If you thought it was hard to get in to a T14 as a student, imagine the uphill battle you’d be facing if you were selling them software! Most law schools are so conservative in their approach to teaching devices that their only student-focused large language model is the Bluebook. Despite the challenges, Harvey convinced Stanford, UCLA, NYU and Notre Dame to adopt the AI in order to experiment with their students keep generations of future lawyers on the cutting edge of legal tech. That was back in August. Since then, Harvey boosted their presence in several additional prestigious law schools. According to their website, the new law schools welcomed to the fold are: WashU, Penn, UChicago, Boston University, Fordham, BYU, UGA, Villanova, Baylor, SMU, and Vanderbilt. This list isn’t in order of acquisition of course — just personal preference.
For anyone wondering about the score, Harvey landed 8 of the 17 top 14 law schools in the country! That isn’t a typo by the way. Maybe the inclusion of Harvey will be the thumb on the scale the schools need to bring us back to a list of 14 that actually makes sense. That said, if the schools that added Harvey to their repertoire fall in rank while the ones that abstained go up, it might not be the best look for the LLM specifically catered to law. A word to the students: no matter how good the AI is, remember that you’re ultimately the one that has to do the learning. You shouldn’t need to be humbled by a closed book written exam before you take that to heart.
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