Thomson Reuters has joined NetDocuments’ ndConnect interoperability program, enabling shared customers to more seamlessly leverage NetDocuments AI and automation alongside CoCounsel Legal’s legal research, document analysis, and drafting capabilities, it was announced today (4 November) at Inspire EMEA in London.
ndConnect is NetDocuments interoperability program designed to allow legal professionals to securely integrate fellow best-in-class AI solutions into their NetDocuments environment. The new integration between NetDocuments and Thomson Reuters connects CoCounsel Legal’s AI capabilities directly into legal professionals’ existing document workflows.
Attorneys will be able to conduct legal research with Westlaw and Practical Law, draft documents based on both their own internal content and that of Thomson Reuters, and analyse documents with advanced review capabilities, while maintaining their documents’ integrity and metadata within NetDocuments.
“We strive to empower legal professionals around the world to work smarter, faster, and with greater confidence,” said Rawia Ashraf, head of product for CoCounsel Transactional. “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.”
The partnership between NetDocuments and Thomson Reuters represents a broader shift toward interoperable, secure legal AI ecosystems.
“Legal professionals shouldn’t have to choose between innovation and information security,” said Dan Hauck, chief product officer at NetDocuments. “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.”
Speaking to Legal IT Insider at Inspire, NetDocuments CEO Josh Baxter said: “We’re the platform where the content is at and the goal is to create an agent-to-agent experience to allow other vendors to come and access the platform. Our customers will now be able to to access their data around a matter and also conduct research to improve outcomes for clients, and over time that will continue to evolve.”
NetDocuments’ senior director of AI, automation and search, Scott Kelly, added: “One of the things that has been very helpful is the emergence of a protocol and standard that vendors can align around in terms of how platforms interoperate – MCP has provided that. We can build around and start to codevelop and the great thing about MCP is that it allows you to build a single layer where agents can call and understand how to connect not in terms of a series of endpoints, but what is the job to be done. When you think about what the DMS is and what its core value proposition is, that is world class search in a permissioned way.”
