In this Aderant product demonstration, Neil Cameron, lead analyst at Legal IT Insider, is joined by Austin Brick, senior business development specialist at Aderant, who walks us through the first release of the company’s integration with Harvey – AI-automated activity capture and time entry generation in iTimekeep Premium – which Brick confirms is now generally available and in use at client firms.
The premise, as Brick describes it, is that lawyers should stay in the tool they have been trained on. The work in the demonstration happens entirely in Harvey: querying across a set of documents, reviewing the draft it produces, refining and redlining. iTimekeep is present throughout but not visible. Brick characterises it as a faceless engine sitting behind the work rather than an interface the lawyer has to attend to.
At the point the lawyer decides the work is billable, a submit-time button hands it across. What crosses the boundary, Brick says, is not merely a record that thirty minutes were spent in Harvey but the context of what was done, how, and over what period – enough, on his account, to identify the matter and support a narrative. Recording time alone, he argues, is no longer sufficient.
Once the entry lands in iTimekeep, MADDI suggests a narrative and the phase and task codes, trained not towards a well-formed sentence but towards a submission that survives an e-billing vendor and gets paid. The Onyx rules engine then validates the entry, and Brick describes it warning or erroring where an outside counsel guideline is in play – including, he notes, guidelines from institutional clients that restrict the use of AI in drafting time cards. Both the engine’s contribution and the user’s edits are retained, which he links to auditability demands coming from firms internally and from their clients.
Asked about the reduction in e-billing rejections the company has cited, Brick puts the range at fifty to seventy-five per cent, varying by firm and practice area, and drawn from client case studies.
The session also covers iTimekeep’s other capture points – Zoom, Teams, iManage, NetDocuments and Outlook – the wider Stridyn platform, and what is coming next: automatic submission without the button, and Harvey consuming Aderant’s rules and AI engine so that narratives can be validated inside Harvey’s own interface.
Watch the full demo below to see the Aderant–Harvey integration in action.
This product demonstration is part of Legal IT Insider’s commercial TalkingTech suite of offerings. To find out more, message [email protected]