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NetDocuments Is Built For Legal DMS. TeamSync Extends The Experience.

NetDocuments has earned its place as a cloud-native document management system for both law firms and corporate legal departments. As with iManage, the conversation with NetDocuments customers is almost never "replace this." It's "keep this, and extend it with what it wasn't built to cover."

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When NetDocuments Is The Right Choice

Best used for

Platform

Matter and project document management

        NetDocuments

Legal document profiling and email management

        NetDocuments

AI assistance within NetDocuments

               ndMax

Secure collaboration for legal teams

         NetDocuments


When TeamSync Adds Value

Capability

TeamSync

Matter federation across NetDocuments, email, eSign, and outside sources

Intelligent Repository

Cryptographic audit on matter events, firm-wide

Merkle audit ledger

Permissions-aware AI grounded across the full matter corpus

DocuTalk

Legal hold and eDiscovery

Built-in eDiscovery capabilities

Cross-border governance and compliance

TeamSync overlays

Right-to-erasure for client departures or individual data subjects

Cryptographic data management capabilities


Step-By-Step Comparison

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NetDocuments

Primary use case

Enterprise content management, legal operations, governance, and AI

Cloud-native legal document management

Best suited for

Organizations managing legal and enterprise content across multiple systems

Law firms and corporate legal departments

Document management

Enterprise document and records management across connected repositories

Matter-centric legal document management

Matter management

Connects legal matters with enterprise workflows and records

Native matter-based organization

Email management

Integrates with enterprise email systems

Built-in legal email management

AI capabilities

Enterprise AI for search, chat, summarization, and workflow automation

ndMax AI for legal document discovery and productivity

Records management

Built-in enterprise records management

Document management with governance features

Legal hold & eDiscovery

Cross-platform legal hold and eDiscovery

Integrates with legal workflows and partner solutions

Audit

Cryptographically verifiable audit trail

Standard enterprise audit logging

Compliance

Configurable compliance frameworks for regulated industries

Enterprise security and legal compliance capabilities

Integrations

Microsoft 365, business applications, legacy repositories, and enterprise systems

Legal technology ecosystem and Microsoft integrations

Deployment

Cloud, hybrid, or on-premises

Cloud-native


A Common Deployment Approach

Phase

What happens

Phase 1

Continue using NetDocuments for legal document management while introducing TeamSync.

Phase 2

Connect TeamSync to NetDocuments and other enterprise systems.

Phase 3

Extend governance, records management, compliance, and AI across enterprise content.

Phase 4

Continue using both platforms together or expand TeamSync as your needs evolve.

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