Nick Beim

What Harvey's done is interesting.

It starts with a very simple product that's useful, that is productivity, basic research, automating some basic workflows.

But an interesting thing about law is that it's so multifaceted.

There's so many different areas of law, and some of them, like litigation, for example, are very complex.

So in addition to companies like Harvey,

that have a relatively simple product, you've got far more complex products like Silo, which is really the AI litigation leader that help you automate a lot of parts of the traditional legal workflow, like document review, do traditional e-discovery.

but do it better with agentic AI, and then help you think through the major litigation tasks that need to be done with far more efficiency than could otherwise be done.

And so I think in legal tech, there'll be a litigation winner.

There'll be a general purpose tool winner.

There'll be specific winners in other areas where expertise is required.

International tax law is a vastly profitable part of the legal world.

And

I don't think the existing players are focused on that today, but that requires a lot of financial knowledge as well.

So many parts of legal yet to be enhanced with AI and lots of opportunity.

I think you're right.

And I think AI is going to help in other areas like arbitration, where you can get very quick responses, quick settlements, and just make the overall legal system much more efficient.

These are areas I've spent a lot of time thinking about, and it's interesting.

These areas have brought together both my work with the council and other think tanks on defense intelligence and foreign policy generally, but also my work in the venture capital world where I've invested in a variety of companies that serve those customers and struggle through all of the ridiculous hoops that are put in their way.

It's very difficult to work with the government.

but that the government really wants because the character of warfare, the character of intelligence competition, and the character of geopolitical competition generally is being radically changed by technology.