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What did you do during the data wars, kid?<\/em><\/p>\n

That\u2019s more or less how someone in the far-flung future will talk about legal technology in 2025. Or we\u2019ll all be driven extinct by SkyNet. One or the other. <\/p>\n

As generative AI continues its march into the legal workflow, the flurry of press releases increasingly focus on data access. At the risk of oversimplifying the market, advancements in the underlying algorithms are going to stagnate<\/a> and providers have already announced their investment in building better guardrails so the next logical leap for the technology is pairing it with better data. And so that\u2019s the current scramble.<\/p>\n

Harvey<\/a> is an AI platform designed for legal professionals, LexisNexis<\/a> is a vast repository of data and years of categorization and curation\u2026 they fight crime!<\/a><\/p>\n

In all seriousness, a while back, Harvey wanted to build a legal research solution<\/a> and LexisNexis worked on an AI solution<\/a>. Now they\u2019re joining forces.<\/p>\n

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Within Harvey, customers can ask LexisNexis Prot\u00e9g\u00e9\u2122 to receive comprehensive, trusted AI answers grounded in the LexisNexis collection of U.S. case law and statutes, validated through Shepard\u2019s\u00ae<\/sup> Citations. Harvey users can ask complex legal questions in natural language and receive citation-supported answers from primary sources of law, refine their queries through follow-up questions, and seamlessly continue their research. Answers are generated using LexisNexis fine-tuned models within a proprietary infrastructure that anchors responses in legal content, metadata, and case law relationships, powered by Shepard\u2019s\u00ae<\/sup> Knowledge Graph and Point of Law Graph technology.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Now Harvey users have the data and LexisNexis can deliver its product through a platform delivering AI to lawyers across use cases.<\/p>\n

Why isn\u2019t this just an acquisition like when Thomson Reuters bought Casetext? Unclear. The many tentacled LexisNexis corporate octopus has money in Harvey so it wouldn\u2019t be crazy to bring it all under one roof. And despite the alliance talk, it seems as though this will eventually create redundancies. Artificial Lawyer asked that question outright<\/a> and was told by LexisNexis North America, UK, and Ireland CEO Sean Fitzpatrick, \u201cWho knows where this will go?\u201d<\/p>\n

Pretty sure the answer is some kind of merger. <\/p>\n

The deal also includes a tease for some workflows getting the robo-treatment:<\/p>\n

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Harvey and LexisNexis will also develop sophisticated legal workflows built on the latest generative AI technology. These co-developed workflows will initially include:<\/p>\n