Harvey and LexisNexis Join Forces to Deliver Citation-Backed Legal AI and Advanced Workflows

Legal AI Platform Harvey Partners with LexisNexis to Integrate Content and Technology

Harvey, a generative AI startup focused on legal services, has formed a strategic partnership with LexisNexis Legal & Professional. This alliance will bring LexisNexis’ generative AI technology, primary law content, and Shepard’s Citations directly into the Harvey platform. Together, the companies plan to develop advanced legal workflows aimed at improving efficiency for legal professionals.

Through this partnership, Harvey users will gain access to LexisNexis Protégé, an AI legal assistant launched earlier this year. Users will be able to pose questions in natural language and receive AI-generated answers that are firmly grounded in U.S. case law and statutes, with validation provided by Shepard’s Citations.

The integration promises a smooth research experience, allowing users to refine queries with follow-up questions and continue their work seamlessly. The answers provided will be supported by LexisNexis’ fine-tuned AI models, leveraging proprietary infrastructure and technologies such as Shepard’s Knowledge Graph and Point of Law Graph.

What This Means for Legal Professionals

Legal practitioners using Harvey won’t need a separate LexisNexis Protégé subscription to access U.S. primary law and Shepard’s Citations within the platform. This will provide reliable, citation-backed information directly during their workflow, making legal research and drafting more efficient.

The companies are also collaborating on new AI-driven workflows to further assist legal work. Initial efforts will focus on:

• Motion to Dismiss Workflow: Automates generation of arguments and related client communications for motions to dismiss, using LexisNexis research content.
• Motion for Summary Judgment Workflow: Facilitates drafting of summary judgment motions supported by relevant legal research.

Development of these workflows has started, though no release dates have been announced yet.

Strategic Value and Growth

Harvey’s CEO highlighted the long-standing trust lawyers place in LexisNexis for authoritative legal content. By integrating LexisNexis data and AI capabilities, Harvey aims to deliver dependable, citation-supported answers and practical workflows that make legal tasks faster and simpler.

Founded in 2022, Harvey has quickly gained attention as a leading AI startup in the legal sector. Reports indicate it is currently negotiating a funding round that could value the company at $5 billion, a significant jump from its $3 billion valuation just months ago.

Previously, Harvey planned to develop its own legal research tools in partnership with OpenAI, covering U.S. law and expanding to other jurisdictions. The company now emphasizes a combined approach of building and partnering to meet the fast-changing demands of legal professionals. The alliance with LexisNexis brings well-known, trusted data sources into Harvey’s AI platform.

This collaboration signals growing interest in integrating generative AI with established legal content providers to deliver practical benefits for legal teams.