:Harvey: in Practice: How In-House Teams Monitor, Interpret, and Act on Regulatory Change

Regulatory and compliance teams operate in an environment defined by constant change, complex rules, and high stakes. Organizations must monitor evolving regulations across jurisdictions, interpret applicability to their business, and ensure that internal policies, contracts, and operations remain aligned — all while moving quickly and maintaining accuracy.

Harvey supports lawyers across the full lifecycle of compliance: from monitoring regulatory developments and interpreting requirements, to assessing risk, drafting policies, and enabling ongoing collaboration. By connecting regulatory intelligence, internal policies, contracts, and precedent in a single platform, Harvey helps teams identify risks earlier, standardize workflows, and act with confidence.

Below are representative ways in-house teams can use Harvey to operate more effectively across regulatory and compliance workflows.

Regulatory Intelligence and Monitoring

Track Regulatory Changes

Staying current with regulatory developments requires continuous monitoring of new rules, proposals, and enforcement trends across multiple jurisdictions and agencies. Harvey enables teams to aggregate and synthesize these updates, providing a centralized view of relevant changes.

By leveraging Assistant and integrated knowledge sources, teams can quickly identify what has changed, understand emerging trends, and prioritize areas requiring attention. This reduces the need for manual tracking and allows teams to focus on analysis and response rather than information gathering.

Regulatory Analysis and Interpretation

Assess Regulation Applicability

Determining whether a regulation applies to a business often depends on factors such as entity structure, activities, jurisdiction, and thresholds. Harvey helps teams analyze applicability by contextualizing regulatory requirements against company-specific inputs. This enables faster, more consistent determinations and reduces ambiguity in early-stage regulatory analysis.

Map Regulatory Obligations

Regulations are often dense and difficult to operationalize. Harvey helps teams break down complex rules into discrete obligations, deadlines, and responsible parties, creating a clearer view of what compliance requires in practice. With Vault, teams can connect regulatory requirements with internal policies and prior interpretations, ensuring obligation mapping is consistent and grounded in institutional knowledge. This structured approach makes it easier to translate regulations into actionable steps and supports downstream workflows like policy updates and checklist generation.

Compliance Assessment and Gap Analysis

Identify Policy Gaps

Ensuring internal policies align with regulatory requirements is critical to reducing risk. Harvey enables teams to compare existing policies against applicable regulations, identifying gaps, inconsistencies, and areas requiring updates. Teams can map policies directly to source regulations and maintain a clear audit trail of how requirements are implemented. This makes it easier to validate compliance, track changes over time, and proactively update policies as regulations evolve.

Review Contracts for Compliance

Organizations must ensure that vendor, customer, and partner agreements comply with both regulatory requirements and internal compliance standards. Harvey helps teams assess contracts at scale against applicable regulations and internal playbooks, identifying deviations, risks, and non-standard terms.

By leveraging Vault, the Harvey for Word Add-In, and custom workflow agents, teams can standardize review processes, apply institutional knowledge consistently, and scale compliance checks across large contract volumes. This reduces manual review effort while improving consistency, auditability, and alignment with evolving regulatory expectations.

At Bridgewater, the legal team uses Harvey to scale contract compliance reviews across thousands of agreements, identifying key risks and inconsistencies in minutes rather than weeks. In one instance, Harvey reduced review time for complex trading agreements by over 95%, enabling attorneys to focus on high-impact issues while maintaining regulatory alignment.

Policy and Procedure Development

Draft Compliance Policies

Drafting compliance policies requires aligning regulatory requirements with internal practices and evolving business needs. Harvey enables teams to generate structured policy drafts grounded in applicable regulations and informed by precedent, directly within familiar tools like Microsoft Word. Teams can spend more time refining policies to fit their organization, while maintaining consistency and alignment with current regulations.

Generate Compliance Checklists and Playbooks

Recurring compliance activities like vendor onboarding, product launches, or annual certifications require clear, repeatable processes. Harvey enables teams to generate structured checklists that capture key steps, responsibilities, and deadlines, providing a consistent framework for execution.

Building on this, teams can develop standardized compliance playbooks that codify policies, regulatory requirements, and prior decisions into reusable guidance for contract and document reviews. These tools help organizations scale compliance processes, reduce the risk of missed obligations, and ensure more consistent and defensible outcomes across the business.

At Talanx, Harvey is embedded across compliance workflows, enabling teams to review contracts, draft policies, and standardize processes at scale. By reducing review times from hours to minutes and saving hundreds of external advisory hours, Harvey has helped the legal team deliver more consistent, cross-border compliance while freeing capacity for higher-value strategic work.

Training, Communication, and Collaboration

Develop Training Materials

Translating regulatory requirements and internal policies into accessible training materials is essential for effective compliance. With Harvey, teams can generate tailored training content from source regulations and policies, adapting language and level of detail for different audiences across the organization.

Create Executive Summaries

Regulatory developments are often complex, but leadership requires clear and actionable insights. Harvey can distill dense regulatory updates, enforcement trends, and internal analyses into concise executive summaries. By quickly surfacing key risks, implications, and recommended actions, teams can support faster, more informed decision making at the leadership level.

Collaborate With Outside Counsel

Regulatory and compliance matters often require close coordination with external counsel. Harvey provides secure Shared Spaces where teams can collaborate in real time, sharing documents, analysis, and regulatory insights across organizations. Teams can also exchange workflow agents and playbooks, enabling more consistent approaches to compliance and ensuring alignment between internal and external stakeholders.

Want to see how Harvey supports regulatory and compliance teams across their workflows? Contact our team to learn more: