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If there's one constant about Legalweek New York, it's this: There will be major legal technology news. As the first major conference of the calendar year, legal technology companies of all flavors and sizes take the week and those surrounding it to debut the latest and greatest innovations.

This Legalweek is certainly no exception. This year at the show, the exhibit hall will feature brand new legal tech products, updates to old standbys, and a few new surprises that even the most tech-savvy attorneys may not expect. Below is a preview of what has been announced before the exhibit hall opens.

Just a note, this isn't an exhaustive list in the least, just a selection of some of the biggest news that has passed my inbox and been posted online. For all of the latest news, make sure to watch our site during the show, follow our reporters on social media, and in particular, walk the Legalweek floor to speak with people about what's new in the industry. The following list is in alphabetical order.

BDO: Accounting and advisory firm BDO USA announced the launch of BDO Digital, a digital advisory business focused on helping middle market organizations harness innovation and capture the full power of technology. Dedicated to meeting the specific needs of the middle market as they navigate disruption, BDO Digital offers clients a holistic portfolio of technology and transformation strategy capabilities, tailored by industry. The team of more than 400 digital advisory professionals is built from the firm's legacy Technology & Business Transformation Services practice and SWC Technology Partners, a wholly owned subsidiary of BDO USA.

CloudNine: CloudNine has launched CloudNine Collection Manager, a data extraction solution that defensibly performs native data collections from Office 365 (O365) email custodians, as well as Microsoft OneDrive cloud storage files. The software's wizard interface guides collectors to browse and select one or multiple data custodians, filter by date, and extract data to desired formats such as PSTs or Zip files for loose documents. Collection Manager then sends extracted files to target hard drives, jump drives, or network drives or early case assessment products such as CloudNine Explore and others.

DISCO: E-discovery company DISCO today announced the launch of DISCO Case Builder, a suite of case management tools. Case Builder features a single, cloud-based repository that manages and organizes all case materials, including depositions, pleadings, correspondence, and motions. It assembles and makes searchable all case materials, provides attorneys with the tools to collaboratively work with these files, and rolls these documents and work product into an at-a-glance case dashboard that encourages best practices and recommends the actions that most affect case value.

ECFX: ECFX, a company providing intelligent automation for law firms, launched today and announced the availability of its first product: ECFX Notice. ECFX Notice automates the entire electronic court notice workflow, reducing a process that can take between 20 and 60 minutes per notice to seconds. The system connects each case to an internal client and matter number, downloads each document associated with the notice, profiles each document to the firm's document management system, determines the relevant parties to notify, and more.

Evisort: AI technology company Evisort has unveiled its new workflow module which will offer pre-signature contract generation and approval workflows featuring Evisort's post-signature contract analytics. Due for release in Q2 2020, the new Evisort platform transforms into an automated, intelligent operating system that centralizes and extracts key data from contracts stored across several repositories like SharePoint, Box, Salesforce, and more. This announcement comes on the heels of Evisort's recent announcement of a $15 million investment round led by Microsoft's M12 and Vertex Ventures.

Exigent: Alternative legal services provider Exigent announces the launch of a new division in forensic consulting, strengthening its litigation services to include expert witness services.  Led by new hire Michael J. McCabe, Jr., Exigent Forensic provides technical investigations, analysis, research, written reports and testimony aimed at supporting the resolution of litigation or insurance matters. The new division will offer support in toxicology, human factors, and related disciplines, with more areas of expertise being added in 2020.

FileTrail: FileTrail, which provides information governance and records management software for law firms and highly regulated industries, will unveil version 2.0 of its FileTrail GPS (Governance Policy Suite) at Legalweek New York. The updated release includes significant new functionality and a streamlined user interface. The core modules of FileTrail GPS now include Policy Manager to implement retention, holds and outside counsel guidelines for documents and records; Records Manager to create, locate, track and audit physical records; and Mobility Manager to streamline lateral moves and client requests.

H5: H5 has announced a new release of H5 Matter Analytics that features advanced privilege analytics that automate labor-intensive tasks in the privilege review workflow. The release uses email threading and name normalization techniques already present in the software, adding to it privilege analytics to automate identification of discernable lawyers, lawyer communications, lawyer mentions and legal discussions. The result is prioritized tiers of potentially privileged documents, including identification of documents that may be subject to privilege waiver.

Hanzo: Hanzo has launched Hanzo Hold, a purpose-built legal hold solution for Slack, which empowers organizations to apply a legal hold to enterprise Slack data and to adhere to data retention policies while meeting the duty to preserve data for litigation and compliance use cases. The new solution allows for scale ingestion for greater speed and resilience in the face of such data magnitude. Additionally, Hanzo works closely with the team at Slack, regularly evolving the solution to fully support the latest updates to the Slack Discovery API.

HaystackID: HaystackID has announced the introduction of its Cybersecurity Consulting Practice under the leadership of data security and digital forensics expert John Wilson, available immediately for engagement. The cybersecurity services are focused on three core functional areas: cyber risk (vulnerabilities, exposure, and testing); information governance (compliance, privacy, and protection); and managed security (intelligence, migration, and remote. This follows the company's recapitalization, announced earlier today.

LexisNexis: LexisNexis CounselLink has announced its CounselLink FastTrack invoice payment service in collaboration with the capital solutions provider LSQ. For a service fee, firms that participate get paid within one business day of invoice approval, while at the same time their corporate clients have the flexibility to extend payment terms to 60 days or more. Legal departments can also earn up to 2% cash back on invoices processed via CounselLink FastTrack.

MaxVal: Intellectual property (IP) software provider MaxVal has announced the release of IP management system Symphony 3.6. This version features new functionality in Analytical Insights Module, a new advanced reporting engine capable of integrating data from different sources to provide complex, powerful analytics capabilities, and Prosecution Analytics, a feature that allows patent attorneys to use patent examiners' prosecution behavior and manage the prosecution strategy.

Relativity: Relativity is offering up a new payment plan for its RelativityOne cloud-based e-discovery service, aimed at bringing the platform more in line with common SaaS and cloud services options.The new pricing system will be what Relativity calls a "pay-as-you-go" model: paying for the software on a month-by-month basis rather than longer contracts such as a one or three-year subscription. The pay-as-you-go pricing will be based on the amount of data in the system and the users that are enabled to access RelativityOne. More can be found in our coverage from Thursday.

Thomson Reuters: Thomson Reuters has announced the availability of Thomson Reuters Legal Data APIs, where data from Westlaw Edge Litigation Analytics and Practical Law will be made available through application programming interfaces (APIs). Legal professionals can combine Thomson Reuters data with internal data to get a more comprehensive view and gain greater insights that will lead to more informed decisions.

X1: E-discovery software company X1 has extended its flagship X1 Enterprise Platform to Apple's MacOS (Macintosh Operating System). The X1 Enterprise Platform now allows compliance, e-discovery, privacy and cybersecurity teams to remotely identify, analyze, collect, migrate or delete data for both PC or MacOS users. This offering is available in February for use by global enterprise clients and their service providers.

Zero: ZERØ has announced the launch of its latest product, ZERØ Lite, which provides key functionality from ZERØ's flagship email management solution in a package designed for smaller and mid-market law firms and firms of any size that don't currently use NetDocuments or iManage. Using AI, ZERØ Lite helps users organize their emails by folder, captures time that users spend interacting with client-related emails from mobile devices, and automatically detects potential wrong recipients before an email goes out.