Inspire 2026

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

Every great legal outcome depends on more than the document in front of you. It depends on the client’s history, the matter’s evolution, the firm’s precedent, the people involved, the policies that govern the work, and the knowledge the organization has built over time. Until now, those connections have been difficult to see – and nearly impossible for AI to fully understand.

In this opening keynote, NetDocuments will unveil how the industry’s first legal context graph is bringing those connections to life. See how this new connective intelligence is transforming the NetDocuments experience, allowing legal professionals to open every matter in full context and enabling AI agents to work from the organization’s true institutional knowledge.

Through new product experiences, real-world examples, and original industry research, we will explore what becomes possible when AI no longer starts from zero: more accurate answers, more relevant insights, lower costs, and a fundamentally better way to work.

This is more than a technology advancement. It is the foundation for a future where every legal professional – and every AI tool they choose – can operate with the full power of what their organization already knows.

Speakers: Josh Baxter, John Motz, Dan Hauck, Scott Kelly, Heath Harris

Why build everything yourself when many of the most common legal workflows are already solved? Explore NetDocuments’ growing library of 39 ready-to-use Studio Apps – with even more on the way – designed to help firms and legal departments streamline document creation, automate repetitive work, accelerate review, and improve knowledge sharing. You’ll see how customers are putting these AI-powered automations to work today, discover new use cases you can implement immediately, and get an exclusive look at what’s coming next. Whether you’re just beginning your automation journey or looking to scale it across your organization, you’ll leave with practical ideas and a clear path to delivering value faster.

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.

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.

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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.

What if document review 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.

Whether through the standard NetDocuments taxonomy or your firm’s or department’s unique ontology, the ability to accurately, consistently and completely profile every document in your repository is exciting and a critical element of surfacing the context legal professionals – and the AI tools they use – need to do their best work. After this session you will understand options and successful approaches to solving the taxonomy challenge at scale within your organization.

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.

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.

The legal organizations that realize the greatest value from AI won’t be the ones with the most AI tools – they’ll be the ones with the strongest foundation. 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. You’ll leave with a clear framework for evaluating your current environment and a roadmap for building an AI foundation that will continue to deliver value as the technology evolves.

Speaker: Scott Kelly

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.

Beyond the Algorithm: The Human Side of Innovation

Description: Technology alone doesn’t drive transformation, people do. This panel of experts will widen the lens on innovation and adoption, covering AI alongside the people, processes and culture that determine whether new tools and ways of working actually stick. Panelists will share practical perspectives on building buy-in, evolving processes, and investing in learning and development and training so your organization can adopt new technology with confidence and keep innovating as the landscape continues to change.

Speakers: Heath Harris, panel

Your success doesn’t stop at the software – and neither does ours. Discover how to get the most from your relationship with NetDocuments by tapping into the expertise, services, and resources designed to help your organization thrive. Whether you’re onboarding, expanding your use of the platform, or planning your next initiative, you’ll learn how your Customer Success Manager, Support, Professional Services, Education, and Customer Community work together to help you accelerate adoption, maximize value, and achieve your business goals.

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, 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.

Considering a move from eDOCS or another document management platform? This session is designed specifically for teams exploring what’s next. Meet the NetDocuments team, connect with peers on a similar journey, and get an overview of the dedicated sessions created to help you evaluate the platform, ask questions, and understand what a successful transition looks like.

Whether you’re just beginning your research or actively planning your next move, this session will set the stage for an informative and engaging experience.

Everything you need to succeed with NetDocuments is now in one place. Get an exclusive tour of the new Customer Hub, your centralized destination for product information, support resources, training, and guidance designed to help you get more from your investment. You’ll also explore NetDocuments University, our growing library of on-demand learning designed to accelerate onboarding, drive adoption, and empower every user to build confidence and expertise. See what’s available today, get a preview of what’s coming next, and learn how these new experiences make it easier than ever to find answers, develop new skills, and keep your organization moving forward.

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.

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.

Choose from 20+ sessions focused on helping legal professionals do their best work with NetDocuments. Topics coming soon.

In this interactive session, you will benefit from the insights of both NetDocuments experts and your peers in tackling the challenge of building and maintaining successful training practices at a time when technology and ways of working are evolving more quickly than ever before. You will walk away with a set of action items you can take back to your team to help kickstart new training programs or polish established practices. Note: This session will be of benefit to anyone who is interested in improving training in their organization, regardless of role or level of adoption of AI tools.

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.

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.

Choosing a new document management platform is only the beginning – how you plan and execute the transition is what drives long-term success. In this session, hear from customers who have successfully modernized their document management experience as they share lessons learned, key milestones, and practical advice for ensuring a smooth rollout and strong user adoption. You’ll gain an inside look at the implementation journey, understand the decisions that matter most, and discover proven strategies for helping your organization realize value from day one.

Knowledge management has always been about capturing what your organization knows and putting it in front of the people who need it, but AI is changing both what’s possible and what’s expected. This session explores different ways to think about knowledge management in an AI-enabled world, from treating institutional memory as a living, connected asset rather than a static repository, to rethinking who is responsible for curating it. We’ll also cover practical ways to jumpstart readiness, including advanced tools that can identify, structure and surface institutional knowledge far faster than traditional manual approaches, so you can close long-standing gaps without a multi-year project.

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.

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.

From intake to drafting to analysis, the work of legal teams is often highly collaborative. Just like your team, the NetDocuments DMS is not an island – the same system of record that helps your team do their best work can also play a vital role in your work with adjacent departments. In this session we will discuss real-world examples of how you can leverage NetDocuments to improve collaboration, drive efficiency and support the work of your corporate stakeholders while maintaining the security and centralized governance required for high-stakes work. We will also cover examples of how the highly configurable NetDocuments platform can flex to meet the unique needs of departments outside Legal.

Both Sides of the Table: Emerging Trends in Legal Tech and AI
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, panel

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