Relativity, the Chicago-based legal data intelligence company best known for the e-discovery and litigation platform RelativityOne, has acquired Gavel, the Los Angeles-based document automation and AI drafting company founded by Dorna Moini (pictured above). Relativity said the move will enable it to extend Relativity’s AI platform into the place where lawyers actually write, Microsoft Word.
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