Law firms have invested heavily in the systems they use to manage documents and knowledge.
Those systems hold far more than files. They contain the history of matters, the experience of teams and the accumulated knowledge of the organization.
Thomson Reuters and iManage have worked together for years to connect that knowledge with the tools legal professionals use every day. Our renewed and expanded agreement extends those integrations across products including CoCounsel Legal, HighQ and Noetica, while creating a foundation for the next generation of connections between our platforms.
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is one area where that next generation is beginning to take shape. As iManage expands access to its MCP capabilities, we plan to integrate them with CoCounsel Legal, HighQ and Noetica. MCP will add another way for these systems to work together, complementing the integrations customers already use to access, browse and sync iManage documents and bring them into Thomson Reuters workflows.
Legal organizations have established workflows, permissions and governance around their information. New AI capabilities should build on that foundation while giving professionals more ways to use the knowledge they already trust.
A more connected legal workflow
Legal work rarely happens in one application. Research, drafting, document management, collaboration and transactional work all draw on different systems and sources of information.
Our longstanding integrations with iManage already help connect those environments. The renewed and expanded partnership allows us to continue supporting those workflows while opening up new ways for the systems, context and tools our shared customers rely on to work together.
When implemented, the MCP will allow shared customers to query iManage’s AI within CoCounsel Legal. For CoCounsel Legal, that fits within a broader ambition: helping professionals bring the right legal content, documents and tools together as they work. Westlaw and Practical Law provide authoritative legal content and expertise. Customer documents provide the facts and matter-specific context. Connections with platforms such as iManage make it easier to work across those sources without reconstructing the workflow each time.
Law firms have spent years building valuable institutional knowledge. As AI becomes more embedded in legal work, that knowledge should become easier to use while preserving the controls organizations depend on.
That is where partnerships like this one matter: connecting the systems professionals already trust with the AI experiences they increasingly rely on.
