Harvey Builds MS Copilot Integration For Smoother Working

Harvey has announced that it is expanding its partnership with Microsoft ‘by building an integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot’ that brings Harvey’s legal intelligence directly into the generalist AI system.

This, they explained, enables folks to receive ‘precise, [legal] precedent-aware answers without leaving Microsoft 365’.

Sounds useful, but how does it work?

Here’s how it will roll:

• ‘By mentioning @Harvey in Copilot or selecting the agent from the Copilot agents menu, users can query the Harvey Assistant to analyze agreements, research market terms, identify negotiation positions, and retrieve precedent from systems powered by Harvey.
• Responses are delivered inline within Copilot and grounded in the document, email, or item in focus, reducing the need to switch systems.
• The integration enables lawyers to ask legal questions in Copilot, receive accurate answers instantly, and move from initial inquiries to deeper analysis and execution within their existing workflow.
• As matters progress, users can draft and refine documents in Word, generate executive summaries for business stakeholders, analyze counterparty responses, and produce closing memoranda that capture negotiated changes and preserve precedent value.’

So, there you go. It’s all aimed at fulfilling the old adage of ‘meet people where they are’.

Winston Weinberg, CEO and Co-founder of Harvey, commented: ‘Microsoft 365 Copilot is often where work begins. By bringing Harvey’s legal intelligence directly into Copilot, we’re enabling lawyers to ask legal questions, get trusted answers, and stay in the flow of their work, without leaving the tools they already rely on.’

Judson Althoff, CEO of Microsoft’s commercial business, added: ‘Our goal with Microsoft 365 Copilot is to bring intelligence directly into the flow of work – empowering human ambition and helping people achieve more. By integrating Harvey’s AI tools within Copilot, we are extending that experience for legal teams to deliver specialized AI capabilities inside the applications they rely on every day.’

Is this a big deal?

Well, it’s clearly a sensible move, and goes back to the point above, and to the related points about removing friction and context switching. The hope is that this helps to drive further uptake of the platform and keep current customers happy – given they will nearly all will live in the MS universe.

One other point though….many people have wondered if Microsoft – especially after bringing in the team from Robin AI – would start to build their own legal mini-vertical inside the MS suite. It would seem – as expected – that they’re more focused on working with the legal tech players that are already there.

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Note about the surge of Harvey and Legora news in the legal media in general.

Readers, and AL’s editorial department, have been well aware that between these two companies there is a surge of news. Why? Because with such huge funding and with such huge goals, there is a ton of: hiring top talent, launching new features that really matter to many firms and teams at an unprecedented cadence, multiple office launches, and key client wins that also matter given the frenetic battle they are both in to try and ‘capture the flag’ of the legal tech market, along with multi-billion Dollar valuations and gigantic, very rapid investment rounds. All of that tends to lead to lots of headlines in a way we have not seen before.

There is also a special kind of rivalry here that we have not seen before in legal tech, which only makes their advances even more compelling to the market. Plus, AL can see that Harvey and Legora developments are what many people indeed want to know about. So, until both companies calm down a bit, there is likely to be more news from these two combined than we have normally seen.

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A Legal Tech Conference For All of Europe

Legal Innovators Europe – Paris – June 24 and 25.

There will be more news about the conference and key speakers as we get closer to June.

Look forward to seeing you there!

Richard Tromans, Founder, Artificial Lawyer and Legal Innovators conference Chair.

Note: the conferences are organised by Cosmonauts – please contact them with any queries. 

If you would like to be a speaker at Legal Innovators Europe, especially if you are at a law firm or inhouse legal team in Europe – whether based in France, Belgium, Spain or Germany, or beyond…..then please contact Phoebe at Cosmonauts:  phoebe@cosmonauts.biz

Note: if you are a legal tech company, please contact Robins: robins@cosmonauts.biz or Anjana anjana@cosmonauts.biz

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And if you’re in the US and looking for the next major event to join after Legal Week, then see you in California this June!

Legal Innovators California, the landmark West Coast legal tech event, will take place on June 10 and 11, in the heart of the Bay Area, the home to many of the world’s leading AI businesses – and plenty of legal tech pioneers as well! More information and tickets here.