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Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP is deploying Harvey firmwide to its legal professionals, advancing the firm’s broader AI innovation strategy and transforming how it serves clients. The firm has built its reputation advising clients on complex intellectual property matters at the intersection of law, science, and technology. Of the decision, Keith Whitman, Chief Operating Officer at Finnegan, said: “Expanding Harvey firmwide will help our teams work more efficiently while keeping the expertise and judgment of our people at the center of how we serve our clients. It is also an important step in our broader strategy to combine leading AI technologies with the unique intellectual property knowledge and experience that distinguish Finnegan.” Read more: https://lnkd.in/eHfCswS9

Excited for Relativity Fest Chicago 2026! Looking forward to connecting with customers, partners, and industry peers to discuss how AI is transforming legal, litigation, and compliance workflows, especially with Relativity's latest innovation, claiR. With Relativity claiR, teams can: • Accelerate investigations with conversational AI • Surface critical insights faster • Reduce review time and effort • Maintain a defensible chain of custody • Keep data secure, traceable, and auditable And before we kick things off, we'll be hitting the links with customers and partners at Harborside. ⛳ Looking forward to seeing everyone in Chicago! #RelativityFest #claiR #LegalTech #eDiscovery #AI

If you rebuilt your firm from scratch tomorrow, knowing what you now know about AI, would it look anything like the one you have? Most principals, asked honestly, say no. Very few are acting on it because the real decision isn't which tool to buy. It's which parts of legal reasoning you're prepared to move off a person, and what verification you demand in return. That's the harder conversation, and it's the one I'm having at Lawyers Weekly's Tech Innovate this week. I'll cover: 1. What changes in research and reasoning when the underlying authority is structured rather than searched, 2. Where professional judgment has to sit, and why "the AI checked it" is not an answer to a court, and 3. What a technology-native firm looks like operationally: how matters are staffed, how work is priced, what stops being a task. Tech Innovate, Thursday 27 August, my session at 12:25pm AEST. Free and online, alongside Relativity, Go Parachute and Thomson Reuters. Registration link: https://lnkd.in/g2MVUmFA

Big news from Relativity.   We announced Relativity claiR, a conversational AI experience built specifically for lawyers to give them a seamless way to analyze data in their system of record. Ask questions in plain language, get grounded, cited answers. No handoff required.   A&O Shearman, Foley & Lardner LLP, and K&L Gates are among the first law firms helping shape claiR through our Advanced Access program, getting to the facts faster, identifying issues sooner, and delivering more timely counsel to their clients.   Read the full announcement: https://ow.ly/wTw250ZyWym   #RelativityclaiR #LegalAI #LegalTech

Big news from Relativity.   We just announced Relativity claiR, a conversational AI experience built specifically for lawyers to give them a seamless way to analyze data in their system of record. Ask questions in plain language, get grounded, cited answers. No handoff required.   A&O Shearman, Foley & Lardner LLP, and K&L Gates are among the first law firms helping shape claiR through our Advanced Access program, getting to the facts faster, identifying issues sooner, and delivering more timely counsel to their clients.   Read the full announcement: https://ow.ly/wTw250ZyWym   #RelativityclaiR #LegalAI #LegalTech

Big news from Relativity.   We just announced Relativity claiR, a conversational AI experience built specifically for lawyers to give them a seamless way to analyze data in their system of record. Ask questions in plain language, get grounded, cited answers. No handoff required.   A&O Shearman, Foley & Lardner LLP, and K&L Gates are among the first law firms helping shape claiR through our Advanced Access program, getting to the facts faster, identifying issues sooner, and delivering more timely counsel to their clients.   Read the full announcement: https://ow.ly/wTw250ZyWym   #RelativityclaiR #LegalAI #LegalTech

Big news from Relativity.   We just announced Relativity claiR, a conversational AI experience built specifically for lawyers to give them a seamless way to analyze data in their system of record. Ask questions in plain language, get grounded, cited answers. No handoff required.   A&O Shearman, Foley & Lardner LLP, and K&L Gates are among the first law firms helping shape claiR through our Advanced Access program, getting to the facts faster, identifying issues sooner, and delivering more timely counsel to their clients.   Read the full announcement: https://ow.ly/wTw250ZyWym   #RelativityclaiR #LegalAI #LegalTech

This Is Tees Valley: Preparing for the future of work in the age of AI Helen Brain, partner and head of commercial at Square One Law | B Corp™, delves into the world of AI from a legal perspective. ⚙️🧠 Read the full feature in the most recent issue of This is Tees Valley, online now.

🚨We’re pleased to welcome Martin Metz as Hanson Bridgett’s Chief Technology and Innovation Officer. Based in our Los Angeles office, Marty will lead our technology strategy at a time when AI, data, infrastructure, and security are increasingly central to how we serve our clients and support our people. “Technology and innovation now sit at the center of how we serve clients and how we compete,” said COO/CFO Laura Long. “Marty has spent three decades in law firm technology and, more recently, helping firms figure out where generative AI genuinely fits. He understands what works and what’s just noise, and he’s the right person to help us lead on the things that matter to our clients.” We’re excited to have him on board and look forward to what’s ahead. Read the full announcement: https://lnkd.in/gt-zJU7m #HansonBridgett #CTIO #LegalTechnology #LegalInnovation #AI #LawFirmTechnology #LegalLeadership #WelcomeToHB 

Innovation in action. Proud to see Latham leading the way. --- The Financial Times marks Latham's decision to invest in proprietary AI infrastructure and customized AI models as "a radical change" for the legal industry, highlighting the firm as the first public example of a major law firm buying its own AI hardware and fine-tuning models. Read more in the Financial Times coverage of Latham's AI strategy: https://lw.link/qm0NlZ