Avvoka, the drafting automation platform, has formed a partnership with Harvey, and it’s also just launched ‘Curate’, which ‘turns a law firm’s transaction documents into a gold-standard template’.
Harvey has been forming a lot of partnerships recently, e.g. yesterday one with DeepL for translation. Now, here’s one with Avvoka. They noted that the move ‘combines domain specific legal AI with a deterministic drafting engine to ensure that a firm’s precision and judgement are included on every draft’.
In terms of how it will work, they explained that ‘with Avvoka connected, legal teams starting their work in Harvey can draft within the standards the firm has already set. A lawyer can start from the firm’s approved template, draft with the matter details in place, draw on the clauses the firm has approved, and carry the document through negotiation – all without leaving Harvey’.
Next is the new Curate capability. They stated that: ‘Curate helps firms create templates in hours, which is a radical improvement from the state of play: template creation currently takes months of knowledge management and partner time, and only provides a limited impact.’
And they added that all this activity follows a £14m investment in March this year.
David Howorth, Co-founder of Avvoka commented: ‘A firm’s edge has never been how fast it can draft. It’s the judgement inside its best work, built up over years of market leading deals and negotiated positions.
‘That judgement has always lived in the firm. Curate is the first time a firm can put it to work on every matter. What you end up with is a knowledge asset that gets sharper and scales with every deal.’
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Is this a big deal?
Well, the latest Harvey partnership deal is perhaps an indication that the major legal AI platforms are becoming ‘centres of gravity’ for legal tech, with many point solutions now seeking to build alliances with them. I.e. you have to be where your customers are working.
As to Curate, the move makes sense, and the goal of turning old documents into valuable templates is of course a well-travelled road and has seen many legal AI companies work on solutions for this. If Avvoka can indeed reduce the process to a few hours and the results are ‘golden’, then this will be of interest to many firms and inhouse teams. Of course, the proof will be in the template pudding.
More about Avvoka here.
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