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Harvey

Legal name
Counsel AI Corporation
Headquarters
United States
Founded
2022
Website
harvey.ai
Stories
21
Llm platformDraftingResearch
U.S. FEDFunding

Harvey acquires AI sales platform Aida, its fifth acquisition of 2026

Legal AI company Harvey has acquired Aida, an AI sales execution platform founded in 2024 by Glean co-founder Piyush Prahladka and former Patreon engineering leader Atish Das Sarma. Aida's search and machine-learning team joins Harvey's product and engineering organization to help law firms build their own ontologies and a context layer for AI agents. Terms were not disclosed. The deal follows Harvey's purchases of Benchmark in July and Guardails in September.

Announcement (Artificial Lawyer) → · Legaltech News
U.S. FEDProduct launches

Anthropic adds prebuilt legal Artifacts to Claude for Legal, including tools from Harvey, Goodwin and Foley

Anthropic has launched Claude for Legal Artifacts, a gallery of prebuilt, editable legal workflows such as cite checking, jurisdiction surveys, playbook deviation boards and regulatory horizon scans. Partner-built Artifacts include Harvey Intake, Goodwin's AI Governance Benchmark and Foley & Lardner's Obligations Checker. The company also announced an access-to-justice program and a Legal Ambassadors Program for builders, extending the Claude for Legal offering it launched in May.

Announcement (Artificial Lawyer) → · Legaltech News, The Economic Times (Reuters)
U.S. FEDProduct launches

Latham partners with Harvey to build AI fund formation product

Latham & Watkins is working with Harvey to develop an AI-enabled fund formation product that will sit as a separate offering within Harvey's suite, the firm said on October 27, 2026. Targeting side letters, subscription documents and limited partnership agreements, the tool could later be marketed to other firms, though without Latham's market intelligence. There is no release date.

Announcement (Law.com) → · Legal Business
SWEDENFunding

Legora raises $550 million Series E at $8.8 billion valuation

Swedish legal AI company Legora said on October 21, 2026, that it raised a $550 million Series E round at an $8.8 billion valuation, led by Atreides Management. The company said annual recurring revenue has passed $200 million and that it will use the money to expand in the U.S. and develop Legora aOS, its agentic AI operating system.

Announcement (TechCrunch) → · Legaltech News, Legal Business, The Lawyer
U.S. FEDProduct launches

Harvey adds Midpage connector for U.S. case law and statute research inside Harvey Assistant

Legal AI platform Harvey on October 19, 2026, added a connector to Midpage, an AI legal research service covering U.S. case law, statutes, regulations and agency materials. Built on the Model Context Protocol, it lets joint customers run Midpage searches from Harvey Assistant threads and receive cited sources in the final output. The connector is in Harvey's Connector Library and requires a Midpage subscription.

Announcement (LawSites) → · Artificial Lawyer
UKProduct launches

Hogan Lovells Cadwalader signs Harvey and Legora deals in firmwide AI strategy

Hogan Lovells Cadwalader on October 16, 2026 unveiled a firmwide AI strategy that pairs agreements with both Harvey and Legora with its own ELTEMATE tools, a new AI Board and a Commercial Unit. Legora said the firm will roll out its platform across the Americas, EMEA and APAC after a pilot with more than 1,300 lawyers, while Harvey said its platform is in use across corporate, litigation and regulatory groups.

Announcement (The Lawyer) → · Hogan Lovells Cadwalader, Legora, Harvey
U.S. FEDProduct launches

Microsoft launches Copilot for Legal with more than 20 legal skills in Word and Cowork

Microsoft launched Copilot for Legal on October 15, 2026, adding more than 20 legal-specific skills to Microsoft Copilot for contract review, drafting, obligations tracking and case chronologies in Word and its agentic Cowork workspace. Plugins from more than two dozen legal technology partners, including Harvey, Legora, iManage and Relativity, begin rolling out through Microsoft's plugin registry.

Announcement (Artificial Lawyer) → · The Lawyer, LawSites

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U.S. FEDProduct launches

ArentFox Schiff retires AFSChat chatbot after adopting Harvey and Copilot

ArentFox Schiff has decommissioned AFSChat, its internally developed generative AI chatbot, after concluding it had become redundant, according to Legaltech News and LegalTech Digest. The firm concluded third-party tools Harvey and Microsoft Copilot better met its standards. AI work continues under FoxAI, a framework the firm announced in August that combines proprietary tools and licensed third-party platforms.

Announcement (Legaltech News) → · LegalTech Digest, ArentFox Schiff
U.S. FEDProduct launches

Harvey and LexisNexis launch co-developed agentic motion-to-dismiss workflow

Harvey has released a Motion to Dismiss drafting workflow co-developed with LexisNexis that plans dismissal grounds, researches U.S. primary law through LexisNexis and Shepard's Citations, and drafts a fully cited motion after lawyer approval of the strategy. Harvey says the work commonly takes associates 40 to 50 or more hours; a Motion for Summary Judgment workflow is planned next.

Announcement (Harvey) → · Artificial Lawyer
JAPANProduct launches

Harvey partners with Legalscape to put Japanese law research on its AI platform

Nikkei Asia reported on October 2, 2026, that Japanese legal-tech company Legalscape will make its proprietary Japanese law research tool available on Harvey's AI platform. The tool lets Harvey users query Japanese statutes, case law and licensed legal publications, with summaries tied to source references. LegalTech Digest reported that Legalscape works with more than 40 publishers and serves more than 3,000 clients.

Announcement (Nikkei Asia) → · LegalTech Digest
N.Y.People moves

Pierson Ferdinand surpasses 300 partners in AI-enabled partner-only model

Pierson Ferdinand said on September 29, 2026, that it has passed 300 partners globally less than three years after its January 2024 launch, a milestone Artificial Lawyer also reported. The distributed firm has no associates and said it embeds AI tools including Harvey in place of junior leverage; it named five partners who joined in September in Columbus, London, Chicago and Atlanta.

Announcement (Pierson Ferdinand) → · Artificial Lawyer
CANADAFunding

Ontario Teachers’ invests $50M in Harvey, extending round to $600M

Teachers’ Venture Growth of Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan invested US$50 million in legal AI company Harvey on September 24, 2026, The Globe and Mail and Canadian Lawyer reported. The tranche extends Harvey’s Diffusion and Lightspeed round from US$550 million to US$600 million at the prior US$15.5 billion valuation. Harvey said it works with more than 100 Canadian law firms and legal teams and will grow its Toronto staff.

Announcement (CNW/PR Newswire) → · Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, The Globe and Mail, Canadian Lawyer +1
U.S. FEDProduct launches

Harvey launches US, UK, and Australia pro bono program with major-firm design partners

Harvey launched a dedicated pro bono program in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia on September 22, 2026, Artificial Lawyer and LawSites reported. First-phase design partners are senior pro bono leaders at Ashurst Perkins Coie, DLA Piper, and Nelson Mullins; Harvey will build custom agents for high-volume casework, dedicate legal engineering support in the US and UK, and plans a later free-access pilot for frontline legal services organizations.

Announcement (Artificial Lawyer) → · LawSites
U.S. FEDFunding

Harvey raises $550M at $15.5B valuation and buys Guardrails AI

Harvey announced a $550 million funding round at a $15.5 billion valuation on September 9, 2026, co-led by new investors Diffusion and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Existing backers including Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins and a16z participated, alongside new investors Sapphire Ventures and Whale Rock. Harvey also said it acquired San Francisco agent-security startup Guardrails AI, its fourth acquisition of 2026, on undisclosed terms.

Announcement (Harvey) → · Reuters, Artificial Lawyer, Legal IT Insider +1