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Control Risks, a global leader in investigations, litigation support, compliance, cyber incident response, eDiscovery and digital forensics services, today announced it has earned the Relativity aiR for Review Competency. Through this competency, global legal technology company Relativity acknowledges that Control Risks has demonstrated proficiency and proven customer success utilizing aiR for Review and has exhibited its knowledge of RelativityOne best practices. The aiR for Review Competency is part of a growing list of achievements earned by Control Risks, including Financial Services, Cybersecurity and Security Best Practices Competencies.

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February 18, 2026/by emily.litz@controlrisks.com

DISCO

DISCO is thrilled to announce the introduction of agentic capabilities to our groundbreaking Cecilia Q&A fact investigation tool – marking DISCO as the first to bring agentic AI at scale to fact investigation and ediscovery.

With its new agentic capabilities, users will be able to engage Cecilia Q&A in a new, robust, multi-step-reasoning research mode on even the largest data sets, to deliver the most relevant and important evidence from the outset of every case.

As CEO Eric Friedrichsen noted, “Our agentic Q&A tool brings deeper analysis, recognizes next-level, highly nuanced connections and offers the potential to transform reviews from a tick-the-box exercise into a critical part of litigation case strategy. This is more than just an AI plug-in. It’s purpose-built technology for a new and better way to approach fact investigation and document review.”

Our new agentic AI tool will be on display at our Legalweek Booth #213. Stop by for a product demonstration – and learn more in our press release: https://lnkd.in/gm4SuqCD

February 18, 2026/by glee@csdisco.com

Control Risks

Control Risks, a global leader in investigations, eDiscovery and digital forensics services, has launched an advanced new service empowering legal and compliance teams to remotely collect and review targeted messaging data from mobile devices alongside traditional documents within RelativityOne. This unique capability enables clients to capture specific conversations of interest from any mobile device or third-party chat application platform, unify them with the rest of their case data and apply next-generation AI analytics for faster, smarter results.

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February 17, 2026/by emily.litz@controlrisks.com

Law firms today operate in a highly competitive and fast-moving environment. Clients expect rapid response times, consistent communication, and cost efficiency without compromising quality. At the same time, firms face increasing pressure to manage staffing, control overhead, and maintain operational excellence.

To meet these demands, modern firms need more than additional staff. They need a strategic global operations engine.

At VermaSoft Inc., we provide comprehensive legal operations support that helps law firms scale efficiently, strengthen workflows, and improve overall performance.

Vermasoft

Solving Today’s Law Firm Operational Challenges

Many firms struggle with similar operational gaps:

Attorneys spending valuable time on administrative tasks
Delayed client intake processes
Inconsistent front office support
Rising staffing costs
Difficulty recruiting qualified legal professionals

Without structured legal operations support, growth becomes inefficient and profitability declines. A well built operational framework allows firms to focus on practicing law while maintaining seamless internal systems.

Specialized Legal Talent Services

Access to reliable and qualified legal professionals is critical for sustainable growth. VermaSoft delivers specialized legal talent solutions tailored to the unique needs of each firm.

Our legal staffing solutions are designed to:

Increase operational efficiency
Reduce overhead costs
Accelerate onboarding
Provide scalable workforce support

By leveraging global legal talent, firms gain flexibility and consistency without expanding internal infrastructure.

Learn more about our legal talent services at https://vermasoft.com

Intake and Reception Support

Client intake is one of the most important stages of the client journey. A responsive and structured intake system increases conversions and improves client satisfaction.

Our intake and reception support services help law firms:

Respond to inquiries quickly
Qualify leads efficiently
Enhance client communication
Capture more signed cases

Professional intake support strengthens first impressions and drives measurable growth.

Legal and Administrative Operations Support

Operational excellence is the foundation of every successful law firm. Our legal and administrative operations support services are built to streamline workflows and eliminate inefficiencies.

We help firms:

Optimize case management processes
Reduce administrative workload
Improve documentation accuracy
Maintain consistent communication

By reinforcing internal operations, firms improve productivity and position themselves for long term expansion.

Talent Certification Through LegalBridge Academy

Quality control is essential in legal support services. Through LegalBridge Academy, we ensure that legal professionals meet defined performance and training standards before joining client teams.

LegalBridge Academy focuses on:

Legal process competency
Communication standards
Technology proficiency
Compliance awareness

This certification approach reduces onboarding friction and ensures readiness from day one.

Explore more about LegalBridge Academy at https://vermasoft.com/legalbridge-academy

Why Global Legal Operations Matter

A global operations model provides law firms with strategic advantages:

Access to a broader legal talent pool
Improved cost efficiency
Operational scalability
Greater workforce flexibility
Consistent support coverage

Instead of reacting to operational challenges, firms can build a proactive system designed for sustainable growth.

VermaSoft’s VLegalGlobalOps framework is built to serve as an extension of your firm’s internal operations. By strengthening your legal operations infrastructure, you gain the stability and flexibility needed to compete in today’s legal market.

If your firm is ready to enhance efficiency and scale with confidence, visit https://vermasoft.com or contact our team at +1 305 985 5461 to learn more.

February 17, 2026/by valeria.castillo@vermasoft.com

DeepJudge raises $42M Series A to power elite law firms with AI-driven knowledge. Freshfields and top firms lead the way.

Critical context for legal decisions is scattered across dozens of systems. Generic AI tools cannot answer questions like “Have we negotiated this term before?” or “Which clients does this regulation affect?”

DeepJudge

Those answers live across fragmented sources. In legal AI, accurate retrieval matters more than anything else. If a system cannot surface the exact knowledge when it is needed, every subsequent step breaks down.

Founded by ex-Google search engineers with PhDs in AI from ETH Zurich, our team is tailor-made for this moment. DeepJudge is retrieval-first, connecting AI workflows to the full scale of a firm’s knowledge. Every document, precedent, and insight becomes instantly actionable without leaving the firm’s secure systems.

Elite law firms are evolving into data-driven organizations, and top firms Freshfields, Holland & Knight LLP Cozen O’Connor, ArentFox Schiff, and Schoenherr Attorneys at Law are using DeepJudge to turn knowledge into competitive advantage.

We are excited to announce our Series A, led by exceptional investors Felicis (welcome Viviana and James) with continued support from Coatue Management.

The future of legal AI is data-driven, precise, and built around the expertise that makes every firm unique.

Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dY2AkUVb

February 17, 2026/by marketing@deepjudge.ai

For many legal teams, privacy and compliance are still viewed as necessary constraints, obligations that slow down workflows, limit data access, and complicate collaboration.

But this mindset is changing.

As legal departments adopt AI, analytics, and more collaborative ways of working, privacy is increasingly becoming a strategic requirement, one that can either block progress or enable it.

When Privacy Slows Legal Work Down

Traditional approaches to privacy often rely on:

Manual redaction
One-off anonymization efforts
Restrictive access controls that limit data use

These methods may reduce risk, but they also reduce efficiency and data value. Legal teams are forced to choose between protecting data and making meaningful use of it.

Turning Privacy Into an Enabler

Nymiz helps legal teams shift this dynamic by transforming privacy from a reactive control into a proactive capability embedded within legal workflows.

Through automated anonymization and redaction, Nymiz allows organizations to protect sensitive data without removing the context and structure that legal work depends on. This makes it possible to:

Share data securely across internal teams and external partners
Use real legal data for AI, analytics, and reporting
Maintain compliance without introducing bottlenecks

By automating anonymization and redaction at scale, legal teams can dramatically reduce the manual effort required to protect sensitive data; often saving up to 80% of the time traditionally spent on manual privacy and compliance tasks.

Privacy That Supports Innovation

When privacy is integrated early and applied consistently, legal teams gain the freedom to innovate responsibly. They can experiment with new technologies, adopt AI-driven tools, and collaborate more effectively, all while maintaining control over sensitive information.

This approach enables legal departments to move beyond a compliance-first mindset and toward a trust-first model, where privacy supports rather than restricts progress.

Preparing for the Future of Legal Work

As regulatory expectations grow and legal technology evolves, the ability to operationalize privacy will be a key differentiator for legal teams.

At Legalweek 2026, we’re looking forward to discussing how organizations can rethink privacy as a core enabler of legal innovation, not just a regulatory obligation.

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.

February 17, 2026/by oscar@nymiz.com

Leadership evolution reflects agency growth and operational strength

MINNEAPOLIS, MN – FEBRUARY 12, 2026 – Edge Marketing, Inc., an award-winning full-service agency specializing in strategic marketing and public relations for the legal, accounting and professional services industries, announced today the promotion of Vicki LaBrosse to Managing Director, formalizing a leadership role she has naturally grown into over nearly two decades of service to the agency and its clients.

LaBrosse joined Edge Marketing in 2007 and most recently served as Global Director of Public Relations. In her new role as Managing Director, she will oversee day-to-day operational leadership across the agency, including work prioritization, resource alignment and cross-team coordination, while continuing to lead global public relations strategy for clients.

“Vicki has long been a central leader within Edge,” said Amy Juers, CEO of Edge Marketing. “This promotion simply recognizes the role she has already been playing. It provides greater clarity around operational ownership and decision-making as we continue to evolve and strengthen our agency.”

Throughout her tenure, LaBrosse has played a pivotal role in building Edge’s reputation for strategic communications within the legal, accounting and professional services industries. She is known for her precision, thoughtful counsel and trusted client relationships. Her work has supported high-impact product launches, executive visibility campaigns and long-standing media partnerships that elevate brands in complex and highly regulated markets.

“I’m honored to step into this role and continue supporting the team and clients I care deeply about,” said LaBrosse. “Edge has always been grounded in collaboration and forward momentum. This next chapter allows me to focus more intentionally on operational excellence while continuing the PR work that defines who we are.”

Edge Marketing serves legal, accounting and professional services organizations with strategic communications, public relations and AI-integrated marketing solutions. LaBrosse’s promotion reflects the agency’s commitment to thoughtful growth, leadership clarity and continued client impact.

About Edge Marketing
Edge Marketing, Inc. is a strategic communications and marketing agency serving legal, accounting and professional services organizations worldwide. Since 1997, Edge has partnered with companies operating in complex, regulated and high-stakes industries to build credibility, elevate brand visibility and drive measurable growth. The agency combines strategic insight with emerging technologies, including AI-integrated marketing workflows, to deliver public relations, thought leadership, digital marketing, GEO/AEO/SEO and fractional CMO services grounded in authenticity and data-driven precision. Edge is known for its long-standing client relationships, ethical approach and commitment to helping B2B organizations lead with clarity and confidence. To learn more, visit www.edgemarketinginc.com.

Media Contact:
Tanya Amyote
tamyote@edgemarketinginc.com
905.359.7790

February 12, 2026/by Amy Juers

AllRize recently commissioned an independent research firm to survey nearly 100 law firms across the United States to better understand how technology, AI, and software integration are shaping legal operations today.

The results reveal a clear and urgent issue: software integration is one of the biggest barriers to efficiency in the legal profession.

Image from AllRize

Key findings from the 2025 Legal Technology & AI Adoption Report include:

• 41.2% of firms are dissatisfied with how their software applications work together
• 55.3% of firms juggle 5–10 separate tools every day to run their practices
• 48.8% would prefer a comprehensive, all-in-one legal tech suite
• 65% believe an AI-powered platform would increase billable hours
• 89.2% of firms already rely on Microsoft productivity tools

When legal professionals are forced to move between disconnected systems, productivity drops. Time is lost switching tools, manually re-entering data, and managing unnecessary complexity. The result: fewer billable hours, more stress, and slower growth.

But the research also points to a powerful opportunity.

Because nearly nine out of ten law firms already use Microsoft tools like Word, Outlook, Teams, and Excel, the smartest path forward is to prioritize legal applications that integrate natively into the Microsoft ecosystem—rather than adding yet another standalone platform.

The report explores:
• Why fragmented tech stacks are holding firms back
• How AI-powered suites can streamline operations
• Where law firms are losing billable time
• What integration-first strategies look like in practice

Download the full report here: AllRize Legal Technology and AI Adoption Report

February 12, 2026/by franklyn@rizeware.com

Legal teams today operate in increasingly complex data environments. Sensitive information flows across document management systems, AI tools, collaboration platforms, and external vendors, often with limited visibility or control once data leaves its original source.

In this context, adding privacy controls on top of existing workflows is no longer sufficient.

What legal teams need is a data infrastructure where privacy is embedded by design.

The Limits of Tool-Based Privacy

Many legal organizations rely on a combination of manual redaction, point solutions, or ad hoc processes to protect sensitive data. These approaches tend to be:

Fragmented across systems
Difficult to scale
Highly dependent on human intervention
Applied too late in the workflow

As legal data volumes grow and AI adoption accelerates, these limitations become critical risks.

Privacy at the Infrastructure Level

Nymiz addresses this challenge by integrating privacy directly into the legal data infrastructure. Rather than protecting data only at specific touchpoints, Nymiz enables organizations to anonymize and redact sensitive information as soon as data is collected or ingested into legal workflows.

Key capabilities include:

Automated detection of personal and sensitive data across documents and datasets using advanced NLP and AI models
Consistent anonymization and redaction applied before data is stored, analyzed, or shared
Preservation of legal context and structure, ensuring documents remain usable for review, analytics, and AI
Flexible deployment options (SaaS, API, or on-premise) to fit existing legal and security architectures

Designed to operate at the infrastructure level, Nymiz supports anonymization across a wide range of formats (including Word, PDF, PowerPoint, text files and images) and in more than 100 languages, making it suitable for global legal operations with diverse data sources.

Building Scalable, AI-Ready Legal Systems

Embedding privacy into data infrastructure allows legal teams to move faster without increasing risk. It enables:

Secure reuse of legal data across teams and use cases
Greater confidence when adopting AI-driven tools
Reduced reliance on manual processes
Stronger alignment with privacy regulations and internal governance policies

Rather than acting as a constraint, privacy becomes a foundational layer that supports innovation.

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.

February 12, 2026/by oscar@nymiz.com

A best-of-breed software strategy sounds good, but it creates unexpected problems. Discover why an all-in-one practice management system delivers more value.

Click to download our brochure, The Integration Imperative: How Unified, AI-Powered Platforms Outperform Best-of-Breed Tools in Law Firms by Streamlining Workflows, Reducing Errors, and Boosting Efficiency

February 11, 2026/by franklyn@rizeware.com