Winnow, an award-winning provider of regulatory compliance and legal technology, is proud to announce its fourth consecutive nomination at the 2026 Legalweek Awards, this year in the category of “Best Use of Artificial Intelligence (Contract, Document & Project Management).” The continued recognition underscores Winnow’s sustained leadership and innovation at the intersection of law, compliance, and artificial intelligence.
Leveraging Social Media Insights in Claims Settlements: A Strategic Tool for Attorneys
In today’s digital landscape, more than 70% of people actively share aspects of their lives online. For attorneys handling litigated claims, that digital footprint can reveal critical evidence – sometimes making the difference between a high-value payout and a significantly reduced settlement.
When collected ethically and presented correctly, social media insights can provide court-admissible evidence that strengthens discovery, improves deposition preparation and supports more favorable settlement outcomes.
The Role of Social Media in Litigation
Attorneys face rising claim exposures, higher verdict values and increasing litigation costs. At the same time, many claimants maintain active social media profiles that may contradict allegations related to injury severity, lifestyle limitations or damages.
While social media evidence is powerful, it presents challenges:
- Expanding digital footprints that require expertise to assess
- Admissibility and ethical compliance requirements
- Costly, time-intensive traditional discovery methods
A structured approach to social media analysis helps attorneys address these challenges efficiently.
Key Stages Where Social Media Insights Add Value
Social media analysis can support litigation strategy at multiple points, including:
- Preliminary Discovery: Identifying undisclosed accounts and inconsistencies
- Requests for Production: Informing targeted discovery requests
- Deposition Preparation: Guiding questioning with verified online activity
- Arbitration and Mediation: Strengthening negotiation positions
- Pre-Trial Preparation: Compiling behavioral patterns and exhibits
Strengthening Evidence and Negotiation Strategies
Social media investigations can uncover information that challenges exaggerated claims and unsupported settlement demands. Verified online activity often provides a clearer picture of a claimant’s physical abilities, lifestyle and prior conditions, helping resolve cases more efficiently.
Case Example
A claimant demanded nearly $1 million for pain and suffering related to a fingernail injury. A targeted social media review revealed prior posts describing a similar injury years earlier, contributing to a settlement reduction from $999,999 to $2,500.
Enhancing Discovery and Deposition Preparation
Traditional discovery does not always reveal the full picture. Social media background checks can supplement depositions and interrogatories by identifying contradictions before testimony or validating concerns afterward.
Case Example
In one matter, a claimant testified to severe physical limitations. Social media findings later revealed skydiving, bowling and physically demanding activities during the same period, leading to a significantly reduced settlement.
Ethical and Legally Compliant Evidence Collection
Improperly obtained social media content may be challenged or excluded in court. Best practices include:
- Collecting only publicly available content
- Verifying authenticity through metadata
- Preserving evidence in litigation-ready formats
- Ensuring reports meet court admissibility standards
Understanding the Limitations
Attorneys must also account for risks such as manipulated content, fake accounts, outdated posts, private “burner” accounts, and relevant activity appearing on third-party profiles. Expert oversight helps ensure findings are accurate, contextual and defensible.
A Smarter Approach to Claims Settlements
As digital evidence becomes increasingly central to litigation, attorneys who integrate social media insights strategically gain a measurable advantage. When used correctly, social media analysis can strengthen case evidence, improve discovery efficiency and reduce settlement costs.
Social Discovery provides actionable, court-admissible social media evidence at key stages of litigation, helping legal teams build stronger cases with less expense.
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Nearly one-third of the entire workforce is involved in contract management, yet most organizations operate without a shared contract language. Legal speaks in terms of risk and precedent, finance focuses on revenue implications, procurement tracks performance obligations, and other departments work from summaries and spreadsheets that may not reflect the actual agreement.
This communication breakdown creates costly friction that most teams don’t recognize as a systemic problem. When departments work from different information sources, they inevitably overlook critical contract obligations while struggling to maintain consistent terms and compliance standards across their organization.
Modern contract management software solves this by creating shared contract intelligence that every department can access and understand. Instead of each team maintaining their own interpretation of contract terms, these platforms provide structured data, automated workflows, and AI-powered translation tools that eliminate the language barriers between departments.
The result is organizational alignment around contracts that drives measurable business outcomes. Teams move from debating interpretations to acting on shared information, reducing escalations, preventing compliance gaps, and ensuring critical contract details reach the right people at the right time.
Read the full article to learn how contract management software creates common ground across departments.
Exhibitors and sponsors can upload marketing materials they wish to share with qualified members of the media before, during and after the event
MINNEAPOLIS, MN, and NEW YORK CITY, NY – JANUARY 9, 2026 – Edge Marketing, Inc. announced today that its virtual press room, The Edge Room, is now open for Legalweek 2026.
From today through March 27, 2026, Legalweek exhibitors and sponsors can update their company’s profile page on The Edge Room with recent press releases, announcements, articles, white papers, videos, logos and other materials they wish to share with prequalified members of the media, most of whom will be attending the event.
For prequalified members of the media, The Edge Room offers a cohesive experience enabling easier prioritization and dissemination of breaking news before, during and after Legalweek. Now integrated with advanced agentic AI technology, The Edge Room revolutionizes how media professionals research exhibitors, sponsors and conference sessions for more efficient scheduling and story development.
Legalweek exhibitors and sponsors who use The Edge Room enjoy the following benefits:
- Expanded exposure and reach via The Edge Room blog and social sharing to The Edge Room’s LinkedIn and X audiences
- Increased opportunity for a featured mention in The Edge Room’s Daily Alert emails to nearly 12,000 legal contacts
- Hashtagging for social media posts, ensuring your content is added to Legalweek conversations such as #Legalweek26, #Legalweek and @Legalweekshow.
Amy Juers, founder and CEO of Edge Marketing, highlights the evolving role of The Edge Room in Legalweek’s ecosystem. “As technology reshapes how journalists work, The Edge Room continues to serve as a vital hub connecting Legalweek attendees with exhibitors, sponsors and prequalified media,” she says. “With the integration of agentic AI, we are enabling media professionals to more quickly research, prioritize and act on the information that matters most, while empowering sponsors to share their news more efficiently and make a meaningful impact in an increasingly dynamic environment.”
Questions about The Edge Room can be directed to Tanya Amyote at tamyote@edgemarketinginc.com.
Media representatives interested in covering Legalweek can apply for a press pass and access to The Edge Room by contacting Vicki LaBrosse at vlabrosse@edgemarketinginc.com.
About Legalweek
Renowned as the industry’s beacon for legal technology, this week-long conference is where the legal community convenes to decode the future. Six thousand of the biggest names in the industry will explore emerging trends, spotlight the latest tech and offer a roadmap through the industry’s seismic shifts. Through networking, sessions and a tradeshow floor featuring hundreds of exhibitors and cutting-edge product launches, attendees have unparalleled opportunities to meet and exchange ideas with peers, experts and innovators from across the globe.
About ALM & LBR
ALM and LBR recently announced their strategic merger. The newly formed group is uniquely positioned to serve clients globally by combining ALM’s deep US market penetration with LBR’s strong UK and global presence, thus offering clients unparalleled expertise, reach and service.
ALM is the most trusted information and intelligence company supporting both the practice of and business of professionals in the legal industry. ALM delivers leading data, intelligence, insights, events and audiences essential for growing businesses globally to over 7 million professionals.
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About Edge Marketing
Edge Marketing, Inc. is a global leader in delivering results-driven strategic marketing and public relations expertise to clients in the legal, accounting and professional services industries. As an award-winning full-service agency since 1997, Edge combines innovative technology with strategic expertise to provide fractional CMO services, GEO services, strategic planning and budgeting, public relations, branding, website development, email campaigns and digital advertising for clients worldwide. With a focus on authenticity and leveraging reliable technology, Edge has helped B2B organizations reach the top through innovative marketing and public relations strategies that deliver measurable results and elevate its clients’ brands. To learn more, visit www.edgemarketinginc.com.
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Dioptra, the AI-powered contract review platform favoured by Wilson Sonsini, has announced a partnership with LawVu, the cloud-based legal workspace. The venture is aimed at inhouse lawyers.
The collaboration marks ‘a significant step forward in streamlining and accelerating legal workflows by integrating Dioptra’s AI-generated redlining directly into LawVu’s all-in-one legal platform’, they said.
Through this partnership, Dioptra’s ‘advanced AI engine will integrate seamlessly into the LawVu platform, allowing users to initiate AI-powered contract revisions without leaving their existing workflows’.
Contract risk assessments have always been more art than science. Different departments see the same agreement and reach completely different conclusions about whether it’s acceptable, creating bottlenecks and disagreements that slow business decisions. Without consistent criteria, teams end up debating opinions instead of addressing actual exposure.
Most contract platforms offer basic risk flags or manual scoring systems, but they don’t solve the real problem: creating consistent risk measurement that everyone can understand and trust. Teams end up prioritizing whatever contract lands on their desk first instead of focusing on agreements that actually threaten the business.
IntelAgree’s new risk scoring module turns contract risk into measurable data by letting teams assign scores to specific attributes, weight them based on business priorities, and generate overall risk scores automatically. Whether you configure everything manually or let Saige Assist set it up with generative AI, the result is the same: objective risk data that eliminates arguments and speeds decisions.
Read the full press release for the entire story behind our new risk scoring module, or check out our blog to learn how to set it up.
Icertis Partners With Dioptra – 3rd AI Deal in 18 Months
CLM company Icertis has partnered with genAI contract review startup Dioptra, its third such hook-up since 2024. Last year it partnered with Evisort (now part of Workday), and more recently did a deal with Harvey to leverage its AI capabilities.
The move comes at an important time for the CLM market, as a wave of narrower, genAI-first pioneers seek to take market share, and while some rivals are investing heavily in multiple new AI capabilities, such as ContractPodAi and Agiloft.
Dioptra, which is also working with law firms Nelson Mullins and Wilson Sonsini among others, will connect with the Icertis Contract Intelligence platform. Dioptra uses an ‘agentic framework’ to ‘distil fully custom playbooks, auto-generate redlines in Microsoft Word, and enables chat assisted reviews with and without playbooks’, they said.
Pebble Beach Company operates world-famous golf resorts, but their legal team was struggling with a contract management system that made finding agreements nearly impossible. Even contracts the team had personally uploaded would disappear from search results, and the manual approval process relied on physical stamps and email chains that could take days to complete.
The company implemented IntelAgree’s centralized platform to organize decades of scattered agreements into a single, searchable repository. IntelAgree’s team migrated hundreds of contracts while Pebble Beach created standardized templates for recurring agreements. The new system eliminated manual bottlenecks and introduced electronic workflows that transformed how the legal team operates.
Key Results:
- 9-minute execution: Contract went from approval to full execution with three signatures (2:01 p.m. to 2:10 p.m.)
- Instant searchability: Decades of agreements now accessible in a single, organized repository
- Proactive management: Monthly docket meetings to review contracts expiring in 90-180 days
- Streamlined workflows: Teams submit complete information upfront, eliminating back-and-forth
- Electronic processes: Eliminated physical stamps and document scanning
“I recently went from an approved agreement to fully executed in nine minutes. I watched three people sign it during that time — it started at 2:01 p.m. and was done by 2:10 p.m. That’s pretty incredible,” said Evan Allen, In-House Counsel at Pebble Beach.
Read the complete Pebble Beach case study here to learn more about their contract management transformation with IntelAgree.
Earns Third Appearance in Five Years on the Prestigious Inc. 5000 List
[Dallas, TX– August 12, 2025] – Purpose Legal, a leading provider of digital forensics, eDiscovery, document review, and complex legal support services, is proud to announce that it has once again been recognized as one of the fastest-growing private companies in America on the prestigious Inc. 5000 list. The company’s third appearance on the list, following previous honors in 2020 and 2022, is a testament to its sustained growth, resilience, and dedication to excellence in the legal tech industry.
By Connie Brenton
The RLLB 2025 Awards celebrated the individuals and organizations that are redefining what it means to run legal like a business. From innovation and transformation to mentorship, leadership, and the next generation of talent, this year’s honorees represent the very best of our profession.
Across 11 categories, we recognized the creativity, execution, and measurable business impact that are raising the bar for legal operations worldwide. Among these honors, the General Counsel of the Year stood out as a powerful reminder of how strategic leadership can transform both legal departments and the businesses they serve.
General Counsel of the Year
This recognition honors in-house General Counsel who combine legal excellence with business leadership, strategy, and a measurable impact within their organizations.
- Large Company: Janet McCarthy, Belron
- Small and Medium Business: Eugenia Bergantz, Planful
- Small and Medium Business: Marc Mandel, Exos
Innovation Excellence Award
This award honors individuals and teams who redefine how legal drives business value through technology and new ways of working.
- Lululemon in partnership with LexGO
- Mercedes-Benz
- Kari Clevenger, Mode Global
- Jessica Vander Ploeg, Belron
Best Transformation Project Award
This award recognizes organizations that have reimagined and fundamentally reshaped legal to deliver measurable business results.
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- Mercedes-Benz in partnership with Consilio
- Eletrobrás in partnership with Docato
- Atlassian in partnership with Brightflag
Pioneering Use of AI Award
This award celebrates organizations that are transforming legal through bold, practical applications of artificial intelligence.
- Rubrik in partnership with Harbor Global
- Corteva Agriscience in partnership with Onit
- Honigman LLP
Provider Excellence Award
This award recognizes solution providers that deliver exceptional value and act as true partners to legal departments.
- Tonkean
- Luminance
Data-Driven Legal Department of the Year
This award honors departments that use data and analytics to drive decisions, optimize operations, and demonstrate value to the business.
- PayPal – Emily Teuben and team
- Phillips 66 – Michael Voutsinas and team
- Total Quality Logistics
Mentorship Excellence Award
This award celebrates leaders who invest time and energy to grow people and elevate the profession.
- David Cohen, Reed Smith
- Michael Johnson, DigiCert
- Krysta Johnson, DocuSign
IP Operations Excellence Award
This award recognizes excellence in intellectual property operations where innovation and efficiency support business growth.
- Steve Gong, Google
- Belron
Litigation Operations Excellence Award
This award honors organizations that have improved outcomes and efficiency by modernizing litigation management through process, technology, and strategy.
- Johnson & Johnson in partnership with Elevate
- Unisys
HERizon Leadership Award
This award recognizes women and allies who demonstrate vision, strength, and a commitment to lifting others across the legal ecosystem.
- Lucie Allen, BARBRI
- Lillian Caudle, Mercedes-Benz
- Monique White
Rising Stars in Law: 40 Under 40
This award highlights emerging leaders who are making an impact.
- Abigail Baughman, Mercedes-Benz
- Hope Cannon, Diligent
- Jen Cork, NetApp
- Andrew Denman, Total Quality Logistics
- Tyler Kemp, Hyundai
- Leana Lares, H1
- Jessica Lynch, Elevance Health
- Megan Ostling, Atlassian
- Steven Rippberger
What We Saw This Year
- Impact over activity. The strongest entries demonstrated business outcomes backed by data.
- Collaboration at scale. Cross-functional partnerships with Finance, IT, Procurement, Compliance, and business units were a differentiator.
- Practical innovation. The most successful AI and transformation programs targeted high-value use cases with disciplined change management.
Looking Ahead to RLLB 2026
It is never too early to prepare for next year. If you plan to submit, start capturing outcomes now. Define the business problem, quantify the baseline, track adoption and value created, and include testimonials from stakeholders. Consider which category best fits your work and involve your partners early.
Congratulations to all honorees and to the teams behind them. Thank you for raising the standard for our profession. I look forward to celebrating your next set of achievements at RLLB 2026.