How Mușat & Asociații Traded Research Hours for New Matters

Key Highlights

• Romanian business law firm with a presence across Timișoara, Bucharest, and Cluj-Napoca
• Fragmented knowledge management, repetitive drafting, and time-intensive document review made manual workflows unsustainable as the firm grew to three offices
• With Harvey, GDPR and NIS2 compliance research starts with a shorter first pass, so attorneys reach the applicable provisions faster
• Contract review begins from a mapped document, with Harvey flagging structural and clause-level issues during initial scans
• Harvey returns three to six hours to each attorney every week, increasing the volume of cases the firm can take on

About Mușat & Asociații

Mușat & Asociații S.C.A. is a full-service Romanian business law firm with offices in Timișoara, Bucharest, and Cluj-Napoca. Its lawyers and consultants fall under the Litigation and Consultancy departments, which together cover corporate and commercial law, employment, M&A, regulatory compliance, IP and data protection, and debt recovery. The firm operates a one-stop-shop model alongside the Mușat & Partners group companies in tax, accounting, insolvency, and EU funds.

An accredited RNPM (National Registry of Movable Property) operator, Mușat & Asociații combines legal expertise, strategic insight, and operational efficiency to help clients navigate complex business environments.

Opportunity

Guidance and enforcement practice change frequently in the firm's compliance work, especially across the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and NIS2 (Network and Information Systems Directive 2) matters it addresses.

Prior to Harvey, Mușat & Asociații’s lawyers started each research session from scratch. This meant fragmented knowledge management, repetitive drafting, and time-intensive document review. As the firm expanded geographically and diversified its services, maintaining consistent quality across every practice area grew increasingly difficult.

"Operational inefficiencies began to affect turnaround times, especially for high-volume corporate and commercial work. Cross-office collaboration also became more difficult," says Alina Mușat, Managing Partner at Mușat & Asociații. "The volume of due diligence and regulatory work expanded as well, making manual review unsustainable."

Client expectations for speed, precision, and digital delivery intensified, and the demand for the firm's integrated advisory services increased. Legacy tools were unable to support the firm’s growth trajectory. The team needed a new platform with centralized knowledge management that could support scalable, multi-disciplinary service delivery.

Solution

Harvey sits at the front end of matters across Mușat & Asociații’s compliance, transactional, and litigation work. It compresses the time spent on first pass regulatory research, contract review, and document organization, and helps the firm retain consistent formatting across all of its documentation. Each of the firm’s attorneys is now saving three to six hours per week, in turn reducing the required time to deliver substantive legal analysis to clients.

Research on Frameworks That Keep Moving

Harvey shortens the initial research phase across GDPR and NIS2 matters. Attorneys reach the applicable provisions faster thanks to Harvey’s integrated public data sources. Time that once went to searching for files now goes to verifying and applying relevant provisions that govern a client's position.

This shift is most evident across the firm’s NIS2-related work, where legislation and enforcement practice are still developing.

"Harvey has been most useful in accelerating the research phase on unfamiliar or fast-moving regulatory questions," says Dumitrița Cucerenco, Attorney at Mușat & Asociații. "Rather than starting from scratch, I get a fast first orientation to the framework."

First-Pass Contract Review

On contract advisory work, Harvey flags structural and clause-level issues. This shortens the review cycle on higher-volume matters, while the Word Add-In helps attorneys maintain consistent formatting across contracts and compliance manuals.

"The judgment calls still sit with me, but I start from a mapped document rather than a blank one," says Cucerenco. “The volume and variety are exactly where Harvey excels. Its ability to address the repetitive layers of the workflow is what allows me to spend more time on the analysis and judgment each matter actually requires.”

Organizing the Factual Record

Prior to implementation, Cucerenco did not expect to use Harvey within the firm’s litigation practice.

Today, disputes lawyers at the firm use Harvey to handle the organization and summarization of documents pertaining to litigation matters with large factual records. The time-consuming reviews of lengthy scanned documents are no longer blockers to the legal analysis phase, and the firm’s attorneys can easily build a coherent timeline.

Impact

Results

• Harvey returns three to six hours to each attorney every week
• The firm gained the capacity to take on additional client matters
• Regulatory research now starts from a contextually informed orientation

Harvey returns meaningful time to each of Mușat & Asociații’s attorneys every week, and the gain concentrates at the front end of a matter.

GDPR and NIS2 questions no longer warrant extensive manual file searches. Document review and drafting processes both start from mapped material. Review cycles are shorter on higher-volume matters, and litigation files arrive organized enough to build a timeline against.

By freeing up attorney bandwidth across the firm, Mușat & Asociații is now able to take on additional cases.

Consistency across offices is where the firm points Harvey next. "Harvey's role is to become a strategic enabler of our expansion — a platform that strengthens operational consistency, accelerates knowledge transfer, and supports scaling across new markets," says Mușat.