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Sid Newby

Chief Technology Officer

CTO at PlatinumIDS. 20+ years in legal technology, eDiscovery, and litigation operations.

Google Cloud Platform CertifiedACEDS (Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists)Certified Legal Project ManagementRelativity CertifiediConect CertifiedReveal Certified

About

Legal technology and operations executive with 20+ years optimizing the economics of legal service delivery at PlatinumIDS. Deep expertise in eDiscovery operations, vendor management, cost modeling, and data-driven decision making from managing relationships with Am Law 100 firms. Developed innovative fixed-cost pricing models adopted by 30+ law firms that reduced legal spend by 40%+ while maintaining quality. Previously Senior Litigation Support Analyst at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. Builds with React, TypeScript, BigQuery, Google Cloud, and Python.

Published Articles

The People vs. PACER: How Free Law Project Is Building the Open-Source Infrastructure to Make Court Records Free

How It WorksApril 2, 2026

The AI Adoption Inflection Point: How Legal Technology Crossed from Experimentation to Infrastructure in 2026

Artificial IntelligenceApril 2, 2026

Relativity Files for IPO: Inside the First Legal Tech Public Offering Since 2021 and What It Means for Every Litigation Team

Legal TechApril 2, 2026

The Billion-Dollar Legal AI Arms Race: Harvey's $11B, Legora's $5.5B, and the Record Capital Surge Rewriting Litigation Technology

Legal TechApril 2, 2026

From the Bench to the Brief: 61% of Federal Judges Are Using AI -- and It's Raising the Bar for What Courts Expect from Litigators

Artificial IntelligenceApril 2, 2026

When AI Talks Back: The Privilege Ruling, the Meeting-Tool Time Bomb, and the ESI Crisis Nobody Planned For

Legal TechApril 2, 2026

The Great eDiscovery Price Reset: How Free AI, All-Inclusive Pricing, and Cloud Competition Are Finally Making Justice Affordable

InnovationApril 2, 2026

From TAR to GenAI: How Acquisitions, Agentic AI, and 96% Recall Are Rewriting the Rules of Document Review

Legal TechApril 2, 2026

The Disappearing Evidence Crisis: How Ephemeral Messaging Is Rewriting the Rules of eDiscovery

Legal TechApril 2, 2026

Caught Between Courts and Continents: The 2026 Guide to Cross-Border eDiscovery in the Age of GDPR, China's PIPL, and Fragmented Data Privacy

Legal TechApril 2, 2026

The Great AI Adoption Gap: How In-House Legal Teams Are Outrunning Their Law Firms -- and What It Means for Litigation

InnovationApril 2, 2026

1,227 Fabricated Citations and Counting: Inside the AI Hallucination Crisis Hitting Courts Worldwide

Artificial IntelligenceApril 2, 2026

The Great eDiscovery Consolidation: How M&A, Cloud Mandates, and AI-First Pricing Are Remaking eDiscovery

Legal TechApril 2, 2026

The EU AI Act Meets eDiscovery: What Every Litigation Team Must Know Before August 2026

Legal TechApril 2, 2026

The Rise of Agentic AI in Legal Technology: From Assistants to Autonomous Workflows

Artificial IntelligenceApril 2, 2026

The State of Legal Tech

Legal TechFebruary 6, 2026