Reveal: FedRAMP Authorization and Cross-Border eDiscovery
Federal contractors must now prove cloud eDiscovery platforms meet FedRAMP Moderate standards after CMMC enforcement began in November 2025. The FedRAMP Authorization Act strengthens third‑party verification, exposing legal teams to False Claims Act risk if they use non‑authorized services. Cross‑border data transfers add further complexity, prompting firms to reassess cloud providers. Reveal highlights the urgent compliance gap for federal contract matters.
Kelly Wehbi, Relativity: Making Administration Conversational with RelativityOne and Claude
Relativity announced a Model Context Protocol (MCP) connector that pairs its RelativityOne platform with Anthropic’s Claude AI. The integration lets legal administrators issue conversational commands to create clients, provision workspaces, adjust templates, and manage permissions. By automating these routine setup...
AI Adoption Is Not a Technology Problem. It’s an Operational Problem
Law firms are rushing to adopt generative AI, but early pilots often fizzle when the technology moves from controlled demos to real client work. The core issue is not the AI models themselves but the lack of operational structures—clear ownership,...
Casey Sullivan, Everlaw: New Everlaw & Legora Partnership Enables End-to-End AI Litigation Workflows
Everlaw and Legora announced a strategic technology partnership that stitches together their AI‑driven litigation tools into a single workflow. The integration links early case assessment, discovery, analysis, research and drafting, eliminating the siloed nature of current legal tech stacks. By...
Streemview: Hiding Below the Surface: StreemView Uncovers 500% More Relevant Messages
An AM Law 200 firm tasked StreemView with analyzing over 700,000 Slack messages spanning 5,400 conversations to meet a court‑ordered ±10‑message context requirement. Traditional eDiscovery tools that convert chats into 24‑hour RSMF transcripts often break conversational flow, causing Boolean and...
Dean Gonsowski: Your AI Doesn’t Have a Hallucination Problem — It Has a Data Problem
Dean Gonsowski argues that AI hallucinations stem from poor data rather than model flaws. He cites early 2023 incidents like the Mata v. Avianca brief where ChatGPT fabricated citations, and notes that modern LLMs have reduced hallucination rates. Yet more...
Rouse, Moore, Meisel, Burns and Mack: First Draft, Final Say: Why In-House Litigation Begins Inside
Corporate legal departments are moving from managing litigation to designing it, drafting the first pleadings internally rather than relying on outside counsel. This internal‑first approach speeds up document creation, gives companies greater strategic control, and promises cost efficiencies. The change...
Exterro: Navigating eDiscovery Triggers and Strategic Disclosure
Exterro released an article titled “Navigating eDiscovery Triggers and Strategic Disclosure,” completing a series on building modern eDiscovery playbooks for in‑house legal teams. The piece defines a preservation trigger as an event that creates a duty to preserve electronically stored...
Reveal: FedRAMP Authorization for Legal Cloud Vendors
FedRAMP authorization has become a non‑negotiable prerequisite for legal cloud vendors seeking federal contracts. Agencies now require it before considering eDiscovery or litigation‑support proposals, effectively sidelining vendors without the certification. The shift replaces informal, agency‑specific security agreements with a centralized,...
Melina Efstathiou: The Femme Verdict—By the Book
The Law Society has urged the Ministry of Justice, the SRA and HM Courts to issue clear guidance on responsible AI use in litigation. A recent case, Rodney v Gee’z Micro Bar & Pitstop, highlighted the risk when a solicitor...
Greg Andrews: Meta Legal Ops Chief to Law Firms: It’s Time to Ditch the Billable Hour—For Your Own Good
Meta’s global head of legal operations, Mike Haven, told a CLOC panel in Chicago that hourly billing must become the exception within five years for law firms to stay viable. The discussion, titled “The Great Pricing Reset,” highlighted a doubling...
Brendan Pierson: Illinois’ New AI-in-HR Rules Go Far Beyond Other States’ Restrictions
Illinois enacted an amendment to its Human Rights Act that forces employers to fully disclose any AI tools used in hiring, promotion, or termination decisions and bans discrimination based on protected classes and ZIP codes. The law took effect in...
Trudy Knockless: How In-House Teams Are Using AI Agents—Without Letting Risk Run Wild
Legal departments face pressure to accelerate work while maintaining risk controls. In-house leaders are turning to AI agents—software that executes goal‑driven, multi‑step tasks across systems—while keeping lawyers in the loop. These limited agents are being deployed for contract triage, due...
Casey Sullivan, Everlaw: Introducing Everlaw’s Anthropic MCP Integration
Everlaw announced a native integration with Anthropic's Claude via the Model Control Panel (MCP), allowing litigators to search, retrieve, and analyze case materials using generative AI within a single, secure system of record. The integration lets users pose natural‑language queries...
StreemView: The Significant Cost of Going Direct to RSMF: $1.1MM Saved
StreemView’s case study shows that processing chat data with search, filtering, and contextual expansion before creating 24‑hour RSMF files slashes review workload dramatically. By avoiding a direct‑to‑RSMF workflow, the legal team cut review volume by 97% and review costs by...