NetDocuments Launches Judge Analytics App   – Artificial Lawyer

DMS company NetDocuments is branching out further from its core use case via a group of new ndMAX Studio Apps. The most interesting of which is a judicial analytics app that in effect is a profile-creator of how a judge usually behaves.

It’s one of 18 such Apps, and is joined by two other new ones: Seed Finance Doc Generator and a Convertible Note one as well.

It’s interesting for several reasons. First, only last week Bench IQ bagged fresh VC funding for judicial analytics – so, a hot topic; second, it’s unusual for a DMS business to stray into litigation prediction territory – but this underlines how genAI has changed things for the data company, and the market in general.

And third, that NetDocuments has the data – or rather you do via that platform’s place in your firm and other external sources – and so why not add in a bunch of Apps to leverage it? That in turn makes the DMS platform not just a KM store, but a device with multiple tools available across many law firm departments.

But, let’s focus on the judge one. They explain:

‘The Judge Analytics App transforms curated collections of judicial orders into a structured dataset. It enables users to generate clear, on-demand profiles that reflect a judge’s procedural patterns, reasoning methods and tendencies across key motion types.  

‘By analyzing how a judge has ruled in the past, such as the frequency of grants, partial grants and denials, the app supports lawyers in identifying common procedural approaches and legal frameworks that the judge tends to apply. The app is designed to support lawyers in preparing more efficiently and consistently. It reduces the burden of reviewing lengthy rulings while enabling strategic insight into how a judge may engage with particular types of motions or arguments.

‘As orders are added, the application extracts and classifies key elements from each decision, including motion type, outcome, procedural posture and reasoning summaries. This information is standardized into a consistent format and stored in a structured database, allowing users to generate judge-specific summaries.’  

And here is a short video they made:

And they are also offering:

‘The Series Seed Financing Document Generator converts Series Seed term sheets into first-draft Series Seed Preferred Stock financing document packages. Series Seed rounds introduce key investor rights – including liquidation preferences, board representation, anti-dilution protection, and protective provisions – that must be accurately reflected across multiple interdependent documents. This tool leverages AI and document automation to assist emerging-company lawyers in producing consistent, structurally sound drafts from a single source of deal terms. 

And, The SAFE/Seed Convertible Notes Generatorpowers emerging company lawyers to generate customized financing documents for Seed stage companies, using base term sheets to populate the resulting documents. Users can generate draft term sheets and form of convertible promissory notes using market standard open-source templates, as well as SAFEs (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) using Y Combinator templates, supporting all major types (Valuation Cap Only, Discount Only, Valuation Cap and Discount, MFN).’

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As noted, the move is both unusual – at least it would have been in the past – and makes us rethink what a DMS is for, i.e. it holds data, yes, but now you can relatively easily apply genAI skills to create a range of new outputs from that data.

If law firms make more use of this approach, then one has to ask: will they also need some of the legal data analytics tools out there….? Where is the moat?

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