Aderant has announced a strategic partnership with Harvey that aims to reshape how law firms connect legal work with business operations. The agreement brings together Aderant’s business-of-law platforms with Harvey’s generative AI tools for legal professionals, creating what the companies describe as the first deeply integrated system spanning legal work and work-to-cash processes.
Aderant, a global provider of business management solutions for law firms, said the partnership is designed to give firms clearer visibility into how legal work translates into financial performance. Through the integration, Aderant’s financial management and work-to-cash tools will gain richer insight into the work carried out within Harvey, including drafting, research, review and analysis. At the same time, Harvey will receive contextual information from Aderant’s systems, linking legal activity to firm data.
The companies said this connection brings together the work carried out by fee earners with the information needed by administrative teams to manage firm performance, helping bridge a long-standing divide between legal practice and business management.
“This integration represents a significant step forward in how legal professionals manage both the practice and business of law,” said Chris Cartrett, President & CEO of Aderant. “Harvey is redefining how lawyers work. By connecting that intelligence directly into Aderant, we’re giving firms the ability to track, manage, and measure that work with the transparency and precision law firms have always needed.”
While many legal technology providers offer point-to-point integrations, Aderant and Harvey said their collaboration goes further by creating a connected workflow across the entire lifecycle of legal work. This includes everything from initial drafting through to time recording, matter context, billing data and profitability analysis.
“The future of legal technology is about making existing systems work together intelligently,” said Winston Weinberg, CEO of Harvey. “By integrating directly with Aderant, we’re bridging the gap between how lawyers practice law and how firms run their business — something no one else in the industry has achieved.”
The companies said the combined offering will benefit both legal teams and business operations. Lawyers will be able to work within AI-driven systems that understand the matters they are supporting, while administrative and operations teams will gain clearer and more accurate insight into work being carried out across the firm.
According to Aderant, the partnership responds to growing demand from law firms seeking to connect AI-driven legal work with the systems that manage billing, profitability and overall performance.
“Our clients have made it clear that as AI reshapes legal work, the next step is connecting that work to the systems that run the firm. This partnership is the moment where that transformation becomes tangible,” Cartrett added.
