Reed Smith Legal Solutions and Lineal announce strategic collaboration to advance AI-enabled investigations

By bringing together Reed Smith Legal Solutions' lawyers, legal operations professionals, technology specialists, and AI-enabled delivery capabilities with Lineal's data-centric approach to legal technology, managed services, investigations, and digital transformation, the collaboration will help clients investigate complex legal and regulatory matters more efficiently. Clients will benefit from faster access to critical insights, improved visibility across increasingly complex data environments, reduced cost and risk, and more informed decision-making.

The collaboration applies AI-powered analysis, advanced analytics, and data visualization across enterprise data to help organizations better understand complex legal and regulatory matters. It reflects a shared view that modern investigations should be approached as a data challenge — not solely as an eDiscovery exercise — and that advances in generative AI and data analytics can help legal teams uncover facts, relationships, and patterns that were previously impractical, time-consuming, or cost-prohibitive to identify.

"Clients are facing increasingly complex investigations, regulatory issues, and enterprise data environments," said Lee Zoeller, Chair of Reed Smith Legal Solutions. "This collaboration with Lineal reflects exactly why Reed Smith Legal Solutions was created: to bring together legal experience, operational rigor, technology, and AI-enabled delivery in a more connected way so clients can move faster, gain deeper insight into their data, reduce risk, and make better-informed decisions."

Over the past year, Reed Smith and Lineal have worked together to explore a new approach to investigations — one focused on understanding the complete data ecosystem surrounding an event rather than relying solely on the traditional Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM). By combining Lineal's legal data intelligence and technology-enabled services with Reed Smith Legal Solutions' integrated delivery model, the organizations are developing capabilities designed to help clients unlock greater value from their data while maintaining the governance, defensibility, and rigor required for high-stakes legal and regulatory matters.

"Having conducted complex internal and regulatory investigations for many years, I have seen firsthand how the volume and complexity of data can make it increasingly difficult to identify the facts that really matter," said Anthony Diana, a partner in Reed Smith's Emerging Technologies Group and co-head of the firm's Global FinTech and Data practice. "AI and advanced data analytics have the potential to fundamentally improve that process. By allowing investigation teams to identify connections, patterns, and relevant information across much larger and more complex data sets, we can get to critical facts faster, develop a more complete understanding of what happened, and help clients make better-informed decisions earlier in an investigation."

"Our clients are asking increasingly sophisticated questions that cannot be answered by simply applying the historical EDRM model," said Major Baisden, Chief Executive Officer of Lineal. "The future of investigations is understanding the complete data ecosystem surrounding an event. Collaborating with a global, full-service firm like Reed Smith allows us to develop solutions that help clients navigate increasingly complex legal and regulatory challenges with greater speed, context, and confidence."

"Clients are looking for solutions, not simply service providers," said Zoeller. "This collaboration demonstrates how Reed Smith continues to invest in practical AI innovation that delivers measurable value. By combining our integrated legal solutions platform with Lineal's data intelligence capabilities, we are helping clients understand legal risk earlier, investigate more effectively, and respond with greater confidence.