Relativity Wins Two Anthem Silvers for Free Legal AI Access Programs

Relativity has taken two Silver awards at the 6th Annual Anthem Awards for programs that give nonprofits and students free access to its legal AI platform, Relativity aiR. The recognition lands in a market where vendors increasingly use access programs to build goodwill, talent pipelines and product familiarity.

Free access is becoming a market strategy

Legal technology vendors have long run pro bono and education initiatives, but generative AI has raised the stakes. Tools that once required six-figure budgets and specialist staff can now be offered at low marginal cost through the cloud. That makes free access a credible way to seed adoption among users who will later become buyers.

The Anthem Awards drew more than 2,500 submissions from 43 countries, its largest field to date. Relativity's wins came in categories tied to AI excellence and higher education, not to legal technology specifically. That framing places e-discovery software in a broader social impact conversation.

A Medicaid case shows the pro bono use case

Justice for Change won its Silver in the Belonging and Inclusion category for work with Microsoft Pro Bono and the Washington Autism Alliance. The groups used Relativity aiR in a test case challenging the denial of Medicaid benefits to a young adult with severe autism in Washington State.

Microsoft Pro Bono processed more than 8,000 documents through the platform. The review surfaced admissions that state personnel recognized the client's need for care but resisted the cost. According to Relativity, those findings blocked key counterarguments, established entitlement to round-the-clock care and set precedent for other beneficiaries. The outcomes are reported by the company and were not independently verified.

Campus programs build the next buyer base

Relativity Academic won its Silver in the Higher Education category. The program provides law, paralegal and data science students with free access to Relativity aiR at more than 115 institutions worldwide. It includes localized curriculum, faculty training, a live FERPA-compliant database and professional networking.

The program also serves a commercial logic. Graduates who train on a platform tend to carry that preference into firms, corporate legal departments and agencies. Competitors in e-discovery and legal AI run academic offerings of their own, which makes the contest for early-career familiarity a quiet but real battleground.

Social impact now supports AI positioning

The awards show how vendors are packaging AI credentials. Pro bono outcomes give legal AI a public-interest proof point at a time when buyers still question accuracy, defensibility and cost. Enterprise legal teams evaluating AI review tools may weigh a vendor's track record in high-stakes matters alongside traditional benchmarks. Smaller rivals without comparable programs may find it harder to match that narrative.