On October 9th, legal technology company Relativity concluded Relativity Fest 2025, its three-day annual user conference, with an awards banquet. The Innovation Awards served as a celebration of the Relativity community, honoring partners and individuals who leveraged the platform (and their expertise) to demonstrate excellence in the field of legal data intelligence. The winners are listed below:
Best Innovation Winners
Beyond – CDS Vision Financial Analysis (CDS)
- Transforms structured financial data into analyzable components within Relativity.
- Uses generative AI to perform entity extraction and summarization.
Organize – Split! (Troutman eMerge)
- AI‑assisted tool for document unitization in Relativity.
- Achieves over 94 % accuracy in boundary detection.
Discover – HSF Kramer Snap (Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer)
- AI for image classification and identity document recognition.
- Enables automatic categorization and summarization of images within RelativityOne.
Act – Chronology Plus (Allens)
- Integrates with Relativity to draft event summaries automatically via generative AI.
- Synchronizes with document chronologies.
Workflows – Hatch Waxman Pipeline Protection & Redaction Workflow (IntrepidX)
- Combines an AI‑driven triage step (aiR) with continuous active learning (CAL).
- Reduces review workload while maintaining a defensible audit trail.
Best Innovator Winners
Access to Justice – Melissa Weberman (Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP)
- Leads the largest global pro bono deployment of RelativityOne, supporting 86 pro bono matters (2.5 TB of data) in the past year.
- Oversaw two of the first pro bono applications of aiR for Review and aiR for Case Strategy.
Customer Experience – Daniel Smith (A&O Shearman)
- e‑Discovery consultant with approximately 25 years of experience.
- Drove generative AI adoption and tailored training in his firm’s disputes practice.
Inclusion – Nicole Allen (Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP)
- Advocate for mentorship, inclusion, and under‑represented communities.
- Advances justice through tech innovation and pro bono work.
Legal Education – Andrew Pardieck (Southern Illinois University Simmons Law School)
- Law professor teaching e‑discovery; directs the school’s e‑discovery pro bono project.
Stellar Women – Sarah Cole (Cimplifi)
- Director of Client Engagements.
- Mentors others toward technical confidence, career clarity, and authentic leadership while driving equity in tech.