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The Legaltech Rundown is a weekly update of legal tech happenings that might have gone under the radar.
Align: On Tuesday, case binder management platform Align announced the expansion of Offline Read-Write Mode for iPad users. With this feature, users can edit while offline, with updates saved directly to the iPad and synchronized automatically online, allowing users to work inside Align when internet access is unavailable, according to a press release.
Ayora/BigHand: On Tuesday, data and insights technology provider BigHand announced its partnership with artificial intelligence-powered data intelligence company Ayora. The partnership combines BigHand’s established pricing, budgeting and matter tracking capabilities with Ayora’s matter data enrichment features to provide law firms with insights into pricing, budgeting and matter performance, according to a press release.
HaystackID: E-discovery provider HaystackID announced Tuesday the expansion of its AI-powered discovery capabilities for users in Europe. European users will have access to the HaystackID Privacy Hub, a dashboard that can quantify sensitive and standard personally identifiable information, surface non-standard identifiers, map geographic exposure by state and country, and highlight handwritten documents and documents with poor optical character recognition. Users will also be able to access Gen AI-Powered DSAR Response, the provider’s data subject access request (DSAR) response mechanism, according to a press release.
Moonlit: Amsterdam-based legal research startup Moonlit announced the launch of Moonlit Connect, an access layer that delivers its Moonlit Data Layer to AI-powered products and workflows. Moonlit Connect ships in a Data API mode for teams building legal AI products and a model context protocol (MCP) server mode for legal professionals using Claude or any other MCP-compatible client. For the data API mode, engineering teams building legal AI products can query the data layer through a structured representational state transfer interface with consistent schemas across 28 jurisdictions. Users can pull inbound or outbound citations for any article in a single call. For MCP server mode, legal teams that do not want to write code can query the data layer in natural language from inside the assistant they already use, with citations back to the source on every answer, according to a press release.
Norm Law: On Wednesday, hybrid law firm Norm Law announced the appointment of Sam Lipson and Justin Rattigan as partners and co-heads of its emerging companies and venture capital (ECVC) practice. Lipson was previously partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman and an associate at Cooley. Rattigan was previously general counsel at Bain Capital and was also an associate at Cooley, according to a press release.
Relativity: On May 21, e-discovery company Relativity announced its integration with Anthropic’s Claude Compliance API, making Claude Enterprise activity available on the cloud-based RelativityOne server. The integration allows legal data and technology teams to easily collect activity logs and conversation content and gives organizations better transparency into custodian or entity activity, such as user logins, administrative actions, configuration changes as well as conversation content like chats, uploaded files and projects, according to a press release.
Spellbook: On Wednesday, Contract drafting and negotiation platform Spellbook announced the appointment of Jean-Michel Lemieux as executive individual contributor. Lemieux was previously chief technology officer at e-commerce platform Shopify and software company Atlassian. As EIC, Lemieux will work across product, engineering, go-to-market and internal systems rather than working within one team on various projects, according to a press release.
8am: Legal management software provider 8am announced Wednesday that it will be partnering with this year’s Tribeca Film Festival and will host two premieres to bolster its exposure. The premieres include Finnegan's Foursome, a sports comedy, and Mumford & Sons: The House Band, a concert documentary, according to a press release.