Media release: Clayton Utz adopts Harvey in next step of AI journey

Harvey will empower Clayton Utz lawyers with advanced agentic AI capabilities to streamline complex and time-intensive legal tasks, including contract review, document drafting, due diligence, data extraction, and summarisation.

The announcement coincides with Harvey opening its first Australian office in Sydney, reinforcing its commitment to the Australian market. 

Clayton Utz Chief Executive Partner Emma Covacevich said the partnership marked a pivotal moment in the firm’s AI evolution:

'Partnering with Harvey keeps us at the forefront of legal innovation, and takes our already highly successful AI program to the next level,' Ms Covacevich said.  

'Harvey’s legal-specific AI capabilities will allow our lawyers to deliver services more efficiently, faster and in more depth while maintaining the highest quality standards.  Our lawyers will be able to focus more on higher-value strategic advice and client engagement.'

Simon Newcomb, Partner and Head of AI at Clayton Utz, elaborated on Harvey’s impact:

'Harvey’s platform gives us significant efficiencies in labour-intensive document review and drafting tasks, it enhances our ability to extract critical insights quickly and it helps us to maximise the benefit of the firm's knowledge resources.'

'The platform allows our legal teams to create customised AI-enabled workflows supporting specific client and firm requirements. That's important for us to provide AI offerings differentiated from our competitors.'

'Clayton Utz is among the first tenants in Harvey's new secure AU environment with all storage and processing taking place in Australia, allowing the firm to use Harvey without creating data sovereignty concerns about data going offshore.'

'Having tested Harvey extensively in a pilot involving over 100 lawyers across practice groups, offices and levels of seniority, the overwhelmingly positive feedback confirms Harvey's potential to transform how we work.'

Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg said:

'We are honoured Clayton Utz chose Harvey after such a rigorous pilot and evaluation phase, and we are thrilled to share this news alongside our office launch in Sydney. The firm has a stellar reputation, and we are honoured to be part of their AI transformation.'

'From investing in data processing within Australia to building out a team and office here, we are committed to growing in this region and to ensuring our customers are set up for long term impact and success.'