Start writing your blog post...Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) has entered into a strategic alliance with Harvey AI, marking a significant step in adopting advanced technology within India’s legal sector. This collaboration places SAM among the leading firms embracing artificial intelligence to enhance legal service delivery.
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Integration Across Offices

SAM plans to roll out Harvey AI across all seven of its offices. An AI task force comprising Partners Naval Chopra, VR Neelakantan, Hemant Krishna, and Director of Information Technology Irshad Saifi—will oversee the integration. This deployment aims to improve efficiency in various legal processes, from drafting and contract analysis to legal research and due diligence, all while maintaining robust data security, rigorous prompt-engineering standards, and continuous human oversight to uphold client confidentiality and regulatory compliance.

Reflecting a Global Legal Trend

This move aligns SAM with a growing global trend among top-tier law firms. Since its landmark partnership with Allen & Overy in early 2023, Harvey AI has rapidly expanded to support more than 235 firms in 42 countries. Its recent partnerships with PwC and Ashurst underscore the legal industry’s growing trust in Harvey’s capabilities.

Harvey’s Roles and Capabilities

Built on OpenAI’s GPT-4 models and refined with extensive legal datasets—including case law, statutes, and treatises—Harvey delivers highly contextualized, accurate assistance tailored to legal workflows. It helps lawyers generate insights, recommendations, and predictions from vast data sets and offers advanced natural language processing for legal research, contract analysis, drafting support, and workflow automation.

Founded in 2022 by Winston Weinberg and Gabe Pereyra, Harvey has quickly emerged as a major player in legal technology, achieving a $3 billion valuation backed by $300 million in recent funding. Its expansion into contract lifecycle management and growing roster of elite law firm clients highlight Harvey’s potential to transform legal practice. With robust human oversight and Azure’s BYOK encryption, Harvey balances innovation with data security and compliance, making it a significant force in reshaping the legal industry.