"It worked for the masses, but would lawyers really want to do their work by typing vague questions to an obsequious robot? It turned out, for most lawyers, "typing vague questions to an obsequious robot" was how they'd seen junior associates all along and the chatbot interface took off."
"NetDocuments unveiled a new feature that also borrows from the consumer AI world, announcing what it's calling the first legal context graph - a continuously indexed structure that maps the relationships between every matter, document, and communication in a firmthat connects across hundreds of millions of records. It should go without saying that it does this with full respect for the firm's existing permissions and ethical walls."
"In the consumer AI world, Obsidian took off as a note-taking repository because it allowed users to create graphs to visualize the relationships between notes. NetDocuments offers that concept on steroids, building out the graphical approach for AI's benefit. To quote from the press release, the result is not a new interface, but a "fundamental shift in what the platform is.""
"users can toggle between the existing and new platform with no technical migration. For those lawyers who hate change. Taking this graphical approach, NetDocuments endeavors to build a system that truly understands the work it's storing. By constantly connecting files in the whole repository, a lawyer opening up an unfamiliar matter can see the full context, a summary, key parties, an activity timeline, and the people who have done this work before."
A legal context graph continuously indexes relationships between every matter, document, and communication across a firm, connecting hundreds of millions of records while respecting existing permissions and ethical walls. The approach borrows from consumer AI note-taking graphs that visualize relationships, but expands the concept for AI use. The platform aims for a fundamental shift in how it functions, supported by a redesigned interface informed by extensive design studies and participant input. Users can toggle between the existing and new platform with no technical migration. When a lawyer opens an unfamiliar matter, the system connects related files to provide full context, summaries, key parties, an activity timeline, and prior contributors. External or internal AI tools can then use that connected context.
Read at Above the Law
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