US legal data and research provider LexisNexis and AI platform Harvey have announced a strategic alliance to integrate their technology to support legal workflows.

The alliance brings together two giants in the legaltech space, combining LexisNexis’s generative AI technology and legal content and Harveys legal-specific AI platform.

The partnership means Harvey users can ask LexisNexis’s AI assistant complex legal questions and receive AI-generated answers based on LexisNexis’s library of US case law and statutes, validated through its Shepard’s Citations technology.

Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO of LexisNexis North America, UK and Ireland, said: “Our strategic alliance with Harvey reflects our commitment to deliver the highest-quality answers and make legal work easier and more efficient.”

The two companies are also working on developing new Gen AI-powered workflows, including automated motion to dismiss arguments and related client communications, and automated motion for summary judgment drafting, both backed by LexisNexis’s legal research content.

Winston Weinberg, Harvey’s CEO, said: “Our customers trust LexisNexis for authoritative legal content, and we’re excited that they will benefit from LexisNexis capabilities. Together, we’re delivering seamless access to reliable, citation-backed answers and custom workflows, making legal work faster and easier than ever.”

Harvey has been adopted by law firms including Macfarlanes, A&O Shearman, Ashurst, CMS, Gleiss Lutz, Cuatrecasas, Reed Smith, Vinson & Elkins and O’Melveny & Myers.

Harvey has received financial backing from investors including Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, GV, OpenAI Startup Fund and Coatue. Last month, Reuters reported that Harvey was in advanced talks to raise more than $250m in fresh funding that would value the business at $5bn. It already raised $300m in funding back in February, at the time valuing the company at $3bn. LexisNexis also took part in that February funding round.

Earlier this month, the German Bar Association entered into its first AI partnership with German legaltech firm Bryter, offering AI tools to its 60,000 members at a discounted rate.

Meanwhile, a recent research report from Global Legal Post in association with LexisNexis underscored that European law firms are ramping up efforts to embrace AI to support service delivery and day-to-day workflows.

The Global Legal Post has teamed up with LexisNexis to help inform readers’ decision-making process in the selection of a Gen AI legal research solution.

Click here to download the report, Harnessing Gen AI in law – lessons from the front lines in Europe, and here to visit the Generative AI Legal Research Hub.