Intapp Partners with Harvey to Bring Ethical Wall Enforcement Directly Into AI Platforms

Intapp and Harvey announced a strategic partnership this week to bring industry-standard ethical wall enforcement directly into Harvey’s generative AI platform for legal professionals. The collaboration unites two complementary AI platforms.

Harvey, which provides generative AI tools for drafting, research, and document analysis, and Intapp, which applies AI to the business of law. Together, the companies are addressing a governance gap that has emerged as law firms increasingly use AI at scale.

As firms use generative AI for drafting, research, and document analysis, a governance gap has emerged. 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.

However, governance protocols that respect these obligations have historically not extended into AI platforms and agents, leaving compliance dependent on users’ self-policing and ad hoc audit logs.

Broad AI platforms handling multiple use cases simultaneously, or the deployment of agentic systems that access large volumes of files across matters, heighten the risk of inadvertent ethical violations.

For many firms, the absence of automated governance controls has created a structural compliance challenge that limits how aggressively they can deploy AI tools, even when those tools deliver measurable productivity gains.

How Does The Integration Work?

Under the partnership, Intapp Walls for AI, the legal industry’s most widely deployed ethical wall and information governance solution, will ensure that interactions within Harvey’s enterprise AI deployments respect compliance obligations.

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.

The integration means that the same ethical wall infrastructure that firms have spent years building in Intapp will now extend directly into the AI tools lawyers use daily. Rather than relying on manual checks or post-hoc audits, the system enforces compliance at the point of access, preventing unauthorized interactions before they occur.

“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,” said John Hall, CEO of Intapp. “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, emphasized the operational reality that legal teams face. “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,” he said. “This partnership ensures that the same ethical walls that lawyers trust and rely on are enforced inside Harvey.”

For law firms evaluating whether to deploy Harvey or expand its use across the organization, the Intapp integration removes a significant barrier. If data governance and conflict concerns prevent a firm from using AI tools as fully as they could, addressing those concerns directly through automated enforcement becomes strategically important.