Category: Awards

We are proud to announce that Syllo has been named the winner of the 2026 Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Award for E-Discovery Technology.

This recognition honors the organizations pushing the boundaries of legal innovation and redesigning the way legal professionals work. Following the awards, Syllo CEO and Head of Product Jeffrey Chivers sat down with Legaltech News to discuss the shifting tides of the industry.

The end of AI tourism

For the past two years, the legal industry has been defined by rapid experimentation. However, as Jeff noted in the interview, the era of greenlighting myriad POCs (proofs of concept) is drawing to a close.

Firms have moved past the initial “gold rush” and are now entering a phase of selective and discerning adoption. Having spent 2024 and 2025 testing various models, decision-makers are now looking for validated use cases and platforms that offer a clear, defensible ROI.

“The software landscape for litigation has been too fragmented for too long… This year firms have increasingly adopted and leaned into having a single unified platform to run their litigations.” – Jeff Chivers, Syllo CEO

Litigation as a zero-sum game

Perhaps the most striking insight from the Q&A is the role of AI as a competitive necessity. Because litigation is inherently a zero-sum game, the asymmetric advantage of using superior litigation AI is becoming a market-defining force.

Firms that have already calibrated their pricing models and integrated AI into their core workflows are beginning to take major business from those lagging behind. The driver for innovation is efficiency, but more importantly, the need to ensure that counsel has tools that are comparable to, or better than, those of their opponents.

Looking ahead

Syllo’s win for E-Discovery Technology at Legalweek reinforces our commitment to building a unified litigation workspace where facts, evidence, and strategy converge. As we continue to accelerate our innovation with new strategic hires, we remain dedicated to providing litigators with the asymmetric advantage they need to win.

Read the full Q&A at Legaltech News.

We are thrilled to celebrate our partner, Ballard Spahr, LLP, for being shortlisted in the “Practice of Law” category of the Financial Times‘ Innovative Lawyers North America (ILNA) 2025 awards.

This nomination specifically recognizes Ballard Spahr’s commitment to “Innovation in Digital Tools: How Ballard Spahr Transformed Its Approach to Discovery with Syllo.”

At Syllo, our mission is to empower case teams with an AI-powered litigation workspace that drives efficiency and strategic command. By deploying Syllo’s cutting-edge agentic AI platform, the Ballard Spahr has successfully streamlined complex discovery processes, accelerating first-level document review and amplifying their team’s human effort. This transformative approach ensures faster command of the facts and superior client value.

As Jason A. Leckerman, Chair of Ballard Spahr’s Litigation Department, noted, leveraging Syllo “empowers us to deliver even greater value for our clients.”

This shortlisting validates the power of a true partnership rooted in both litigation expertise and innovative technology. We are deeply proud to be the enabling technology behind this achievement and we look forward to continuing this partnership to unlock the future of litigation.

Thank you to The American Lawyer for nominating Syllo as a finalist for the “Best Provider Collaboration” Industry Award highlighting our successful joint work with Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP to deeply integrate AI into their litigation workflows. This acknowledgment reinforces the value of our focused approach, demonstrating that purposeful collaboration between a law firm and a technology partner can achieve real-world results and set a new standard for the legal industry. 

This nomination speaks to the strength of a partnership built on a shared philosophy: that the most effective use of AI comes from combining cutting-edge technology with human expertise. Our work with Quinn Emanuel showcases how a thoughtful and deliberate approach to AI adoption can drive meaningful outcomes in litigation. It’s a clear signal that the industry’s top firms are ready to leverage AI to augment the work of their professionals, not replace them. 

We look forward to celebrating with Quinn Emanuel in New York at the American Lawyer gala on November 13^th along with all the deserving finalists across the industry. 

MYRTLE BEACH, SC, April 30, 2025 – Syllo, the litigation workspace for the AI era, today announced that the company and Ballard Spahr have been named the collaborative winners of the 2025 Trailblazer Award from the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA), and Syllo CEO, Jeffrey Chivers, has won the ILTA Peer Award for Innovative Leader.  The awards, part of ILTA’s Distinguished Peers Awards, were presented last night at ILTA’s EVOLVE conference in Myrtle Beach, SC.

The Trailblazer Award recognizes Ballard Spahr’s collaboration with Syllo to deploy Syllo’s litigation workspace, which features the use of agentic AI to automate first-level document review in complex litigations across the firm.  Ballard Spahr’s use of Syllo’s agentic AI system includes performing a fully automated review for more than 25 issue prompts across more than 1.5 million documents.  Together, Syllo and Ballard Spahr, along with practitioners from six additional law firms, co-authored a white paper describing how Ballard Spahr used Syllo’s groundbreaking agentic AI document review system in a responsiveness review to achieve results that far exceed traditional document review benchmarks.

Jeffrey Chivers, CEO of Syllo, received the Innovation Leader Award, which recognizes an outstanding achievement by an individual maximizing the value of an innovative technology in support of legal professionals.  Chivers co-founded Syllo and spearheaded development of its agentic AI document review solution.  This solution is integrated into Syllo’s litigation workspace, a platform of unprecedented scope that encompasses eDiscovery, case management, workflow automation, discovery management, legal knowledge management, and work product generation.

Syllo’s agentic AI coordinates multiple large language models that organize and delegate the work of the document review between one another and autonomously make decisions about how to conduct the review within guidelines set by users.  This agentic solution applies an unlimited number of issue codes and consistently and substantially outperforms benchmarks of prior generations of technology-assisted review and human review in real-world complex litigations.

“On behalf of the team of incredible and innovative Syllo employees, we are honored to be recognized alongside Ballard Spahr by ILTA,” said Chivers.  “These two awards further validate our commitment to our clients to deliver powerful tools that enhance the practice of law and give our clients an edge in litigation.”

About the ILTA Peer Awards

The ILTA peer awards were launched in 2010 to honor the achievements of those who leverage the strategic advantages of technology in the legal profession. These awards recognize outstanding achievements in organizational and individual excellence.

About Syllo

Syllo is an AI-powered litigation platform that enables legal teams to safely and securely harness the power of language models throughout the litigation life cycle. Founded in 2019 by a team of litigators and engineers, Syllo’s litigation platform provides a competitive edge to case teams, practice groups and law firms.

About Ballard Spahr

Ballard Spahr is an Am Law 100 law firm with more than 750 lawyers in 18 U.S. offices, serving clients across industries in litigation, transactions, and regulatory compliance. Ballard serves as a strategic legal partner to clients, going beyond the ordinary to deliver actionable, forward-thinking counsel and advocacy powered by deep industry experience.

Contacts:

Eric Wall
Executive Vice President
Syllo
415-613-7927
eric@tlatech.io