Law firms across Australia, New Zealand and the wider APAC region gain a combined consulting and technology path for finding and governing client data that has leaked beyond the document management system, under a new strategic partnership announced for the legal sector.
The alliance pairs Verlata Consulting, a legal technology consultancy with offices across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, the United Kingdom, Japan and Malaysia, with ActiveNav, a data discovery and information governance vendor. It combines Verlata's recently established information governance practice with ActiveNav Cloud, a platform built to discover unstructured data at scale.
The partnership targets a problem the companies say plagues firms of every size: matter documents that have spread beyond the DMS into network file shares, cloud storage, local drives and other unstructured repositories.
ActiveNav Cloud discovers and classifies that content, then enables firms to remediate it - importing documents into NetDocuments for proper governance, disposing of them under retention policies, or securing them in place.
"Law firms invest heavily in document management systems, but the reality is that a significant volume of sensitive client data still ends up outside those systems ungoverned and often invisible," said Jason Mills, CEO of Verlata Consulting. "With ActiveNav, we can finally give our clients a clear picture of that exposure and a practical path to resolving it."
Peter Baumann, CEO of ActiveNav, said the partnership extends the vendor's reach into markets where demand is accelerating. "Verlata has spent years embedded in the day-to-day reality of how law firms work, and their new information governance practice is a natural extension of that expertise," he said.
The companies also position the platform's outputs - clean, curated datasets - as groundwork for law firm AI initiatives, alongside retention enforcement, cleanups and migrations.