How Repsol Uses Harvey to Save 4–6 Hours Per Lawyer Per Week
Repsol is a global multi-energy company operating in over 20 countries with a legal division of more than 200 professionals across 12 jurisdictions. After deploying Harvey across its entire legal department in 2024, Repsol achieved 96% adoption, reduced contract clause review time by more than 90%, and each lawyer now saves 4–6 hours per week—time that flows directly into strategic work and professional development.
Impact
96%
Harvey adoption rate
4–6 hours
Hours saved per lawyer per week
90%+
Contract clause review time reduction
8 weeks
Pilot duration before full rollout decision
200+
Legal professionals covered
Challenge
With 200+ lawyers across 12 countries managing high-volume contract review, compliance work, and litigation preparation, Repsol’s legal team lacked the capacity to shift from routine task execution to strategic advisory—each clause review alone consumed 30–60 minutes of senior lawyer time.
Solution
Repsol deployed Harvey AI and Harvey Vault across its entire legal department, starting with a 50-lawyer pilot in January 2024 and completing the full rollout by April 2024, embedding the platform in daily workflows for contract review, redlining, knowledge management, and litigation strategy.
Tools & Technologies
What Leaders Say
“Harvey has been a significant achievement for our legal department. Its implementation positions Repsol’s lawyers at the forefront of our profession’s digital transformation.”
“It’s not about saving time. It’s about gaining time for what matters.”
“If I left Repsol and joined a company without AI, I’d be stepping back in my career.”
“Harvey enhances our capabilities. It allows us to do more, faster, and better.”
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Full Story
When Pablo Blanco Perez became General Counsel at Repsol in 2023, he set an ambitious agenda: not just to run a competent legal department, but to build one capable of leading rather than following the digital transformation reshaping professional services. Repsol operates across the full energy value chain—exploration, production, and renewables—serving 24 million customers in more than 20 countries with 25,000 employees. Its legal division, spread across 12 countries with over 200 professionals, was the target of a company-wide initiative called the Protea Project.
Before AI, the department operated the way most large in-house teams do: lawyers handling a high volume of routine tasks, including contract review and analysis, that absorbed time better spent on strategy. A single contractual clause review could take 30–60 minutes. Analyzing large volumes of past agreements for negotiation patterns was a project, not a workflow. The department was capable, but bandwidth was the ceiling.
In late 2023, Repsol conducted a rigorous blind evaluation comparing Harvey, Microsoft Copilot, and Lexia, its own internal AI prototype. Harvey consistently outperformed the alternatives on complex legal tasks. A pilot launched in January 2024 with 50 lawyers across 12 jurisdictions, and after just eight weeks, the results were decisive: Harvey was faster, more accurate, and better suited for the specialized demands of in-house legal work. By April 2024, Repsol signed for a full rollout.
Two years into deployment, Harvey is embedded in daily legal workflows—open on one screen while Word is open on the other, as one lawyer described. The compliance team reduced clause review time from 30–60 minutes to a few minutes—a reduction exceeding 90%. Harvey Vault allows the team to extract insights from entire libraries of contracts and regulatory rulings in minutes rather than days. During one litigation matter, Harvey modeled the probable court decision—and the prediction proved accurate when Repsol won the case.
Perhaps more telling than the efficiency gains is what lawyers do with recovered time. The department has shifted from reactive support to strategic partnership. Lawyers are exploring new legal domains, contributing to firmwide knowledge management, and approaching complex problems with broader perspective. Other Repsol functions—Tax and Labor—have since adopted Harvey on the strength of Legal’s results. The Protea Project has become a template for what AI-enabled professional practice can look like at scale.
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