Legal Industry

Law firms and legal departments are under pressure to improve, optimize, and reduce costs, and they're doing a phenomenal job. Legal automation and legal AI are two key tactics. The terms are sometimes used interchangeably, but they shouldn't be.

Explore the categories for the 2026 Innovation Awards, reflect on previous winners, and get some tips on building exceptional submissions and admirable nominations for the winners in your sphere.

Law firms and legal departments are under pressure to improve, optimize, and reduce costs, and they're doing a phenomenal job. Legal automation and legal AI are two key tactics. The terms are sometimes used interchangeably, but they shouldn't be.

Explore the categories for the 2026 Innovation Awards, reflect on previous winners, and get some tips on building exceptional submissions and admirable nominations for the winners in your sphere.

Shadow AI is here. What can legal leaders do to help their teams build AI governance policies that have a net-positive impact on their organizations?

In the legal data industry, there's been consistent speculation around legal AI tools, from their risks to their sheer potential. Somewhere beyond the hype, pomp, and circumstance, are tangible insights on how to navigate this thing.

Artificial intelligence is already transforming how investigations are conducted. With it, we can accelerate document review, uncover insights faster, and surface connections that might have taken weeks to find manually.

Explore the industry-wide and legal-tech-specific trends shaping the year ahead for public sector teams, and how they connect to outcomes that matter most: modernization at scale, efficiency, and public trust.

In a new year, it's important to consider the landscape from which we come. In 2025, legal took giant strides toward innovation. Some came promise exciting wins and newfound possibilities, while others present daunting challenges or newfound risks.

For legal teams in the public sector, the challenge isn't adopting AI -- it's adopting the right AI. Choosing the wrong AI can undermine compliance, erode trust, and create new vulnerabilities.

With growing volumes of hard-to-handle Microsoft 365 data and slow, error-prone handoffs, transferring data from Purview has long been time-consuming and risky. But it doesn't have to be that way.

Agencies need to know that the technology they adopt is secure, data handling is defensible, and outcomes are reliable. They need partners who've earned their trust. Relativity has introduced a U.S. Public Sector competency to help.

Roman Barbera is a real-life, multi-talented e-discovery consulting and technology expert at KordaMentha. He also happens to be one of our 2025 AI Visionaries -- a title earned through innovative AI exploration and leadership.