AL Is On Hols, Back July 15 + Wrap

Artificial Lawyer is on a short holiday and back on Wednesday, July 15. And now for this week’s Wrap, which starts with our news summary.

Artificial Lawyer has launched a new weekly saga: ‘The Innovators’. It’s a fictional account of leading London law firm Smyth & Marmalade’s battle to stay on top of the legal AI tsunami, featuring key characters such as Managing Partner, Timothy Marks, and Katie Downer, the long-suffering head of innovation. Tune in for the next instalment….!

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Reed Smith has launched Reed Smith Legal Solutions (RSLS), a unified business unit that brings together the firm’s alternative legal services, legal operations, technology, and delivery capabilities under one integrated structure.

RSLS combines capabilities previously operating across several Reed Smith teams, including Staff Attorneys, RED, Leeds Global Solutions, and Gravity Stack, into a coordinated legal solutions platform spanning discovery, investigations, due diligence, contract management, legal operations support, risk management, and high-volume disputes, they said.

Casey Ryan, Reed Smith Global Managing Partner, commented: ‘[Clients] want a trusted partner that can help them solve problems across the full lifecycle of legal work. Reed Smith Legal Solutions brings together the people, processes, and technology needed to deliver legal services in a way that is efficient, predictable, and better aligned with how clients operate today.’

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Centari, an AI platform for deal intelligence, has launched External Views, which enables law firms to securely share white-labelled deal intelligence dashboards directly with clients.

Earlier this year, Centari introduced Views, which enables firms to analyze transaction trends, benchmark market positions, and visualize proprietary deal data across their practice. External Views extends those capabilities by making dashboards securely shareable and fully white-labeled, allowing firms to deliver customized market intelligence directly to clients, they noted.

Kevin Walker, founder and CEO of Centari, commented: ‘External Views gives firms a secure way to share the insights they’ve built across hundreds of transactions while maintaining complete control over the underlying data.’

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Epiq has bought Tenor Legal, a legal services firm offering legal talent to Fortune 500 legal departments on a flexible basis.

Tenor Legal joins Epiq Counsel, the company’s existing flexible legal talent business. Epiq Counsel enables corporate legal departments to address challenges related to workload volatility, hiring constraints, and increased pressure to deliver cost-effective, business-aligned legal support, they said.

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Relativity has announced that Chris Brown has been named the company’s President.

Brown, who joined as chief product officer in 2018, steps into the role to further advance the company’s AI platform for legal data intelligence, expand the legal work it supports, and bring it to legal professionals where and how they work, they said.

His immediate priorities include integrating Gavel, acquired last month to bring Relativity directly into Microsoft Word; expanding the governed MCP integrations that let leading AI assistants such as Claude orchestrate matters and workflows inside RelativityOne; and scaling Relativity aiR across the full range of legal work the platform serves.

Congrats to Chris!

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AL Interview with Docusign CLO, Jim Shaughnessy, on legal strategy and more

Docusign is a $3.2 billion revenue company and is now focusing more than ever before on its legal tech offering. In this AL interview with CLO, Jim Shaughnessy, we explore its Intelligent Agreement Management and CLM capabilities, how it’s been deploying genAI, and where it’s heading now.

We also look at aspects such as Docusign providing legal customers with a ‘certificate of agentic action’ to help reduce the black box effect of AI, and we also explore the future potential for automated negotiation and a new generation of smart contracts.

To watch the video please press Play. You can also go direct to the AL TV channel here. Below is an AI-generated transcript.

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AL Webinar – July 23

Join Opus 2 and Artificial Lawyer for this special webinar: ‘From AI-enabled to AI-native workflows in litigation and beyond,’ on July 23rd, 4:00 PM BST, 11.00 AM EST, where we will explore the realities of moving to a truly AI-first approach for litigation work. 

Join the webinar to explore:

• Practical advice for driving consistency and deeper engagement with AI,
• How to embed AI into complex, high-stakes litigation workflows,
• Tips to encourage AI-first thinking and innovation.

Speakers:

• Tiama Hanson-Drury – Chief Product and Technology Officer – Opus 2
• Julie K.Brown – Director of Practice Technology – Vorys
• Richard Tromans – Founder, Tromans Consulting – Artificial Lawyer, (panel chair)

RSVP here.

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Two Major Legal Innovators Conferences this November

Come and join us in New York and London this November at Legal Innovators! 

Legal Innovators UK – London, Nov 4 and 5

And, then Legal Innovators New York – Nov 17 and 18.

After another fantastic Legal Innovators California, where we had speakers from OpenAI, Y Combinator, Google, Meta, and many more pioneering organisations; and our stellar inaugural event in Paris this June, we are now looking forward to the landmark conferences in London and New York, both in November, and both across two days: Law Firm Day, and Inhouse Day. 

• Legal Innovators UK – London, Nov 4 and 5
• Legal Innovators New York – Nov 17 and 18

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And that’s all folks. AL is now on a short holiday until Wednesday July 15.

Have a nice weekend.

Richard Tromans, Founder, Artificial Lawyer, and Legal Innovators Chair.