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Relativity hosted RelFest Chicago from Sept. 29 to Oct. 1 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago, drawing roughly 1,750 attendees from law firms, legal service providers, government agencies, and corporate legal departments. The company announced its major news ahead of the event, including the rename of its RelativityOne platform to Relativity aiR. 

The RelFest Chicago session, Shaping the Next Generation of Legal Professionals, explores the opportunities that AI holds for real training and producing graduates who are not like today’s first-year associates. The panelists call on legal educators to rethink the way law is taught.

At RelFest Chicago, the 13th Annual Judicial Panel brought together five judges with experience across federal trial courts, state appellate courts and the English High Court.

Relativity today announced the winners of the 2026 Relativity Innovation Awards at its annual user conference, RelFest Chicago. The awards celebrate the creativity and innovation of Relativity's customer and partner community, recognizing those who build custom solutions, champion new ways of working and shape what's next for the industry.

In a Legaltech News article, Relativity's Johnathan Hill discusses the use of AI in pro bono matters. Additionally, the piece shares insights from the 13th Annual Judicial Panel at RelFest Chicago.

Legaltech News shared announcements coming out of RelFest Chicago, noting that the updates follow a year of significant development for the company.

At its annual user conference, RelFest Chicago, Relativity announced that KPMG, Latham & Watkins LLP, Ashurst Perkins Coie and Troutman Pepper Locke have joined the Advanced Access program for its conversational AI experience designed specifically for lawyers, Relativity claiR.

Relativity and Smarsh today announced a new Collect capability for Smarsh Enterprise Archive, enabling customers to move existing Smarsh data directly into Relativity aiR so legal and compliance teams can get to review faster.

Complete Discovery Source announced that CDS Convert, its proprietary solution for complex chat, mobile and collaboration data, is now available in Relativity aiR Government, bringing advanced data conversion capabilities to public-sector matters within Relativity’s FedRAMP-authorized cloud platform.

Relativity's Chris Brown discussed several recent announcements with Legaltech Hub, including the launch of Relativity claiR in Advanced Access, the acquisition of Gavel and the MCP connector. 

Relativity today announced that Relativity Academic, its program that provides education to law school and paralegal students, has signed on 18 schools in 2026. Since 2012, the Relativity Academic program has partnered with more than 115 universities, law schools, paralegal and data science programs across the globe.

Relativity announced an expanded agreement with ProSearch. As part of the agreement, ProSearch has increased its investment in Relativity aiR.

Relativity today announced its Chief Information Security Officer, Silas Adams, has been recognized in the 2026 Philadelphia Titan 100 program. 

Cimplifi announced the launch of Maestro and CI Lake, an AI orchestration platform that helps legal teams organize data, accelerate insight, automate workflows, and create transferrable work product across the legal data lifecycle. Working independently or together, Maestro and CI Lake complement and extend Relativity aiR by operationalizing data and insight before and after review.

Relativity today announced that it has deepened its work with OpenAI by integrating Relativity aiR, its extensible AI platform for legal work, with ChatGPT Enterprise. Through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), legal teams can now use natural language in ChatGPT Enterprise to stand up new matters, align workspaces to the structure of their data, and manage access and workflows in Relativity aiR.

Parcels has expanded its platform offering to include aiR Review, Privilege and Assist, integrating AI across its legal intelligence practice as part of a broader strategy to serve global law firms and the corporations they represent.

Relativity announced today that it has renamed RelativityOne, its cloud-based platform, as Relativity aiR to unify the platform and its AI capabilities under one name.

RelativityOne is now Relativity aiR, a name that reflects AI's central role in how legal teams perform their most complex, high-stakes work.

Relativity announces  that global law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP will join the Advanced Access program for Relativity claiR, a new conversational AI experience designed specifically for lawyers. 

Consilio announced it has reaffirmed its long-standing partnership with Relativity. As part of a renewed, multi-year contract, Consilio will continue to provide RelativityOne and Relativity aiR to its clients.