BlackBoiler Launches Veris, Pairing Its Deterministic Redlining With Generative AI in Microsoft Word

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BlackBoiler, a company that has spent over a decade building automated redlining technology, this week launched Veris, a new platform that takes its original deterministic editing engine and supercharges it with generative AI and an agentic, chat-based interface.

Running directly inside a Microsoft Word add-in, Veris allows contract-review teams to negotiate and mark up…

Relativity Acquires Document Automation Company Gavel, Extending Its Legal Data Platform Into Word

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Relativity, the Chicago-based legal data intelligence company best known for the e-discovery and litigation platform RelativityOne, has acquired Gavel, the Los Angeles-based document automation and AI drafting company founded by Dorna Moini (pictured above).

Relativity said the move will enable it to extend Relativity’s AI platform into the place where lawyers actually write,…

This Week Saw A Slew Of New Legal Tech CEOs. But Why?

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In all my years of covering legal tech, I cannot remember a week quite like this. And I say that for a very specific reason: This week brought an unusual concentration of leadership changes at legal tech companies.

Four companies announced new chief executives, and a fifth named a new president. Is that much C-suite…

Targeting European Leadership in Patent AI, DeepIP Acquires PatentMaker

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AI patent drafting platform DeepIP has acquired PatentMaker, a patent workflow tool built by and for European IP practitioners, in a move the companies say positions them as the leading AI platform for patent drafting and prosecution in Europe.

The deal brings together two complementary operations. DeepIP, founded in 2024 by François-Xavier Leduc and Edouard…