Axiom’s Lawyers On Demand + Clients Get Harvey Access

Axiom, which pioneered the ALSP field and today has a potential total bench of 14,000 lawyers on demand – who work at ‘50% lower rates than top law firms’ – has added Harvey to its tech stack, which its lawyers, and also its clients, can now use. Although, it’s worth mentioning that this tech stack also includes, according to its website, arch rival Legora, as well as DraftPilot, among others.

Axiom calls the stack its ‘AI Tech+Talent portfolio’, so inhouse legal teams that work with Axiom can now access Harvey, while its on-demand lawyers ‘are fully trained on Harvey and adept at applying its features across a wide range of use cases’, they said. Although, how they’ve trained so many 1,000s of lawyers is not known to this site. But, no doubt plenty of them have got up to speed. It’s seems likely that it will be a relatively small sub-set of the total for now. Yet, that can grow.

They added that the deal has three key components:

• ‘Harvey-Ready Talent, from Day One: For clients already using Harvey – or just kicking the tires – Axiom can deploy legal talent who know the platform, can help test capabilities in real workflows, and can integrate seamlessly into a client’s Harvey environment.
• Adoption Built Around Real Work: Axiom helps clients embed playbooks and processes into Harvey and train their teams through co-work on live legal matters, in a model that preserves confidentiality and privilege.
• Better Collaboration on Complex Matters: Axiom helps clients use Harvey Shared Spaces to collaborate securely and unbundle large, complex matters, dividing work across in-house teams, AI, ALSPs, and law firms in the most cost-effective, results-oriented way.’

C J Saretto, Chief Technology Officer at Axiom, commented: ‘Selecting the right tools is only part of the equation. To unlock real value, legal teams need to embed their standards and processes into these tools, train their teams up to a new way of working, and rethink how work is shared across in-house teams, law firms, and ALSPs. That is where Axiom can help.’

Is this a big deal?

First, it’s nice to see Axiom in the news in relation to AI. After the group split into different parts some years ago we haven’t heard that much about the tech side of the on-demand group.

But, the move makes sense, whether it is with Harvey, or with another well-known platform. Why? Because the clients are going to expect the lawyers which they bring in – usually for short to medium term gigs – to have a good understanding of AI tools. As that is how they work now.

Which in itself is a sign of the times. I.e. clients of Axiom clearly must have been asking about legal AI tools, so here we are.

Plus, the point about using Shared Spaces is also noteworthy, as that is all about collaboration, and thus the more enterprises that use it the better for Harvey, as they’ll encourage their external advisers to use it as well to manage work projects.

And as Axiom notes on its website, they have a potential bench of around 14,000 lawyers globally and now serve more than 1,500 legal departments worldwide. In short, that’s a lot of lawyers working in the enterprise world – and that’s a very useful constituency to have using your product. Of course, they won’t all be using any particular platform at any time – what they use will all be down to the customer’s choice. But, any additional engagement here certainly helps.

More about Axiom here.

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