Inspire 2026

The next era of legal work will be defined not by who has access to AI, but by whose AI has the right context.

Every legal outcome draws on more than a single document. It depends on client history, matter evolution, firm precedent, governing policies, and institutional knowledge—connections that have been difficult to see and even harder for AI to understand.

In this opening keynote, NetDocuments will dive deep into the industry’s first Legal Context Gaph. Discover how this connective intelligence brings every matter into full context, enabling legal professionals and AI agents to deliver more accurate answers, relevant insights, lower costs, and better outcomes.

This is the foundation for a future where every legal professional, and every AI tool they choose, can work with the full power of what their organization already knows.

Speakers:
Josh Baxter, CEO, NetDocuments
Dan Hauck, CPO, NetDocuments
Manish Rai, VP, Product and Market Strategy, NetDocuments
Phil Tow, OpenAI

Step away from the sessions to recharge and connect. Use this time to explore the sponsor expo, see live demos from the partners and technology providers shaping the legal tech ecosystem, and catch up with fellow attendees.

Why build everything yourself when many common legal workflows are already solved? Explore everything currently available in NetDocuments’ growing library of 40+ ready-to-use Studio Apps—and be among the first to learn what’s coming next.

Discover the range of solutions available across litigation, transactional work, M&A, and more, including apps for Judge Analytics, Playbook Generation, Translation, Comparison, Extraction, and Contract Risk. You’ll leave with practical ideas for applying AI-powered automation and a clearer path to delivering value faster across your organization.

Speakers:
Tyler Graf, Studio Apps Development Lead, NetDocuments
Patric Thomas, Product and Market Strategy, NetDocuments

Technology alone doesn’t drive transformation—people do. This expert panel will explore what it takes to build buy-in, lead meaningful change, and turn new technology into lasting adoption.

Looking beyond AI itself, panelists will examine the people, processes, and culture that determine whether new ways of working take hold. They’ll share practical strategies for engaging stakeholders, overcoming resistance, evolving workflows, and investing in training and development—helping your organization adopt technology with confidence and sustain innovation as the landscape changes.

Speakers:
Kyle Kissell, Legal Innovation Partner Director, NetDocuments
Kathleen Hogan, Legal Innovation Partner, NetDocuments
Chris Fernelius, Legal Innovation Partner, NetDocuments
Michelle Spencer, Legal Technology Strategist, NetDocuments

Legal teams don’t have an AI accuracy problem or a cost problem in isolation – they have both, and most organizations assume solving one means sacrificing the other. NetDocuments’ Legal Context Engineering Benchmark (LCEB) tested that assumption directly: holding the model, agent, and questions constant while varying only the structured context available to the AI. The results show the path to how legal organizations can scale AI with confidence by leveraging context to get to the right answer at lower cost. Join us for an in depth discussion of the importance of context engineering in legal, including steps you can take in your organization to build readiness.

Speakers:
Heath Harris, VP, Applied AI and Enterprise Transformation, NetDocuments
Manish Rai, VP, Product and Market Strategy, NetDocuments

Whether you’re new to NetDocuments or just beginning your AI journey, this session will help you unlock the full potential of AI across the platform. Explore the capabilities available today, see how organizations are using AI to streamline legal work, and learn where we’re headed next. You’ll leave with a clear understanding of how to get started, where to find the greatest value, and how to build confidence as AI becomes part of your team’s everyday work.

Speakers:
Nate Ruiz, Director, Product Management
Zane Harker, Director, Producdt Management
Kyle Brogdon, Senior Product Manager
Jared Beckstead, Product and Market Strategy

Stop by to see our sponsors on your way to your next breakout.

What if analyzing documents looked more like working in a spreadsheet than reading documents one by one? Discover how NetDocuments tabular review helps legal professionals instantly compare clauses, extract key information, identify exceptions, and analyze large document collections in minutes instead of days. You’ll explore real customer scenarios across law firms, corporate legal departments, and government organizations, and leave ready to put this powerful new capability to work.

Speakers:
Eric Duncan, Legal Solutions Director, NetDocuments
Patric Thomas, Product and Market Strategy, NetDocuments

Accurate, consistent document profiling is essential to unlocking the context legal professionals—and the AI tools they use—need to do their best work. Whether you rely on the standard NetDocuments taxonomy or your organization’s unique ontology, the challenge is applying that structure completely and consistently across your repository.

In this session, you’ll explore proven approaches and available options for solving the taxonomy challenge at scale, strengthening the foundation for better search, smarter insights, and more effective AI.

Speakers:
Heath Harris, VP, Applied AI and Enterprise Transformation, NetDocuments

As AI reshapes legal work, the relationship between corporate legal departments and outside counsel is evolving alongside it. Expectations around collaboration, transparency, efficiency, and value are changing faster than ever.

Through real-world examples and interactive conversation, you’ll gain fresh perspectives, practical ideas, and new approaches for building stronger, more connected client relationships in the age of AI.

Speakers:
Kathleen Hogan, Legal Innovation Partner, NetDocuments
Michael Owen Hill, Product and Market Strategy, NetDocuments

Whether you’re new to NetDocuments or looking to get more from your investment, this session will help you make the most of the platform’s core capabilities. Discover best practices for search, security, workspaces, document organization, collaboration, and more, while uncovering features that help legal professionals work faster and more efficiently every day. You’ll also get a preview of how we’re continuing to evolve the industry’s leading intelligent document management platform and what that means for your organization.

Speakers:
Travis Reed, Director of Product Management, NetDocuments
Reid Cram, Product and Market Strategy, NetDocuments

Last stop before the finale. Recharge quickly, then head to the Main Stage for a closing session you won’t want to miss.

Join a panel of industry experts as they discuss what it takes to build an AI-ready organization, from trusted data and governance to connected workflows, security, and institutional knowledge. Together, they’ll explore why context has become the critical ingredient for reliable AI, how leading organizations are preparing today for tomorrow’s innovations, and what practical steps you can take to future-proof your legal technology strategy.

Speaker:
Heath Harris, VP, Applied AI and Enterprise Transformation (Moderator)
Melissa Bailey, Partner, Brooks Pierce
Allison Loseke, Internal Solutions Consultant, Kutak Rock
Vincent Colavita, Practice Innovation Manager, Akin Gump
Neethi Jois, Practice Innovation Strategist, Akin Gump

Let’s come together to unwind and enjoy great food, drinks, and conversations.

Start your day with something to eat and get the energy going.

The way legal professionals interact with their work is changing. Be among the first to experience the next generation of NetDocuments – a modern, intelligent experience designed to help you find what matters faster, navigate work more intuitively, and put AI and institutional knowledge at lawyers’ fingertips.

In this session, you’ll see what’s available today, get an exclusive preview of what’s coming next, and learn how your organization can adopt the new experience at the pace that’s right for your firm or department.

Speakers:
Dan Hauck, CPO, NetDocuments
Nate Ruiz, Director of Product Management, NetDocuments
Jeff Carter, Head of Product Design, NetDocuments

Step away from the sessions to recharge and connect. Use this time to explore the sponsor expo, see live demos from the partners and technology providers shaping the legal tech ecosystem, and catch up with fellow attendees.

Learn how to find answers, connect with the right NetDocuments teams, and make the most of the resources available to you. We’ll walk through practical ways to get support, including how to raise and manage tickets, contact your Support and Customer Success teams, navigate the Customer Hub, explore the redesigned Knowledge Base, and access training through NetDocuments University.

Speakers:
Brian Hall, Sr. Manager, Customer Success, NetDocuments

Whether your role encompasses knowledge management or not, knowledge is key to your success and that of your organization. But knowledge locked in unstructured data or the memory of experts is knowledge that can’t be leveraged to the fullest. In this session you will understand the role NetDocuments can play in helping to create, store and distribute the knowledge your team needs to do their best work. We will cover common asset and information gaps and how to close them quickly and without months (or years!) of highly manual work. We will also cover establishing strategic objectives, milestones and metrics to help you flesh out a practical plan to level up your organization’s knowledge with NetDocuments.

Legal work has never been more collaborative – or more complex. Whether you’re working across practice groups, with clients, or alongside outside counsel, NetDocuments helps teams collaborate seamlessly without sacrificing security or governance. Explore the latest collaboration capabilities – from , see what’s coming next, and discover how we’re making it easier for legal professionals to co-author, share, review, and manage work together from anywhere. You’ll leave with practical ideas for improving teamwork while keeping your organization’s most sensitive information protected.

Speakers:
Travis Reed – Director, Product Management, NetDocuments,
Jake Evans – Solutions Engineer, NetDocuments
Patric Thomas – Product and Market Strategy, NetDocuments

Stop by to see our sponsors on your way to your next breakout session.

Go beyond the overview with a practical, in-depth tour of two essential customer resources. Learn how to use the Customer Hub to find product information, access the redesigned Knowledge Base, connect with Support, and raise and manage tickets. Then explore NetDocuments University and its growing library of on-demand training for onboarding, skill development, and continued learning. You’ll see what’s available today, preview upcoming enhancements, and leave knowing where to go when you need answers, guidance, or training.

Speakers:
Greg Paris, Sr. Director, Customer Support, NetDocuments
Rebecca Sattin, Sr. Director, Partner Success, NetDocuments

When partners, associates and corporate counsel start asking for AI tools instead of waiting to be offered them, adoption looks different. This session looks at what happens when demand comes from fee earners and corporate counsel themselves, and how that demand can drive faster adoption and more meaningful innovation. We’ll also share insights into how tech and operations teams and the lawyers they support can work together most effectively, so well-governed and strategic technical rollouts and legal practice move in step rather than at odds.

Email remains one of the most important, and most challenging, document types legal teams manage every day. This session covers recent and planned developments in NetDocuments for Outlook, and why we’ve continued to invest in this core capability. We’ll walk through what’s changed, what’s coming next, and how these updates help you capture, organize and govern email alongside the rest of your work.

Speakers:
Jared Hasleton, Product Management
Alyssa Achacoso, Product Resesarch
Patric Thomas, Product & Market Strategy

You’ve likely heard a lot about the role of “context engineering” in AI and how the industry-first NetDocuments legal context graph addresses this challenge. In this session we will dive deeper into the opportunities, challenges and considerations specific to corporate teams.

Take a break and refuel with lunch and networking.

Get direct access to the people building NetDocuments. In this informal, roundtable-style session, you’ll rotate through small-group conversations with NetDocuments product managers covering key areas of the platform – from the Legal Context Graph to Smart Search, Studio Apps, core document management, and the reimagined experience. Ask questions, share feedback, and get a firsthand look at what’s coming next, straight from the teams building it.

Step away from the sessions to recharge and connect. Use this time to explore the sponsor expo, see live demos from the partners and technology providers shaping the legal tech ecosystem, and catch up with fellow attendees.

Whether you’re a dedicated trainer or simply care about improving learning and adoption in your organization, this interactive, panel-style session is designed for you. Hear from NetDocuments experts and customers, contribute your own experiences, and engage with fellow attendees on the challenges of delivering effective training as technology and ways of working continue to evolve. You’ll leave with a practical checklist, peer-tested ideas, and clear action items to help you launch a new training program or strengthen an existing one—regardless of your organization’s current level of AI adoption.

Speakers:
Michelle Spencer, Legal Technology Strategist, NetDocuments
Patric Thomas, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, NetDocuments
Sarah Styles, Enterprise Training Lead, NetDocuments

Regardless of your level of expertise, you will find value in this session focusing on the technical considerations and recommended best practices for leveraging Model Context Protocol to connect AI tools, users and the context both require to do their best work. We will start with the basics (what is MCP, how does it work) and progress toward more advanced considerations around governance and auditability.

Speakers:
Chris Dunsford, Element Technologies

Building on our earlier introduction to the reimagined experience, this session takes a closer look at how the NetDocuments user experience is evolving overall, covering recent and planned developments across both the traditional experience many customers know well and the newer reimagined experience. We’ll go deeper on the roadmap for each, how the two will continue to evolve side by side, and how best to introduce the new experience to your users so the transition feels deliberate rather than disruptive. Attendees will leave with a clearer picture of where each experience stands today and where they’re headed.

Speakers:
Nate Ruiz, Director, Product Management
Jeff Carter, Head of Product Research
Jared Beckstead, Product & Market Strategy

Stop by to see our sponsors on your way to your next breakout session.

Your organization holds valuable knowledge across documents, matters, people, and systems—but making that knowledge easy to find and use remains a challenge. This session explores how AI and the Legal Context Graph can help you turn institutional memory into a living, connected resource that supports your people when and where they need it. You’ll learn practical ways to strengthen your knowledge management strategy, clarify responsibility for curation, and use advanced tools to identify, structure, and surface valuable knowledge—without committing to a multi-year project.

Speakers:
Kathleen Hogan, Legal Innovation Partner, NetDocuments
Heath Harris, Heath Harris, VP, Applied AI and Enterprise Transformation, NetDocuments
Jared Beckstead, Product and Market Strategy, NetDocuments

Rolling out NetDocuments AI capabilities, or any AI tool, is as much a change management challenge as a technical one. This session is built around case studies from law firms and legal departments that have navigated both sides of that rollout, the technical implementation and the human adoption curve that determines whether it actually sticks. We’ll survey where these organizations got it right, what they’d do differently with hindsight, and the common threads that separate a smooth rollout from a stalled one. You’ll leave with a practical playbook you can adapt to your own organization’s change management approach.

Speakers:
Kyle Kissell, Legal Innovation Partner Director, NetDocuments
Sarah Styles, Enterprise Training Lead, NetDocuments
Michelle Spencer, Legal Technology Strategist, NetDocuments

People, process, technology … and culture. It takes all four working in harmony to enable your organization to adapt to change, successfully adopt new tools and practices, and innovate to maintain and expand your competitive advantage. In this session, we will discuss how organizations like yours are overcoming common challenges, seizing opportunities and driving meaningful change.

Speakers:
Debbie Foster, CEO, Affinity
Maria Shust, Sr. Consultant, Affinity

Law firms and legal departments are watching many of the same trends unfold, but not always in the same way. This panel of experts will bring together perspectives from both sides of the table for a wide-ranging conversation on where legal tech and AI are headed next. The discussion will go beyond AI’s pace of change to cover fundamentals like maintaining bench strength as roles shift, evolving expectations around who does what work, and the alternative value delivery models reshaping how legal services are structured and priced. Attendees will leave with a grounded, cross-functional view of the trends worth watching and the ones that matter most for their own organization.

Speakers:
Kathleen Hogan (Moderator)
Christian Lang, Head of Innovation, BARBRI
Brad Blickstein, CEO, Blickstein Group
Ron Friedmann, Principal Consultant, Ron Friedmann LLC
Judi Flournoy, DIrector, Emerging & Member Technology, ILTA

Join in for an unforgettable evening of great conversations, delicious food, and fun entertainment. More details coming soon.