🎙️ “The legal industry isn’t sleepy anymore.”

At RelFest 26 Sydney by Relativity, Jonathan Seifman sat down with Chris Brown, Chief Product Officer at Relativity, to explore how legal tech is evolving through AI, collaboration, and continuous innovation.

Coming from outside the legal industry originally as a computer engineer, Chris shared why legal tech became one of the most exciting industries he’d ever worked in.

Legal is no longer just adopting technology.

It’s actively shaping it.

💡 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘀:

↳ Legal data intelligence is becoming central to investigations, litigation, and regulatory workflows
↳ AI adoption in eDiscovery and legal workflows started much earlier than many people realise
↳ The best product innovation happens through deep customer feedback loops
↳ Australian legal professionals are viewed globally as highly practical and innovation-driven
↳ Modern legal AI requires collaboration between lawyers, engineers, and product teams

One insight that stood out:

“You want to engineer feedback loops into your development process.”

As Chris put it:

“It’s not too pretentious here. People just get to work.”

#PeopleInLegal #RelFest26 #Relativity #LegalTech #AIinLaw #LegalInnovation #eDiscovery #FutureOfLaw #LegalIndustry

Tim Kenney had the great conversation with Ted Theodoropoulos, CEO of Infodash, legal tech thought leader, and host of the 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁, for a deep conversation on AI, enterprise search, knowledge management, and the future of legal innovation.

And one message came through clearly: The firms that win in the AI era won’t just buy better tools. They’ll build better infrastructure, better integrations, and better legal engineering capability.

💡 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘀:

↳ Legal engineers are becoming critical to law firm transformation
↳ AI makes knowledge management and data hygiene more important than ever
↳ “Garbage in, garbage out” still applies in legal AI
↳ Off-the-shelf AI tools alone won’t create long-term differentiation
↳ Law firms need technology foundations that can scale securely and intelligently

One insight that stood out:

“Technology is now entering the chat.”

#PeopleInLegal #LegalTech #AIinLaw #LegalEngineering #KnowledgeManagement #EnterpriseSearch #FutureOfLaw #InfoDash #LegalInnovation

🎙️ 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗮𝘄 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗺𝘀 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝘂𝘆 𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲.

At LEGAL INNOVATION & TECH FEST, our host Roni Millard, Founder and Health & Wellness Consultant at The Wellbeing Edge sat down with David Lisitsa, Director of NewLaw.com — the advisory many firms turn to when they need someone on their side of the table.

In an age of noise:

every vendor pitching,

every AI tool a saviour,

every consultant with a deck… Newlaw cuts through it.

Firms come to Newlaw with a problem — or hand them the keys and ask Newlaw to find the problems and solve them.

Either way, the brief is the same:

Help the firm stay competitive with the modern client.

Newlaw is effectively a fully outsourced legal operations, project management and design function.

The scope runs end-to-end:

▪️ Stack selection — choosing the platforms that will actually support the firm, not the loudest vendor in the room

▪️ Implementation & training — getting tools into the hands of fee-earners and making them stick

▪️ Marketing — positioning, digital presence, growth

▪️ Intake & client onboarding — frictionless, compliant, fast

▪️ AML & risk — built into the workflow, not bolted on

▪️ Precedent automation — turning expert lawyers’ work into leverage

▪️ Reporting & data — so firm leaders actually know what’s happening

▪️ Workflow design — the operational layer that makes everything else work

▪️ AI implementation — deep expertise, real deployments

Platform-agnostic by design — firms come to Newlaw regardless of which stack they’re on or moving to:

🔹 Practice management: Clio, Actionstep, Smokeball - Legal Software, LEAP Legal Software, Yao, LOGICFIRM SL, Thomson Reuters

🔹 Document management: NetDocuments, iManage, Bundledocs

🔹 CRM & business platforms: HubSpot, Zoho, Hivelight

🔹 AI & emerging tools: Parachute, Harvey, Legora and others — including local, on-premise deployments for firms where client confidentiality is non-negotiable

David's view:

“𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘭𝘢𝘸 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘴𝘦.”

Firms shouldn’t be sold a stack.

They should buy an outcome — then bring in the experts to land it.

💥 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝗰𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗺 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄?

#PeopleInLegal #LegalTech #AIinLaw #LegalOperations #WorkflowAutomation #LawFirms #FutureOfLaw #LegalInnovation #ChangeManagement