:Harvey: Launches Ethical Wall Enforcement With Intapp

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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.

Closing the Governance Gap

With the Harvey and Intapp integration, firms can sync their existing Intapp Walls policies directly into Harvey, where they are enforced automatically across Harvey surfaces, including Threads, Vault, Review Tables, and Shared Spaces.

Intapp is the trusted provider of ethical wall enforcement for over 70% of AmLaw 100, delivering the proven infrastructure that compliance teams have already configured and validated. Unlike approaches that rely on indirect enforcement or parallel configurations, Harvey inherits walls directly from the source rather than recreating them in a separate system. Instead, it enforces the policies that Intapp already manages, and when access to a resource cannot be confirmed, Harvey blocks it.

This integration enables law firms to:

• Enforce Intapp walls automatically: When a wall is created or updated in Intapp Walls for AI, Harvey automatically syncs those policies across the platform. Attorneys see only the resources they are authorized to access. This eliminates manual configuration and removes reliance on individual discipline, so firms can roll out Harvey firm-wide in a scalable, controlled way.
• Get audit-ready from day one: Every enforcement event is traceable back to both systems. Intapp Walls for AI logs the wall configuration and policy source, while Harvey monitors every sync cycle, access attempt, and enforcement action across the platform. Together, compliance teams have the complete evidence trail they need to demonstrate strong governance to internal stakeholders, external regulators, and courts.
• Collaborate with confidence: Harvey's collaboration surfaces, including Shared Spaces, Workflows, and Playbooks, are all governed by the same Intapp Walls policies that protect the rest of the firm. Walls follow the work automatically, meaning attorneys can share and collaborate across practice groups and client teams without manually configuring access controls in a separate system. Sensitive matters stay protected without shutting down the collaboration that keeps the firm moving.

Activate Ethical Walls in Harvey With Intapp

This is the first step in Harvey's broader commitment to closing the governance gap. The Harvey and Intapp Walls integration requires both a cloud license and a separate Harvey connector license. If you are interested in enabling this integration for your workspace, please contact your Intapp representative to learn more.