‘New Superpowers For Lawyers - How An AI-Provider Like “Harvey” is Transforming Legal Services’

AI is not something in the future, it’s NOW, and AI literacy is an absolute, even urgent, priority for all lawyers. Before deciding on what AI tool to use in your own practice, in this video we get a valuable understanding of how and why AI is being designed and built by Harvey specifically for lawyers, rather than lawyers using the likes of ChatGPT, etc.

Winston Weinberg, Harvey’s CEO, explains why success in AI specifically for lawyers requires more than just the capabilities of the AI models themselves - it demands deep process expertise to train those models and data that doesn’t exist online. He shares how Harvey balances their rapid AI product development with earning trust from law firms through hyper-personalized demos and deep industry expertise, and his own journey to date at the helm of Harvey.

Topics Covered Include:

00:08 - Intro

02:55 - Why build Harvey for lawyers rather than use other foundation models (e.g. ChatGPT)?

05:30 - How was Harvey’s product / AI-process (“agentic workflows”) built specifically for lawyers, and usable by as many lawyers as possible

16:10 - For billing purposes, who does the work, the AI or the lawyer?!

17:25 - To train its AI models, what data did Harvey use and what internal and external legal experts do they use

25.25 - How did Harvey get the trust of the world’s largest law firms to use their AI

28:34 - How do lawyers start to easily use Harvey

29:58 - Trusting AI and hallucinations & why lawyers’ creativity is useful

32.18 - Law firms of the future:

– what will they look like

– higher fees for strategic/high-end work

– fixed fees for process/low-end work

35.10 - How lawyers using AI increases access to justice

42:49 - Why use the likes of Harvey and not other non-specialised legal AI tools/”agents”/application-layered model providers like Microsoft OpenAI, ChatGPT etc.

Speaker

Winston Weinberg, CEO of Harvey, one of the leading application layer AI companies, building domain-specific AI for law firms, professional service providers, and the Fortune 500.

Category of CPD:	Category B / A
Duration:	0.75 Hours