Addleshaw Goddard Picks Harvey, Fieldfisher Opts For Legora

As the number of large law firms that have not picked one or the other, or both, dwindles, Fieldfisher has opted for Legora, while Addleshaw Goddard has chosen Harvey – with an additional commitment to working with the AI platform to co-develop features they want to see built.

Kerry Westland (pictured), Partner and Head of the Innovation Group at Addleshaw Goddard, told Artificial Lawyer: ‘We will be working with Harvey to feed into the areas we want to improve. We want to help push the development of features for large-scale projects. We will work directly with their product dev teams.’

Westland noted that Harvey’s ‘matter spaces’ capability had been a key reason for doing the firmwide deal – which includes all staff and business services as well. She added that unlike some firms they won’t be doing a double-scoop and using Harvey and Legora at the same time.

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The internally-developed AGPT – their own AI platform that taps LLMs for legal needs – will continue, but may be used more in the future for testing, rather than as their main AI system.

Westland added that in terms of co-development, features that relate to areas such as matter orchestration would be of a particular focus.

Winston Weinberg, CEO and co-founder of Harvey, commented: ‘Addleshaw Goddard has been an AI leader for years. Now we’re working together to bring Harvey to its 3,400+ professionals and shape what comes next.’

Meanwhile, UK-based law firm Fieldfisher, which has 1,400 lawyers and staff, has picked Legora after a six-week pilot in which 137 users in the firm’s UK and wider European offices used the AI platform on their day-to-day work.

The rollout will be led by Fieldfisher’s AI hub at Fieldfisher X in Berlin, working with the firm’s AI Board, practice groups and local offices. Fieldfisher and Legora will focus on practice-specific use cases, role-based training, shared workflows and continuing enablement, they said.

Fieldfisher added that they ‘will also continue to invest in their own AI capabilities, including reusable prompts, playbooks, workflows, governance assets and client-facing legal products. This approach is designed to preserve the firm’s institutional know-how, maintain flexibility and build on the expertise and professional judgement of its lawyers’.

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