Legal business software company Aderant and legal AI company Harvey today announced a partnership they are describing as \u201cmarket-defining\u201d for the way it will bridge the gap between software for the business of law and software for the practice of law.\u00a0 \u201cTogether, the companies will deliver the industry\u2019s first deeply connected ecosystem that unites AI-powered [\u2026]<\/p>\n
Legal business software company Aderant<\/a> and legal AI company Harvey<\/a> today announced a partnership they are describing as \u201cmarket-defining\u201d for the way it will bridge the gap between software for the business of law and software for the practice of law.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cTogether, the companies will deliver the industry\u2019s first deeply connected ecosystem that unites AI-powered legal work with work-to-cash operations \u2014 bringing unprecedented transparency, accuracy, and productivity to both the front and back office,\u201d the companies said in their announcement.<\/p>\n By integrating their software, the companies say, law firms using Aderant\u2019s financial management and work-to-cash products will receive enriched insights into the work performed in Harvey, ranging from drafting and research to review and analysis, while Harvey gets context back from the firm\u2019s Aderant products.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThis integration represents a significant step forward in how legal professionals manage both the practice and business of law,\u201d Chris Cartrett<\/a><\/u>, Aderant\u2019s president and CEO, said in a statement. \u201cHarvey is redefining how lawyers work. By connecting that intelligence directly into Aderant, we\u2019re giving firms the ability to track, manage, and measure that work with the transparency and precision law firms have always needed.\u201d<\/p>\n As of now, the integration has yet to be developed, but the partnership enables the companies to begin the development of the integration, they told me.<\/p>\n The companies say their partnership \u201cis the first to offer a deeply connected AI-to-business-of-law workflow that spans the full lifecycle of legal work \u2014 from initial drafting to time entry, matter context, billing insights, and profitability management.\u201d<\/p>\n I suspect the folks at Clio<\/a> might dispute that \u201cfirst\u201d assertion, given its announcements at ClioCon<\/a> in October about how its acquisition of vLex<\/a> and its Vincent AI would enable it to make obsolete the traditional division between software for the practice of law and the business of law.<\/p>\n \u201cThrough AI, we\u2019re bringing together the practice of law and the business of law to create an entirely new category of solution for you today \u2013 a single context-aware platform where one AI understands how the pieces fit together,\u201d Clio CEO Jack Newton said in his ClioCon keynote<\/a>.<\/p>\n I asked Aderant about this, and here is its reply:<\/p>\n \u201cAn integration of this kind has not historically been available to size and types of firms Aderant and Harvey serve. There are a number of point solutions on the market today, many of which offer integrations, but both Aderant and Harvey address high levels of complexity that enable the world\u2019s leading law firms to run a better business.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Regardless of who was first, this announcement will undoubtedly be seen as significant for those law firms that are customers of both Aderant and Harvey (or that plan to become customers of both).<\/p>\n\n
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