CRS -> Harvey; Dentons -> Legora; DLA -> Newcode – Artificial Lawyer

The legal genAI market cake continues to get sliced up. The latest legal AI cake slices include: Charles Russell Speechlys has chosen Harvey; Dentons in Europe has chosen Legora; and DLA Piper in the Nordics has picked Newcode. And here is why each firm chose those vendors.

Charles Russell Speechlys (CRS) said they did a bake off with five vendors, with 45 staff involved ‘comprising a balanced representation from across transactional, disputes and advisory practices to ensure they were testing tools for varied purposes. Each vendor demonstrated their product and provided trial access to their tools over the course of a week’.

They explained that use cases were derived directly from the firm’s experience with its current generative AI tool, highlighting the most prevalent and impactful tasks in fee earners’ daily work, such as drafting, summarisation, document review, legal queries and translation. Ease, accuracy and speed were also evaluated, and each vendor was also allocated an overall score, with over 6,000 individual pieces of feedback captured across the process.

AL asked Joe Cohen, Director of Advanced Client Solutions at CRS, some more.

Aside from efficiency in general, what specifically are the benefits of bringing in Harvey?

It is mainly the efficiency benefits. Some firms have decided to add client-facing solutions on top of Harvey, whereas we are developing our own separately. I would say though that Harvey is significantly more powerful than our existing solution, so it’s not just a continuation of what we had before but an improvement with lots of new functionality.

Please tell us more about the bake off. 

The bake off went very smoothly all things considered. We ran five sessions per provider, 25 sessions in all across the three days, and participants had access for a few extra days to submit their feedback. The nine criteria we used were in the press release, but to give you more detail on e.g. the Drafting use case, we had 6 sub questions there. For example, “how effectively does the tool generate draft text according to the prompts used? Does the tool use appropriate legal terminology and clear language in drafted documents?” as one question (with responses / 10 for each provider), or “how well were you able to modify the tone / audience of the AI’s response? (e.g. draft in favour of the Buyer)”, or “how well does the tool draft long text?” 

Each of the pilot participants is a superuser of our existing platform, i.e. they are using the tools on a day to day basis for their legal work currently, and so they are very well placed to be able to judge good or bad responses of each vendor to the above questions. They were also encouraged to ask the exact same questions to each vendor for consistency, and ultimately it was left to their individual judgement and then aggregated.  

When do you expect that using Harvey and other AI tools will change how the firm runs its many workflows? 

We already had around 25 legal AI workflows in production or development in our existing platform and we expect this to increase rapidly, particularly as we move from what we have called bots (i.e. a series of prompts in the system that can output in a specific format like a word document) to agents (that we define as being able to carry out structured actions across multiple systems).

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And Dentons has chosen Legora for its European offices.

Using Legora, Dentons lawyers will be able to quickly and efficiently complete high volume end-to-end tasks, including searching, reviewing, drafting, and editing thousands of documents, as well using its agentic capabilities to securely carry out research within both internal and external legal databases, they said.

Wendela Raas, CEO of Dentons Europe, said: ‘This partnership with Legora underscores our continued efforts to be a leader in AI development and adoption. Rolling out the platform across our European teams will give our lawyers a considerable head start on time-intensive tasks, and the improved speed and efficiency will allow them to spend more time delivering the quality legal advice that our clients truly value.’

Max Junestrand, CEO and founder at Legora, added: ‘Collaboration lies at the heart of everything we do at Legora, and we’re proud to be supporting Dentons with its AI journey as a close and valued strategic partner, driving real impact for both legal professionals and their clients.’

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And DLA Piper has chosen Norway-based Newcode.ai for its Nordic offices, (Sweden, Norway and Finland).

The collaboration marks a significant step forward in the firm’s innovation agenda, targeting complex legal workflows with intelligent, adaptive systems designed to enhance legal service delivery at scale, the global law firm’s regional HQ said.

The initiative is focused on delivering measurable outcomes: faster turnaround times, improved accuracy, and enhanced client value, while maintaining robust data security. By embedding AI agents into core legal processes, DLA Piper aims to increase agility and resilience in a rapidly evolving legal landscape. 

This initiative is not like traditional vendor relationships. A Newcode team member will be embedded within DLA Piper’s Nordic offices, working side-by-side with legal professionals to design agentic workflows tailored to real-world legal challenges, they added.

Maged Helmy, CEO at Newcode, told AL: ‘The partnership between Newcode.ai and DLA Piper is clear validation that leading firms want more than off-the-shelf AI, they’re seeking intelligent systems that deliver a real competitive edge. That’s why they turn to Newcode.

‘We’re committed to practical, lasting innovation, and together with DLA Piper, we can set a new benchmark for AI-driven legal workflows across the industry.;

Magnus Oskarsson, Country Managing Partner at DLA Piper in Sweden, said: ‘This partnership is about building capability, not just capacity. We’re not just adopting a tool; we’re creating something new together.’

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So, there you go. Three firms, three legal genAI companies, each with a lot to offer.

There are – depending on which way you count things – around 200 to 400 large-scale law firms around the world where bagging a multi-user deal would be significant for a legal AI platform.

I.e. there are only so many, and the cake is not unlimited – the world is not creating new major commercial law firms on a weekly basis. You can of course aim for smaller law firms, but that means less ‘seats’ and less revenue per firm (thus potentially higher costs per sale), even if logically that is where all the platforms will have to expand eventually if they want to push up customer volume. (The other path is to bring in more corporates, but that is by no means an easier sell than engaging with law firms.)

In short, every large firm won, or every regional part of a large firm won, is another slice of the finite legal AI market cake. After all, if you have Harvey for a range of AI productivity needs you may perhaps not also buy Legora and Newcode, and a bunch of others – and of course vice versa.

You can find more info here about the three companies :

Legora

Harvey

Newcode.ai

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