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Global legal technology company Relativity has unveiled a new conversational AI tool that gives lawyers a faster way to access and work with their legal data.
Relativity has launched a new conversational AI tool designed to simplify how lawyers access and work with legal data, promising to put faster access to key insights within their reach.
Relativity claiR will allow lawyers to ask plain-language questions about complex matters, with answers grounded in and traceable back to millions of documents, metadata, and connections.
By equipping lawyers with the tool, Relativity said it could help them “make sharper decisions, develop more effective strategies and strengthen their work” across litigation, investigations, and regulatory matters.
Relativity CEO Phil Saunders said the new tool marks a fundamental shift in how lawyers interact with legal data, giving them direct access to the full depth of a matter rather than leaving them reliant on technical teams to surface the answers.
“This isn’t lawyers learning their way around RelativityOne. It’s a fundamentally new way to get them straight to the answers in their most consequential legal data,” Saunders said.
“Conversational AI is now how people everywhere expect to work, and with claiR, for the first time, the full richness of a matter’s data is directly in lawyers’ hands, rather than something they wait on technical legal data teams to surface.
“claiR draws on the full power of our industry-leading aiR suite and legal data intelligence platform, and on the record itself for high-stakes legal work that has to stand up in court, before boards and before regulators.”
Rather than requiring sensitive legal data to be moved into a separate AI environment, claiR works directly with information stored in RelativityOne, keeping existing permissions, security controls and auditability intact.
Relativity president Chris Brown stressed that the technology is not about replacing lawyers’ judgement, but strengthening it by putting the full breadth of facts and insights within a matter directly at their fingertips.
“claiR doesn’t replace legal judgement, it gives lawyers more complete access to the facts and insights that judgement depends on,” Brown said.
“When a lawyer asks a question in claiR, the answer draws on everything in the matter, at the scale at which legal work actually happens. Nothing is exported or sampled, the answer comes from the record itself, right where the data lives.”
The technology is already being put through its paces, with global law firms including A&O Shearman, Foley & Lardner, and K&L Gates among those trialling claiR through Relativity’s Advanced Access program.
Calum Burnett, partner and global co-head of litigation and investigations at A&O Shearman, said the firm was eager to help shape claiR and use its capabilities to give lawyers greater insight when advising clients.
“A&O Shearman’s commitment to innovation is longstanding – we brought RelativityOne in-house in 2017, and were one of the very earliest firm-wide adopters of generative AI in early 2023,” Burnett said.
“AI is now integral to how we work, and we are excited to help shape Relativity’s new self-service solution for lawyers.
“It provides powerful, auditable AI analysis to help our lawyers in their day-to-day work, enhancing our ability to provide insightful and trusted strategic advice to our clients.”
Relativity is planning to make claiR generally available in early 2027, with the company expecting it to be included in RelativityOne’s integrated pricing at no additional cost.
