Harvey has agreed a strategic partnership with UK-based AI legal drafting platform Avvoka, combining the legal tech giant’s expertise with Avvoka’s document engine.
The partnership allows legal teams to draft from their own firm’s bespoke templates that are powered by Avvoka within Harvey’s AI platform, making it easier to incorporate approved clauses and details. This means a document can be carried through the full case process without having to leave Harvey.
Avvoka is a legal document drafting and automation platform, that helps lawyers with tasks including using AI to identify document variables and clauses, and transforming existing legal precedents into templates.
Nate Schlein, head of product business development at Harvey, said: “Lawyers shouldn’t have to choose between fluent drafting and the certainty of a firm-approved standard.
“With Avvoka connected to Harvey via the Model Context Protocol, they get both, without ever leaving Harvey.”
David Howorth, co-founder of Avvoka, said that Harvey has built a drafting experience that is a “a real step change” in how AI contributes to legal work.
He said: “We add the other half. Generative AI is right for the genuinely ambiguous parts of a draft, and a drafting engine like Avvoka is right for the parts that aren’t – templates, clause libraries, structured fallbacks, all in the firm’s own style and voice. That now runs deterministically inside Harvey.”
Winston Burt, director of legaltech and practice innovation at Ropes & Gray, said: “We work closely with both Avvoka and Harvey, and it’s good to now bring them together so our lawyers can benefit from Harvey’s AI capabilities and Avvoka’s drafting engine while drawing on our own experience and know-how.”
Avvoka has also recently launched Curate, which helps law firms organise existing legal documents and precedents.
The London-based firm was founded in 2016 by Howorth alongside director Eliot Benzecrit.
They both began their careers at Magic Circle law firms, with Howorth a trainee solicitor at Linklaters and Benzecrit an associate at Slaughter & May.
In March, Avvoka secured £14m in financing in a round led by UK billionaire couple Mark and Lindy O’Hare via their private investment firm Valhalla Ventures. They founded financial data company Preqin, and subsequently sold it to multinational investment firm Blackrock for £2.5bn last year.
The collaboration with Avvoka is the latest in several partnership agreements Harvey has secured.
In May, the legaltech giant announced an alliance with Swiss legal AI intelligence start-up DeepJudge. Its platform also enables legal teams to integrate their previous work and decision making into Harvey’s workflows, helping lawyers to research, draft and analyse with AI.
That followed a partnership arrangement alongside Anthropic with Intapp in March, who specialise in compliance, risk and client lifecycle software for law firms, covering areas such as conflicts checking.
This week Harvey unveiled its next generation platform Harvey II, that brings together four main features including AI lawyer personalisation tool Memory.
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