ActiveNav today announced it has been named a finalist in two categories in the 2026 Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Awards: Best Emerging Technology (Non-AI) and Innovating Knowledge Management. The finalists were announced in Legaltech News (Law.com).[i]
The finalist recognition underscores ActiveNav’s work helping law firms and corporate legal departments bring order, governance, and defensibility to sprawling unstructured data environments across repositories such as file shares, Microsoft 365, collaboration platforms, and document management systems—so teams can reduce risk, prepare data for AI, and operationalize information governance at scale.
“Being named a finalist in two categories is meaningful recognition for the problems we’ve chosen to solve in legal where unstructured data sprawl creates real operational and client risk,” said Peter Baumann, CEO of ActiveNav. “Firms are under increasing pressure to demonstrate control, compliance, and responsiveness across client matter data. Our goal is to make that control practical at enterprise scale, without forcing teams into one-off projects that don’t stick.”
Rich Hale, CTO of ActiveNav, added: “The market is moving quickly from experimentation to accountability. Legal organizations are prioritizing cohesive platforms that integrate into existing workflows and deliver measurable governance and compliance outcomes—not just productivity claims. Our focus with ActiveNav Cloud is to help teams operationalize unstructured data management as a repeatable program, so risk reduction, matter-level governance, and AI readiness are achievable at enterprise scale.”
Winners will be announced and finalists recognized at the Legalweek Leaders in Tech Awards and Dinner during Legalweek in New York, scheduled for Monday, March 9, 2026, with the awards event hosted at Pier 61, Chelsea Piers. [ii]
About ActiveNav
ActiveNav provides software that helps legal organizations discover, classify, and manage unstructured data at scale. ActiveNav Cloud supports IT, information governance, compliance, privacy, security, and knowledge management initiatives by enabling organizations to inventory data across repositories, identify risk hotspots, prioritize remediation, and generate documentation that supports defensible decisions.
About the Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Awards
The Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Awards recognize the individuals, teams, and organizations driving meaningful change in the legal industry through technology and innovation.
[i] Announcing the 2026 Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Awards Finalists, Lifetime Achievement and Monica Bay Women of Legal Tech Winners
[ii] Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Awards 2026