Harvey Adds Danish Legislation and its Preparatory Works Through Partnership with Djøf Forlag
Content covering consolidated acts, the executive orders issued under them, and amendments and preparatory documents
Today, Harvey announced a partnership with Djøf Forlag, one of Denmark’s most established legal publishers, to bring Danish legislation, executive orders and preparatory works into Harvey. Lawyers with a license to Djøf Forlag’s digital platform Jurabibliotek will be able to research and draft with the content alongside their own documents.
The content covers consolidated acts, the executive orders issued under them, and amendments and preparatory documents. Lawyers can move between a provision, the regulations that implement it, and the material showing what the legislature intended, with each answer citing its source.
The content can be used in Harvey Assistant, Agents, Vault, Workflows and Word Add-in, next to a team’s own notes, prior advice and matter documents. Example use cases include:
- Reading a provision against its intent: Checking what the preparatory works said when the provision was introduced.
- Moving from act to regulation: Following a statute to the executive orders that implement it.
- Advising from your own precedent: Drafting Danish-law advice from these sources and the firm’s own prior work.
Jurabibliotek’s legislative content will be available in Harvey at the start of next year, with no additional charge.
“Danish legal teams should be able to work with Danish law in the same place as the rest of their work. Djøf Forlag is one of the most established names in Danish legal publishing, and we’re pleased to bring its content into Harvey for the lawyers who rely on it,” said John Haddock, Chief Business Officer at Harvey.
“The partnership brings Danish legislation directly to Harvey’s clients in Denmark. For more than 65 years, Djøf Forlag has provided Danish legal sources through books and, more recently, Danish legislation through Jurabibliotek. Increasingly, we see high demand from our customers to make those sources available in AI-powered legal tech systems, so partnering with Harvey is a natural next step,” said Bjarke Madsen, Digital Director at Djøf Forlag.
“When we advise on a regulatory question, we start with the act, check the executive orders, and go back to the preparatory works when interpretation matters. With Djøf Jurabibliotek’s content in Harvey, we can do all of that alongside our own notes and prior advice, in the tool we already use to draft and review. That will make the work faster and more consistent,” said Christian Høyer Ørum, Executive AI Officer and Head of AI at Accura, which uses Harvey as its primary legal AI tool.
Djøf Jurabibliotek’s licensed content sits alongside the Danish public sources already available in Harvey, and follows Harvey’s data partnership with Gyldendal Rettsdata in Norway. The partnership also builds on Harvey’s work with Danish firms including Kromann Reumert, a leading Denmark-based law firm, which went live with Harvey across the firm earlier this year to scale research, drafting and review.
