It’s the end of another busy legaltech week and here are a few of the stories you need to know about.
In a big advance for Harvey and iManage customers, Harvey this week announced an integration with iManage, allowing legal teams to connect Harvey’s legal reasoning capabilities directly to the iManage platform.
The integration will enable Harvey users to access documents from within iManage and return Harvey-generated work product back to the iManage platform. This inevitably reduces content duplication and manual uploading and downloading and maintains content security.
“iManage is where much of the legal world’s knowledge lives,” said Winston Weinberg, co-founder and CEO of Harvey. “By launching this integration, we are meeting our shared customers where they already work, further embedding domain-specific AI into core legal workflows.”
Shawn Misquitta, EVP of product management at iManage said: “Success with AI starts at the foundation — with an organization’s own data that’s organized, governed and secured. That’s exactly what the iManage platform delivers at global scale. Combined with our dynamic partner ecosystem, we enable organizations to apply AI responsibly in ways that truly drive business outcomes.”
Elsewhere Flank, a Berlin-based company building an autonomous AI legal agent for enterprise teams, on 5 June announced a $10m funding round led by global software investor Insight Partners (backers of Clio and DarkTrace), and a partnership with leading international law firm Simmons & Simmons.
Flank’s AI agent reviews, drafts, and red-lines key legal documents and answers company-wide legal and compliance questions. Unlike chatbots or copilots, Flank’s autonomous agents can resolve requests at the point of need — operating inside the tools already in use, like email, Slack, and Microsoft Teams.
Simmons & Simmons has integrated Flank’s agent to deliver faster legal services for their clients. “Autonomous agents aren’t the future, they’re already here, and they’re transforming how we work,” said Lucy Shurwood a partner at Simmons & Simmons. “Through our partnership with Flank, we’ve embedded agents that deliver legal outcomes end-to-end. We’re launching agents that handle the drafting, review, and negotiation of NDAs, DPAs, service agreements, IMAs, and more. These agents are live, in production, and already delivering real impact for our teams and our clients.”
Flank supports global enterprises across the US, Europe, and MENA, including DeepL, SumUp, TravelPerk, QA, PROS, and Lusha.
Last but not least as we slide into the weekend, we’ve got a mover and shaker for you. Tiama Hanson-Drury this week joined London-headquartered litigation software provider Opus 2 as chief product and technology officer. She was chief product officer at banking subscription management company Minna Technologies.
“Tiama’s experience in both high-growth start-ups and enterprise businesses, paired with her strategic approach and results-focused mindset, makes her the perfect fit for Opus 2,” said Greg Blackman, CEO at Opus 2. “Her leadership will be instrumental as we continue investing in AI, advancing our platform, and pursuing our vision.”