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NetDocuments announces Inspire 2026, its largest user conference to date. October 5, 2026 Building on more than 20 years of bringing the legal community together, Inspire 2026 will welcome more legal professionals, industry experts, customers, and technology leaders than ever before for major AI, product, and platform announcements LEHI, Utah, Oct. 5, 2026 - NetDocuments, the #1 trusted intelligent document management system for legal professionals, today announced Inspire 2026, the company's annual user conference and its largest event ever. Taking place Oct. 19-21 in Orlando, Fla., Inspire will unite legal professionals, industry leaders, technology partners, analysts, media, and NetDocuments customers from around the world to explore the future of AI-powered legal work. As organizations move beyond AI experimentation and focus on real-world adoption, Inspire 2026 will showcase how legal professionals can put AI to work on trusted data and legal-specific context. Attendees will receive an exclusive look at the next evolution of the NetDocuments platform, including expanded capabilities built on the company's recently launched Legal Context Graph, a reimagined user experience, and new innovations designed to help legal professionals work faster, more intelligently, and with greater confidence. "General-purpose AI doesn't know which documents belong to which matter, or who is allowed to see them," said Josh Baxter, Chief Executive Officer of NetDocuments. "Legal organizations want AI that understands the context of their legal work. At Inspire 2026, we'll show what AI can do when it works from the matter file, with permissions and ethical walls intact, and what we're building next." Major product and AI announcements. During the event's opening keynote, NetDocuments leaders will unveil significant enhancements to the company's vision for connected legal intelligence, including expansions to the Legal Context Graph and new experiences designed to bring matter-centric context directly into legal workflows. Attendees will also see advancements across the NetDocuments platform, including innovations using Model Context Protocol (MCP) and expanded AI-powered capabilities such as: * Tabular Review * Legal Authorities * Enhanced knowledge discovery and matter intelligence * AI-powered workflow and productivity experiences * Expanded integrations across Microsoft and partner ecosystems The company will also share new research and benchmark findings examining AI adoption, readiness, and business impact across the legal profession. Industry leaders take the stage. Inspire 2026 will feature the largest speaker lineup in conference history, including legal technology innovators, law firm leaders, corporate legal executives, and AI experts helping shape the future of the profession. Featured speakers include leaders from organizations such as AWS, Microsoft, Anthropic, and many of the world's leading law firms and legal departments. Attendees can choose from keynote presentations, customer-led sessions, workshops, product strategy discussions, and peer networking opportunities focused on AI, knowledge management, security, automation, and legal operations. Exclusive center stage Media Roundtable. One of the event's marquee moments will be the Center Stage Media Roundtable, where Baxter and Chief Product Officer Dan Hauck will sit down with a select group of top legal technology reporters and analysts. The discussion will offer a deeper look at the announcements from Inspire 2026, including the evolution of the Legal Context Graph, the reimagined NetDocuments platform, emerging AI capabilities, and the broader trends influencing the future of legal work. Registration open. As the largest Inspire conference in company history, Inspire 2026 is expected to welcome a record number of attendees from law firms, corporate legal departments, government agencies, and technology partners worldwide. Inspire 2026 Orlando serves as the flagship gathering of the global Inspire series. Building on growing international demand and an expanding community of customers and partners, NetDocuments will also host dedicated Inspire EMEA and Inspire APAC events in November, bringing key announcements, product innovation, customer stories, and educational content to legal professionals around the world. Registration is now open. To learn more or reserve a seat, visit netdocuments.com/events/inspire-event. About netdocuments. NetDocuments, the #1 trusted cloud-native document management system (DMS) for 25+ years, delivers everything lawyers need to do their best work, including award-winning automation and AI to email management, search, collaboration, document bundling, advanced security, and more. With the industry's first Legal Context Graph and a reimagined user experience built around it, NetDocuments supercharges those experiences by connecting every matter, every project, and every case while respecting an organization's permissions and ethical walls. 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, Claude by Anthropic, and Docusign, making it a core solution that meets users wherever they work. Media contact. (C) 2026 NetDocuments Software, Inc. All rights reserved. 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NetDocuments names Cody Crnkovich Senior Vice President of Partnerships and Alliances. October 1, 2026 New leadership role unifies channel, technology, and alliance programs to advance AI-powered legal workflows LEHI, Utah, Oct. 1, 2026 - NetDocuments, the #1 trusted intelligent document management system for legal professionals, today announced the appointment of Cody Crnkovich as Senior Vice President of Partnerships and Alliances, reinforcing the company's investment in the relationships and integrations driving the next generation of legal AI. In this newly established role, Crnkovich will lead NetDocuments' global partner strategy, bringing together channel partners, independent software vendors (ISVs), and strategic alliances under a unified approach. As law firms, corporate legal teams, and public sector organizations increasingly adopt AI-powered workflows, NetDocuments continues to expand the network of partners and integrations that help customers securely connect content, knowledge, and work across their legal technology environment. Crnkovich brings more than 15 years of experience building and scaling global partner organizations across enterprise software and cloud technology companies. Most recently, he served as Vice President of Channel Sales at Instructure and previously held partnership leadership roles at Conga, Udemy, Adobe, and GoodData. At NetDocuments, Crnkovich will oversee a growing network of more than 150 technology integrations, including leading legal AI solutions such as Harvey and Legora. He will also lead strategic relationships with Microsoft, AWS, Anthropic, and other technology leaders while expanding the NetDocuments channel partner program serving law firms, corporate legal teams, and public sector organizations worldwide. The appointment reflects NetDocuments' continued investment in expanding its network of technology and alliance relationships. As AI transforms how legal work gets done, these partnerships play an increasingly important role in helping organizations securely connect their institutional knowledge with the applications and services they use every day. Together, they help customers unlock greater value from AI while maintaining the security, governance, and compliance standards the legal profession requires. "AI is fundamentally reshaping how legal professionals work, and partnerships are central to that transformation," said Mike "Gibby" Gibson, Chief Revenue Officer at NetDocuments. "The future of legal technology will be built through connected ecosystems, trusted content, and meaningful context. Cody has a proven ability to bring organizations together around a shared vision, and his leadership will help us deepen strategic relationships, accelerate innovation, and create more value for our customers." Crnkovich's appointment comes amid growing demand for practical, secure AI across organizations. NetDocuments continues to expand its AI capabilities and technology partnerships to help customers connect trusted legal content, institutional knowledge, and matter-centric context with the tools they rely on most. "The future of legal AI will be shaped by collaboration across the industry," Crnkovich said. "NetDocuments has built strong relationships with technology leaders, solution providers, and channel partners. Together, we have an opportunity to help legal professionals put AI to work with the context, security, and governance they need to trust the results. I'm excited to bring these efforts together under a unified strategy that expands customer choice, accelerates innovation, and helps legal professionals realize more value from AI." As firms, legal teams, and organizations continue to modernize and embrace AI, NetDocuments remains committed to an open, secure platform approach. By connecting trusted legal content, institutional knowledge, and matter-centric context with leading applications and AI solutions, the company helps customers unlock more relevant, accurate, and actionable outcomes while maintaining the governance, privacy, and security standards the profession demands. About NetDocuments NetDocuments, the #1 trusted cloud-native document management system (DMS) for 25+ years, delivers everything lawyers need to do their best work, including award-winning automation and AI to email management, search, collaboration, document bundling, advanced security, and more. With the industry's first Legal Context Graph and a reimagined user experience built around it, NetDocuments supercharges those experiences by connecting every matter, every project, and every case while respecting an organization's permissions and ethical walls. 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, Claude by Anthropic, and Docusign, making it a core solution that meets users wherever they work. Media contact (C) 2026 NetDocuments Software, Inc. All rights reserved. NetDocuments is the registered trademark of NetDocuments Software, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions. All other trademarks, service marks, and trade names are the property of their respective owners.

NetDocuments expands its AI ecosystem through ChatGPT enterprise plugin. Existing NetDocuments plugin becomes available through OpenAI plugin library, bringing governed legal context directly into ChatGPT. NetDocuments // Sept 18, 2026 LEHI, Utah - NetDocuments, the #1 trusted intelligent document management system for legal professionals, announced its existing ChatGPT plugin is now available through the OpenAI plugin library, bringing NetDocuments' governed legal context together with OpenAI frontier models. The milestone is the latest expansion of NetDocuments' growing Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem, which connects governed legal knowledge to leading AI platforms and applications. The plugin makes it easier for legal professionals to discover and activate NetDocuments directly within ChatGPT, providing secure access to firm knowledge while preserving existing permissions, governance policies, and security controls. More broadly, it reflects a shift underway across the legal industry. As organizations move beyond AI experimentation, the focus is turning from model capabilities alone to a more fundamental question: how they can use tools like ChatGPT to securely access the knowledge that already exists inside the firm. "Legal organizations are entering a different phase of AI adoption," said Heath Harris, Vice President of Applied AI at NetDocuments. "The conversations we're having today are less about models and more about whether AI can securely access the knowledge firms already have. Most organizations don't have a knowledge problem. They have an access problem. The opportunity is making trusted institutional knowledge available wherever legal professionals choose to work." Through NetDocuments' MCP architecture, AI applications can securely search and retrieve documents, uncover relevant precedent, compare and summarize content, and assist with drafting using the context of an organization's own work product and institutional knowledge. Existing permissions, ethical walls, and governance controls remain intact across every AI experience. By building once and connecting many times, organizations can bring the same trusted knowledge foundation to multiple AI tools without rebuilding integrations, governance frameworks, or security controls for each new application. The announcement also reinforces findings from NetDocuments' recently released Legal Context Engineering Benchmark, which demonstrated that AI systems become more effective, efficient, and reliable when grounded in trusted legal context. NetDocuments' AI ecosystem enables organizations to: * Work with the AI tools best suited to specific legal workflows * Ground AI outputs in trusted firm knowledge and work product * Maintain governance, permissions, and ethical walls across AI experiences * Reduce integration complexity through a unified context strategy * Preserve flexibility as new AI models and applications enter the market. "The legal industry isn't suffering from a shortage of AI models," Harris added. "New models, assistants, and applications are arriving faster than ever. The real challenge is turning AI into lasting business value. That's why we've invested in MCP, the Legal Context Graph, and an open ecosystem. Better models and better context are the keys. It's a firm's ability to bring its knowledge and governance to every model it chooses to use." ndConnect is NetDocuments' interoperability program giving authorized, approved third-party AI tools secure, governed access to NetDocuments content. To learn more about how to choose the integration that fits your workflow, visit www.netdocuments.com/legal-ai-integrations. About NetDocuments NetDocuments, the #1 trusted cloud-native document management system (DMS) for 25+ years, delivers everything lawyers need to do their best work, including award-winning automation and AI to email management, search, collaboration, document bundling, advanced security, and more. With the industry's first Legal Context Graph and a reimagined user experience built around it, NetDocuments supercharges those experiences by connecting every matter, every project, and every case while respecting an organization's permissions and ethical walls. 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, Claude by Anthropic, and DocuSign, making it a core solution that meets users wherever they work. To learn more, visit netdocuments.com