Tracked Changes, Friday, June 19, 2026
Relativity buys Gavel, a document automation tool popular with solo and small firms
Relativity, the legal data company best known for RelativityOne, announced on June 15 that it has acquired Gavel, a document automation and AI drafting company used by nearly 2,000 legal organizations. Terms were not disclosed. Relativity says Gavel will keep operating as it has for now and that its capabilities will be folded into RelativityOne over time. LawSites called Gavel's future pricing and self-serve sign-up open questions.
BlackBoiler launches Veris contract review in Word, with a $1,250-a-year plan for solo reviewers
BlackBoiler launched Veris the week of June 16, pairing its deterministic contract editing engine with generative AI in a Microsoft Word add-in. Users build playbooks by uploading a marked-up contract, a policy document or written rules. Two new plans target smaller buyers: Starter at $1,250 a year for solo reviewers, and Pro at $3,000 per user per year. The company says a validation layer checks each edit against past edits to limit hallucinations.
Clio offers Florida Bar members four free months of Clio Work and pledges to train 25,000 people on AI
At The Florida Bar's convention on June 17, Clio announced a member benefit giving eligible Florida Bar members four months of free, unlimited access to Clio Work, its AI workspace, followed by limited access. It is not live yet, and members can join a waitlist. Clio also opened a free Legal AI Accelerator on June 15, running through August 31, with a goal of training 25,000 legal professionals before ClioCon.
Middle District of Pennsylvania suspends a lawyer for six months over fabricated AI citations
On June 18, Chief Judge Matthew W. Brann of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania fined a lawyer $1,500 and suspended him from practicing in that court for six months in Twigg v. BSN Sports. The court found that the lawyer violated Rule 11 by filing fabricated and inaccurate citations generated with AI.