iManage and Thomson Reuters collaborate to provide governed AI-powered legal workflows
iManage, the company dedicated to Making Knowledge Work, and Thomson Reuters, a global content and technology company, is expanding its strategic partnership connecting Thomson Reuters AI, authoritative legal content and workflow solutions with governed organizational knowledge in the iManage platform.
According to the companies, the collaboration brings CoCounsel Legal more deeply into the iManage environment, alongside integrations with HighQ, Noetica, and Legal Tracker—helping legal professionals work across Thomson Reuters solutions and the institutional knowledge already managed in iManage.
The companies are also delivering Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, which enables approved Thomson Reuters AI tools to reason from governed iManage content while preserving the access controls, ethical walls, and privilege boundaries applied to that knowledge, the vendors said.
“Legal work depends on bringing the right sources of knowledge together in the right context,” said Ryan Begin, vice president, technology partnerships and ecosystem strategy at iManage. “Through this partnership, Thomson Reuters’ authoritative legal content, AI and workflow capabilities can work alongside the governed knowledge managed in iManage—giving legal professionals access to the organizational context relevant to the work at hand while maintaining the controls they rely on. As AI moves from answering questions toward taking on more complex work, that combination of context and governance becomes increasingly important.”
The quality of AI-assisted work depends on the context those tools can reason over. By connecting Thomson Reuters AI and authoritative legal content with the organization’s own governed knowledge, the partnership is designed to give legal professionals context that is specific to the client, matter and work at hand—while also keeping organizational knowledge governed in iManage rather than creating separate repositories or parallel governance regimes.
“Ask any lawyer what slows them down and they will tell you the same thing: the work lives in too many places. This renewed partnership changes that across more of the places where legal work actually happens, including CoCounsel Legal, HighQ, Noetica, and Contract Express. The integration is deeper than ever with documents from iManage flowing directly into the workflow, work product flowing back automatically, and the connection staying current as matters evolve. Legal teams have spent years building their knowledge in iManage. We are making sure it works harder across everything we build,” said Rawia Ashraf, co-head of CoCounsel Legal. “The MCP will add another way for our systems to work together, complementing the integrations customers already use today.”
The integration spans AI-assisted legal work, transactional workflows and matter management, helping knowledge surface in the tools and workflows where legal professionals already work.
Key capabilities include:
- CoCounsel Legal and side-by-side drafting assistance
- MCP-enabled access to governed matter content
- Connected transactional workflows through HighQ and Noetica
- Connected matter intelligence
- Knowledge that stays connected as work moves
“This collaboration reflects a shared commitment to an open, governed approach to legal AI. As organizations adopt a growing range of AI tools, those tools need access to trusted organizational context without requiring separate repositories, duplicated content or new governance models for every application,” said the organizations.
API-based integrations connecting the iManage platform with CoCounsel Legal, HighQ, Contract Express, Noetica, and Legal Tracker, are available now.
MCP support enabling approved Thomson Reuters AI tools to reason from governed content in the iManage platform will be coming soon.
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