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In June, Jerry Lay hosted a panel at Relativity Fest London, featuring speakers from DLA Piper, Freeths and Nestlé, to discuss the use of generative artificial intelligence in cross-border investigations and document review exercises. This Q&A covers the key takeaways from the session. Jerry, adoption of generative AI in discovery workflows has accelerated significantly over the past year.

Washington, D.C., July 29, 2026 — FTI Consulting, Inc. (NYSE: FCN) today announced the appointment of e-discovery expert Diane Quick as a Senior Managing Director within the Technology segment. Ms. Quick brings more than 20 years of experience with enterprise e-discovery management, data analytics and legal technology.

As part of a merger clearance review, a client needed to rapidly respond to a quick look inquiry and begin preparing for an impending Second Request. Numerous emerging data sources and mobile devices were in scope for the matter, including Gong, an AI-based cloud platform containing audio, video, transcripts and other data about the company’s sales performance and customer pipeline.

As data volumes expand, regulatory scrutiny intensifies, and artificial intelligence transforms business operations, legal departments are facing unprecedented pressure to strengthen data governance and legal data intelligence capabilities. The General Counsel Report 2026: Spotlight on Legal Data Intelligence and Governance Necessities explores how leading legal executives are responding to these challenges and where they are investing to mitigate emerging risks.

Artificial intelligence is transforming how organizations operate and how data is created, stored and used. AI generated content, including prompts, outputs and system activity, is now appearing in litigation, investigations and regulatory matters. At the same time, most discovery and governance frameworks were not designed to handle these new data types.

When a law firm was granted receivership to manage disposition of millions of dollars’ worth of digital assets during an ownership dispute, FTI Technology provided advising and technical expertise to ensure the funds were managed securely and lawfully. The Federal Bureau of Investigation seized more than $10 million in cryptocurrency after a defendant had attempted to keep assets that were mistakenly distributed to him as a result of a bug in a Layer 2 cryptocurrency startup’s code.

A global corporation dealing in highly sensitive manufacturing needed to restore important data from a legacy database to include it in a timely legal review, without allowing any of the data to leave its environment. After facing prolonged delays and unsuccessful attempts to access the data with other providers, the organization and its law firm engaged FTI Technology to perform a technical, on-site assessment, restore the database and migrate it to a new on-site system.

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Brochures Preparing Your Organization for Secure and Responsible AI Implementation Generative AI has rapidly transformed the consumer landscape and is poised to drive significant productivity gains in the business sector. With the widespread availability of Microsoft 365 Copilot, companies need to prepare for the inevitability of Generative AI within their organizations and take a measured approach in order to minimize compliance risks while gaining competitive advantage from this technology.

FTI Technology recently attended and presented at the Perfect Law Global Class Actions and Mass Torts Conference in London.