CHICAGO, IL – July 17, 2023 – Acorn Legal Solutions, a woman-led eDiscovery firm headquartered in Chicago, today announced its designation as a Hosting Partner with Relativity’s Justice for Change program. This partnership will enable Acorn to provide hosting, administrative and project management support to grant recipient organizations in their use of RelativityOne.

“We are proud to be a Hosting Partner of the Justice for Change program as it fosters an opportunity for us to have a positive impact on racial and social justice in our communities,” said Lia Majid, CEO at Acorn Legal Solutions. “I am grateful that our team can make a difference by democratizing access to eDiscovery technology and providing support for those organizations in need of it.”

Acorn will be partnering with Chicago-based commercial law firm Goldberg Kohn to provide hosting and production of documents related to a case of toxic contamination in a predominantly minority community. Acorn will help the Goldberg Kohn team to manage and organize a large volume of documents using RelativityOne to present as evidence to the court.

Relativity’s Justice for Change program focuses on increasing access to justice by providing free use of its cloud-based e-discovery product, RelativityOne, to organizations tackling legal cases and academic and policy research related to racial and social justice. Specifically, Justice for Change has allocated 100TB of RelativityOne data to be used on pro bono projects led by customers or nonprofit organizations. Through the Justice for Change hosting partnership, Acorn is committed to the continuous pursuit of justice through great pro bono work and building important connections with Goldberg Kohn.

“We are grateful that Acorn is providing access to RelativityOne in order to defend our clients’ case and shed light on other instances where minority communities in particular are negatively impacted by environmental harms,” said Rachel Steiner, who is counsel at Goldberg Kohn. “The ability to use this technology will not only help our current clients but can show other individuals in similar situations that limited resources should not prevent them from accessing the justice they deserve.”

Acorn will work with Goldberg Kohn using RelativityOne to migrate their data from its current Relativity Server database and organize their files for evidence. Their data consists of PDFs, native files, and Concordance load file productions, that will be hosted and produced.

“Just as transitioning to the cloud will play a crucial role in helping Goldberg Kohn to more easily pursue justice on behalf of their clients, the partnership between these two Chicago-based companies will facilitate justice within the larger local community and beyond,” said Johnathan Hill, Community Engagement Lead at Relativity. “We are happy to see Acorn Legal extend their involvement with Justice for Change and are excited to welcome Goldberg Kohn into the Justice for Change community.”

Organizations, including current Relativity customers, doing legal work on behalf of racial justice that would benefit from software to help them build out a case narrative can apply for free use of our cloud-based e-discovery product, RelativityOne. To learn more, visit: https://www.relativity.com/company/giving-back/justice-for-change/