Partnership
4 stories
Who is deploying whose technology, and inside which firm.
DeepJudge opens AI handoff protocol, Harvey in beta(deepjudge.ai)
DeepJudge has published Agent Handoff Protocol, an open specification that lets one AI product pass a user's goal, files, chat history and prior output to another so a task carries on instead of restarting. Harvey says its implementation enters beta this month, and Thomson Reuters has stated support without committing to a date or a scope. For firms the practical stake is switching cost: if the protocol takes hold, moving between legal AI tools mid task stops meaning re-uploading documents and rebuilding prompts, which weakens single-vendor lock-in at renewal time.
PartnershipDeepJudge, Harvey, Thomson Reuters1 source
Harvey wires PacerPro docket data into litigation work(harvey.ai)
Harvey and PacerPro have integrated so that litigation teams working in Harvey can reach their firm's own filing history alongside live state and federal dockets. PacerPro captures filings and their documents as they post and ties each one to its case and matter, which turns a new filing or order into something that can trigger work rather than something somebody has to notice. For litigation groups the pitch is that the court event, the matter context and the firm's prior work arrive in the same place.
PartnershipHarvey, PacerPro3 sources
Kinstellar picks Laurel AI to automate lawyer timekeeping(legaltechnology.com)
Kinstellar has picked Laurel AI to capture billable time automatically for roughly 400 lawyers, with the rollout starting in early autumn and an upgrade to the Aderant Sierra finance system following later in the season. Firm leadership told Legal IT Insider the aim is to cut daily timesheet work from a few hours to 10 or 20 minutes and to shorten the time to cash cycle. This is a selection with deployment still ahead, not a system already in production, so treat it as a buying signal rather than a results story.
PartnershipKinstellar, Laurel AI, Aderant1 source
Reed Smith and Lineal team up on AI-led investigations(reedsmith.com)
Reed Smith Legal Solutions and legal technology provider Lineal announced a collaboration to run corporate and regulatory investigations as a data analysis problem rather than a conventional eDiscovery exercise, using generative AI, analytics and visualisation across enterprise data. The two say they have spent the past year developing the approach together. No product, pricing, client, headcount or launch date is named, so for now this is a direction of travel for buyers of investigation services rather than something anyone can purchase.
PartnershipReed Smith, Lineal1 source