Harvey and LexisNexis Launch AI Agent That Drafts Motions to Dismiss End-to-End

Harvey has released a motion-to-dismiss drafting agent built jointly with LexisNexis, compressing a task that typically consumes 40 to 50 associate hours into a review-and-approve loop that resolves in hours. The workflow is the first concrete product to emerge from a strategic alliance the two companies announced in June 2025, and it signals that their partnership is moving beyond data licensing into co-engineered litigation tooling.

Harvey has spent the past two years positioning itself as the infrastructure layer for AI-native legal work, attracting large law firm clients and raising capital at a valuation that has made it one of the most closely watched companies in legal technology. The LexisNexis alliance accelerated that trajectory by giving Harvey access to primary law content and Shepard's Citations without requiring the firm to build or license a competing legal database. The earlier Ask LexisNexis integration embedded citation-backed answers directly in Harvey's interface; the motion-to-dismiss workflow is the first tool that uses those research capabilities inside a fully automated drafting pipeline. The timing matters: litigation-focused AI tools are one of the most competitive segments in the market right now, with rivals including Westlaw's AI products, CoCounsel, and a growing list of point solutions all targeting early-stage motion practice.