Syllo Wins Two 2025 ILTA Distinguished Peer Awards For Trail Blazer of the Year with Ballard Spahr and Innovative Leader

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Syllo, the litigation workspace for the AI era, today announced that the company and Ballard Spahr have been named the collaborative winners of the 2025 Trailblazer Award from the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA), and Syllo CEO, Jeffrey Chivers, has won the ILTA Peer Award for Innovative Leader. The awards, part of ILTA’s Distinguished Peers Awards, were presented last night at ILTA’s EVOLVE conference in Myrtle Beach, SC.

The Trailblazer Award recognizes Ballard Spahr’s collaboration with Syllo to deploy Syllo’s litigation workspace, which features the use of agentic AI to automate first-level document review in complex litigations across the firm. Ballard Spahr’s use of Syllo’s agentic AI system includes performing a fully automated review for more than 25 issue prompts across more than 1.5 million documents. Together, Syllo and Ballard Spahr, along with practitioners from six additional law firms, co-authored a white paper describing how Ballard Spahr used Syllo’s groundbreaking agentic AI document review system in a responsiveness review to achieve results that far exceed traditional document review benchmarks.

Jeffrey Chivers, CEO of Syllo, received the Innovation Leader Award, which recognizes an outstanding achievement by an individual maximizing the value of an innovative technology in support of legal professionals. Chivers co-founded Syllo and spearheaded development of its agentic AI document review solution. This solution is integrated into Syllo’s litigation workspace, a platform of unprecedented scope that encompasses eDiscovery, case management, workflow automation, discovery management, legal knowledge management, and work product generation.

Syllo’s agentic AI coordinates multiple large language models that organize and delegate the work of the document review between one another and autonomously make decisions about how to conduct the review within guidelines set by users. This agentic solution applies an unlimited number of issue codes and consistently and substantially outperforms benchmarks of prior generations of technology-assisted review and human review in real-world complex litigations.

“On behalf of the team of incredible and innovative Syllo employees, we are honored to be recognized alongside Ballard Spahr by ILTA,” said Chivers. “These two awards further validate our commitment to our clients to deliver powerful tools that enhance the practice of law and give our clients an edge in litigation.”

About the ILTA Peer Awards

The ILTA peer awards were launched in 2010 to honor the achievements of those who leverage the strategic advantages of technology in the legal profession. These awards recognize outstanding achievements in organizational and individual excellence.

About Syllo

Syllo is an AI-powered litigation platform that enables legal teams to safely and securely harness the power of language models throughout the litigation life cycle. Founded in 2019 by a team of litigators and engineers, Syllo’s litigation platform provides a competitive edge to case teams, practice groups and law firms.

About Ballard Spahr

Ballard Spahr is an Am Law 100 law firm with more than 750 lawyers in 18 U.S. offices, serving clients across industries in litigation, transactions, and regulatory compliance. Ballard serves as a strategic legal partner to clients, going beyond the ordinary to deliver actionable, forward-thinking counsel and advocacy powered by deep industry experience.