LegalWeek 2025, held in New York from March 24-27, showcased the legal industry’s accelerating embrace of artificial intelligence, with three major companies unveiling groundbreaking AI solutions. As document review, discovery, and investigation processes continue to challenge legal professionals with expanding data volumes, these innovations promise to transform how attorneys interact with information, moving beyond simple automation to deliver intelligent, actionable insights. The following announcements highlight how AI is evolving from supplementary tool to essential legal partner.
Key Announcements:
- Reveal launches GenAI Review, a lawyer-aligned document review solution that combines intuitive attorney workflows with generative AI to improve document review speed, transparency, and cost-effectiveness.
- Everlaw debuts Project Query, a breakthrough retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) feature that allows legal teams to search terabytes of ediscovery data at once by asking natural language questions.
- Merlin introduces Alchemy, their fourth-generation document intelligence platform that transforms unstructured information into actionable intelligence for legal investigations and discovery.
Everlaw’s Project Query: Transforming Document Search
Everlaw, the cloud-native investigation and litigation platform, announced Project Query, a new GenAI-powered addition to the EverlawAI Assistant portfolio. Available in a closed beta program and demoed at LegalWeek 2025, the feature delivers an AI breakthrough for legal teams to expedite the investigation of large document collections in seconds.
Project Query specifically addresses a long-standing challenge in legal discovery: retrieving information exclusively within a large corpus of ediscovery using natural language. Traditional RAG techniques have been limited by the complex nature of legal documents like emails, texts, and chats, which are often unstructured and require an understanding of context across multiple domains.
Everlaw designed Project Query to handle nuanced legal inquiries about behaviors, intent, actors, and conditions. The system uses a sophisticated refinement to find relevant evidence for natural language queries. It is paired with advanced LLM reasoning models that make logical inferences and draw nuanced conclusions that are valuable to legal cases.
AJ Shankar, founder and CEO of Everlaw, noted: “Project Query holds great promise for legal professionals – especially senior attorneys who for the first time can interrogate massive document sets at once, applying their honed expertise and instincts to find key evidence.”
Merlin’s Alchemy: Intelligence Through AI Transformation
Merlin Search Technologies launched Alchemy, their revolutionary fourth-generation document intelligence platform designed to turn unstructured information into actionable intelligence. Released on March 7, 2025, and showcased at LegalWeek, Alchemy succeeds Merlin’s previous DiscoveryPartner platform.
John Tredennick, CEO of Merlin Search Technologies, describes Alchemy as a “significant evolution” of the company’s platform, representing “the culmination of a five-year journey to create a truly transformative document intelligence platform” that can process and analyze thousands of documents to deliver comprehensive insights beyond simple search results.
Alchemy introduces several critical architectural enhancements, including:
- Revolutionary dual-window architecture that creates a clean separation between analysis prompts and formatting instructions
- Comprehensive document intelligence that breaks free from arbitrary document limitations
- Precision-guided follow-up intelligence giving users explicit control over query scope
- Limitless document analysis that eliminates previous 100-document limitations
- Industry-first cost transparency
Merlin says their Alchemy AI delivers measurable value by reducing document review time by up to 90% and cutting discovery costs significantly through faster analysis and more targeted document review.
Reveal’s GenAI Review: Redefining Document Review
Reveal, a global provider of eDiscovery and investigation platforms announced the rollout of its full GenAI review offering at LegalWeek 2025 in New York. The solution, set to launch this summer officially, combines lawyer-intuitive workflows with powerful generative AI.
According to Wendell Jisa, Founder and CEO of Reveal, “Legal professionals have been forced to adapt their natural workflows to fit technology limitations for far too long.” The company aims to address this pain point with its new technology.
The GenAI Review technology directly tackles common challenges in the review process, including:
- Eliminating “GenAI black boxes” with Transparent Prompt™ technology that provides visual feedback on responsiveness definitions
- Optimizing collaboration through GenAI Active Learning (GAL), enabling seamless switching between AI-assisted review and traditional approaches
- Enhancing defensibility with document-level explanations
Reveal’s innovation in eDiscovery has already gained recognition, as the company won the Best eDiscovery Technology award at the Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Awards 2025.
The Future of Legal Technology
LegalWeek 2025 demonstrated that legal technology vendors are moving beyond merely adding AI capabilities to their platforms. The themes that emerged from the conference highlighted how generative AI is no longer just a front-end interface—it’s becoming the engine that drives strategic value by leveraging the data already stored in legal technology platforms.
From case strategy and contract analysis to billing and document governance, companies are embedding AI to transform their systems from passive tools into active participants in legal work. Agentic AI accelerates that shift, enabling software tools to automatically complete tasks and generate outputs increasingly indistinguishable from human work.
These three announcements from Everlaw, Merlin, and Reveal represent significant advancements in integrating AI into legal workflows. By improving document review, search capabilities, and information synthesis, these technologies promise to make legal professionals more efficient and effective.
As generative AI capabilities mature, the legal industry can expect further innovations that automate routine tasks and enhance the strategic value lawyers bring to their clients through improved analysis and insight generation.