How Syngenta Uses Harvey to Save 3.6 Hours Weekly Per Lawyer

Syngenta Group, a global agricultural science company with 56,000 employees across 90+ countries, faced mounting pressure to manage complex legal workloads spanning regulatory compliance, contract work, and board governance across dozens of jurisdictions without proportionally growing its legal team or external counsel spend.

In September 2024, Syngenta partnered with Harvey to pilot AI-powered legal assistance with 50 lawyers. The rollout was structured around weekly AI training clinics and an internal Legal AI Scouting Team to drive peer-led adoption. Success metrics tracked from day one included satisfaction scores, time savings per lawyer, and reductions in external spend.

Lawyers applied Harvey across a broad range of high-volume tasks: contract drafting, compliance surveys, board meeting summaries, regulatory research, and document review. Power users quickly reached 6+ hours saved per week, while the programme average settled at 3.6 hours weekly across all participants.

After six months, the results were clear and measurable. Every lawyer gained $18,000 in annual productivity, and 100% of participants reported savings on external counsel fees. Group General Counsel Lars Benecke summarised the impact: In just six months, Harvey delivers 3.6 hours a week back to every lawyer, $18,000 in annual productivity per person.