Relativity, a legal data intelligence company, today announced that global law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom LLP will join Advanced Access program for Relativity claiR, a new conversational AI experience designed specifically for lawyers. Skadden is among first major law firms to participate in program, which will enable them to evaluate and provide input on claiR ahead of planned general availability in early 2027. Announcement was made from Chicago on September 9, 2026.
"As top-five Am Law 100 firm with experience applying AI across its practice, Skadden brings perspective that we believe will help us refine claiR against some of most demanding legal matters," said Chris Brown, President of Relativity. "We look forward to collaborating closely with leading organizations like Skadden as we develop claiR to help lawyers work with their most consequential legal data more directly, applying their own judgment to facts that matter most."
"We are excited to add this promising new AI offering to robust suite of solutions we are making available to our attorneys," said Boris Bershteyn, Litigation Partner at Skadden. "Employing and testing most innovative technology in marketplace to continue streamlining our business and increasing efficiency helps keep our attorneys focused on doing what they do best—providing strategic guidance to our clients."
Relativity claiR allows lawyers to interact with full record of matter in plain language from moment it opens, reasoning across millions of documents, their metadata and connections between them. Built on each customer own matter data already stored and managed within RelativityOne, experience grounds every answer and resulting associated work product in complete system of record shaped over decades of legal work.
Unlike most legal AI tools, which require organizations to move data into separate environment, claiR brings AI to data instead, analyzing everything where data already lives while maintaining permissions, security and defensibility of data intact. By surfacing relevant data earlier and more efficiently, claiR designed to support lawyers in making decisions across litigation, investigations and regulatory matters.
About Relativity
Relativity is leading legal data intelligence company that builds technology to help users organize data, discover truth, and act on it. Its extensible cloud platform, RelativityOne, transforms complex data into actionable insights at massive scale for litigation, investigations, regulatory inquiries, data breach responses, and other legal use cases
