Harvey's already acquainted with Big Law. Now, it wants to shake up law schools. (www.businessinsider.com)

Harvey, the AI legal‑tech startup valued at about $5 billion and already used by roughly half of the US’s 100 largest law firms, is offering free access to its platform to an expanding roster of law schools (recent additions include Duke and Northwestern). The program echoes the long‑standing “Wexis” playbook—LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters historically seeded legal education to build lifelong product habit—and aims to make prompting and directing virtual agents a default skill for future lawyers. Harvey envisions students using the tool to draft contracts, iterate arguments, run mock transactions and prep for moot court, although many of those simulated workflows aren’t yet live. For the AI/ML community, the move matters because it accelerates real‑world adoption and shapes how a professional cohort will interact with generative systems. Technically, Harvey’s value proposition is automating repetitive legal drafting and research via prompting and agent orchestration, which drives faster turnarounds and could shift law firm pricing away from billable hours toward flat fees or client‑passed tool charges. Adoption is already skewed to big firms and remains optional in practice; law schools vary from banning to openly integrating generative AI, and elite programs like Yale and Harvard have not joined. The rollout highlights both product‑market strategy for AI vendors and the policy, ethical and pedagogical debates that will determine how generative models are taught and used in regulated professions.