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Despite growing appetite to leverage large-scale innovations in the legal industry, six in ten (60%) legal, risk and compliance professionals are prioritizing smaller, operational reinventions to bring about process improvements that combat their ever-escalating workload. This is according to new research from Consilio, the global leader in legal technology solutions and enterprise services. The survey found that under relentless pressure, legal professionals globally are focused on addressing near-term increasing workload challenges by prioritizing four key areas: contract management, regulatory compliance and risk management, information governance and records retention, and legal project management solutions. In doing so, legal teams can free up bandwidth for longer-term, larger-scale transformative innovation.

Consilio, the global leader in legal technology solutions and enterprise legal services, announced today that it has been recognized by Comparably with awards for Best CEO and Best Company Culture.

Consilio, the global leader in legal technology solutions and enterprise legal services, today announced the broad launch of “Native AI Review.” For legal review teams that value control over their data and native integration with third-party review tools, Native AI Review harnesses and tailors the latest Large Language Model (LLM) innovations to deliver AI Review and AI Privilege Log in a trusted environment.

Consilio, the global leader in legal technology solutions and enterprise legal services, today announced the appointment of Emron Pratt as the company’s first Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer. Pratt will report directly to CEO Andy Macdonald and will be responsible for overseeing the long-term vision of the company, as well as strategic planning and acceleration of transformative, cross-functional initiatives.

Consilio, the global leader in legal technology solutions and enterprise legal services, today announced the launch of Guided AI Review. This locally-hosted, tailor-made AI solution combines custom algorithms with seasoned, AI-trained document review experts that work directly with clients to deliver faster, higher-quality results in document review.

Consilio, the global leader in legal technology solutions and enterprise legal services, today announced the launch of Lio, a specialized internal chatbot powered by Consilio’s expert-centered AI approach. Lio is designed to provide intelligent responses and valuable insights to support Consilio's professionals in their daily tasks, leading to an unparalleled support system Consilio can leverage as it delivers for its clients.

Consilio, the global leader in legal technology solutions and enterprise legal services, today announced the company was recognized by Comparably as a winner of the awards for Best Career Growth and Best Leadership Teams. The awards are based on employee feedback over the 12-month period from May 2023 through May 2024.

Consilio, the global leader in legal technology solutions and enterprise legal services, today announced the appointment of John Hale as Chief Marketing Officer. In this newly created role, John will spearhead Consilio’s corporate marketing strategy, plans, and initiatives across all jurisdictions globally.

Consilio, the global leader in legal technology solutions and enterprise legal services, today released its fifth annual Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Report, covering 2023. The report outlines progress made on key initiatives, including increasing female representation overall and among leadership, with 32% of all senior leaders at the firm identifying as female. While many organizations are pulling back on their DEI programs, in the report Consilio reaffirms its commitment to these initiatives and outlines those planned for the coming year.

As adoption of Generative AI (GenAI) continues to grow across industries, the vast majority (63%) of corporate law departments and law firms are demanding an increase in human expertise before they are willing to utilize GenAI. A new survey by Consilio, the global leader in legal technology solutions and enterprise legal services, found that legal professionals cited the lack of experience around leveraging GenAI on the legal team (36%) and lack of the right tech talent to support implementation (27%) as key hesitations before using the technology.

Consilio, the global leader in legal technology solutions and enterprise legal services, today announced the launch of Complete AI, an AI-enabled platform of solutions for efficient, high-quality legal workflows solving key legal and compliance use cases, including investigations, document summaries and review, sensitive data analysis, and risk assessment. Built leveraging Consilio’s responsible approach to AI leadership, Complete AI increases the speed-to-insights over traditional eDiscovery processes while helping clients control costs.

Consilio, the global leader in legal technology solutions and enterprise legal services, today announced it is continuing to fuel its expansion and commitment to the talent solutions space by rebranding its legacy US and UK Talent Solutions businesses as part of the Lawyers On Demand – a Consilio company brand. Acquired in September 2023, this merging of Lawyers On Demand (LOD) with Consilio’s platform of offerings expands clients’ options for legal talent solutions as well as enhances the experience of our flexible talent.

Consilio, the global leader in legal technology solutions and enterprise legal services, today announced the company was recognized by Comparably as a winner of the award for Best Company Culture. The award is based on sentiment ratings of 16 different core culture metrics provided by current employees. Consilio won the Best Company for Happiness award from Comparably in 2022.

Consilio, the global leader in legal technology solutions and enterprise legal services, today announced the promotion of Meredith Kildow to President of Consilio, effective immediately. In her new role, Kildow will oversee Consilio’s combined commercial business lines, including revenue, account management, and operational delivery. Kildow’s promotion to President is an indication of Consilio’s commitment to inclusive leadership for the company and its clients.

Consilio, the global leader in legal technology solutions and enterprise legal services, announced today the closing of their previously announced acquisition of Lawyers On Demand (LOD), a pioneer in flexible legal talent, and SYKE, a premier legal technology consultancy headquartered in the UK. The acquisition extends Consilio’s Enterprise Legal Services (ELS) business in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Australia as well as expands its existing presence in the UK.

Consilio, the global leader in legal technology solutions and enterprise legal services, has come to an agreement to acquire Lawyers On Demand (LOD), a pioneer in flexible legal talent, and SYKE, a premier legal technology consultancy headquartered in the UK. This acquisition will extend Consilio’s Enterprise Legal Services (ELS) business to Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Australia, expand its current UK business, and further amplify Consilio’s overall global presence.

Consilio, the global leader in legal technology solutions and enterprise legal services, today released its 2022 Diversity & Inclusion Annual Report, recapping progress made in 2022 on key initiatives. The report describes the programs at Consilio designed to foster diversity and inclusion in the workplace, shares metrics about its global workforce, and explores the impact of its D&I program on the communities in which Consilio employees work and live.

Consilio, the global leader in legal technology solutions and enterprise legal services, today announced a partnership with Onna, the leading data management platform. The partnership’s initial release is Sightline Collect, powered by Onna, which provides Consilio customers with a holistic suite of eDiscovery collection and processing capabilities for mission-critical cloud applications, including Microsoft, Google, Atlassian, Slack, Zoom, and more.

Consilio, the global leader in legal technology solutions and enterprise legal services, today announced significant innovations to their Sightline platform with the launch of Legal Hold and Continuous Active Learning capabilities. With Sightline, clients can effectively manage the entire discovery process – from legal hold to review – within a market-leading, modern enterprise platform supported by the global leader.

Consilio, the global leader in legal technology solutions and enterprise legal services, today announced the launch of TalentConnect, a new portal leveraging Consilio’s Enterprise Talent Solutions’ extensive database of talent to simplify external role placement within corporate law departments and law firms of all sizes. The new platform also enables access to Consilio’s flexible talent job opportunities serving Consilio clients, in addition to document review roles, and Consilio corporate career options.

Consilio, the global leader of legal technology solutions and enterprise legal services, announced today the company was recognized by Comparably as winners of the awards for Best Company for Women and Best Company for Diversity for large companies. These recognitions are based on sentiment ratings given by current employees on nearly 20 distinct workplace culture metrics.

Consilio, the global leader of legal technology solutions and enterprise legal services, announced today that it has achieved conformance with the WCAG 2.1 Level AA standard for its leading eDiscovery platform, Sightline by Consilio. This certification demonstrates that the Company’s eDiscovery platform is accessible to a wide range of people with disabilities.

Consilio, the global leader of legal technology solutions and enterprise legal services, today announced a group hire of contract analytics professionals designed to expand the company’s team of contract lifecycle management (CLM) implementation experts, specializing in data analytics for the company’s clients’ and strategic partners’ CLM systems.

Consilio, the global leader of legal technology solutions and enterprise legal services, today announced that John Murdock has joined Consilio as a Vice President leading the Antitrust Practice Group, bringing over 20 years of experience in the antitrust, compliance, eDiscovery, and legal industries. The addition of Murdock solidifies Consilio as the global industry leader in managing antitrust and merger investigation matters.

Consilio, a global leader in eDiscovery, document review, risk management, and legal consulting services, announced today the company was recognized by Comparably as winners of the award for Best Company for Happiness for large companies. The recognition is based on employee feedback on factors that contribute to their overall happiness with the company they work for.

Consilio, a global leader in eDiscovery, document review, risk management, and legal consulting services, announced today the company was recognized by Comparably as winners of the Q2 award for Best CEOs for Diversity. The recognition is based solely on how employees of color (non-Caucasian) rate and approve of their company’s CEO.

Consilio, a global leader in eDiscovery, document review, risk management, and legal consulting services, announced today the launch of Sightline for Investigations, an integrated platform incorporating the award-winning capabilities of Riskcovery™ in one powerful solution. The intuitive, self-service platform enables investigatory and legal teams to efficiently drive smarter investigation and compliance workflows with rapid data processing, customizable, reusable, and pre-built AI models, and conceptual analysis tools to locate actionable facts quickly - including uncovering potential employee fraud and identifying PII and similarly sensitive data.

Consilio, a global leader in eDiscovery, document review, risk management, and legal consulting services, announced today the launch of Complete Enterprise, an end-to-end suite of enterprise legal solutions and services designed to serve corporate law departments and law firms of all sizes. The new platform fully integrates Consilio’s acquired legal sub-brands under one dedicated, worldwide hub to drive evolution for modern legal operations with proven technology, process, and people solutions.

Consilio, a global leader in eDiscovery, document review, risk management, and legal consulting services, today announced that several senior executives will lead cybersecurity panel discussions at the Legalweek New York 2022 conference.

Consilio, a global leader in eDiscovery, document review, risk management, and legal consulting services, announced today it has closed the acquisition of Legility, a leading global legal services provider. The acquisition will strengthen Consilio’s enterprise legal services and flexible legal talent solutions offerings. It will also build upon a proven platform delivering a complete legal services experience across a spectrum of client needs worldwide while considerably increasing its European capabilities and solutions.

Consilio, a global leader in eDiscovery, document review, risk management, and legal consulting services, announced today a key expansion to its Consilio Complete offering suite with the launch of Complete Video. As one of the fastest-growing types of content in the world, now comprising 82% of all internet IP traffic globally1, video is used for everything from conference calls to customer service. This type of content presents a unique set of eDiscovery challenges to legal teams looking to cost-effectively review video content at scale without compromising quality.

Consilio, a global leader in eDiscovery, document review, risk management, and legal consulting services, announced today a key enhancement to its offerings suite Consilio Complete, with the launch of Complete Security. The expanded offering is a robust enterprise security framework that covers all aspects of information security management, including business continuity, disaster recovery, vendor management, incident management, vulnerability management with third-party PEN testing, as well as an information privacy program with a dedicated data privacy officer.

Consilio, a global leader in eDiscovery, document review, risk management, and legal consulting services, announced today it has closed the acquisition of the Adecco Group’s D4 and EQ, the legal consulting and eDiscovery (“legal solutions”) business of Special Counsel. The acquisition will create greater scale and resources for Consilio to deliver an enhanced client experience.

Consilio, a global leader in eDiscovery, document review, risk management, and legal consulting services, announces today the launch of the Consilio Advanced Learning Institute, a center for thought leadership, research, and education for legal practitioners. The Institute will draw on internal and external experts in forensics, eDiscovery, document review, legal technology, law department operations, and other subjects to provide free educational articles, papers, webinars, and more. Its operations will be overseen by an interdisciplinary Steering Committee and led by Consilio Director of Education, Matthew Verga.

Consilio, a global leader in eDiscovery, document review, risk management, and legal consulting services, announces Sightline has been named a Market Leader in eDiscovery Software for the first-time by G2.com, Inc., a leading peer review website for B2B technology. Sightline was also named as a Top Momentum Leader in G2’s Momentum Grid® Report, which represents the democratic voice of real software users and products that are rated algorithmically based on data sourced from product reviews.

Consilio, a global leader in eDiscovery, document review, risk management, and legal consulting services, announced today it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Adecco Group’s D4 and EQ, the legal consulting and eDiscovery (“legal solutions”) business of Special Counsel. The Adecco Group will retain the legal staffing and legal permanent placement units of the Special Counsel business which will be transitioned to LHH Professional Recruitment as part of its global Talent Solutions transformation. The acquisition of the business units continues to expand Consilio’s expertise particularly in the areas of document review, legal process outsourcing, and Cyber Incident Response.

Consilio, a global leader in eDiscovery, document review, risk management, and legal consulting services, and Xact Data Discovery (XDD), a leading international provider of eDiscovery, data management, and managed review services, announced today that they have agreed to a merger of the two companies. The united company will operate as a global technology-enabled service provider and eDiscovery leader.