Harvey has announced a partnership with Swiss legal AI intelligence start-up DeepJudge, with the aim bring law firm and in-house expertise into AI-powered legal work.
DeepJudge’s platform enables legal teams to integrate their previous work and decision making into Harvey’s workflows, helping lawyers to research, draft and analyse with AI but combined with their own institutional knowledge.
Harvey says the partnership addresses discrepancies within legal AI, in particular that the knowledge law firms have built up over decades of practice experience is often fragmented and difficult to collate in real-time.
Winston Weinberg, Harvey CEO and founder, said: “DeepJudge knows your firm through every past matter, memo and negotiated position.”
He added that the partnership enables legal teams to “ground their work in prior expertise, and run their practice on a system that reflects how they actually operate”.
Paulina Grnarova, CEO and co-founder of DeepJudge, said: “Legal AI has made remarkable progress on reasoning, and Harvey is a testament to that.
“DeepJudge brings past work, decisions and institutional expertise directly into that reasoning, so that the resulting work reflects the judgement, standards and ways of working unique to each firm or legal department.”
Martin Durkin, partner at Holland & Knight, commented: “Together, they bring our firm’s unique thinking into every document, turning AI into a true differentiator.”
Zurich-based DeepJudge was founded in 2021 by Grnarova, alongside chief operating officer Kevin Roth and chief technology officer Yannic Kilcher.
They have all previously worked at Google, with Grnarova and Roth both having spells at Google Brain, while Kilcher was with Google AI Language.
In November last year, DeepJudge raised $41.2m in an oversubscribed Series A funding round led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Felicis alongside US technology investment management firm Coatue, at a $300m valuation.
Its seed funding round in June two years ago secured $10.7m, which that time was led by Coatue, with participation from notable angel investors such as Gokul Rajaram and Michele Catasta.
Harvey has also announced the launch of Command Centre, which is designed to give users greater transparency into agentic insights and intelligence recommendations, and to compare how other organisations are using AI systems.
Harvey chief product officer Anique Drumright told Legal IT Insider: “It’s designed to help with adoption. Where you need to provide support or training, this is a single place where you can go and see what adoption is like. Often, that’s very piecemeal.
“Now, we’re also providing anonymous benchmarking so our customers can see how they compare.”
Last month, UK Magic Circle firm Slaughter and May adopted Harvey’s AI platform on a worldwide scale to support the firm’s lawyers in areas including M&A, due diligence, regulatory research and document analysis.
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