Epiq AI Labs Grows to Over 25 Members Driving Agentic AI Adoption in Legal Industry

Epiq AI Labs™ Grows to Push Agentic AI Forward in Legal Sector

On August 6, 2025, Epiq announced that its AI-focused community, Epiq AI Labs™, has expanded to include more than 25 members dedicated to advancing agentic AI within the legal industry. This invitation-only group brings together legal professionals, AI researchers, engineers, academics, and industry specialists to address challenges beyond traditional legal business and practice needs.

New members hail from a mix of corporations, law firms, and academic institutions, including:

• Stephen Aschettino, Partner, Steptoe
• Stacey Blaustein, Counsel, Corporate Litigation, IBM
• Ron Brachman, Co-Director and Professor, Computer Science, Cornell University
• Wendy Curtis, Chief Innovation Officer, Orrick
• Matthew D'Amore, Professor of the Practice, LLM Program, Cornell Tech
• Stephen Dooley, Director of Electronic Discovery and Litigation Support, Sullivan & Cromwell
• Eduardo Kassner, Chief Data & AI Officer, Software & Digital Platforms, Microsoft Corporation
• Daryl Shetterly, Managing Director, Orrick Analytics

Driving Practical AI Solutions for Legal Professionals

Igor Labutov, Head of Epiq AI Labs™, explains that the group focuses on applying AI to real corporate legal and law firm work. The goal is to deliver meaningful improvements rather than incremental changes by experimenting with and iterating on AI solutions in real-world settings.

Bishan Yang, Head of Product at Epiq AI Labs™, adds that the lab targets difficult, important technology challenges requiring fundamental research and development. Their focus is on creating products that clients will benefit from over the next two to three years.

Structure of Epiq AI Labs™

The community is organized into three key groups:

• AI Strategy Group: Shapes future legal AI research, advises on development priorities, regulatory compliance, ethics, and AI governance.
• Industry Partners Group: Tests new AI features early, co-innovates, and provides practical feedback on current legal tech challenges and roadmaps.
• Scientific and Academic Group: Works with actual data and business challenges, identifies technical risks, benchmarks technologies, and offers students hands-on AI legal experience.

Wendy Curtis from Orrick highlights the value of early access to AI products and collaboration with peers and researchers. Eduardo Kassner from Microsoft emphasizes the group’s role in shaping the market position and long-term vision for AI in legal services.

Focus on Education and Clear Expectations

Epiq AI Labs™ prioritizes education by grounding AI developments in objective benchmarks and studies. It aims to offer realistic projections about AI technologies, contextualizing advancements within frameworks familiar to the legal industry.

The lab originated from a collaboration between Labutov, Yang, and legal practitioners at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. Its work centers on key legal use cases and informs the development of Epiq’s agentic AI solutions.

Epiq AI Discovery Assistant™: Practical Impact on eDiscovery

One of the lab’s flagship tools, Epiq AI Discovery Assistant™, is integrated into Epiq’s Service Cloud platform. It reviews data for issues such as privilege and responsiveness by automatically generating prompts and models from review protocols.

This assistant automates over 80% of traditional eDiscovery tasks and completes reviews up to 90% faster than traditional technology-assisted review (TAR) or linear review methods. It can handle large, complex datasets with throughput improvements up to 4000 times.

About Epiq

Epiq supports corporate legal departments, law firms, and business professionals by combining people, processes, technology, and data. With operations in 18 countries and a workforce of over 6,100, Epiq focuses on streamlining legal, compliance, settlement, and business administration workflows to improve efficiency, reduce risk, and cut costs.

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