Safeguard ethical-wall enforcement across material pathways
Ethical walls become hardest when legal obligations cross connected work surfaces.
A launch commitment can conflict with the need to prove that restrictions hold in every meaningful path.
“Ninety-nine percent isn’t a comfort when the one miss is a conflict wall.”
Juha Virtanen · Conflicts and Ethics Partner
Responsible for enforcing an ethical wall between designated lawyers on a sensitive litigation matter.
What pulls against what
- contractual launch date vs. complete assurance
- workflow continuity vs. ethical-wall integrity
- machine-generated evidence vs. independent verification
- customer commitment vs. residual edge-case risk
What is at stake
A fixed customer commitment depends on proving that a restriction holds across all meaningful legal-work pathways. A missed edge case could create a confidentiality and conflicts incident
Why Harvey
At Harvey, enterprise legal workflows often require safeguards that remain credible as work moves between linked product surfaces.
Written for
This is the setup. The work is inside.
Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.