UBS On-Air: Market Moves UBS AI Podcast - CEO Series - Ep. 5 (Winston Weinberg, CEO of Harvey)
Sep 18, 2025
Winston Weinberg, CEO and co-founder of Harvey AI, brings his background as a lawyer to discuss the transformative role of AI in the legal industry. He shares insights on founding Harvey after early experiments with GPT, highlighting the importance of context and accuracy in legal tasks. Winston explores challenges in product development and how Harvey navigates competition while improving workflows. He offers personal reflections on leadership and the evolving legal landscape, hinting at AI’s future impact on associate roles and the industry at large.
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Build Agent Chains For Complex Tasks
- Decompose complex legal tasks into chained agents that handle general subtasks like research, drafting, and summarization.
- Combine those agents to complete higher-level tasks such as drafting a motion or managing an M&A process.
Match ROI Metrics To The Client Type
- Measure ROI differently across partners, associates, law firms, and in-house teams and focus on appropriate metrics.
- Use AI to automate low-margin work and repackage value via fixed-fee or project-based pricing.
Enterprise Rollouts Drive Network Effects
- Enterprise-wide rollouts accelerate learning and share-use-case spillovers across practices.
- Cross-practice adoption creates transitive value as users translate workflows between groups.