SCC Online Partners with Harvey to Integrate AI into Indian Legal Research

Legal research platform SCC Online has announced a collaboration with Harvey, an AI platform built for legal workflows, marking another step in the integration of authoritative Indian legal content with AI-driven tools.

The partnership brings SCC Online’s extensive repository of Indian case law and primary legal material into Harvey’s AI environment, with the aim of supporting lawyers across research, analysis, and decision-making workflows. SCC Online has long been a core research platform for Indian courts, law firms, academic institutions, and practitioners, particularly for its depth in judgments and statutory material.

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India’s Scale and the Role of Legal AI

Speaking to the Indian LegalTech Network (ILTN), Sumain Malik, Founder & CEO of SCC Online, highlighted the unique challenges—and opportunities—of deploying legal AI in India:

“With millions of cases and an ever-growing body of law, India demands LegalTech solutions that scale responsibly. Our focus in India is clear: to use AI to improve the quality of legal research, reduce friction in legal workflows, and enable better, faster decision-making across the justice system.”

He added that the collaboration with Harvey reflects a deliberate approach to how AI should be used in Indian legal practice:

“Our partnership with Harvey is a reflection of that vision. It ensures that AI used in Indian legal practice is grounded in trusted primary law, not generic data, bringing together authoritative legal content and advanced AI to support lawyers with accuracy, confidence, and scale.”

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Why This Matters

As AI adoption accelerates across Indian legal teams, the quality and provenance of data powering these systems has become a central concern. Partnerships like SCC Online–Harvey signal a shift toward content-anchored legal AI, where advanced models are paired with trusted primary law rather than operating in isolation.

Beyond capability, such collaborations also highlight the importance of distribution and trust in a market as large and complex as India—where platforms already embedded in legal workflows play a decisive role in how, and how quickly, legal AI is adopted.

What do you think - Is grounding legal AI in authoritative primary law enough to build trust at scale—or will adoption still depend on how seamlessly these tools fit into everyday practice? To know more about the partnership, read here.