Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, one of Japan’s four largest law firms, has an exclusive partnership with Harvey, a global platform for generative AI solutions in the legal industry, becoming the first Asian-headquartered collaboration partner with exclusive access to an open-ended application programme interface.
Koichiro Iida, managing partner at Tokyo-based Mori Hamada, said: “We intend to further integrate cutting-edge technology into our practice by entering into a strategic partnership with Harvey … Our commitment to implementing AI across our offices enhances our legal services and adds value for our clients and our people.”
Mori Hamada says it will have access to Harvey’s innovative Vault product, which enables generative AI-enhanced large dataset reviews and will work with the company to enhance its services to clients by leveraging generative AI for document review, due diligence, drafting and research across geographies, practices and languages.
In April this year, Mori Hamada also struck a strategic alliance with LegalOn Technologies, a Tokyo-based developer and provider of software related to legal operations. The Japanese legal technology company said in a 9 April press release that its AI legal platform, LegalOn Cloud, would begin to feature legal content such as templates and guidance on M&A and international transactions prepared by Mori Hamada in summer this year.
Australia’s top tier law firms are rushing to adopt AI — but to what end?
Over the past year there has been a plethora of headlines about ‘big six’ and other elite law firms integrating AI into their operations. But is it more than just a marketing stunt?
Some are running, others walking, but pretty much every firm worth its salt in the Australian legal market is moving towards some form of generative artificial intelligence adoption.
The headlines over the past year underscore the point. From warnings that legal services jobs are among the most vulnerable in an AI revolution, to arguing that automation at scale is likely to increase profits and enable more junior lawyers to generate more client billings rather than get swamped in gruntwork.
Gleiss Lutz, as the first independent German law firm, has entered into a strategic partnership with Harvey. The decision follows a pilot conducted with over 125 lawyers. The generative AI platform will soon be available to all lawyers at Gleiss Lutz, reaffirming the firm’s pioneering role in legal tech and AI.
Harvey is backed by the OpenAI Startup Fund, Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins and is the leading and most trusted provider of AI solutions for the legal industry. Harvey can be used to analyze all types of documents and write and process text using natural language processing, machine learning and data analytics. Gleiss Lutz will use the AI platform for tasks that can be performed particularly efficiently and productively with the help of artificial intelligence, making Harvey another crucial component to the firm’s legal tech portfolio.
