How Filip & Company Scaled Knowledge and Transformed Client Service with Harvey

About Filip & Company

Filip & Company is one of Romania’s leading law firms, known for delivering high-quality legal assistance across all key business areas. The firm specializes in complex projects that demand innovative thinking, with strong expertise in, mergers and acquisitions, finance, energy, corporate, real estate, infrastructure and concessions, competition, capital markets, labor, data protection, consumer protection, environmental regulation, and high-stakes disputes and arbitration.

Opportunity

As business cycles accelerated and client expectations increased, Filip & Company faced a challenge familiar to many top-tier firms: how to maintain precision and speed while freeing lawyers to focus on the strategic work that truly moves the needle.

Many routine yet critical tasks—document review, due diligence, drafting initial versions of documents—required hours of manual effort. Knowledge often lived in silos, making it difficult to access or reuse firm-wide insights. Fragmented data and inconsistent workflows slowed collaboration, while the pressure to innovate without compromising quality or confidentiality continued to grow.

“There is a lot of power in AI, and we need to harness it well. We saw great lawyers spending far too much time on repetitive work, and AI can truly make a difference,” said Project Manager Andreea Pistea, who leads the firm’s digital transformation initiatives. “Our priority is to equip our people with top-tier resources that help them deliver outstanding work for clients and genuinely simplify their day-to-day tasks.”

Solution

Filip & Company selected Harvey for its legal-grade accuracy, enterprise-level security, and seamless integration with existing workflows. Under the leadership of Co-Managing Partner Alexandru Birsan, the firm launched a structured, multi-phase rollout designed to make AI a natural part of every lawyer’s toolkit—from research to client deliverables.

Since integrating Harvey, the firm estimates that lawyers save up to five hours each week, time that is now reinvested into strategic thinking, mentoring junior colleagues, and deepening client relationships.

Implementation Highlights

• Firmwide Onboarding: Harvey facilitated training workshops and monthly feedback sessions to build GenAI fluency and encourage rapid adoption.
• Centralized Knowledge Sharing: With Harvey Vault, the firm created customized knowledge libraries, turning institutional expertise into a searchable, living resource. A major upgrade—organizing more than 100,000 documents—helped streamline knowledge access for the entire team.
• Practice-specific Workflows: Litigation and corporate teams quickly embraced Harvey-built workflows, including Extract Key Data from Contracts, Extract Timeline for Key Events, Analyze a Court Transcript for Key Topics, and Translate from Another Language, all of which are now used daily.

Real Results Across Practice Areas

• M&A—Faster and More Consistent Deals: Harvey accelerates contract review and clause extraction for high-volume transactions, letting lawyers focus on negotiation strategy. Vault workflows are particularly valuable and easy to adapt to different deal structures.
• Litigation—A Clear Competitive Edge: The litigation team became one of the earliest adopters. They now rely on Harvey for rapid legal research, structured analyses, and for drafting or refining documents directly in Word. They use Harvey to generate contract clauses from meeting minutes, rewrite complex sentences, adapt filings based on prior case documents, and turn compliance tasks into practical checklists. In one dispute, Harvey uncovered information buried deep in a set of contracts, a discovery that helped the team identify evidence of fraud and significantly strengthen the client’s case.

“I find Harvey very useful in drafting quick replies to notices, analyzing extensive correspondence between the client and other parties and extracting the relevant data for the respective reply. It is also great at swiftly clarifying issues in highly technical cases. It basically takes away the noise and helps us focus on the relevant issues." – George Trantea, Litigation Partner

• Faster, Higher-Quality Drafting: Routine documents such as NDAs and engagement letters now take minutes rather than hours. In one instance, more than 100 notifications required before signing a SHA were drafted flawlessly and in record time using Harvey’s Draft from a Template workflow.

Impact

Harvey has transformed how knowledge is shared and how teams collaborate at Filip & Company. By breaking down silos and making expertise instantly accessible, the firm has seen measurable improvements:

• Significantly faster turnaround and higher-quality output
• Stronger collaboration across practice groups
• A clear competitive advantage in pitches and client retention

“AI is not about replacing lawyers—it’s about empowering them and enhancing their capabilities. By embedding Harvey into our client and business processes, we’ve created a culture where technology and human ingenuity work hand in hand. This allows us to deliver more tailored, strategic advice efficiently while creating a more dynamic and engaging environment for our team. The future of law lies in combining the best people with the best technology, and we’re proud to be leading that transformation in our region,” says Birsan.

For Filip & Company, Harvey is not just a tool—it’s a strategic partner that reshapes how the firm works, learns, and delivers value.