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Category: Partners and Collaborations

  • Syllo Founders Contribute to Industry Standard Setting

    Syllo Founders Contribute to Industry Standard Setting

    Syllo is proud to announce that co-founders, CEO, Jeff Chivers, and COO/CSO, Theodore Rostow are contributing members of The Sedona Conference Technology Resource Panel (TRP), which recently published its Specifications for Production for member comment. This publication is a consensus view of the TRP’s members, and its core purpose is to help the legal community efficiently produce documents in a “reasonably usable form”. It offers templated specifications to facilitate agreement on production formats, which minimizes time-consuming issues down the line. 

    The Sedona Conference is globally recognized for its leadership in advancing legal knowledge and dialogue around complex e-discovery issues, among other focal points. Syllo’s involvement speaks to our deep roots in litigation and our belief that true technology innovation requires a firm grasp of procedural standards and best practices.  

    By contributing to a publication that will serve as a definitive guide for the e-discovery community, Syllo is actively shaping the future of legal practice. This collaboration is a tangible expression of our mission to build technology that is not just powerful, but also responsible and aligned with the legal profession’s highest standards.

  • Syllo Expands Education and Content with eDiscovery Today Partnership

    Syllo Expands Education and Content with eDiscovery Today Partnership

    Syllo is proud to announce a new educational partnership with eDiscovery Today, the leading blog from industry expert Doug Austin. This collaboration is a significant step forward in our shared mission to help legal professionals understand and leverage the power of AI to solve long-standing litigation challenges. At Syllo, we believe that the full potential of AI can only be realized through thoughtful, secure, and expert-guided adoption. This partnership will allow us to co-develop educational content and resources that empower litigation teams with the knowledge and best practices needed to confidently and effectively integrate agentic AI into their workflows. 

    The legal industry is in the midst of a technological revolution, with generative AI poised to fundamentally change existing paradigms. As Syllo’s CEO, Jeff Chivers, stated, “Litigation teams are adopting AI-enhanced approaches at a rapid rate, and the partnership will assist in educating professionals on how this technology solves long-standing eDiscovery problems.” We look forward to working with eDiscovery Today to help litigators establish new best practices and fully leverage these transformative technologies to gain a competitive advantage and achieve better outcomes. 

    Read more about this new partnership on eDiscovery Today. 

  • Syllo Being Adopted Across Ballard Spahr

    Syllo Being Adopted Across Ballard Spahr

    After a thorough vetting and a process of hands-on trial use, Ballard Spahr has deployed Syllo’s AI-powered litigation platform to enhance the capabilities of its case teams. The collaboration illustrates Ballard and Syllo’s shared commitment to elevate the quality and efficiency of legal practice through innovation and AI. 

    Ballard Spahr’s Litigation Department, led by Chair Jason A. Leckerman, made the decision to have Syllo available to its teams after being convinced, among several factors, that Syllo was architected to maintain the highest standards of security and data confidentiality. Further noting the uniqueness of Syllo’s litigation-focused tool set, Mr. Leckerman said it was more than just an efficiency gain, stating, “It wasn’t that it would save us or our clients lots of money. It was more that this was going to make us better at what we did.” 

    By applying our agentic AI to complex tasks such as reviewing tens of thousands of documents and identifying deficiencies in opposing counsel’s production, Ballard Spahr has been able to achieve in hours what would have traditionally taken days or weeks. That’s the shared belief and practice of Syllo’s partnerships with firms; AI should make litigators better at what they do. Ballard Spahr is proving that the future of litigation is already here. 

    Read More about Ballard Spahr and Syllo at BallardSpahr.com 

  • Syllo and NELA Partner to Advance GenAI Adoption in the Legal Community

    Syllo and NELA Partner to Advance GenAI Adoption in the Legal Community

    Syllo, the litigation platform for the AI era, today announced a partnership with NELA, the National Employment Lawyers Association, which provides assistance and support to lawyers protecting the rights of employees.

    NELA and its 69 state and local affiliates have more than 4,000 members nationwide. Syllo, founded and led by litigators, helps legal teams of all sizes to capitalize on the benefits of generative AI–improving workflow efficiencies, streamlining knowledge integration, expediting document reviews and more–from case preparation and filing through discovery and trial.

    As part of the partnership, NELA members can access Syllo’s cutting-edge litigation workspace, assisting them throughout the entire litigation process. Additionally, Syllo allows NELA members to share insights with fellow members through an opt-in data bank.

    “NELA members are on the ground every day advocating for workers who have suffered discrimination, harassment, wage theft, and other workplace injustices, often against employers with massive resources,” said Karen Maoki, NELA Interim Executive Director. “NELA is proud to partner with Syllo to help level the playing field for our members and workers across the country.”

    “We started Syllo to help lawyers and paralegals more effectively litigate their cases,” said Jeff Chivers, CEO, Syllo. “We are honored to be able to support NELA and its members.”

    About Syllo

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

  • Syllo Founders Contribute to ABA’s Comprehensive Look at AI

    Syllo Founders Contribute to ABA’s Comprehensive Look at AI

    Syllo is honored to announce that our lawyer co-founders, Jeffrey Chivers and Theodore Rostow, have authored a chapter in the newly released ABA book, Artificial Intelligence: Legal Issues, Policy, and Practical Strategies. The chapter, titled “Paths to Responsible AI: Reflections from the Classroom,” was co-written with William N. Eskridge, Jr., the Alexander M. Bickel Professor of Public Law at Yale Law School. This publication reflects Syllo’s commitment to contributing to a deeper understanding of AI, not just as a technology, but as a critical component of a modern and responsible legal practice. Jeff and Theo are privileged to be included in a volume with such a collection of expert voices shaping this important dialogue. 

    The chapter material outlines three core concepts found to be instrumental in the Yale Law classroom to help law students—and legal professionals—begin to think critically about AI in a way that is grounded in the technology; Traditional vs. Machine Learning Programs, Representation of Human Language in Vectors, and Neural Networks. 

    1. Traditional vs. Machine Learning Programs: First distinguishing between traditional software, which follows predictable, human-programmed rules, and machine learning programs, which learn from vast amounts of data. A key difference is that the output of traditional software is predictable, while a machine learning program’s behavior is governed by the mathematical functions it learns. Understanding this difference is crucial for responsibly using generative AI in legal work. 
    2. Representation of Human Language in Vectors: Then exploring how computers process human language. Since computers are math machines, they must convert natural language into a numerical form. Large Language Models (LLMs) do this by using a sequence of numbers called a vector to represent words. This process allows the AI to “read,” “analyze,” and “generate” text through mathematical operations. 
    3. Neural Networks: The third concept describes the software architecture that allows AI to perform complex tasks. These networks are made of many interconnected nodes that perform simple math, but in the aggregate, they embody elaborate mathematical functions. The core mechanism that enables a neural network to perform tasks like summarization is its ability to turn complex language tasks into the simpler, statistical problem of predicting the next word in a sequence. 

    Jeff and Theo also share their perspectives on how generative AI will change the legal profession, from the day-to-day work of litigators to the broader implications for the legal market and legal education itself. It also emphasizes the heightened need for practical frameworks to evaluate the benefits and risks of AI in legal contexts, a principle that is central to everything we build at Syllo. 

    The ABA’s publication, Artificial Intelligence: Legal Issues, Policy, and Practical Strategies, Edited by Cynthia H Cwik, Christopher A Suarez, and Lucy L Thomson, is available now in full for purchase.

  • How AI is Reshaping Litigation, “Unlawful” Podcast Welcomes Jeff Chivers

    How AI is Reshaping Litigation, “Unlawful” Podcast Welcomes Jeff Chivers

    Syllo CEO and Co-Founder Jeffrey Chivers was featured recently in a three-part podcast series with Brandon Renken, a partner at Mayer Brown, a premier global law firm. Brandon is a highly accomplished trial lawyer with considerable courtroom experience, known for his work on complex commercial disputes in both state and federal courts. He has been recognized as a Super Lawyers “Rising Star” and also named to Houston Business Journal‘s “40 Under 40.” Jeff and Brandon engage in a substantive and candid discussion about Jeff’s unique career path, his motivations for founding Syllo, and how attorneys can mitigate risks typically associated with AI. 

    The first part of the series, AI Pioneer, explores the origins of Syllo, tracing Jeff’s path from his time in college to his unconventional journey through his early years in practice. Jeff recounts his experiences living in Taiwan, cutting his teeth as a litigator at a small litigation practice, and clerking for federal judges, where he and co-founder Theo Rostow first recognized the early signs of a technological shift.

    The second part of the series Greater Efficiency in Litigation is a Public Good, shifts to the core motivations behind Syllo’s mission, the growth we have made as a company, and the confirmation the market is ready for a unified platform that rethinks traditional workflows. The discussion turns to the “dis-alignment” often seen between the merit of a lawsuit and its outcome, which, in complex litigation, typically stems from one party’s ability to marshal more attorney time than its opponent. Building greater efficiency without sacrificing quality, then, would be a public good, leveling the playing field and making the merits of cases more determinative of litigation outcomes.  

    Finally, in part 3 Unlawful Podcast: The Things About Hallucinations, the discussion turns to the critical topic of AI and a commonly perceived challenge: hallucination.  Jeff explains that earlier versions of large language models generated outputs without reference to any legal database or source of truth.  However, large language models can be integrated into applications that include such databases.  This enables them to identify requests for factual information at the outset and query a database to provide a sourced response.  The series concludes with a shared vision for a future where AI empowers litigators to focus on strategy, a future that is not just theoretical but actively being built today.  

  • Syllo CEO to Discuss “What’s Really Going On With AI”.

    Syllo CEO to Discuss “What’s Really Going On With AI”.

    Syllo is excited to announce that Co-Founder and CEO, Jeffrey Chivers, will be participating in an upcoming fireside chat hosted by international law firm Mayer Brown. The event, titled “AI and the Law – What’s Really Going On?”, will be a unique opportunity for legal professionals to explore how AI is fundamentally reshaping the legal landscape. We’re excited to collaborate with Mayer Brown to demystify AI and discuss how the most impactful advancements in legal technology are created with a deep understanding of litigation. We look forward to a dynamic discussion that will shed light on what it truly means to stay ahead of the curve in this new era of legal practice. 

    Jeff will be sharing insights on the thoughtful and strategic application of AI and how attorneys are leveraging Syllo to achieve better outcomes for their clients. We are thrilled to join Mayer Brown in this important dialogue about how forward-thinking litigators can better serve their clients using AI. 

    Read more about this upcoming event here. 

  • Syllo Founders Guiding the Next Generation of Lawyers in AI

    Syllo Founders Guiding the Next Generation of Lawyers in AI

    In the spring of 2023, Syllo co-founders, CEO Jeffrey Chivers and COO Theodore Rostow, joined John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence William Eskridge Jr. to lecture on artificial intelligence at Yale Law School.  AI and the Possibilities for the Legal Profession — and Legal Education describes how the course, “Artificial Intelligence, the Legal Profession, and Procedure,” provided students with a grounding in the technical basics of AI to enable them to think more critically about the uses, implications, and ethics of AI in the practice of law. 

    Litigators understand that real innovation within the legal profession requires a deep understanding of the legal domain as well as technical expertise. Chivers notes in the article that AI’s journey in the legal field began with applications to e-discovery, but future innovations will adaptably support litigators across their practice, amplifying human expertise and transforming the way legal professionals work.

    Syllo is committed to developing innovative AI solutions built with an understanding of the realities of legal practice that serve as a powerful tool and a trusted partner for litigators.  By integrating AI into a workspace designed for litigators, Syllo empowers human ingenuity and enables litigators to obtain better outcomes for their clients. 

    For more information and a deeper look into the classroom, read the full article at Yale.com.