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Vodafone pushes into legal tech market to co-develop AI platform. News Reporter Vodafone has partnered with an AI startup to co-develop a legal tech tool, challenging market heavyweights Harvey and Legora. The telecoms giant has teamed up with Aavalynx to co-develop an AI-driven litigation platform that helps manage and track legal disputes and forecast financial costs tied to these. The AI company told City AM the joint venture "gives enterprise legal and business leaders a real-time, unified view of their disputes portfolio, turning litigation from an unmanaged legal cost into a proactively managed financial risk asset." This comes as Aavalynx announced a £1.5m round of pre-seed funding on Tuesday for its legal tech platform. Aavalynx was founded in 2023 by chief executive Hanna Roos, a disputes lawyer with over two decades of experience in working on high-stakes legal disputes across sectors including the pharmaceutical industry, aerospace, and luxury art. News updates. Stay ahead with our three daily briefings delivering all the key market moves, top business and political stories, and incisive analysis straight to your inbox. Roos started her legal career at Freshfields, later moving to Latham & Watkins and then to Quinn Emanuel, before founding her own disputes-focused boutique law firm, Aavagard, in 2021. "Vodafone helped shape the platform, not just use it. As a co-development partner, Vodafone has given us their vision of innovative Aavalynx product features that serve in-house dispute teams well," Roos said. Harvey and Legora leading the market. The legal tech market is currently dominated by Harvey and Legora, and there are a host of startups across the space challenging the pair, such as Clio. Both Harvey and Legora have used advertising campaigns featuring well-known celebrities to drive interest. Jude Law fronts Legora's campaign, whilst Harvey recruited the actor who plays Harvey Spectre in the TV show Suits, after which the tool is named. However, Roos said that the current AI tools in the legal tech market, including the likes of Harvey and Legora, "by and large improve lawyer efficiency", but "efficiency is not good enough." "Generic LLM models cannot address the unique complexities of a sector like dispute resolution. The fact is that good tools make disputes efficient, but great ones make them disappear," Roos said. Vodafone was contacted for comment.

Turn your standards into stronger reviews. Build a review-ready playbook that's grounded in your contracts, precedents, and templates in minutes with Harvey's new playbook builder. by Harvey Team - Aug 4, 2026 Contracting teams spend more than 40% of their time on routine, low-complexity contract work according to research from EY Law. Playbooks should help reduce that burden, but building them has traditionally been a slow and manual process. Teams stall on setup and end up without playbooks for important agreement types, or create playbooks that quickly grow stale and no longer reflect how they actually negotiate. Harvey's new playbook builder builds a review-ready playbook from your existing standards, a corpus of past documents, or from scratch through a guided conversation. In minutes, teams can move from knowledge scattered across documents and individual lawyers to a working standard that supports faster, more consistent first-pass reviews. Build from your standards in minutes. Most tools treat a playbook as static configuration with a form you fill in, one rule at a time. Harvey treats it as a living artifact you build, leveraging your existing playbooks, marked up contracts, a Harvey-curated template, or from scratch. Harvey analyzes your sources, asks clarifying questions, and drafts rules while a side-by-side panel shows the playbook taking shape in real time. For example, an in-house team building an MSA playbook can provide its standard template and executed agreements and Harvey can then identify the team's preferred liability cap, preserve common fallback positions, and surface outlier terms for confirmation instead of requiring lawyers to author every rule manually. As it works, Harvey applies the methodology Harvey's legal engineers and in-house product lawyers developed while building more than 300 customer playbooks, including how to weigh different inputs, reconcile conflicting precedents, and translate them into rules that produce useful review output. Capture how your team actually negotiates. A useful playbook does more than just identify acceptable and unacceptable language by capturing what lawyers do when a term falls between those extremes. Harvey's playbook builder helps teams build a playbook from existing materials or from scratch, then encode their preferred positions, fallback language, guidance, actions, conditions, and escalation paths. A data processing rule, for example, can direct Harvey to flag nonstandard breach notification terms for privacy counsel rather than automatically redlining them. This turns individual know-how into a team-wide standard. More reviewers can handle routine agreements consistently, while the right issues are still escalated to the lawyers with the relevant expertise or authority. Strengthen every rule with confidence. Quality controls are built into the playbook creation process: Harvey can surface coverage gaps, make rules more specific, and suggest fallback positions. Each rule includes a summary, explanation, and citations to the source documents behind it, helping playbook owners review and approve it quickly. Once the playbook is ready, you can run it against contracts in Word or the Harvey web app for consistent first-pass reviews. As your standards evolve, you can tell Harvey to update a fallback, liability cap, or escalation path instead of rebuilding the underlying rules manually, making it easier to keep your review guidance current. For Carvana, scaling playbooks with Harvey reduced drafting and review time by 80%. By making standards easier to apply at scale, stronger playbooks help legal teams apply their standards consistently across greater contract volume and focus lawyer attention on the terms that require judgment. Ready to see it in practice? Contact your account team or visit harvey.ai to get started.

:Harvey: appoints Steve Zad as Chief Revenue Officer. by Harvey Team - Aug 4, 2026 Harvey today announced the appointment of Steve Zad as Chief Revenue Officer, strengthening the company's leadership team as it continues expanding globally and adoption of the Harvey platform accelerates across legal and professional services. Steve joins Harvey from Rubrik, where he helped scale the business from $50 million to $1.5 billion in ARR, led a world-class GTM organization, and guided the company through its 2024 IPO. Steve joins Harvey at a pivotal moment in the company's growth. Q2 marked a milestone quarter for Harvey, with the company adding more than $100 million in ARR as legal and professional services organizations around the world accelerated their adoption of Harvey across critical workflows. As Chief Revenue Officer, Steve will partner closely with Chief Business Officer John Haddock to continue strengthening Harvey's global GTM organization, helping scale the company as it expands its platform, grows its global customer base, and deepens its impact across legal and professional services. "Harvey is entering an exciting new phase of growth," said Winston Weinberg, CEO and Co-Founder of Harvey. "The value we're delivering to customers and the pace of innovation across our team continue to accelerate. Steve has an exceptional track record, and his leadership will be instrumental as we continue to scale globally." Steve's appointment reflects Harvey's continued investment in building a world-class leadership team. Other executive hires in 2026 include Rachel Hepworth as Chief Marketing Officer, Anique Drumright as Chief Product Officer, Brooks Evans as Chief Information Security Officer, and Keith Enright as Chief Strategy Officer.