Intapp now enforces your ethical walls inside Harvey

The Harvey and Intapp integration is now live.

The Harvey and Intapp Walls integration is now generally available. Confidentiality risk has been one of the biggest barriers to AI adoption at law firms, and today that changes. Intapp Walls and Harvey are now integrated, letting firms sync their existing Walls policies directly into Harvey and enforce them automatically across Harvey Assistant, Vault, and Spaces. Here’s why it matters for firms deciding how far to take AI.

More than 70 of the Am Law 100 rely on Walls to enforce information barriers, and it has become the industry standard for governing confidential information. For two decades, compliance teams have configured the policies, calibrated enforcement, and earned sign-off on the infrastructure that screens lawyers from conflicting matters.

Then the firm deploys a legal AI platform, and those walls stop at the edge of the systems they were built for. Inside the AI tool, governance falls back to lawyer discipline. AI has opened a compliance gap that firms did not plan for, and the numbers show how wide it already is.

• 83% of lawyers use AI in 2026
  _{Source: Bloomberg Law, June 2026}
• 5% of law firm leaders trust their current AI quality controls
  _{Source: Global Legal Post, 2026 legal sector outlook study}

Earlier this year, Harvey and Intapp announced a partnership to close that gap. Today, after an early access period with a select group of firms, the integration is generally available.

Lawyers need their professional responsibility standards to follow them into every tool they use. This partnership ensures the same ethical walls they trust are enforced inside Harvey.

Winston Weinberg, CEO, Harvey

What actually goes wrong

Consider a lawyer screened off a litigation matter because the firm represents the opposing party. In the document management system, the screen holds. They cannot open those files. Then they open an AI assistant, pull matter documents into a shared workspace, and invite a colleague who happens to be walled off from that matter. The information has just moved through a channel that the firm’s walls never see.

The screen did its job in the DMS. The exposure reappeared one layer up. An AI-enabled lateral conflict, a privileged-information leak through a shared workspace, or an outside counsel guideline (OCG) violation that surfaces in audit becomes a partner-room event, and every new AI tool the firm adopts widens the surface where it can happen.

Native AI controls handle part of the picture. Every AI platform ships with controls for authentication and workspace permissions, and they handle those jobs well for a single tool. Ethical walls ask for something more specific: lateral-hire screens, matter-level confidentiality, waiver-driven restrictions, and controls on material nonpublic information (MNPI), enforced consistently and logged for audit across every system the firm runs. Secure a second AI tool with native controls alone and the policies begin again in a separate console, rebuilding tool by tool the fragmentation the firm spent years removing.

How Intapp Walls and Harvey work together

With the integration, firms sync their existing Intapp Walls policies directly into Harvey, and Harvey enforces them automatically across Harvey Assistant, Vault, and Spaces — the surfaces lawyers use to research, draft, and analyze every day.

Harvey inherits walls directly from the source. It never creates, changes, or deletes them. It enforces the policies Intapp Walls already manages. When access to a resource cannot be confirmed, Harvey blocks it. For compliance teams, that means one authoritative set of policies, zero parallel administration, and full consistency between what the firm’s system of record says and what Harvey enforces.

• Enforce your walls automatically: When a wall is created or updated in Intapp Walls, Harvey syncs it automatically. Lawyers see only the matters Walls has authorized. Firms can extend Harvey to every practice group while the walls they already validated apply from the first day, with no new round of IT configuration or compliance review.
• Stay audit-ready from day one: Every enforcement event traces back to both systems. If a matter’s confidentiality is ever challenged, the conflicts team can produce an unbroken record showing exactly which wall policy governed Harvey’s behavior, down to the sync timestamp. This gives the firm the evidence it needs for internal stakeholders, regulators, and courts.
• Keep collaboration governed: Your walls follow the work automatically. Self-maintaining walls add and remove people based on time or document activity, and matter teams can request and approve access within policy, without a compliance ticket for every change. Sensitive matters stay protected while the firm keeps moving.

One policy layer for every AI tool

Intapp Walls enforces one firm-wide policy set across Harvey, Microsoft Copilot, and Intapp Celeste today, with additional platforms on the roadmap. Firms define a barrier once and it applies everywhere, added to each new tool through simple API configuration.

Adding the fourth AI tool looks like adding the first. As the firm’s AI footprint grows, the governed layer grows with it, and the audit trail stays in one place. Firms do not have to bet on which AI tool wins. Walls extends to whichever ones they choose.

Make firm-wide rollout certifiable

For most firms the question now is how to move from a controlled pilot to firm-wide AI. The prize is real, and firms expect AI to deliver it.

• 240 hours saved per lawyer each year, anticipated
• $19K in value unlocked per lawyer each year, anticipated
• 2x more likely to grow revenue for firms with a visible AI strategy
  _{Sources: Thomson Reuters, Future of Professionals 2025; ACEDS + Secretariat 2025 Legal AI Report.}

Capturing that upside is a hard step: 88% of AI proofs of concept never reach production, and governance is often where they stall. Deployment waits on a general counsel who will certify firm-wide rollout only once the controls are provable. Intapp Walls is what makes that certification possible.

Your firm has already done the hard part. The policies exist, compliance has validated them, and they govern every other system the firm runs. Putting that same infrastructure to work inside AI tools turns firm-wide rollout into an extension of controls the firm already trusts, so the decision to expand AI access rests on walls the firm has already validated.See how it works in practice.

Activate ethical walls in Harvey with Intapp

The integration is available exclusively for Intapp Walls for AI, the cloud version of Intapp Walls. If your firm is already on it, you can activate now. If you want to learn more, visit our partnership page or contact your Intapp or Harvey representative. Hear from Harvey on what this means for your firm.