Everlaw Introduces AI and Cloud Capabilities for UK, European and Global Legal Teams

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 11, 2025--

Everlaw, the cloud-native investigation and litigation platform, announced new investments at the British Legal Technology Forum today to expand its customers’ capabilities internationally:

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GenAI-powered Everlaw AI Assistant in the UK and EU; G-Cloud in the UK

Everlaw opened its London office in 2018 to support British and European corporations, law firms and their high-profile legal matters, such as the British Post Office Case.

To further address the preferences of UK and European organizations for in-region data processing and residency today, Everlaw is providing customers with greater control over their data. UK- and EU-based customers can now leverage Everlaw AI Assistant while ensuring their data remains within regional boundaries. This enhancement is designed to meet the data security and sovereignty requirements of many European customers, offering an added layer of compliance and trust. As with our US implementation, there is zero data retention, and the data is never used to train our AI service providers' models.

Everlaw launched its suite of GenAI-powered features, Everlaw AI Assistant, in fall 2024 based on its generative AI principles and the input of nearly 3,000 users whose real-world use shaped and improved the product.

“Enterprise-grade security and control are at the core of our GenAI features,” said AJ Shankar, founder and CEO of Everlaw. “By enabling in-region AI processing, we’re giving our UK and European customers greater confidence in adopting AI while ensuring their data remains protected within local boundaries.”

Everlaw has been awarded G-Cloud status by the UK government. This enables Everlaw to sell its software for inquiries, investigations, litigation, arbitration, tribunals, DSAR/SAR and other regulatory matters to the UK government through the G-Cloud framework.

AI-Based Translations for Greater Efficiency in International Matters

Everlaw Translations is a new AI-powered feature designed to accelerate the initial translation of large document sets by generating translated text files stored alongside the originals. Legal professionals handling complex international litigation and investigations often struggle to manage foreign-language documents. Everlaw Translations allows legal teams to efficiently translate documents in bulk and leverage Everlaw’s advanced analytics and review tools to gain a clear understanding of foreign-language content. Teams can then identify key documents to share with human translators for more refined and nuanced translations, streamlining the overall review process.

Everlaw Translation offers key benefits including streamlined multilingual document reviews with bulk processing that reduces costs while maintaining enterprise-grade security with Everlaw. In addition, our translation service providers do not use our customers’ data to develop or improve their services or models.

Everlaw Translation offers significant cost savings to competing document-based offerings. Translated text automatically integrates with Everlaw's rich analytics and other AI features, providing an efficient end-to-end solution for legal teams handling foreign language documents.

Everlaw Staging Drive: Secure, Centralized Data Storage Globally

Everlaw Staging Drive provides highly secure pre-processing storage where customers can organize files before uploading for early case assessment or review. Administrator-managed and project-independent, it addresses organizational needs for boutique law firms to Am Law 200 firms, corporations, and government agencies. This new offering enhances Everlaw's end-to-end capabilities, helping teams efficiently manage terabytes of discoverable data. Staging Drive consolidates and simplifies data management by organizing everything in a centralized environment.

Specifically, Everlaw Staging Drive helps legal teams gather, store, and organize documents before entering the formal discovery phase in litigation or investigations. This gives teams a head start for when they need to prepare for responses. Users can create folders to organize container files, rename files, assign custodians on the fly, add descriptions to documents, and sort uploaded files and folders by a variety of fields. As cases move forward, files can be easily selected from Staging Drive for early case assessment or review within Everlaw. Staging Drive helps users keep their data secure through Everlaw’s stringent security protocols.

About the Everlaw AI Portfolio

Everlaw Translations expands the Everlaw AI product line which includes Everlaw AI Assistant’s Review Assistant, Coding Suggestions, and Writing Assistant, Everlaw’s award-winning Clustering, which uncovers hidden patterns even in the largest corpus of documents, and Predictive Coding to quickly identify relevant documents with AI. Learn more here.

About Everlaw

Everlaw helps legal teams navigate the increasingly complex ediscovery landscape to chart a straighter path to the truth. Trusted by Fortune 100 corporate counsel, FTSE 100 corporations, and 100% of Silver Circle firms, Everlaw's combination of intuitive experience, advanced technology, and partnership with customers empowers organisations to tackle the most pressing technological challenges—and transform their approach to discovery and litigation in the process. Founded in 2010 and based in Oakland, Calif., with offices in London, Washington, D.C., and New York City, Everlaw is funded by top-tier investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, CapitalG, HIG Growth Partners, K9 Ventures, Menlo Ventures, and TPG Growth. Follow us on LinkedIn.

Everlaw Staging Drive provides highly secure pre-processing storage where customers can organize files before uploading for early case assessment or review. (Graphic: Everlaw)

Everlaw Translations is a new AI-powered feature designed to accelerate the initial translation of large document sets by generating translated text files stored alongside the originals. (Graphic: Everlaw)

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — An independent counsel on Tuesday demanded a death sentence for former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on rebellion charges in connection with his short-lived imposition of martial law in December 2024.

Removed from office last April, Yoon faces eight trials over various criminal charges related to his martial law debacle and other scandals related to his time in office. Charges that he directed a rebellion are the most significant ones.

Independent counsel Cho Eun-suk’s team requested the Seoul Central District Court to sentence Yoon to death, according to the court.

The Seoul court is expected to deliver a verdict on Yoon in February. Experts say the court likely will sentence him to life in prison. South Korea hasn't executed anyone since 1997.

Yoon was scheduled to make remarks at Tuesday's hearing. He has maintained that his decree was a desperate yet peaceful attempt to raise public awareness about what he considered the danger of the liberal opposition Democratic Party, which used its legislative majority to obstruct his agenda. He called the opposition-controlled parliament “a den of criminals” and “anti-state forces.”

Yoon’s decree, the first of its kind in more than 40 years in South Korea, brought armed troops into Seoul streets to encircle the assembly and enter election offices. That evoked traumatic memories of dictatorships in the 1970s and 1980s, when military-backed rulers used martial law and other emergency decrees to station soldiers and armored vehicles in public places to suppress pro-democracy protests.

On the night of Yoon's martial law declaration, thousands of people rushed to the National Assembly to object to the decree and demand his resignation in dramatic scenes. Enough lawmakers, including even those in Yoon’s ruling party, managed to enter an assembly hall to vote down the decree.

Observers described Yoon’s action as political suicide. Parliament impeached him and sent the case to the Constitutional Court, which ruled to dismiss him as president.

It was a spectacular downfall for Yoon, a former star prosecutor who won South Korea’s presidency in 2022, a year after entering politics.

Lee Jae Myung, a former Democratic Party leader who led Yoon's impeachment bid, became president by winning a snap election last June. After taking office, Lee appointed three independent counsels to delve into allegations involving Yoon, his wife and associates.

There had been speculation that Yoon resorted to martial law to protect his wife, Kim Keon Hee, from potential corruption investigations. But in wrapping up a six-month investigation last month, independent counsel Cho’s team concluded that Yoon plotted for over a year to impose martial law to eliminate his political rivals and monopolize power.

Yoon’s decree and ensuing power vacuum plunged South Korea into political turmoil, halted the country’s high-level diplomacy and rattled its financial markets.

Yoon’s earlier vows to fight attempts to impeach and arrest him deepened the country’s political divide. In January last year, he became the country’s first sitting president to be detained.

Supporters of former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol hold signs outside of Seoul Central District Court, in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

FILE - Then South Korea's ousted former President Yoon Suk Yeol who is facing charges of orchestrating a rebellion when he declared martial law on Dec. 3, arrives to attend his trial at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, May 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, Pool, File)