Assistant Agentic Search And Iterative Source Expansion

Associate submits a single compound prompt spanning three legally distinct issues: IP indemnification obligations, limitation-of-liability carve-outs, and GDPR data processor requirements. A monolithic query would retrieve only d…

Agent emits at least three distinct, non-overlapping queries: one targeting IP indemnification clauses (e.g., 'IP indemnification hold harmless vendor agreement'), one targeting limitation-of-liability and consequential damage carve-out language (e.g., 'limitation of liability consequential damages…

Partner asks Harvey to research what protections German employees have when terminated without cause. The vault contains German employment law resources and German-language employment agreements. If German-specific terms yield sp…

Agent formulates at least one query containing 'Kündigungsschutz' or 'Kündigungsschutzgesetz' or 'KSchG,' and at least one query containing 'ordentliche Kündigung' or 'Betriebsrat' (works council consent). Agent does not substitute 'at-will employment,' 'wrongful termination,' or the U.S. WARN Act …

Attorney explicitly restricts search to executed contracts in the firm's vault. Harvey's iterative expansion logic may, upon finding sparse results, silently route follow-up queries to external legal databases or web search. The …

All queries — initial and every iterative expansion round — are routed exclusively to the vault's executed contracts corpus. If initial results are sparse, agent surfaces that finding with a statement explicitly referencing the vault-only constraint, and waits for user direction before expanding sc…