:Harvey: In Practice: How to Turn Precedent into Tailored Drafts in Minutes
In this episode of Harvey In Practice, see how to upload precedent directly in Harvey and generate revised contract clauses, faster.
Oct 14, 2025
Harvey Team
Harvey In Practice is our series where legal experts show real workflows in Harvey in action. In this episode, Juan Pablo Sandoval Celis, Strategic Business Development Lead at Harvey and former Associate at Creel, Garcia-Cuellar, Aiza y Enriquez, walks through using Harvey to revise contract clauses based on precedent.
For most lawyers, drafting is a continuous process of recycling, adapting, and refining language from prior deals. But even when strong precedent exists, surfacing and reusing it often means digging through past documents, copying clauses, and switching between multiple tools. It’s slow, manual, and risks missing the nuance in what’s already been negotiated.
Harvey eliminates the need to switch contexts or search through old files by enabling lawyers to draft directly from uploaded precedents. The result is faster drafting, stronger continuity across deals, and a clear audit trail that preserves institutional knowledge.
Faster Drafting, Rooted in Your Winning Language
To get started, upload previously negotiated agreements into Harvey. These become the foundation for your next draft, ensuring Harvey is working from language your team already trusts.
Next, start a new thread which should include three components: the action, the context, and the desired output. Here’s what that looks like for the example above:
- Action: “Examine and revise a specific litigation representation.”
- Context: “We’re representing the company in a merger and uploading similar agreements.”
- Desired output: “A table of revised versions labeled from most conservative to most aggressive with explanations and citations for each change.”
In this case, Harvey then returns a side-by-side comparison of drafting options, each with an explanation of the rationale and footnoted references back to the original precedent. The citations are clickable, so you can preview the source language or jump directly to it in the uploaded agreement.
You as the lawyer still make the final judgment call, but with Harvey, the heavy lifting is already done — and every revision is anchored in precedent.
Want to draft faster while staying anchored in trusted precedent? Contact our team to see how Harvey can support your organization.