Cornell Law School is expanding its leadership in legal technology education through new partnerships with Harvey and Legora, two rapidly growing AI platforms reshaping the legal profession. The agreements build on the Law School’s ongoing collaboration with Clio vLex Vincent AI, reflecting a broader strategy to prepare students for a legal landscape increasingly defined by artificial intelligence.

“We have to get in place what our students are needing and what their future employers are expecting,” said Kim Nayyer, Edward Cornell Law Librarian, Associate Dean for Library Services, and Professor of the Practice. As law firms rapidly adopt AI tools, Cornell Law is ensuring that students graduate prepared to work with the technologies they will encounter in practice.

That demand reflects a broader shift in the profession, which Cornell Law is actively preparing its students to meet. As Nayyer noted, students are not only encountering these tools in the classroom but are increasingly arriving with exposure from summer positions and firm environments, underscoring how quickly expectations are changing. By integrating multiple AI platforms into coursework and research training, the Law School is ensuring that graduates are equipped to navigate, and critically assess, the technologies they will encounter in practice.

At the same time, the Law School is taking a deliberate approach to how these tools are introduced and used. “We have to figure out…how to balance student need and interest with responsible learning and how to prepare students for using these products wisely,” Nayyer said.

That emphasis reflects the dual nature of generative AI in legal practice. While tools such as Harvey, Legora, and Vincent AI can streamline tasks like document review, analysis, and drafting, they also require careful oversight and critical evaluation. “People are so eager to want to do what they can to make their work better that they may not be fully appreciating the practical limitations or implications of what they’re doing,” Nayyer said. As she noted, “everything they do is ultimately their responsibility.”

Cornell Law’s engagement with legal AI predates the latest wave of partnerships. Through coursework, faculty-led trials, and library initiatives, the Law School has spent several years evaluating AI-assisted research and practice tools, including Clio vLex Vincent AI and CoCounsel before its acquisition by Thomson Reuters Westlaw, giving students opportunities to test and compare different platforms in real-world contexts.

The new partnerships are part of a wider institutional effort that includes Cornell Law’s recently launched Center on Law and AI, a cross-disciplinary initiative designed to bring together faculty, students, and collaborators from across the university to engage one of the most consequential developments facing the legal profession. The Center reflects a core premise: that law schools should not simply respond to technological change but help shape how it is understood and applied.

“This is a dynamic period in the legal field, with rapidly changing expectations and relevant professional competencies,” Center Director and Professor Jed Stiglitz said, “and our goal is to be on top of the present and agents of the future.”