Harvey has launched a law school alliance program, which will see the genAI pioneer ‘embed its technology into law school curriculums’. Or as they say: if you want to train people, start them young.
The program will include Stanford Law School and UCLA School of Law in California, as well as NYU School of Law, University of Michigan Law School, and Notre Dame Law School.
It’s a well-developed strategy that several companies have used in the past, going back to Neota Logic in the 2010s, and likely before that with others. Getting law students to use your product and become familiar with what it can do makes a lot of sense, as when they join the profession they’ll understandably be keen to keep using it, even if junior associates don’t have a lot of ‘pester power’ in Big Law.
After that is the reality that Harvey, and everyone else in this market, are here for the long-term and those students, who then become juniors, then become seniors and then some move inhouse……..and so on…….steadily embedding the use of that company’s tech across a growing number of places.
Or, as Harvey put it: ‘By making technology a fundamental part of law school education, these institutions are innovators in helping prepare the next generation of lawyers for careers where technology enables and supports more of their work.’
Moreover, it’s simply good preparation for the future of legal work – and something that all law schools should be doing – bringing in legal AI tools for students to use, that is. Which ones they pick is perhaps not as important as at least having something to offer these wannabe attorneys in terms of legal AI products, and to do more than just pointing them at ChatGPT, which they are almost certainly already using for some academic tasks.
(See AL article here on that topic.)
Students, faculty, and administrators will have access to the Harvey platform, and the Harvey team will support co-creation of genAI curricula and learning content throughout the 2025-26 academic year, they added.
Dean G. Marcus Cole, the Joseph A. Matson Dean and Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School, commented: ‘Artificial intelligence is here. It is increasingly more sophisticated and will rapidly become more integral to our work. Law firms and organizations will expect expertise in the use of AI, so it is incumbent upon us to prepare our students to utilize it effectively and ethically.
‘We are excited to be a pioneer in legal education, partnering with Harvey AI to bring this critically important education to our students, preparing them to work for the common good.’
Winston Weinberg, CEO and Co-founder of Harvey, said: ‘Law schools fundamentally shape the future of the legal industry. The law schools partnering with Harvey are sending a powerful message: we want to produce the best and brightest talent for the profession of law, and we want to do so while introducing technology that helps enable our students to do their best work and to be as adaptable as the workforce of the future will demand.
‘We are thrilled to join them in investing in their students via our Harvey partnership, and look forward to engaging with faculty, staff, students, and alumni to make this program as impactful as possible on their institutions but also on the industry as a whole.’
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Law Schools interested in participating in the program can reach out to lawschools@harvey.ai
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