Harvey launches ethical wall enforcement with Intapp
Helping law firms scale AI adoption without compromising client confidentiality or conflict management.
As legal AI moves from chat to agents, the governance question has shifted. It’s no longer whether AI can do the work. It’s whether firms can deploy AI without compromising the professional responsibility obligations that matter most: managing conflicts of interest and protecting client confidentiality across every engagement.
Law firms run on trust. When a client hires a firm, they expect absolute confidentiality — that their data remains completely restricted from anyone who is not authorized to access it. Ethical walls are how firms manage that obligation. They screen lawyers from conflicting client matters, ensuring that sensitive deal terms, litigation strategy, and business intelligence stay walled off from anyone who shouldn’t see it. Firms enforce these walls through conflict systems, DMS access controls, and administrative measures that together form the backbone of how information is governed across the firm. The problem is that most legal AI platforms sit outside that infrastructure entirely, leaving compliance dependent on attorney discipline rather than the same systematic enforcement that firms apply everywhere else.
Earlier this year, Harvey and Intapp announced a partnership to bring that enforcement into Harvey. Today, after an early access period for a select group of customers, the integration is generally available.
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