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What’s the Hidden Cost of
Using “Good Enough”
Legal Tech?

Outdated systems appear stable, but over time small cracks in efficiency, compliance, and scalability widen into major issues. Modernization with NetDocuments ensures a foundation that’s secure, resilient, and future-ready.

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Risk & Compliance Cracks

Old document management systems weren’t built for modern data security, regulatory changes, or AI adoption.

Hidden Cost: Potential penalties, failed audits, and reputational damage

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Operational Cracks

Small inefficiencies compound — lawyers spend hours searching for files instead of delivering legal insights. 

Hidden Cost: Lawyer productivity lost

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Technology Cracks​

Legacy systems can’t integrate with cloud, AI, or modern business systems and require heavy IT support, patches, and infrastructure upkeep.

Hidden Cost: Higher total cost of ownership

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Innovation Cracks

Old systems don’t integrate with modern tools (AI, collaboration, mobile).

Hidden Cost: Falling behind competitors who embrace digital transformation

Hidden Cost Calculator

Estimate your annual hidden costs across productivity loss, IT and maintenance, compliance and risk, opportunity cost, and outside counsel to see category totals and the grand total.

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Estimated Hidden Annual Cost

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Productivity Loss
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Productivity Loss = employees × wasted hrs/week × hourly rate × 52.

IT & Maintenance
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IT & Maintenance = (annual IT hours × hourly IT rate) + server/maintenance fees.

Compliance & Risk
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Compliance & Risk = (estimated fine × probability of occurrence) + legal overhead.

Opportunity Cost
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Opportunity Cost = efficiency gain hrs/week × employees × hourly rate × 52.

Outside Counsel
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Outside Counsel = extra hours billed × outside counsel hourly rate.

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Formulas
Productivity Loss: employees × wasted hrs/week × employee rate × 52
IT & Maintenance: annual IT hours × IT rate + server/maintenance fees
Compliance & Risk: (fine × probability) + legal overhead
Opportunity Cost: efficiency gain hrs/week × employees × employee rate × 52
Outside Counsel: extra hours × counsel rate
With your inputs

6 Steps to a Smooth Move to NetDocuments

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A migration consultation is a 1:1 session with our experts to map your current DMS setup, identify compliance and security priorities, and design a phased migration plan tailored to your legal team’s needs. We’ll cover repositories, metadata, permissions, and adoption strategy — so you move with confidence.

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