Jurata® Legal Agent vs. Harvey

Core focus

Swiss law: federal law, cantonal law, case law and Swiss administrative practice

International platform for legal work across many jurisdictions, according to Harvey used in 85+ countries

Suited for

Law firms and legal departments of any size in Switzerland, from a single user

Law firms of all sizes and legal departments worldwide, with a focus on work across several jurisdictions; according to Harvey, 80+ of the AmLaw 100 firms use it

Legislation

Federal law and the law of all 26 cantons, more than 500’000 statutory articles

Fedlex (federal law) listed as a Swiss source; cantonal legislation not listed (last public source list, September 2025). Since then, Harvey has been announcing new sources on an ongoing basis without a public breakdown by country; the current list is only available after login

Search in cantonal law

Dedicated agent tools for cantonal legislation and cantonal court decisions: semantic, keyword and targeted search

Cantonal legislation not listed, cantonal decisions via entscheidsuche.ch (public source list, September 2025); dedicated search tools for cantonal law not publicly documented

Case law

More than 960’000 published decisions: Federal Supreme Court including unpublished judgments, Federal Administrative, Criminal and Patent Courts, cantonal courts and administrative practice

entscheidsuche.ch, a portal for decisions of federal and cantonal courts, listed as a Swiss source; extent of integration not public (source list September 2025)

Circulars and directives

Library maintained by Jurata with more than 1’100 circulars, directives and practice notes, including from FINMA, ESTV, SEM, BSV and EHRA

No dedicated source listed in the public source list (September 2025); current list only after login

Citation graph

Interactive citation graph of the Swiss Legal Graph (around 1.5 million nodes, almost 20 million relationships) in 2D or 3D: who cites whom, the course of instances with the outcome of proceedings, citations down to paragraph and letter

Citation graph for US case law according to Harvey (Harvey Graph, October 2026); not documented for Swiss law

Check of every statement

After every answer, Answer Validation (Antwort-Validierung) checks each statement against all original sources cited for it and shows what is supported, partly supported or not supported; unsupported legal statements are flagged

Answers with source references; for US law, Harvey checks via LexisNexis (Shepard’s) whether cited authorities are still good law, and extended cite checking has been announced (October 2026); no automated check is documented for Swiss law

Check of every citation

Each citation is assessed individually: supported, wrong pinpoint, not relevant to the statement or contradicting the statement

For US law, validity check of cited authorities via Shepard’s (LexisNexis); a check of whether each citation supports the statement is not publicly documented; no check is documented for Swiss law

Deadline calculator

The agent calculates deadlines in days or months, taking into account the public holidays of the relevant canton and the court holidays

Not publicly documented

Commercial register (Zefix)

The agent queries the commercial register via Zefix: UID, company name, registered office, auditor and, based on SHAB publications, current authorised signatories

Not publicly documented

Commercial register check in the document

The automated document review in the Word Add-in checks companies named in the document against the commercial register (Zefix)

Not publicly documented

Inserting Swiss citations in Word

Search statutes and judgments directly in Word and insert them as an inline citation or footnote, e.g. «Art. 41 OR» or «BGE 138 III 67»

Harvey for Word with access to Vault and other knowledge sources; searching for and inserting citations in Swiss citation style not publicly documented

Your own documents

Upload contracts, judgments and briefs and ask questions about them (PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel and images, including scans); the cited passage is highlighted in the document

Upload documents and ask questions about them, answers with references to the document; Vault for storing and analysing large volumes of documents

Word Add-in

In the Microsoft Marketplace; five areas: chat, research, drafting, revising and reviewing

Harvey for Word Add-in: agent for questions, drafts and revisions in the document, with access to Vault and other knowledge sources

Revising in Word

The agent revises the whole document or a selection; every change appears as a Word tracked change, can be accepted individually and leaves the formatting unchanged; Confirm or Autopilot mode

The agent revises the whole document or individual passages; changes as Word tracked changes, according to Harvey without breaking existing formatting

Data storage

Microsoft Azure in Switzerland (Switzerland North region), for all customers without a separate agreement

Microsoft Azure; processing region by agreement: Standard Region (USA, EU and Switzerland), EU Region (EU and Switzerland) or Australia. Unless agreed otherwise, the data processing addendum permits the transfer of personal data to Harvey in the USA

Model inference (language models)

Model inference on Microsoft Azure in Switzerland and the EU, never in the USA

Ten providers for AI models and infrastructure according to the subprocessor list of 21 September 2026 (twelve from 15 November 2026), including Microsoft, OpenAI, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services and Anthropic; according to Harvey, processing takes place in the selected region, except for web browsing, knowledge sources and LexisNexis

Training on your data

No, neither by Jurata nor by the LLM provider; zero data retention at the LLM provider

No, excluded by contract; zero data retention at the model providers. Training of a customer-specific model only at the customer’s express request

Legal opinion on Swiss professional secrecy

Legal opinion by Dr. iur. David Vasella (Walder Wyss): use, including the entry of client data without the client’s consent, complies with professional rules and data protection law (Art. 321 SCC, Art. 13 BGFA, FADP, GDPR)

Not publicly documented

Provider

Jurata AG, Zurich

Harvey AI Corporation (Delaware, USA) or affiliated companies, headquartered in San Francisco; EU company Harvey AI Ireland Limited in Dublin

Governing law

Swiss law

For customers in Switzerland: English law (England and Wales)

Dispute resolution

Place of jurisdiction at the registered office of Jurata AG in Zurich

Arbitration under the ICC Rules in London before a sole arbitrator; three arbitrators if the amount in dispute exceeds USD 250’000

Languages of website and contract

Website in German, French, Italian and English; terms and conditions in German

Website and contract documents in English; contractual notices in writing in English

Google reviews

5.0 stars (492 reviews)

5.0 stars (1 review), listing at the San Francisco headquarters

Trustpilot reviews

4.9 stars (87 reviews)

3.7 stars (1 review)

Pricing

Public: Entry CHF 165, Pro CHF 200, Max CHF 500 per user and month, excl. VAT; from CHF 130 with annual billing

No public pricing; fees as set out in an individual order form

Signing up

Online self-registration; three plans per user, monthly or annual; Enterprise for organisations with five or more seats on request

Via demo request and individual order form

Free trial

7 days, no credit card, start directly online

Free trial access once approved by Harvey; entry via demo request

Phone hotline in Switzerland

Yes, plus support by email

Not documented; support around the clock via the help centre and email