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2025 Relativity Fest Chicago
October 7, 2025 - October 9, 2025
2025 Relativity Fest Chicago
This has been a pivotal year for the legal tech community as AI tools have moved from experimental to essential, now handling contract review, legal research, and document drafting alongside increasingly sophisticated cloud-based practice management systems. This rapid technological shift has created implementation challenges around AI accuracy, ethical implications, and regulatory compliance that individual practitioners struggle to navigate alone. Legal professionals are turning to peer networks, user groups, and professional forums to share vendor experiences, implementation strategies, and solutions to emerging ethical dilemmas. Collective knowledge-sharing has become necessary for successfully adopting these powerful new technologies while maintaining professional standards.
Looking to learn about solutions to complex challenges and share best practices, the legal tech community is heading to Chicago in early October for Relativity Fest. This industry-leading event brings together 2,000 members of the legal data community. From our speakers to our Innovation Awards finalists, HaystackID® looks forward to sharing how our experts are transforming how legal professionals work.
The Relativity Innovation Awards: HaystackID’s Best Innovations and Innovators
Each year, the Relativity Innovation Awards cut through the hype to spotlight technology and people that are transforming daily legal work through their Best Innovation and Best Innovator categories.
For the Best Innovation categories, our team’s five nominated innovations span from protecting national security secrets to AI-powered case analysis, representing the crucial difference between legal teams that merely survive the digital transformation and those that harness it to dominate their practice.
The nominations include:
- CFIUS Compliance Advisory Services (Beyond)
- CoreFlex™ (Organize) – FINALIST
- Core Intelligence AI™ (Discover; Workflows)
- Cyber Incident Response Practice (Act)
Additionally, we have several individuals within HaystackID and those we’ve collaborated with who are finalists in the Best Innovator categories.
- Kristin Lindsey, Vice President of Client Services, (Customer Experience)
- Pamela Bartlett, Chief People Officer, (Inclusion)
- Dr. Roee Shraga, Assistant Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Legal Education)
The Relativity Innovation Awards Community Vote runs through August 22, 2025, and your voice helps celebrate the innovations and innovators that are genuinely transforming how legal professionals work.
Expert Presentations
Finding the Facts Faster: AI-Powered Entity Extraction in Modern Discovery
Wednesday, October 8, 2025, 10:45am – 11:30am CDT
This panel explores how Generative AI is revolutionizing entity extraction, moving beyond the limitations of traditional rule-based tools to deliver more accurate and context-aware results from massive document sets. Our experts will discuss leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to identify key people, organizations, and timelines crucial for building case narratives and responding to second requests. Attendees will gain practical insights into implementing these advanced AI techniques to accelerate document review, enhance case strategy, and reduce overall discovery costs.
+ John Brewer (M), Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, HaystackID
+ Young Yu, Vice President, Advanced Analytics & Strategic Solutions, HaystackID
+ Kelly Atherton, Counsel, Norton Rose Fulbright
+ Dr. Roee Shraga, Assistant Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Spotlight Interview
Wednesday, October 8, 2025, 4:30pm CDT
Join HaystackID’s Aaron Pribil at the Spotlight Stage in the Community Pavilion to learn more about CoreFlex.
HaystackID CoreFlex has been named a finalist for the Relativity Best Innovation Awards in the category of Best Innovation: Organize. This recognition highlights how CoreFlex turns manual, fragmented processes into a unified, automated interface that delivers clarity, consistency, and control for legal teams.
+ Aaron Pribil, HaystackID
Relativity Fest Mentor Career Journey Panel
Thursday, October 9, 2025, 11:30am – 12:15pm CDT
We’ll talk about how we came into the industry and where our careers have taken us.
+ Emerald Yeo, Jackson Lewis
+ Austin Hagen, Proteus
+ Ruth Betancourt Ortiz, HaystackID
+ Shannon Bales, Munger, Tolles and Olson
Applying a Legal Data Intelligence Mindset: Strategic Innovations in Data Protection
Thursday, October 9, 2025, 2:45pm-3:30pm CDT
Data Protection Compliance is not just a requirement, but a strategic advantage. Dive into the transformative world of Legal Data Intelligence (LDI), where data insights are empowering proactive compliance and business strategy across a wide range of use cases. This session guides attendees through structured, methodical approaches to proactively manage compliance risks, enhance operational effectiveness, and preemptively address evolving regulatory demands.
+ Joseph Bartolo, The Project Consultant
+ George Phillips, Morgan Lewis
+ Ryan Costello, HaystackID
Event Details
+ Date: October 7-9, 2025
+ Venue: Hyatt Regency Chicago
+ Location: Chicago, IL
Learn more and register for the 2025 Relativity Fest – Chicago.
Stop Wrestling with Fragmented eDiscovery Tools
Legal teams often struggle with data scattered across multiple platforms, wasting time and budget on inefficient discovery processes that leave them vulnerable to missed deadlines and compliance gaps. HaystackID CoreFlex eliminates this chaos with a unified, cloud-native interface that consolidates your entire eDiscovery workflow into one secure, scalable platform with automated processes and real-time insights. Whether you need complete self-service control or want the flexibility to scale up to full-service support, CoreFlex puts you back in command of your discovery operations without the vendor lock-in that’s currently costing you time, money, and peace of mind. Connect with our experts at Relativity Fest, or book time with us to learn more.
At HaystackID, we are committed to fostering a safe and respectful environment for all event participants. We stand firmly against all forms of inappropriate behavior. As part of our dedication to ensuring a harassment-free experience, we actively support and adhere to the principles outlined by the American Sociological Association (ASA) Working Group on Harassment and the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) Employer’s Pledge. We encourage open dialogue, immediate reporting of misconduct, and strict adherence to our corporate responsibility efforts to protect our community’s integrity and well-being. Together, let us create a welcoming and safe environment for all.
Assisted by GAI and LLM technologies.