Source: Bloomberg Law
Harvey, a generative artificial intelligence startup that quadrupled in value last year, has spent the first quarter of 2024 embarking on an expansion spree that shows no signs of slowing.
“Normally, at a tech company, you hire lawyers to be in-house lawyers,” said Winston Weinberg, co-founder and CEO of Harvey . “We’re looking at them to fill a unique, interdisciplinary type of role. We want them to do all sorts of different things,” Weinberg said.
In recent weeks Harvey has brought on lawyers who have worked at firms such as Gunderson Dettmer; Katten Muchin Rosenman; Latham & Watkins; O’Melveny & Myers; Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; and White & Case.
Harvey just brought on its first chief financial officer in Alan Ghelberg and hired Andrew Hyman, a former lawyer at Google, HBO, and Apple Inc., as deputy general counsel for product and commercial. John LaBarre, another longtime former Google lawyer who had been deputy general counsel at cloud data company Snowflake Inc., joined Harvey a year ago as its general counsel.
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