Revamped Harvey AI platform remembers lawyers’ 'individual preferences’
Harvey AI has launched a new generation of its artificial intelligence platform, which now boasts the ability to learn and retain how individual lawyers work.
Harvey announced Tuesday that Harvey II includes Memory, which the company built after hearing from lawyers across the industry that they didn’t want to start from scratch every time they used the platform. Memory works across Harvey, Microsoft Word and Microsoft Outlook, and it retains lawyers’ drafting style, chosen structure for citations and other preferences.
“That’s particularly important in legal work because how the work gets done matters: Two lawyers can approach the same assignment differently, and those individual preferences and ways of working are incredibly valuable,” Anique Drumright, the chief product officer at Harvey, said in an email. “Instead of repeatedly explaining those preferences or spending time reshaping outputs afterward, Harvey can start closer to the way that lawyer actually works.”
Harvey spent the past six months conducting listening tours, embedding with legal teams, and creating Memory alongside a cohort of global law firms and in-house legal departments.
“One of the most powerful unlocks is in its ability to understand how we each work, not just respond to what we ask,” said Michelle Mahoney, the chief innovation officer at Australia-based Mallesons, which partnered with Harvey on Memory, in a statement. “Personalization like this makes AI feel like a genuine extension of our lawyers, rather than just another tool.”
She added that by capturing their preferences and writing style, Memory also allows them to better reflect the needs of their clients and include them in their workflow.
Among its other updates, Harvey II includes Spaces, a matter- and project-centric shared area where lawyers can store and find documents, tasks, permissions and the history of their work in one place. In the future, its Memory capability will apply across matters and Spaces, as well as entire firms and legal departments.
“When lawyers can spend less time sharing their preferences, they can spend more time applying their judgment and expertise to the client’s most important questions,” Drumright said. “And because Harvey can increasingly understand both how a lawyer works and the context of the matter, it can help legal teams deliver work that is more responsive and better aligned with how they serve each client.”
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