Legal AI platform Harvey has hired a co-chair of Gibson Dunn’s AI practice group in the role of chief strategy officer.
Keith Enright is making the move after a year and a half at Gibson Dunn, which he joined from Google, where he was chief privacy officer.
Harvey said Enright would lead its “engagement with the judiciary, bar associations, legal educators and policymakers – an increasingly critical workstream as courts, regulators and law schools grapple with the implications of AI in legal practice”.
At Gibson Dunn, Enright, who is based in the firm’s Palo Alto office, also co-chaired its tech and innovation industry group.
His more than 20 years of legal experience spans data privacy and protection, AI governance, cybersecurity, information management and regulation.
Harvey’s CEO, Winston Weinberg, said: “Keith’s rare combination of deep technical fluency, legal industry credibility and AI policy experience makes him exactly the kind of leader Harvey needs as we scale into every major enterprise vertical.”
In a LinkedIn post, Enright, who will join Harvey next month, said: “The legal industry is being fundamentally reimagined. The firms and legal teams that will thrive are those that move with intention, with expertise and with the right infrastructure underneath them. That’s Harvey.”
In 2023, Harvey signed up two partners from major law firms, only for both men to depart the following year.
Gordon Moodie joined Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz in New York as chief product officer before moving to Debevoise & Plimpton as an M&A partner and Suril Patel joined as VP of partnerships from legacy Allen & Overy before becoming Kirkland & Ellis’s first London-based structured finance partner.
Earlier this month, Harvey unveiled its inaugural in-house customer advisory board, made up of general counsel and chief legal officers from companies including HSBC, Bridgewater Associates and NBCUniversal. It also announced plans to open in Singapore, its third in the APAC region.
In December, Harvey confirmed it had raised $160m at an $8bn valuation in a Series F funding round, spearheaded by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.
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