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“I was always kind of frustrated with some of the challenges,” said Dan Hauck, “in terms of how difficult it was to collaborate, how over-reliant we are on email to manage files, to share ideas, to communicate with our colleagues, and I thought that there was really a huge opportunity to do something innovative to address the problem that lawyers and professionals had.” That frustration led Hauck to leave his job as an associate at a large law firm to co-found ThreadKM, the company recently acquired by NetDocuments. What it does “ThreadKM is a collaboration platform that is matter-centric,” Hauck says, “and allows lawyers and legal teams to have conversations ...

​While it did not receive a significant amount of coverage in the legal technology press, cloud-based document management company NetDocuments took a significant step forward when it was acquired by Clearlake Capital in early March. Once the dust settled, I talked to Matt Duncan, NetDocuments’ CEO and Marriott Murdock, Senior Director of Marketing, about how the deal came about, and what it means for NetDocuments customers. “It's been exciting. We were thrilled to find a partner like Clearlake Capital,” Murdock said. “There were others in the mix, there were several offers on the table,” he says, but the Clearlake deal “was the best in terms of continuing ...

Alvin Tedjamulia sleeps only about 4 hours per night. "My mind is always thinking how can we solve this, how do we improve security, how do we improve reliability..." As CTO and co-founder of NetDocuments, Tedjamulia spends the other 20 hours of the day working on perfecting the cloud-based document management system (DMS) that seeks to breathe new life into the way law firms handle documents. NetDocuments was started in 1999 by the team that had created the Soft Solutions document management system, which was then sold to Novell. "[NetDocuments] was always based on the internet, SaaS," Tedjamulia explains. "The term 'cloud' didn't even exist at ...