In 2026, the legal industry is undergoing a profound transformation driven by artificial intelligence, hybrid work models, and escalating client expectations for speed, transparency, and security. Law firms, in particular, find themselves at a crossroads: continue struggling with fragmented document management that drains resources and limits growth, or adopt a unified, intelligent platform that leverages their existing technology investments. Epona,the M365-native document management system built on SharePoint Online, emerges as the superior solution for consolidating data silos and positioning firms for long-term success.

Epona eliminates the need for third-party hosting, custom connectors, or complex migrations. Instead, it seamlessly extends your Microsoft 365 tenant into a robust, matter-centric DMS that centralizes emails, documents, matters, precedents, contracts, and correspondence in one secure location. This consolidation unlocks the full potential of Microsoft Copilot, enabling AI-powered workflows that automate routine tasks, enhance decision-making, and free attorneys to focus on high-value strategic work. The result is not just operational efficiency, it’s a competitive advantage that drives profitability, improves client retention, and future-proofs your practice in an increasingly AI-centric legal landscape.

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Seyfarth Shaw LLP is an Am Law 100 firm with more than 1,000 lawyers across 17 offices. Innovation has long defined the firm’s approach. Through initiatives like Seyfarth Labs, one of the first in-house incubators in the legal industry, Seyfarth has built a reputation for rethinking how legal services are delivered to achieve better outcomes for clients.

The Real Estate Challenge

Seyfarth’s real estate department is among the five largest in the United States. The team advises institutional owners, major developers and national retailers in multi-million- and billion-dollar transactions across the U.S. Their work is both high-volume and high-stakes, requiring attorneys to analyze and interpret complex title, survey, and lease documents with absolute precision.

Given this complexity, the real estate group at Seyfarth is selective about the technology it adopts.

Byong K. Kim, Seyfarth’s Chief Data & Al Officer, recognized that challenge as an opportunity to show where Al could deliver real impact. His Al strategy is to focus on practical applications that deliver genuine value to lawyers and clients alike.

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Collaboration is now a core part of legal work. Legal teams routinely share sensitive data with internal stakeholders, external counsel, service providers, and increasingly, AI-powered tools.

Yet every new collaboration point introduces a familiar concern: How do we share legal data without exposing confidential or personal information?

For many legal organizations, this tension between collaboration and control has become one of the biggest operational challenges.

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When Sharing Data Increases Risk

Traditional approaches to protecting legal data often rely on restricting access or manually redacting documents before sharing them. While these methods may reduce exposure, they also slow down collaboration and introduce inconsistencies.

In practice, legal teams face:

  • Delays caused by manual preparation of documents
  • Increased risk of human error
  • Limited visibility once data leaves the original system
  • Fragmented controls across teams and vendors

As collaboration expands, these limitations become increasingly difficult to manage.

Enabling Secure Collaboration by Design

Nymiz helps legal teams collaborate securely by ensuring that sensitive data is protected before it is shared, not after.

By applying automated anonymization and redaction at the infrastructure level, Nymiz allows organizations to create privacy-safe versions of legal data that can be confidently reused across workflows.

Key capabilities include:

  • Automated identification and transformation of personal and sensitive data across large document volumes
  • Consistent anonymization, ensuring entities remain recognizable without exposing identities
  • Secure data reuse across internal teams, vendors, and AI tools
  • Deployment flexibility (SaaS, API, or on-premise) to integrate seamlessly with existing legal environments

By automating anonymization before data is shared, legal teams can significantly reduce preparation time (often saving up to 80% of the time compared to manual processes) while working seamlessly across multiple formats such as documents, presentations, text files and images.

Supporting Modern Legal Workflows

With privacy built into the data lifecycle, legal teams can:

  • Share data faster and more confidently
  • Reduce friction between legal, compliance, and innovation teams
  • Maintain control over sensitive information beyond organizational boundaries
  • Support AI and analytics initiatives without increasing exposure

Rather than limiting collaboration, privacy becomes the mechanism that makes it possible.

Join Us at Legalweek 2026

We’re meeting with legal and security leaders during Legalweek to discuss how privacy-first collaboration can scale without adding friction or risk.

Schedule a meeting with our team before Legalweek to make the most of your time in New York.

And if you’re onsite, you’ll find us at Booth 612.

 

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If you’ll be in New York, we’d love to connect in person. Our team will be on site talking strategy and nurturing real conversations about what’s working and what’s next in marketing and communications.

From PR and account strategy to operations and growth, we’re excited to connect with peers, partners, and new faces throughout the week! Reach out now, or catch us onsite in the 4th Floor Corner Café or on the 5th Floor in room MS-9!

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orbital

The round, led by Brighton Park Capital, backs Orbital’s next chapter of growth across the US and UK. The company ended 2025 supporting 200,000+ transactions, with hundreds of law firms using the platform day to day across Am Law 100 and Magic Circle firms, in-house legal teams, real estate developers, title companies, and REITs.

Read more from Orbital’s CEO: https://www.orbital.tech/blog/announcing-our-60m-series-b-fundraise

 

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for the record

Courts rely on FTR RealTime’s instant speech-to-text to enhance access, efficiency, and transparency. Still small variations—such as name spellings—naturally occur when the spoken word is converted into written text. This reality prompts courts to consistently ask: Can we update the speech-to-text record?

To address this need, For The Record recently developed a feature that enables limited editing of the speech-to-text content in FTR RealTime.

This new capability allows the speech-to-text output to be refined without ever altering the official audio—the immutable source of truth—making the written record clearer and more usable for attorneys and court staff.

Read more news at:
https://fortherecord.com/resource-center/resources

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See how Jarvis’ new OCR Agent extracts text from documents—including handwritten notes—quickly and accurately.

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This demo walks through:

  • Uploading a mixed-content PDF
  • Correcting recognition errors with human-in-the-loop
  • Sending extracted data to a downstream system
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elevate

The legal tech conversation has changed noticeably over the last year. In 2024 and early 2025, most teams were experimenting. They were testing generative AI tools, piloting point solutions, and exploring what might be possible. As 2026 begins, the questions have become more practical: Does AI work at scale, with our data set, and can it fit within our own operational systems and processes?

AI and the Legal Department of 2026: What’s Changing (and What’s Not)

 

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purpose

The deal combines decades of experience in managed review and flexible legal staffing with next-gen legal technology and AI-powered services.

Dallas, TX – January 15, 2026 — Purpose Legal, a leading provider of digital forensics, eDiscovery, AI-powered managed review, and specialized legal operations services, today announced its acquisition of Hire Counsel, an iconic brand and respected provider of managed review and flexible legal staffing services for over 30 years.

This strategic combination creates a fully integrated managed services platform that unites experienced people, proven processes, and modern technology under one roof to deliver what customers have long sought but rarely find: depth, scale, and choice without sacrificing quality.

By uniting the best of human expertise and artificial intelligence, Purpose Legal strengthens its leadership in managed review and flexible legal staffing, enabling faster deployment, greater flexibility, and consistent execution across matters of any size or complexity. Purpose Legal will leverage Hire Counsel’s exceptional talent network of more than 70,000 vetted attorneys and decades of trusted client relationships to scale rapidly while ensuring AI-driven workflows are applied with precision, confidentiality, and accountability for today’s most demanding legal matters.

“We’re very excited to join forces with Hire Counsel and its great people,” said Greg Mazares, CEO of Purpose Legal. “The legal industry is at an inflection point and as technology providers and staffing firms move further apart, we see an opportunity to bring the market back together. By uniting Hire Counsel and Purpose Legal, we are building a platform where human expertise and AI reinforce one another, not compete. The future of legal services is AI plus people, working in concert, at scale, with accountability built in. This combination sets a new standard for what a modern legal services provider can and should be.”

What the legal marketplace can expect:

  • Continued relationships with trusted Hire Counsel and Purpose Legal experts
  • Expanded access to scalable, tech-forward litigation support solutions
  • A unified mission centered around service, innovation, data security, and value

“For decades Hire Counsel has built its reputation on impeccable delivery, vetted processes, flexible talent, and an unmatched commitment to client satisfaction,” said Joan Davison, CEO of Hire Counsel. “Joining Purpose Legal allows us to bring our clients the best of both worlds: a proven workforce management delivery system and a forward-looking technology platform, run by expert consultants, that deploys AI responsibly to address our clients’ most complex challenges.”

Following the transaction, managed review, flexible staffing, and specialized legal operations services will operate as “Hire Counsel, a Purpose Legal Company.” Core eDiscovery, digital forensics, managed services, and infrastructure services will continue under the “Purpose Legal” brand.

Supporting this transaction is Blue Sage Capital, Purpose Legal’s majority investor. Blue Sage worked closely with the Purpose Legal management team to close this transaction. Blue Sage was represented in the transaction by Queen Saenz + Schutz PLLC (Legal), SCA (Accounting ), Cherry Bekaert (Tax), and Lockton (Insurance). Comerica Bank served as the financing partner on the transaction.

Hire Counsel, a portfolio company of Long Point Capital, was represented in the transaction by Sidley Austin (Legal) and Jegi Leonis (Financial Advisor), a pre-eminent M&A advisory firm for the global technology, software, media, and business services industries.

About Purpose Legal:

Purpose Legal is a leader in eDiscovery, digital forensics, document review, and legal technology services. In 2025 it was recognized as one of Inc. 5000’s fastest growing private companies in America. Our diverse team of experienced, talented, and motivated professionals is our greatest asset. We assist multinational corporations, law firms and government entities through best-in-breed software, generative AI tools, creative managed services solutions, and deep industry knowledge. Purpose delivers expertise in litigation support, HSR second requests, advisory consulting services, corporate compliance, regulatory investigations, core eDiscovery services and technology, document review, information governance, data privacy, data breach discovery, commercial contract review, and data science. We hire and develop experienced industry professionals who, combined with proven processes and robust technology, help us deliver consistently-effective solutions to our valued clients worldwide. Learn more at www.www.purposelegal.io.

About Hire Counsel:

Hire Counsel, established in 1993, is a leading provider of flexible legal talent and managed review services, supporting law firms, corporations, and government entities across the United States. With more than three decades of experience, the company specializes in delivering highly vetted attorneys, project managers, and legal professionals to help clients respond quickly to shifting workloads, regulatory demands, and complex litigation matters. Powered by its proprietary P3 People Placement Process, Hire Counsel assembles skilled, scalable teams tailored to each client’s unique legal challenges. Recognized for its national reach, operational agility, and commitment to quality, Hire Counsel enables organizations to streamline legal operations, reduce risk, and drive meaningful results. For more information, visit www.hirecounsel.com.

About Blue Sage:

Blue Sage Capital is an Austin, Texas-based private equity firm that has been investing in profitable, growing, lower middle-market companies since 2002. Blue Sage currently has over $1.5 billion of assets under management and seeks to partner with founders, families, and management teams as the first round of institutional capital for businesses that enjoy leadership positions in niche manufacturing, environmental solutions, or specialty services industries. Blue Sage typically invests $25 million to $60 million in control buyout investments and recapitalizations of companies with $25 million to $200 million of revenue.  Visit bluesage.com.

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Discover how legal teams can leverage Language Weaver’s secure and scalable AI-powered machine translation to manage multilingual content with confidence. In this webinar, we’ll show you how to leverage advanced features such as:

  • automatic speech recognition
  • document labeling
  • automatic post-editing

In addition, we will explore how Language Weaver helps firms support data privacy, compliance and operational efficiency. With 13 of the top 20 AmLaw firms already using Language Weaver, discover how your organization can benefit from enterprise-grade security and seamless integration into legal workflows. 

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