Harvey: Four questions to evaluate your firm’s agent governance

As legal AI agents become part of everyday practice, four questions can help firms evaluate whether their governance framework is ready.

AI agents are moving from pilots to production in legal organizations. According to new research from RSGI, 68% of law firms and in-house legal teams are already deploying AI agents, with more than one in five law firms running 50 or more agents in production.

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As firms expand from AI assistants to agents that can execute multi-step work, governance becomes less about individual prompts and more about defining the boundaries within which agents operate. The good news is that firms don’t need an entirely new governance framework. The controls they’ve already built for AI assistants provide a strong foundation — but they need to be extended to govern agentic work.

A useful way to evaluate whether your governance framework is ready for agents is to ask four questions.

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