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With four different legal tech companies announcing executive appointments over the last week, including two to top sales spots, the timing leads me to wonder whether this is because companies are staffing up for the Legalweek conference that is just around the corner. Whatever the reason, here is a roundup of the newest additions…

At its Relativity Fest user conference in Chicago today, the e-discovery company Relativity announced the forthcoming release of Relativity aiR for Review, the first of a planned series of products that will use generative artificial intelligence to help legal professionals in their work.

Built on Microsoft Azure OpenAI Services, aiR for Review will enable…

Today at ILTACON in Orlando, the e-discovery company Relativity announced the launch of Relativity Contracts, a tool for contract analysis and due diligence review integrated within RelativityOne, the company’s cloud platform.

“Relativity Contracts allows users to glean actionable insights when analyzing agreements to meet changing regulatory requirements, realize business value and reduce legal risk,”…

There were two notable moves in the legal tech world announced today, both to newly created positions, as the law firm Crowell & Moring announced that it has named Alma Asay as its first chief innovation and value officer, and Relativity said that it has named Laurie Usewicz as its first chief partner…

The global e-discovery and compliance technology company Relativity today named a new chief executive officer, Phil Saunders, who was most recently CEO of Cornerstone OnDemand. He succeeds Mike Gamson, who departs after five years as a board member and three years as CEO.

Saunders will become CEO effective Dec. 12, with Gamson…

At its annual RelativityFest user conference in Chicago today, the e-discovery company Relativity announced several new tools and features for e-discovery, privacy and compliance, data management, translation, and more.

The product announcements were made during the conference’s opening keynote presented by Mike Gamson, Relativity’s chief executive officer, and Chris Brown, chief product officer.…

I spent last week at ILTACON, the annual convention of the International Legal Technology Association. With nearly 3,000 attendees, it was the third largest ILTACON ever – a particularly significant stat given that we have yet to fully emerge from three years in the grips of the global pandemic.

ILTACON is an opportunity for legal…

Relativity, the global e-discovery and compliance technology company, said today that it has acquired Heretik, an AI contract review company whose product was built on the Relativity platform and whose staff is half composed of former Relativity employees. 

Moving forward, Heretik’s end-to-end contract review product will be known as Relativity Contracts. It…

Today kicks off the first full day of ILTACON22, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association. Already, the day has brought a slew of news announcements from legal technology companies.

Here is a roundup of news announced this morning.

DISCO Joins the LexFusion Go-to-Market Collective As Its E-Discovery Provider

The e-discovery company…

Last week brought a flurry of legal technology news, thanks to the first in-person Legalweek conference in two years. Yesterday, in the first of two posts, I began a round up the week’s notable announcements. Here is the rest of my round-up.

Reveal Releases Major Enhancement of its Platform

Reveal, a global provider…

Sixty percent of general counsel are concerned that their risk landscape is expanding or becoming more difficult to navigate in areas spanning compliance, regulatory enforcement, data privacy, information security, emerging data sources and ongoing impacts of the pandemic.

This is among the findings of a survey of 30 general counsel presented in a report released…

At a time when corporations face increasing risk for the sensitive data they collect and control, their ability to identify and protect that data is critical. Enabling that is the focus of Text IQ, which uses AI to find and protect sensitive enterprise data for privacy, legal and compliance purposes.

Now, Text IQ has…