Harvey—a San Francisco-based AI startup offering customized, LLM-based legal and professional services—has taken off big-time since its 2022 launch. Named after Harvey Specter, the leading character on the USA Network legal drama “Suits,” Harvey has reached a meteoric valuation of $11 billion. And now it’s continuing its rapid expansion by opening an office in Dallas. 

Slated to open in April, the Dallas office will serve what Harvey calls “one of the largest and most influential legal markets in the world.”

Winston Weinberg, Harvey’s CEO and one of its two co-founders, noted that “Texas is home to one in ten publicly traded companies in the US, 7% of the AmLaw 200, 54 Fortune 500 headquarters, and 3.5 million small businesses.”

“It’s a massive opportunity for Harvey and we want a team on the ground to support those organizations and their legal teams,” Weinberg added.

Harvey sees Texas as sitting “at the center of a dynamic legal ecosystem”—global and regional firms, sophisticated in-house teams, and industry leaders across energy, healthcare, finance, and technology. 

That makes Dallas and the state around it a target-rich environment for Weinberg—formerly a securities and antitrust litigator at O’Melveny & Myers—and Harvey’s president, Gabe Pereyra, who was a research scientist at Google DeepMind before co-founding Harvey. 

Legal teams across Texas already work with Harvey

Harvey said its new Dallas office will bring the company closer to legal teams it already partners with across Texas—including ones at Dallas-based AT&T and Houston engineering and construction firm KBR, as well as law firms such as Vinson & Elkins, Haynes Boone, Jackson Walker, Susman Godfrey, Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP, Lynn Pinker Hurst & Schwegmann, and McKool Smith.

“This expansion strengthens our ability to meet accelerating demand for modern legal work at scale,” Harvey said.

The Dallas office will house teams across sales, legal engineering, and customer success, Harvey said. The teams will be working directly with customers to deploy Harvey “inside real legal workflows and help teams achieve faster, higher-quality outcomes from day one,” the company added.

“Proximity to customers matters,” said John Haddock, Harvey’s chief business officer. “Being on the ground in Texas enables deeper partnership with legal teams as they integrate new tools into how they practice and operate.”

Serving customers in more than 60 countries

Used by over 1,000 customers in more than 60 countries, Harvey’s products streamline workflows in areas including contract analysis, due diligence, compliance, and litigation “to drive efficiency and value,” the company says. Global law firms and Fortune 500 enterprises around the world are said to use Harvey to enable “faster, smarter decision-making.”

Harvey’s backers include Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, GV, OpenAI Startup Fund, Coatue, Andreessen Horowitz, and EQT. 

VP of sales previously lived in Dallas

Writing on LinkedIn, Rob Saliterman, a vice president of sales at Harvey, called the Dallas opening “personal for me.”

“I lived in Dallas for a stretch and came away with a real appreciation for how business gets done there—direct, relationship-driven, no nonsense,” Saliterman wrote. “That’s our kind of town.”

LLMs as ‘personal teammates’

Writing in a post from his media brand Legally Disrupted, Zach Abramowitz noted that Harvey’s original name was Counsel AI. Weinberg noticed that after his company changed its name Harvey, “people prompted better.”

“That might sound simple, but it reflects a deep thoughtfulness about product—and especially understanding that what makes LLMs special is thinking about it as your personal teammate,” Abramowitz added.

Recent business moves

Besides deploying rapid growth with new offices like the one in Dallas, Harvey has been making news with acquisitions and partnerships.

Just last month, Harvey acquired San Francisco-based Hexus, a maker of an AI-powered video creation tool, to expand its capabilities beyond text-based legal research into and multimedia professional services.

Last June, Havey announced a major partnership with LexisNexis with plans to integrate LexisNexis’s primary law content and Shepard’s Citations directly into the Harvey platform.

And in August, Harvey launched an initiative to deploy its software at some of America’s leading law schools, including the University of Texas, New York University, and the University of Michigan, aiming to help train the next generation of lawyers on AI tools.

That same month, global law firm Latham & Watkins announced a rollout of Harvey’s suite of generative AI solutions to the firm’s lawyers around the world.

One of Harvey’s earliest and biggest announcements came in 2023, one year after its launch, when it unveiled a strategic alliance with PwC to provide AI-driven legal and tax services to PwC’s global client base.

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