Global legal technology leader Thomson Reuters and document management provider NetDocuments have announced a new collaboration aimed at delivering secure, integrated AI solutions to legal professionals.
Thomson Reuters has joined NetDocuments’ ndConnect interoperability program, allowing shared customers to seamlessly combine NetDocuments’ AI and automation with Thomson Reuters CoCounsel Legal’s research, document analysis, and drafting tools.
The partnership between the two legal technology leaders was unveiled earlier this month during NetDocuments’ annual Inspire EMEA conference in London.
Through the collaboration, legal professionals can now harness the combined power of NetDocuments’ intelligent automation and CoCounsel Legal’s advanced capabilities – all while maintaining robust security, governance, and a smooth user experience.
At the core of this partnership is NetDocuments’ new interoperability framework, ndConnect, which is designed to let legal professionals seamlessly integrate trusted third-party AI solutions into their existing NetDocuments environment.
The program enables users to securely share select content with approved AI tools, automatically save AI-generated outputs into the correct workspace or matter, and maintain complete auditability and searchability across all documents.
Chief product officer at NetDocuments, Dan Hauck, expressed that the partnership is designed to bridge the gap between innovation and information security, giving firms the ability to embrace cutting-edge AI without sacrificing the protection and structure that underpin the next generation of legal work.
“Legal professionals shouldn’t have to choose between innovation and information security,” Hauck said.
“Through ndConnect, we’re creating a bridge that allows firms to use advanced AI solutions like CoCounsel Legal without losing the protection, auditability, or structure that NetDocuments provides. This is how the next generation of legal work gets done.”
Rawia Ashraf, head of product, CoCounsel Transactional, Thomson Reuters, shared how the collaboration aims to help lawyers work smarter and faster by uniting trusted legal content with powerful AI tools, streamlining everything from research to workflow automation.
“We strive to empower legal professionals around the world to work smarter, faster, and with greater confidence,” Ashraf said.
“CoCounsel Legal delivers agentic AI across the full legal workflow, unifying research, knowledge management and workflow automation, and through our collaboration with NetDocuments, we are enabling legal professionals to seamlessly bring our trusted, authoritative content together with their proprietary work product to serve their clients at an even higher level.”
