# Harvey — Extend Your Firm’s Ethical Walls Into Harvey With iManage

- Company: Harvey (harvey.ai)
- Announced: 2026-10-29T19:00:00+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://www.harvey.ai/blog/ethical-walls-harvey-imanage
- Record: https://forck.live/items/29496-extend-your-firm-s-ethical-walls-into-harvey-with-imanage
- Subject: Harvey

Harvey is enforcing law firms' ethical walls inside its platform using client matters and policies synced from iManage Security Policy Manager, after an early access period with select customers. The capability is now generally available, and Harvey says it controls who can access and share content tied to a client matter by checking the information barrier and ethical wall policies the firm already maintains. When enforcement is turned on, those policies govern the Threads, Vaults, Review Tables and Spaces inside Harvey, so a colleague outside a barrier cannot open a shared Vault until they are permissioned through the firm's usual process. iManage SPM stays the system of record: policies are managed there and synced into Harvey, and when a policy changes, only users permissioned in iManage get equivalent access to Harvey resources, which Harvey says removes manual access checks by admins. Harvey's audit logs record wall membership syncs, space access attempts and changes to enforcement so risk teams can confirm how policies were applied. Eversheds Sutherland, a design partner, had kept walled matters out of Harvey and asked users to share Vaults only with permissioned colleagues; enforcement let it extend shared Vaults synced from iManage to those restricted matters and deploy Harvey firmwide. Ethical wall enforcement with iManage SPM is available for Harvey customers using iManage, and the company asks customers to contact their Harvey representative to confirm availability for their deployment.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://www.harvey.ai/blog/ethical-walls-harvey-imanage:

> Harvey enforces ethical walls using client matters and policies synced from iManage Security Policy Manager, so lawyers can share and collaborate without a second set of rules to manage.
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> A team is reviewing agreements for a restricted transaction. The documents live in iManage, in a client matter protected by an ethical wall. Someone syncs the folder into a shared Vault in Harvey and invites a few colleagues to help. For firms that manage ethical walls in iManage, the natural next question is whether those walls carry over into Harvey.
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> Now they do. Harvey enforces ethical walls using client matters and policies synced from iManage Security Policy Manager (SPM). After an early access period with select customers, this capability is now generally available.
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> When a firm has set its information barriers, Harvey will respect them throughout the platform, using the policies the firm already maintains, so lawyers can share and collaborate without a second set of rules to manage.
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> Your Existing Walls, Enforced

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