Syngenta Group’s Legal team didn’t simply “experiment” with AI — they implemented a structured, measurable, and globally scalable program.
Within just 𝘀𝗶𝘅 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘀 of partnering with Harvey, the team achieved:
⬩2× increase in active users
⬩3.6 hours saved per lawyer, per week
⬩6+ hours saved for power users
⬩$18,000 in annual productivity gains per lawyer
⬩100% report reduced external counsel spend
These results were achieved through a disciplined rollout: targeted training, weekly AI clinics, defined KPIs, and a Legal AI Scouting Team sharing best practices globally.
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It's not a choice anymore. If you compare a lawyer using an AI tool and a lawyer not using an AI tool, there will be a growing difference in terms of productivity, creativity, and it has to be part of the journey now. Legal operations is a strategic pillar. It's really an enabler, a partner of the legal department. We are here to enable the business and the better and the faster we can do that, the better for the organization. I think this is a situations that most of the multinational face today, right. But it's true that in our world as a biotechnology company, we have a lot of regulations. There is a lot of pressure on the shoulder of the lawyers, right? It's it's a very work intense. Lawyers in the regions, they have to deal with lots of different topics and they cannot be expert in everything. In addition to that, there is pressure on cost. We started investigating tools like Harvey AI. It's clearly a tool created by lawyers for lawyers and that makes a difference. We have now run 85 users and the results were really impressive. We realized that the estimate time saved for our 40 users in six months was of 360 days and for the estimated. Legal spend, we had a reduction of $400,000. For us it was a lot. The use cases for Harvey is evolving. At the beginning it's used for a lot of contract review, drafting of position papers, reviewing cases. But as lawyers are getting better and using it and and more trained, they, they use it for also litigation, they use it for challenging themselves. The results we've seen using Harvey is that there's clearly an increase in productivity. So a gain of time, we started with 25 hours per week and then we grew to 3.6 already within six months and I'm convinced it's still has grown. This is a huge impact because it means more time for lawyers to focus on strategic work. And we've seen also more and more work being insourced from law firms. So instead of sending everything to a law firm, people do the pre work. And one of the leaders was explaining. Last time that she reviews everything with Harvey first, so she knows exactly what the discussion point is going to be with their law firms. And so it's much more efficient in terms of time and in terms of cost, of course. And that's a great help. There is a clear mindset shift and there is an evolution, so the more we use a tool, the better we get at it. I was reflecting with colleagues yesterday. Was it? Do you remember when we didn't have AI? And it's it's, it's just a bit more than a year ago when I have years ago, but it seems like ages ago. O what will be our life in one and half years? I don't know. Certainly very different.
