Harvey Partners With Intapp For ‘Ethical Wall Enforcement’

Harvey has teamed up with listed legal tech company Intapp to bring its ethical wall enforcement capabilities directly into the pioneering legal AI platform. This will cover areas such as conflicts and controlling confidential information.

As the companies noted, lawyers using AI across a range of use cases only accentuates the need to make sure that ethical and data governance issues are handled just as well as before, back when the legal world had never heard of LLMs.

‘Lawyers must maintain ethical walls between conflicting matters, preserve attorney-client privilege, prevent the commingling of confidential information across client engagements, and comply with regulatory frameworks that vary by jurisdiction and practice area,’ they stated.

Broad platforms with tons going on across them, or perhaps the use of agents that are poking around all manner of files, could potentially heighten such risks. Hence the need for ‘governance protocols that respect these obligations’ and that are built into AI deployments.

They believe Intapp Walls for AI, ‘the legal industry’s most widely deployed ethical wall and information governance solution’, will answer this need.

With the integration, ‘existing Intapp Walls for AI policies will automatically sync with Harvey’s access and sharing controls across Assistant, Vault, and Workflows’.

‘Firms deploying Harvey with Intapp Walls can be confident that every AI interaction is permissioned, auditable, and compliant with applicable ethical walls and firm policies,’ they added.

John Hall, CEO, Intapp, commented: ‘When clients entrust their most sensitive business matters with their lawyers, they expect it to be treated with the highest standards of professional responsibility, including when using AI.

‘Together, Intapp and Harvey are enabling governed AI that protects client confidentiality and firm integrity today, while laying the foundation for future agentic workflows that operate within professional compliance boundaries by design.’

Winston Weinberg, CEO of Harvey, concluded: ‘Legal teams have spent years building rigorous professional responsibility standards in Intapp, and they need those standards to follow them into every tool they use. This partnership ensures that the same ethical walls that lawyers trust and rely on are enforced inside Harvey.’

Is this a big deal?

Well, if data and conflict fears get in the way of a potential customer bringing aboard Harvey, or using it as fully as they could, then yes, this is a very big deal. So, the Intapp deal could prove to be very important.

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Meanwhile, Harvey has also announced another educational partnership, this time the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford, marking its first collaboration with a leading global school of public policy.

Amal Clooney, Visiting Professor of Practice in International Law and Co-Founder of the Oxford Institute of Technology and Justice (and also married to the Hollywood star George Clooney, who it should be noted once played a lawyer in the movie ‘Michael Clayton’, but has not, AL believes, been in a show with Gabriel Macht), said: ‘The Oxford Institute of Technology and Justice is delighted to announce a partnership with the legal AI platform Harvey. We look forward to working together to increase access to justice for vulnerable populations around the world.’

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P.S. AL is at the Harvey Forum event in London for most of the day, so won’t be posting much else today. But, between now and Legal Week in New York, there looks to be a lot of announcements coming!

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More about Harvey here.

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