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Intapp will bring "industry-standard ethical wall enforcement" directly into Harvey's AI platform, the two companies said in a statement. This will address a major challenge that law firms face as they adopt AI, they added.
Intapp Walls for AI, a security and compliance product, is being integrated into Harvey's platform. Its policies will automatically sync across three core tools that Harvey offers to boost lawyers' productivity
The move is designed to add built-in governance controls and help law firms to manage risks when they deal with privileged client information and communications to Harvey's tools.
Winston Weinberg, chief executive of Harvey, announced the deal at an in-person event in London on Monday. He said that making sure that everything you are doing respects "ethical walls" is a huge problem faced by the industry today. This is also one of the biggest challenges that all AI products have today, including Harvey's, according to Weinberg.
"It's a huge burden on all administrators to make sure that folks are not uploading the wrong documents, that agents don't have access to the wrong things, etc.," Weinberg said in his speech. "And so in order to have secure collaboration, especially as these agentic systems get better and better, can access more documents, more data from disparate data sets, agents need to be able to respect governance and permissions and security."
Harvey added on Monday that it has entered into a partnership with the Blavatnik school of government at the University of Oxford. It said that this builds on existing academic collaborations with the university and expands its law school program in the U.K.
The company said that this is its first collaboration with a leading global school of public policy, which will support research and teaching on how AI can be used responsibly in legal and public institutions.
Harvey said in November that it was expanding its law school program to the U.K. It unveiled partnerships with four leading law schools in the U.K. to integrate generative AI into legal education and professional training.
One of those it named at the time was the faculty of law at the University of Oxford.
The legal AI platform had launched a similar initiative in the U.S. in September.
Weinberg told the audience on Monday that the company has been working with law schools, This is because it's important to teach students skills that are going to be important moving forward as AI continues to take hold, he said.
"I think there's going to be an expectation that, when you start at one of the law firms, you know how to use these things," Weinberg said of the new technology.
--Editing by Joe Millis.
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