MAPLES and Calder, the Maples Group’s law firm, has announced that it is going to expand its collaboration with Harvey AI, the OpenAI-backed legal AI platform, in a move intended to enhance its legal and professional services for the benefit of clients.
Following a pilot of generative AI among a sandboxed group of senior lawyers and professionals, the firm is now deploying Harvey to more than 140 global partners and a select group of senior professionals to explore how the technology can deliver better outcomes for clients, while enhancing the work experience for its people.
The Maples Group recently held its annual flagship event, The Maples Investment Funds Forum, attended by over 350 international lawyers and investment professionals. A key theme of this year’s forum, which included a fireside chat with Suril Patel, VP of partnerships at Harvey AI, was generative AI.
Harvey, a secure generative-AI platform for professional services, brings together engineers from the best AI research labs and lawyers from the most prestigious firms in the world to develop cutting-edge, specialised models that enable secure generative-AI workflows and research for lawyers. The technology is designed to enable teams to take a creative and ambitious approach to enhance legal service delivery in respect of existing workflows and in the delivery of new capabilities to benefit clients.
Ireland managing partner Peter Stapleton, who sponsors the Maples AI project, said, “The Maples Group has always valued and invested in innovation, advising at the cuttingedge of today’s laws and regulations to help our clients to be at the forefront of what they do. We have increasingly harnessed technology to deliver superior services to our clients and we invest heavily in LegalTech and RegTech solutions. Having been one of the first firms to start working with Harvey in late 2022, I’m excited that we are now taking our AI journey to the next level. And I look forward to many more conversations with our clients and partners in the industry as we work together to unlock the potential of this technology.”
Global managing partner Jonathan Green added: “Generative AI will transform how we deliver legal services, but it will never replace our lawyers. The most effective work that we do in the future will combine the best of both people and technology. And, in fact, our people’s legal expertise, business acumen, and client trust will matter more, not less.”
Harvey co-founder Winston Weinberg said: “We are proud to partner with the Maples Group, who share our vision of using generative AI to enable lawyers to take legal services to the next level. They have been a key collaborator in assessing and developing our platform, and we look forward to working with them to discover new opportunities and outcomes for their clients and lawyers.”
A core team of the firm’s lawyers and technologists have worked with Harvey since late 2022 when the platform was still in beta. The firm established a carefully structured and sandboxed pilot, following a thorough risk review, limited to using only internal data and documentation, and with all output supervised by senior staff.
