
The new platform alongside the trusted original
The new platform launches as a new experience alongside the original NetDocuments interface, which thousands of firms rely on every day. Firms can move to the new platform on their own timeline. Both experiences are fully supported, share the same underlying data, and operate under the same governance model, enabling firms and end-users to adopt the new platform when they are ready, without disrupting how their teams work today.
Explore the platform
Demo videos covering the matter overview, contextual search, and agentic workflows – along with a deep dive on the architecture and the legal context behind it — are available here. Private preview is open today for select customers, with broader rollout in the coming months. Join the waitlist or register for the June 9 webinar to see the new platform in action.
Every matter. Every project. Every case. Connected.
About NetDocuments
NetDocuments helps legal professionals do their best work with an intelligent document management system (DMS) that goes beyond getting organized and brings to life seamless AI, powerful workflows, and smarter experiences. The #1 trusted cloud-native DMS for 25+ years, NetDocuments delivers tools to make work easier throughout the document lifecycle — from award-winning automation and AI to email management, search, collaboration, document bundling, advanced security, and more.
Supporting more than 7,000 law firms, corporate legal departments, and public sector organizations worldwide, the platform integrates with 150+ other technologies, including Microsoft 365 and DocuSign, making it a core solution that meets users wherever they work. To learn more, visit netdocuments.com.
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