Eversheds Sutherland (International) has chosen Harvey for its legal AI platform, as the battle continues with Legora to take market share among the leading law firms across the planet.
The ‘International’ part of the huge firm is: UK, France, Ireland, Germany and Benelux, Middle East, and Asia. That is around 1,700 lawyers, plus trainees, who will have access to Harvey. The move follows the news that Eversheds Sutherland in America has formed an ‘AI-centric’ US Innovation Department, led by Senior Director Katrina Dittmer.
An initial cohort of 350 lawyers will have access to Harvey with immediate effect, with full rollout across the International business commencing in May 2026, they said.
In terms of the US side of things, Eversheds told AL that: ‘Our US team uses several enterprise-level tools designed to enhance legal research, drafting, analysis, and internal productivity. Additionally, Eversheds Sutherland US is continuously assessing new technologies as they emerge.’
Platform War – Why Each Win Matters
Both Harvey and Legora have received $100s of millions in growth capital investment. They need fresh revenue like a lawyer coming up for review needs more billable hours….and so every major law firm win matters, especially as these will usually be for multi-year deals and there are not that many huge firms on the planet that can supply so many revenue-generating seats all in one go.
Such deals – not always, but usually – also shut out rivals that offer similar broad offerings; as why have hundreds of seats with multiple platforms doing the same thing?
In short, at least for players at this scale and those that are so massively VC funded, winning Eversheds matters, so too all the other large firms that have not yet declared one way or the other.
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Keith Froud, Co-Global CEO and International CEO, Eversheds Sutherland, commented: ‘Eversheds Sutherland was an early adopter of legal AI, having embedded it into various products over 10 years ago. When GenAI legal assistants were launched a few years ago, it was our view at that time that the technology had not yet reached the level of maturity required to deliver meaningful benefits.
‘Having completed a comprehensive trial of Harvey over the past few months, we are now confident that the time is right to make this significant investment across the International business to sit alongside our other legal tech tools.
‘Every client I speak to is talking about GenAI and how we can work together to harness the potential of the technology. 2026 will be the “Year of AI” for the firm, fully embedding it across all aspects of our client service offering, and we are excited by its potential and further developments, such as agentic AI, to drive further strategic growth.’
And, Rachel Broquard, Service Excellence Partner, Eversheds Sutherland, added: ‘Our legal GenAI pilot phase, in partnership with Harvey and our 350+ lawyers and selected clients, produced clear benefits to help our people and technology to work together….We look forward to embedding Harvey as an essential work tool for all our lawyers and trainees over the coming months.’
Winston Weinberg, CEO of Harvey, concluded: ‘Harvey is honoured to be part of Eversheds Sutherland’s investment in AI and the firm’s ‘Year of AI’ initiative. We look forward to supporting their team on the International rollout and appreciate their thoughtful and forward-thinking approach to leveraging AI for impact.
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