The AI legal assistant company, which has an alliance with À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ parent company LexisNexis Legal & Professional, said Thursday that its law school alliance program will be used at several participating universities during the 2025-26 academic year.
Schools partnering with Harvey during its program launch include Stanford Law School, New York University School of Law, University of Michigan Law School, UCLA School of Law, The University of Texas School of Law and Notre Dame Law School. The schools began piloting the platform a year ago, according to Thursday's announcement.
"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," Notre Dame Law School Dean G. Marcus Cole said in the announcement Thursday. "We are excited to be a pioneer in legal education, partnering with Harvey to bring this critically important education to our students, preparing them to work for the common good."
Harvey said in the announcement that the generative AI curricula and learning content will prepare students to use effective prompting during case preparation and reduce time preparing documents and data sources.
"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," Winston Weinberg, chief executive and co-founder of Harvey, said in a statement Thursday. "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."
Law schools, specifically Stanford, have invested previously in AI products. In February, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP announced that it was collaborating with Stanford's legal technology hub CodeX on new AI tools, while in March, the lab teamed with Jus Mundi, a France-based search engine that helps lawyers involved with international arbitration gather vital data quickly, to operate a series of hackathons to drive AI innovation. This week, Norm Ai also struck up a partnership with the school, allowing the startup to exchange research with the lab.
Founded in 2022, Harvey markets its products to law firms and in-house teams. Its AI platform includes a personal assistant to delegate tasks, a document analysis tool and research capabilities.
Harvey raised a Series D investment in February, followed by a $300 million Series E investment in June to reach a $5 billion valuation, making it one of the most valuable private legal tech companies. The funding was earmarked for global expansion and hiring.
The company boasts nearly 520 customers across 54 countries. Earlier this month, the company announced that it would both expand into Latin America with the launch of a team based in Mexico and expand into the Canadian legal market with the opening of a Toronto office.
À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Pulse's annual AI survey this year found that 5% of attorneys use Harvey for work.
--Editing by Jay Jackson Jr.
À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ is owned by LexisNexis Legal & Professional, a RELX company.
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