Enhancing Legal Collaboration with Harvey's AI-Powered Shared Spaces
Iris Coleman Dec 04, 2025 15:17
Harvey introduces AI-powered shared spaces to enhance collaboration between law firms, clients, and partners, ensuring confidentiality and efficient legal processes.
Harvey, a pioneer in legal technology, has unveiled its latest innovation: shared spaces designed to bolster collaboration between law firms, clients, and cross-functional partners. This development aims to streamline legal processes without compromising confidentiality or process integrity, according to Harvey.
Real-Time Collaboration Built for Legal Work
The introduction of shared spaces allows firms to transform their expertise into collaborative experiences. By leveraging Harvey's AI-powered platform, law firms, clients, and even non-Harvey customers can collaborate securely, accelerating the timeline from initial requests to high-quality drafts. This platform provides a secure environment for sharing documents, insights, and expertise.
Firms can utilize shared 'Vaults' to enable clients to work alongside legal teams on crucial documents, providing a self-service option for accessing firm knowledge. Harvey's platform analyzes documents at scale, extracting terms and insights quickly to keep all parties aligned and moving efficiently.
Enhancing Legal Processes with AI
Harvey's shared spaces also include 'Workflows' and 'Playbooks,' which help automate processes while preserving human judgment and insight. Workflows allow clients to generate initial drafts for review, reducing back-and-forth communication. Playbooks provide repeatable guidance, packaging market intelligence and firm positions to strengthen negotiation outcomes.
All outputs, such as drafts and comments, can be shared as 'Artifacts' to ensure synchronization and accelerate review cycles. This modern, AI-powered client experience aims to deepen relationships, differentiate firms, and deliver legal work more efficiently.
Supporting Various Legal Scenarios
Shared spaces are designed to support various legal scenarios, including mergers and acquisitions, litigation, compliance enhancement, and corporate governance. For instance, in mergers and acquisitions, shared spaces facilitate the entire transaction lifecycle, from generating due diligence lists to closing deals with strategic alignment.
In litigation, shared spaces enable real-time collaboration on evidence analysis and strategy alignment. Compliance programs benefit from continuous intelligence loops, allowing teams to benchmark against evolving regulations and collaborate on enhancements.
Corporate governance teams can empower directors with the necessary tools for effective oversight, addressing the challenge of accessing dispersed information across board materials and corporate records.
Building Trust Through Technology
Harvey's shared spaces are built with enterprise-grade security and privacy controls, ensuring that cross-organization collaboration is secure and transparent. Firms can configure collaboration settings to require administrative approval, protecting proprietary knowledge while maintaining workflow efficiency.
By enabling firms and clients to collaborate in secure, AI-powered workspaces, Harvey aims to foster trust, transparency, and shared success. This approach allows legal work to proceed at the speed of business, with both sides aligned and well-informed.
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