Celebrating innovation and impact, Relativity’s Justice for Change program brings modern tools to pro bono legal work

CHICAGO, April 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Relativity, a global legal technology company, today announced that it is being honored for the recent work of its Justice for Change program, which empowers organizations seeking to positively impact social justice. Since the program’s launch in 2020, there are now 200+ matters globally, over 7 million documents in Justice for Change workspaces, and more than 90 organizations involved or directly benefiting from Relativity’s technology to enhance pro bono work.

“Relativity is humbled to be recognized in both the 2025 Wiley A. Branton Awards and the 2025 Halo Awards,” said Johnathan Hill, Global Program Manager for Social Impact and Community Engagement Lead at Relativity. “Through our Justice for Change program, we are helping address real barriers in the legal system—but we know we cannot do it alone. That is why collective action is so important; by working together to help legal organizations digitize their physical records, we are making space for greater access to justice. Relativity is proud to do this alongside our partners and the broader legal community.”

Harnessing breakthrough technology to drive meaningful change

At the 2025 Wiley A. Branton Awards Luncheon, leaders from the bench, bar, media, government and public interest law community will gather to celebrate the accomplishments of the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs (WLC) and honor pro bono law firms and corporations that have promoted racial justice and economic equality.

For their collaborative efforts to increase access to justice, WLC will present Relativity with the 2025 Corporate Citizen Leadership Award, which recognizes that justice and equality require a whole-of-society response. In 2024, WLC became a pro bono recipient of Relativity’s software through the Justice for Change program, which provides qualifying organizations with 500GB worth of RelativityOne use among 10 users over 24 months.

Justice for Change and Relativity’s ecosystem partner, Epiq, provided WLC and a coalition of civil rights advocate organizations with software and dedicated technical support to help investigate for their January 2024 report, entitled Targeted, Labeled, Criminalized: Early Findings on the District of Columbia’s Gang Database. The production of the report required WLC to obtain and review thousands of documents, which were housed on Relativity’s platform at no cost. The report highlights that the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department’s Gang Tracking and Analysis System is inaccurate, racially discriminatory, and lacks procedural safeguards for the civil liberties of DC’s Black and Brown residents.

The authors aim to address the surveillance system’s fundamental flaws and take immediate steps to reduce its racially disparate impact. The report sparked media discussion about the database’s unreliable intelligence, revealing that membership often reflects race and zip code more than criminality. The list of 1,951 labeled as “gang members” or “associates” frequently includes people without specific suspicion of criminal activity. Ultimately, the public scrutiny surrounding the problematic nature of the database led to a reduction in the database size by nearly 50 percent.

“Justice for Change made it possible for us to effectively manage the gang database project,” said Ryan Downer, Legal Director at Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs. “Without the benefit of Relativity, we would have been at a huge disadvantage. Our partnership with Justice for Change gave us the support we needed to get the job done.”

In addition, Relativity, Epiq and WLC were recently named Silver Winners at the 2025 Halo Awards, which honors excellence in corporate social impact. For 23 years, the Halo Awards have recognized the most innovative and effective partnerships between companies and nonprofits, highlighting initiatives that go beyond good intentions to deliver measurable impact for both business and society.

Relativity, Epiq and WLC’s collaboration through the Justice for Change program was awarded in the Best Technology for Good Initiative category, which recognizes initiatives that demonstrate impactful and innovative use of technology to address social challenges, driving positive change and sustainable solutions.

“The WLC is doing important work. It’s an honor to provide WLC with Relativity access and expertise, and to ensure they realize successful outcomes,” said Doug Mazlish, Senior Vice President, Strategic Alliances and Business Operations at Epiq. “We’re inspired by the positive impact that Relativity and the Justice for Change program are making, and the partnership we continue to build.”

Partnering to bridge the digital divide in legal aid

While assisting WLC with an internal project, Relativity identified a key challenge for current and prospective pro bono participants. Often, organizations’ hesitation to adopt e-discovery solutions is not due to complexity or use case, but because many are still constrained by paper documents.

Throughout its 56-year history, WLC accumulated hundreds of boxes of hard-copy client files, occupying precious office space and forcing the organization to rent warehouse storage at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars annually. Upon hearing of this burden, the Justice for Change team coordinated with a vendor to begin converting the paper files into electronic files.

Relativity’s assistance is expected to generate significant long-term savings for WLC, including approximately $50,000 per year in off-site storage costs. For often under-resourced pro bono organizations, such savings have the potential to support the hiring of additional staff or enhance internal operations to better serve their mission.

To formalize and scale this work, Relativity launched an initiative aimed at helping pro bono legal organizations digitize their paper records and transition to modern, more accessible workflows that ultimately aid in case management. In partnership with Page One, a provider of e-discovery and litigation support services, Relativity has helped digitize documents for two Justice for Change pro bono recipients to date: Innocence Project and WLC. In the first month of the project, Page One scanned approximately 84,000 pages. Through this collaboration, Relativity donated approximately $40,000 in 2024 to scan more than 100,000 documents and has committed additional funds to expand the program’s efforts.

“When Relativity asked us to support their Justice for Change initiative, we jumped in immediately—within a week, we were onsite determining what needs to be scanned,” said Ashley Price, Litigation Support Specialist at Page One, Inc. “Helping groups like the Washington Lawyers’ Committee and the Innocence Project go digital aligns perfectly with Page One’s mission to make a meaningful impact through our expertise.”

“The resources we received from Justice for Change helped the Innocence Project and our lead counsel partners at the Hawai’i Innocence Project win a client’s exoneration and freedom after 23 years of wrongful incarceration. They also assisted the Innocence Center in their successful representation of our client’s brother,” said Barry Scheck, Co-Founder and Special Counsel at the Innocence Project. “The case file was enormous, and our teams were working thousands of miles apart. Relativity tools and training saved us precious time—time that ultimately amounted to fewer days in prison and more time as a free man for our innocent client. We are immeasurably grateful for Relativity’s support.”

In collaboration with partners like Page One and Epiq, Relativity is investing in the transformation of pro bono work by helping nonprofit organizations reduce costs, improve efficiency, optimize staff resources and adopt cutting-edge solutions. Technology partners interested in learning more or participating in this initiative should reach out to socialimpact@relativity.com.

About Relativity
Relativity makes software to help users organize data, discover the truth and act on it. Its SaaS product, RelativityOne, manages large volumes of data and quickly identifies key issues during litigation and internal investigations. Relativity has more than 300,000 users in approximately 40 countries serving thousands of organizations globally primarily in legal, financial services and government sectors, including the U.S. Department of Justice and 198 of the Am Law 200. Please contact Relativity at sales@relativity.com or visit www.relativity.com for more information.

DUBAI, UAE, April 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, is excited to unveil the 1V1 Trading Arena, gamifying trading experience for crypto pros and beginners in the first ever 1-on-1 trading battle on Bybit. The competition allows eligible Bybit users to battle another individual trader and share in $1,000,000 in airdrops.

Designed for both seasoned pros and newcomers, the event offers rewards for every trading style. From now until May 22, 10AM UTC, participants can engage in direct PnL (Profit and Loss)-based battles against fellow traders.

Highlights

• Pro Trader Face-Offs: Users may race one another without having to join squads, allowing individual traders to demonstrate their tradecraft to the fullest.
• Performance, Not Size: The trader with the higher Profit and Loss percentage will emerge victorious, no matter the invested amount.
• Flash Rewards in Seconds: The winning trader will get to claim the rewards of each match immediately.
• Race at Their Pace: Participants can choose their own battle mode from 1 to 4 hours–Blitz, Rush, or Endurance. Bybit’s powerful trading tools are at their disposal to help them set positions and automate entry and exit points.

In addition, newcomers will get a chance to join a lucky draw and win up to 100 USDT when they win the first match. Users may also receive referral bonuses of up to 20% of the referees’ points.

Tune in Live: The Ultimate KOL Trading Battle

The 1V1 Trading Arena reinvents traditional trading competitions and enables users to take full control of their portfolios and strategies, blending gameplay with rewards powered by Bybit’s suite of trading solutions.

The stakes are about to get higher on May 7 where two influential crypto traders will compete head to head on Bybit Live. The audience will get to witness the drama unfold in real time, hear tips on how to get the most out of the campaign from the trading pros, while taking part in interactive giveaways for a chance to win from a 1,000 USDT prize pool during the session.

• Livestream Link: 1v1 KOL Trading Arena Showdown
• Date and Time: May 7, 2025, 8AM UTC

Terms and conditions apply. To find out more about the unique trading competition, users may visit: 1V1 Trading Arena: Face-off for big rewards!

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About Bybit

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OSAKA, Japan, April 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Since its officially opening on April 13, the Osaka World Expo’s China Pavilion has become one of the most popular attractions at the Expo. By incorporating traditional Chinese cultural elements such as bamboo slips, Chinese characters, and scrolls and presenting exhibits that connect the past, present, and future, the China Pavilion boasts the theme of “Building a Community of Life for Man and Nature—Future Society of Green Development.” As of the end of April, it had received nearly 90,000 visitors, over 5,700 per day on average and 8,000 on weekends.

China Pavilion Wows Visitors at Osaka Expo

The China Pavilion consists of three segments: “Harmony between Humanity and Nature” “Green Mountains and Clear Waters” and “Endless Life.”

The “Harmony between Humanity and Nature” section highlights China’s ancient ecological wisdom, which emphasizes respect and reverence for nature. It features a large multimedia display themed around the 24 solar terms and a digital presentation of Pictures of Tilling and Weaving, the world’s earliest agricultural encyclopedia. By using modern technology, it showcases replicas of iconic artifacts such as the oracle bones unearthed in Xiaotun Village, the He Zun, and the copper plates of the imperial edict on unifying weights and measures of the Qin dynasty, as well as key archaeological sites like Sanxingdui, Liangzhu, and Yinxu.

The “Green Mountains and Clear Waters” section explains China’s ecological philosophy. Through multimedia installations, it features projects such as the Dujiangyan irrigation system, the world’s earliest water conservancy project, the 2,500-year-old mulberry-dike fishpond system and so on.

The “Endless Life” section focuses on China’s breakthroughs in deep space exploration, deep sea research and artificial intelligence. Highlights include the first-ever close-up comparison display of soil from the moon’s far side and near side, live video interaction between Chinese astronauts in the Tiangong Space Station and expo visitors, a simulated cabin of the Jiaolong deep-sea submersible showing rare footage from 7,062 meters below the sea, and an AI model that brings the beloved mythological figure Sun Wukong to life and discusses past and present topics with visitors, composing poems, and creating art.

The China Pavilion has hosted various events that promote Kunqu Opera and the 24 solar terms, as well as Chinese companies including iFLYTEK and COSCO. In the coming months, dozens of Chinese provinces, regions, and municipalities will bring their amazing exhibits and performances to make the pavilion even a bigger draw.

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SEOUL, South Korea, April 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — LG unveiled the Dream Factory, a hub for the production of FC-BGAs (Flip Chip Ball Grid Arrays), the company’s next-generation growth engine, to the media for the first time and announced it on the 30^th April.

In 2022, LG Innotek announced its plans to launch a business producing FC-BGAs, high-value semiconductor substrates. To build the Dream Factory, the company acquired LG Electronics’ Gumi 4 Factory and began full-scale mass production in February 2024.

The Dream Factory, spanning a total area of 26,000 square meters, is regarded as the industry’s most advanced “smart” factory, integrating the latest IT technologies, including artificial intelligence, deep learning, robotics, and digital twin technologies. By applying automation, information, and intelligence technologies to the entire process, it has established a cutting-edge FC-BGA production infrastructure that eliminates the four major factors known to undermine production competitiveness: human error (Man), failure cost (F-cost), breakdown maintenance (BM) loss, and accidents.

• “Elimination of defects caused by human contact” through automation of all processes and logistics using robots

For semiconductor substrate products such as FC-BGAs, which require a highly demanding ultra-fine process, even the smallest foreign objects (eyelash, saliva, etc.) can cause quality issues. Therefore, it is crucial to minimize human contact with products during production.

To this end, LG Innotek has introduced a completely automated logistics system at the Dream Factory, where coming across a person is a rare event. Apart from essential personnel, such as equipment maintenance and repair workers, all 10 steps of the FC-BGA production and logistics processes are unmanned.

Dozens of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) move materials around the production line autonomously. When a production order is placed, which is done automatically, based on the customer’s delivery timeframe entered in the RTS (real-time schedule), the AMRs transport the raw materials to the process facility. Once the barcode on the raw material is detected, also done automatically, by the machine, the process recipe is automatically set on the equipment according to the product specifications through the recipe management system (RMS), after which the product processing begins. The AMRs are also responsible for loading the finished product back into the stocker.

In addition, the process of peeling off the protective film from the panel (film detach) is also replaced by a robot. This enables the early prevention of fine scratches and defects caused by foreign objects such as dust particles and foreign substances. The construction of non-touch production facilities, involving such equipment as collaborative robots, in the entire process has significantly reduced mishandling by workers.

• Unmanned AI-based FC-BGA quality inspection, enhancing customer confidence by ensuring quality “transparency”

The Dream Factory generates more than 200,000 files and 100GB of data related to FC-BGA production every day. LG Innotek collects this data throughout the production process through sensors installed in all of its facilities.  By applying AI, which continuously learns from this big data, to the defect prediction and inspection system, the company has significantly reduced the lead time caused by defects.

In addition, LG Innotek has applied an AI deep learning vision inspection system to the Automated Optical Inspection (AOI) process, which is the most important step in determining whether a product is of good quality. Tirelessly, the robot moves the finished FC-BGA board products to the vision screening inspection table. Next, the AI, which has been trained on tens of thousands of data points on defective and good quality FC-BGAs, detects micro-level defects that are challenging to identify with the naked eye, and it does so in only 30 seconds.

LG Innotek is operating a further advanced AOI process. In the room next to the AOI equipment for faulty circuits, there is a much larger robot and inspection system. Called Line Quality Control (LQC), it can automatically check whether the various specifications (thickness, size, etc.) of the product requested by the customer have been fulfilled. The inspection data is immediately sent to the customer, ensuring product quality transparency, which leads to higher customer confidence. This industry-leading sophistication of LG Innotek’s AOI equipment has been cited as one of the most impressive aspects of the factory by the global customers who have visited it.

AI can identify defective products, and since every product has a barcode that tracks its process history, products that are deemed defective are automatically filtered out without the need for human intervention, reducing F-costs by more than 50%.

Additionally, AI has been applied to the digital simulation system, which prevents product defects and equipment failures. Previously, the process of workers manually checking products for defects and identifying which machines were faulty and how to repair them in response to defects required a lot of time. This can now be significantly improved.

By 2026, LG Innotek plans to introduce an intelligent Quality Management System (i-QMS) that detects and analyzes quality irregularities during production in real time and automatically corrects them. The company plans to automate the entire FC-BGA production process, especially by developing a platform that uses digital twin technology to share information on all processes, from product development to production, with customers in real time to enhance customer responsiveness.

• Optimized FC-BGA process equipment using digital twin technology, “halving the ramp-up period”

Since even the smallest variables can lead to poor performance in FC-BGAs, equipment optimized for mass production and process recipes and production environments set to perfect values are fundamental to achieving high yields.

The FC-BGA process equipment installed in the Dream Factory is set to optimal conditions through digital twin technology. In the past, identifying optimal conditions for the FC-BGA process required a lot of time and money, along with hundreds of tests. Before building the facility, LG Innotek managed to identify problems with the initial setup of the FC-BGA process facility in advance by conducting a “factory simulation” using 3D modelling in virtual space. This enabled the facility to be carefully set for optimal conditions, such as liquid, heat, and air flow, which were difficult to measure inside the actual facility. As a result, the ramp-up period (increase in production capacity by improving initial production yields) was shortened by nearly half compared to the previous operation period.

In addition, digital twin technology is applied to the Line Monitoring System (LMS), which monitors production status in real time. The real-time monitoring system enables users to monitor the production line currently in operation, product movement, inventory status, equipment irregularities, production performance, and product quality status at a glance on the large screen of the integrated control room where the LMS is installed. This makes it possible to respond immediately in the event of any irregularity.

• Internalization of glass core technology, step-by-step entry into the high-end FC-BGA market: “Fostering the business into 700 million USD business by 2030″

Over the past 50 years, LG Innotek has accumulated core technologies for high-value semiconductor substrates, such as ultra-fine microcircuits and high-density, multi-layer substrate matching technology (stacking multiple substrate layers accurately and evenly), through its substrate material components business.

Based on this know-how, the company began full-scale mass production of FC-BGAs for personal computers (PCs) for North American big-tech customers at the end of last year and recently succeeded in securing additional global big-tech clients. This year, LG Innotek aims to enter the FC-BGA market for PC central processing units (CPUs). Its strategy is to enter the high-end FC-BGA market in phases, including entering the server FC-BGA market as early as 2026. In preparation for this, LG Innotek has already acquired facilities that are essential in the manufacturing of FC-BGA products for servers, such as “edge coating” that blocks the generation of dust particles.

In line with this goal, LG Innotek will also accelerate the development of next-generation substrate technologies in collaboration with global big-tech clients. By 2027, the company plans to internalize technologies such as re-distribution layer (RDL) technology, which engraves microcircuit patterns directly onto the substrate; device embedding technology, which minimizes power loss by embedding devices into the substrate; and multi-layer core (MLC) and glass core (glass substrate) technologies, which prevent warping when implementing large-area substrates. In particular, LG Innotek has been promoting glass substrates by strengthening its collaboration with global customers.

Minseok Kang, vice president and head of LG Innotek’s Substrate & Material Business Unit, said, “LG Innotek will continue to expand the production of FC-BGAs that provide exceptional customer value based on its state-of-the-art Dream Factory and develop the FC-BGA business into 700 million USD business by 2030.”

According to the Fuji Chimera Research Institute, the size of the global FC-BGA market is expected to more than double from USD 8 billion in 2022 to USD 16.4 billion in 2030.

[Glossary]

FC-BGA (Flip Chip Ball Grid Array): This is a semiconductor substrate that is widely applied to electronic devices equipped with semiconductor chips (CPU, GPU, AI chips, etc.) that perform various computing functions. Demand for high-performance semiconductor substrates is growing rapidly due to increased data throughput, higher semiconductor processing speeds, and the need for low-power semiconductors. For these reasons, FC-BGAs have a larger area and more layers than conventional semiconductor substrates. They are also known to have high barriers to market entry because they require top-level facilities and technologies to produce.