NetDocuments is continuing its expansion drive into AI tools with a collection of new apps. For AL, the most significant ones are those related to plaintiff work, which includes an ‘expert witness profile builder’ capability.
Generally, most large and established legal tech companies have sought to work with commercial law firms on the defence side of the market, and/or for the inhouse legal teams of corporates. Supporting plaintiffs widens their reach at a time when we are now starting to see a new group of ‘claimant’ legal tech companies coming to market.
In this case they explained that ‘three new connected apps support the plaintiff-side practice. They enable firms and legal teams to transform hundreds of pages of medical records into a structured chronology, and to create a draft demand letter, without needing to use third-party apps.’
They cover:
- ‘The Medical Chronology App summarizes and extracts key events from medical records into a structured memo for efficient chronological review.
- The Demand Generator App extracts facts, causation evidence, and itemized damages from medical records and case documents to draft jurisdiction-appropriate demand letters for personal injury, employment, and insurance bad faith matters.
- The Expert Witness Profile Builder App builds structured expert witness profiles from CVs, transcripts, and published works, extracting credentials, prior opinions, and case history while flagging testimony inconsistencies and cross-examination vulnerabilities.’
They’ve also added several AI apps for trademark work. Together the new range of apps, developed via their ndMax Studio, now total 39, with more to come.
And you may then say: ‘But, why is a company known for its DMS offering this?’
The immediate reason for the apps is that they ‘reduce repetitive work, help accelerate key tasks, and move matters forward faster, all within the security and guardrails of the NetDocuments platform,’ they explained.
The longer-term reason is that – as we’ve all seen – the legal tech ecosystem is steadily shifting. Not having LLM-based skills sets you apart – and not always in a good way. Additional capabilities also help to cement in use of the core DMS as well – as that’s where the documents used by the apps will be held. So, there is that.
Moreover, in a market where we have new AI-driven KM companies winning market share and DMS rivals also building out their AI capabilities, plus companies such as Box now offering agentic tools on top of their storage services…..standing still is really not an option.
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And here’s some more on how the Expert Witness app works:
‘Expert Witness Profile Builder is a litigation support app that transforms raw expert witness materials into structured, searchable profiles. Litigators routinely face the challenge of evaluating opposing experts under time pressure, often without easy access to how that expert has testified before, what positions they’ve taken, or where their opinions have shifted. This app addresses that gap by automatically extracting credentials, prior opinions, case citations, and hiring party histories from testimony transcripts and other source documents—then surfacing inconsistencies that could be used for impeachment.
The app works by ingesting CVs, deposition transcripts, and published works, then parses them to build a structured expert profile. It identifies the cases in which an expert has testified, the parties who retained them, and the specific opinions offered—then compares those opinions across matters to flag contradictions or shifts in position. A litigator preparing for a deposition can pull up a complete profile showing not just an expert’s background, but a mapped history of their prior testimony with highlighted areas of potential inconsistency ready for cross-examination.
The business case is straightforward: building this kind of expert profile manually can take associates hours of document review across multiple cases and sources. This app compresses that work significantly, reduces the risk of missing a damaging prior statement, and ensures that institutional knowledge about experts—those your firm has retained and those you’ve faced—doesn’t walk out the door when an attorney leaves. Over time, the internal database becomes a firm asset, allowing litigators across practice groups to benefit from research already done on a given expert.
– Automatically flags opinion changes between prior testimony and current case positions
– Tracks which parties have historically retained a given expert
– Generates cross-examination leads directly from transcript analysis
– Builds a searchable internal database of experts encountered across matters
– Preserves institutional knowledge about experts firm-wide
Expert Witness Profile Builder gives litigators a reliable, time-efficient way to walk into any expert deposition or cross-examination fully prepared – backed by a complete picture of what that expert has said before.’
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