document-automation — Inside Practice

Legal Tech OperatorJUNE 8, 20261 MIN READ

Relativity Acquires Gavel — E-Discovery Extends Into Word-Native Drafting

Relativity announced the acquisition of Gavel on June 12, an AI-native legal drafting and document automation company used by thousands of legal professionals across 28 countries. The deal's architectural intent: extend Relativity's AI platform for legal data intelligence — anchored in RelativityOne for e-discovery and legal investigations — directly into Microsoft Word, the surface where lawyers

Source: Relativity press release / PR Newswire, June 12, 2026; Yahoo Finance, June 12, 2026; BriefGlance, June 11, 2026; Let's Data Science, June 14, 2026microsoft-word M&A gavel M&A: Data Assets Drive Consolidation Logic

Legal Tech OperatorJUNE 6, 20261 MIN READ

DocumentDrafter Launches Agentic Templating — A New Drafting Category

DocumentDrafter announced Agentic Templating, which the company described as "the most important product we've shipped." The model is structurally different from conventional AI drafting: rather than generating individual contracts on demand, Agentic Templating uses an AI agent to build and automate a template, which a human expert then reviews once. Every document produced downstream inherits tha

Source: DocumentDrafter announcement, June 3, 2026; Artificial Lawyer, June 5, 2026; EqualDocs Daily Brief, June 4, 2026documentdrafter agentic-templating product-launches Agentic Product Launches: The Read-Write Shift