Summertime, barbeques, and the Relativity Innovation Awards? That’s right! My favorite part of Relativity Fest, and I hope yours, is slowly making its way upon us.
We are thrilled to announce our 2024 Best Innovation nominees, as well as the opening of this year’s Community Choice voting (which takes place from July 9–August 16).
I don’t know about you, but this summer I’ll be enjoying time by the pool, a few margaritas (frozen, of course), and reading up on how the Relativity community is engraining technology into their day-to-day lives. You can feel it in the aiR: teams don’t just want to get to their most important data faster, but they want to learn more from their data, extract more insights from their data, and use that data to tackle more use cases. They want to do this ethically and securely. All while being on a centralized platform: RelativityOne.
If you want to see some examples of this in action, look no further than this year’s nominees. Want to see mappings of key locations? Sky Discovery has an app for that. Want to see the latest innovations using LLMs? Just check out what Control Risks, Troutman, Deloitte, and EY are doing. Looking for something that’s going to enhance the everyday experience for end users? Herbert Smith Freehills, KLDiscovery, Transperfect, and more are utilizing technology to reduce the pains of tedious tasks we all have to go through.
At the end of the day, these teams have truly embraced technology and innovation. They use it to not only help their internal teams, but their clients as well. So let’s celebrate this year’s nominees. Let’s celebrate their creativity and thought leadership.
And this year’s nominees are … WAIT! Did you think we were done? We can’t have all this talk about how teams are utilizing technology without recognizing our Relativity Developer Partners. You heard right: this year we have a new category that recognizes third-party software developers who design, build, and integrate applications for Relativity. Check out the nominees for the Developer Partner category below.
Which groups stand out to you? Vote for your favorites by August 16, and best of luck to all of this year’s nominees!
2024 Innovation Awards Nominees
Best Innovation: Enterprise
Herbert Smith Freehills – HSF Proof lets reviewers quickly identify redaction inconsistencies across similar documents.
Reed Smith – Interactive Fact Timeline a syncable, interactive timeline of facts, issues, et cetera, that allows filtering, pagination, layout configuration, and client sharing.
Torys LLP – GroupAI copies permissions from a group in one workspace to a group in another workspace.
Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP – Flywheel utilizes OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo frontier model to analyze documents and allows users to select from a library of previously developed prompts or collaborate with Troutman eMerge to build entirely new prompts.
Best Innovation: Partner
Cimplifi – CI Reporting reduces tedious manual reporting processes and uses automation through pre-built or custom reports to simplify data analysis tasks.
Cimplifi – CI Image simplifies the process of image manipulation by providing tools to crop images, add watermarks, add custom exhibit stamps, and report on image dimensions.
Conduent – Production Generator utilizes custom processes and automations to reduce the turnaround time and manpower required to create ande run productions.
Control Risks – Chronology Dashboard and AI Summarization creates a timeline across various data sets while leveraging a custom-made LLM to create document summaries that can be viewed directly on the timeline.
Deloitte – RelativityOne + ServiceNow Legal Integration Fields integrates ServiceNow’s Legal Service Delivery module and RelativityOne Legal Hold and workspaces.
Deloitte – GrantPulse provides grant recipients and subrecipients turnkey recovery operations that help reduce costs, standardize processes, and results in an expedited, compliant, and cost-effective recovery.
Deloitte – NavigAite provides carefully crafted LLMs to bring new efficiencies to the once labor-intensive processes inherent to document summarization, first pass, privilege, and PII reviews. It also provides data interrogation through an Investigative Chat Bot.
EY – GenAI Toolbox consists of LLM-powered applications that redefine traditional review methods, identify and extract entities and PII, streamline the identification of privileged information, image analysis, and audio transcription.
HaystackID – Mobile Elite Discovery and Analysis Lab (MEDAL) lets legal teams handle complex mobile data with a comprehensive suite of tools for swift remote triage, targeted data extraction, and efficient review processes.
HaystackID – ReviewRight Success Analytics equips legal teams with data reporting by offering a comprehensive view of a matter's progress and identifying top reviewers. Interactive visualizations provide insights to uncover patterns, classify information, and initiate remedial actions with precision and effectiveness.
JND eDiscovery – Sonar provides real-time usage information and easy insight into current and historical data and user usage, last login dates, a disable feature, and visualizations that can be easily exported. Recently updated is the ability to see Relativity aiR usage.
KLDiscovery – ReadySuite is used to inspect and manage load files, run QC checks on incoming and outgoing productions, and integrates into new short message features that add support for RSMF, including conversion of data from Teams, Slack, and Google Chat.
Lineal – Lineal Memory Bank creates unique fingerprints for all documents in Relativity. It also creates and saves entities around communicators allowing for efficient flagging of documents suspected to be privileged, saves key search snippets to suggest useful keyword hits, and isolates bot accounts with low evidentiary value.
Morae – Breach Entity Normalization App was created to generate and easily QC an entity list for data breach reviews.
Morae – Morae InterCase Coding Application automatically syncs coding decisions for duplicate documents across multiple workspaces, ensuring consistent and efficient document review processes.
Morae – Morae Deduplication App solves the challenge of identifying and consolidating documents that, while identical, generate different hash values due to their source location. This solution ensures a cleaner and more efficient review set.
Sky Discovery – Sky Maps maps all case location data such as landmarks, placemarks, areas of interest, and boundaries. The location data can be analyzed using tools such as distance, area measurements, and heat maps. Animations also show the movement of a point over time.
Transperfect Legal – Reef Stream Export accelerates exports by allowing productions and saved searches to be distributed across multiple machines and by providing a toolkit of custom export options such as changing header fields and choosing appropriate metadata fields to redact/sanitize, and streamlines QC workflows by redesigning the order in which export tasks happen.
Best Innovation: Developer Partner
Altorney – Altorney Manage is a document reviewer marketplace platform for sourcing and managing legal talent.
Armedia – ArkCase transforms case management with AI-driven efficiency and automation. This secure, FedRAMP-compliant platform handles FOIA, legal cases, docket, eFiling, and complaints with seamless Relativity integration for e-discovery.
CETRA Language Solutions – CETRA Translate uses a built-in AI tool to find case-relevant documents and quickly translates them from 130 foreign languages into English at a minimal cost.
eDiscovery AI – eDiscovery AI provides an innovative suite of products that leverage AI technology to transform relevance, privilege, and PII reviews.
GeorgeJon – GJ Dossier is a data management solution that transforms how Relativity users handle data, optimizing storage and streamlining workflows for peak operational efficiency.
Intelligent Voice – Intelligent Audio/Video Player is a free, full-feature media player. It offers zoomable and end-to-end multichannel navigable waveforms, elapsed time navigation, redaction creation, and more.
Milyli – Blackout features Redaction Suggestions and lets reviewers know when previously redacted content appears anywhere else in their document set, even the ones they are actively reviewing.
Behind the Scenes: How Your Votes Help Determine Our Winners
While the community voting period is just launching for this year’s Innovation Awards, we’ve been hard at work on the awards process for months now.
For those unfamiliar with how this long, thoughtful process works, we wanted to provide a little recap. Here is a quick timeline of what we’ve done so far and what to expect in the coming months.
- The nomination period opened to the community, allowing teams to submit their apps for consideration in this year’s awards.
- After nominations close, our internal awards team reached out to gather all the necessary submission materials from nominees.
- Once nominations are finalized and complete, the community vote opens—this is where we are today!
- On August 16, voting will close, and we’ll gather the final totals.
- An internal team of Relativity product experts then reviews all submissions with an eye for criteria like impact on customers’ businesses, uniqueness, and user interface. This team then casts their own votes for each category.
- Finalists and winners are determined based on a 50/50 balance of votes from the community and our internal committee.
With more than a decade of Innovation Awards under our belts, the process is just about down to a science—and, each year, it’s an opportunity to look closer at just how creative our community can be. We hope you’ll consider submitting your own apps for consideration in 2025!
Vote for Your Favorites and Get Ready to Celebrate in Chicago
This year, Relativity Fest will take place in Chicago from September 25–27. We hope to see you there, celebrating our winners with us! In the meantime, vote for your favorite Innovation Awards nominees and finalists until August 16.
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