Customer Story
How KMSC Uses Harvey
to Tackle Complex,
Multi-Document Analysis
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Todd Strang
Corporate Commercial Transactions, Partner (Technology & Process)
About KMSC
KMSC Law LLP is a full-service law firm with more than 100 years of experience, serving businesses, individuals, and municipalities in the Peace Country region of Canada. The firm has a strong commitment to client service—offering expertise in corporate commercial law, personal injury, real estate, and estate planning. With a diverse range of practice groups, KMSC looks to incorporate advanced technologies into its tech stack to increase the quality and efficiency of its legal work.
Opportunity
While KMSC had purchased other AI tools, they were limited in scope or catered to specific practice areas. This limited the tools’ adoption and applicability across the firm. KMSC has always been at the forefront of adopting new technologies to improve its operations. Recognizing the power of more versatility, the firm looked to Harvey to offer more use cases across every practice area.
Solution
With Harvey being used across both commercial and litigation practice areas, lawyers are using it to gain quick insight into their current transactions or cases.
KMSC lawyers gravitate to Harvey for its simple interface and ease of use. To ensure every lawyer understood the power of Harvey, the team scheduled additional prompt engineering training.
“The Harvey team is proactive and seeks out feedback early in the process,” said Todd Strang, Corporate Commercial Transactions, Partner (Technology & Process). “This will enhance our ability to successfully integrate Harvey as one of our key tools in our analysis and drafting processes.”
Impact
Since adopting Harvey, KMSC has seen marked improvements in efficiency and productivity across both commercial and litigation practice areas. Harvey now saves lawyers at KMSC at least 3-5 hours per week, with some power users saving up to 10 hours per week.
“Harvey assists with preliminary tasks such as brainstorming, formulating questions, and validating analysis in an expedited fashion—offering every lawyer a solid starting point versus starting with a blank page,” says Lori Pollock, Business Manager.
KMSC lawyers have used Harvey across the following areas:
Commercial Document Review
Harvey analyzes hundreds of documents, creating chronologies and surfacing insights across complicated transactions.
Discovery Questioning
Harvey helps litigators develop lines of witness questioning so they can spend more time on case strategy.
Transcript Review
Harvey reviews and summarizes raw transcripts, finding inconsistencies in testimony and gaps in opposing party’s arguments.
Drafting Responses
Harvey helps lawyers write and revise emails to other lawyers or clients, cutting down communication time.
Strategy Development
Harvey helps lawyers brainstorm new arguments and validate analysis, offering a solid jumping off point for new assignments.
“I used Harvey to review key agreements related to an M&A transaction,” Strang said. “Harvey reviewed the agreements and schedules comprising hundreds of documents. I was able to generate tables comparing key elements across multiple documents, flag potential issues of concern and draft complex clauses that were beneficial to our client. I estimate Harvey saved me 10 hours just this week.”
KMSC’s use of Harvey has improved efficiency, productivity, and legal service quality, reinforcing their commitment to innovation and delivering top-tier client results. With the time saved from Harvey, KMSC lawyers are using the time back to work on other client matters, build deeper client relationships, work on professional development, and achieve a greater work/life balance.