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As it works with such firms as Holding Redlich, Maddocks and Minter Ellison in Australia, the Sydney-based startup behind AI-enabled litigation platform Cicero has announced a global partnership with TransPerfect, a leading provider of language and business services.
Automatise created Cicero to assist litigation teams in reviewing thousands of documents used in court proceedings efficiently using AI, alleviating what founder and CEO Joe Rayment found from personal experience to be a 'laborious needle-in-a-haystack task'.
"Early in my career, I spent three months as a paralegal in a small room sifting through boxes of documents and potential evidence," Rayment says.
"Believe me - there won’t be many litigation lawyers sad to see our AI take on that job in under three days.
"That said, we see Cicero as supporting lawyers, not replacing them. Embedding Cicero AI into their service stack will help legal teams surface facts faster, manage risk, and focus on strategy."
As part of the latest agreement, Cicero's advanced document parsing, investigation tools, chronologies, and information-extraction capabilities will be integrated into New York-based TransPerfect’s eDiscovery platform, delivering its capabilities to more than 10,000 clients globally.
"For an AI start-up that’s three years old, this vote of confidence in Cicero’s capability, security, and technology is incredibly humbling," says Rayment.
"We’ve had fantastic take-up in the Australian legal sector in a short space of time, and to now be partnering with a global company with 140 offices, $1 billion in annual revenue, and over 400,000 legal projects, takes it to the next level."
TransPerfect co-founder, president and co-CEO Phil Shawe is equally optimistic about what the agreement will mean.
"Our clients count on us to combine best-in-class technology with deep expertise. This partnership with Automatise enhances access to AI-driven insights at scale," Shawe says.
The international expansion comes just a fortnight after Minter Ellison extended its pilot with Cicero, with the firm's director of AI and client solutions Ken Porter claiming it turned lawyer feedback into practical features within weeks.
Phase one of the pilot focused on automated chronology creation, with the law firm's feedback shaping shaped issue-focused chronologies that surface critical facts, filter irrelevant details, and provide confidence scoring for AI-generated outputs.
The second phase of the pilot involves the Matter Explorer function of Cicero, which transforms pleadings into structured intelligence.
"MinterEllison's insights have already strengthened Cicero for all users," Rayment said when the extension was announced.
"Matter Explorer represents our next step in delivering measurable efficiency gains."
This followed an announcement earlier in the month that Maddocks had moved Cicero into firm-wide usage after a successful, extended trial across live matters, whereby the two partners aimed to strengthen reviewer verification and quality-control checkpoints.
Automatise claims the collaboration produced tighter audit trails and full traceability of outputs, giving the firm confidence in the platform’s defensibility.
"Cicero proved it can accelerate evidence review while preserving the rigour our clients expect," Maddocks partner Shaun Temby said at the time.
"The efficiencies we saw during the pilot, together with the ability to investigate and verify key issues from the documentary evidence, made the case for Maddocks’ wider adoption of the platform."
In late June, Holding Redlich announced a firm-wide pilot of Cicero in partnership with Automatise.
"Cicero has already shown it can reduce document review time, surface contradictions at an early stage and free our lawyers to focus on analysis rather than administration," Holding Redlich’s chief information officer Damian Della Gatta said at the time.
"Automatise have listened closely to our feedback and already adapted their platform to the way we work, which gives us confidence as we broaden the rollout.
"Security and data sovereignty remain top priorities for both our firm and our clients. Being able to confidently demonstrate how client data is securely managed, used, and tracked has been a key factor in our decision to move forward with the pilot phase."
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