Matter-level agent access needs to stay useful without becoming invisible.
Law firms need agents to work across approved documents while protecting confidential matter boundaries.
Who you’d be doing this for
“My client asked whether the agent touched anything outside this matter, and I had no clean answer.”
Aditya Pillai · Litigation Partner
Leads a litigation team using bespoke agents to search and draft from confidential matter materials.
What is at stake
Lawyers cannot yet show that a bespoke agent stayed inside its approved matter documents. You must weigh flexible agent workflows against boundaries administrators can inspect and trust.
Why it isn’t already fixed
Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.
- agent flexibility vs. matter confidentiality
- self-service control vs. configuration burden
- multi-region consistency vs. launch scope
- audit detail vs. operational reliability
Why Harvey
Bespoke agents and matter documents make constrained, auditable execution central to citation-grounded legal work.
Written with these in mind
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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.