Those systems hold far more than files. They contain the history of matters, the experience of teams and the accumulated knowledge of the organization.

抖阴成年 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 抖阴成年 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鈥檚 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.

The generative AI-driven solution enables UK legal professionals to find the best starting point from their own databases or Practical Law templates, use content from Practical Law alongside their legal department鈥檚 or firm鈥檚 contract repository to draft or revise clauses, leverage Practical Law contract playbooks, and correct common drafting errors. It uses AI to refine and review documents, producing more accurate, higher-quality work 鈥� without leaving Microsoft Word.

I recently shared a CoCounsel Drafting demo with 鈥檚 Richard Tromans.

鈥淭he offering has been especially shaped for legal needs here and will directly engage with TR鈥檚 contract data in Practical Law,鈥� Tromans said in .

I highlighted CoCounsel Drafting capabilities and features for Tromans, and we discussed how 鈥淟LM-supported drafting could be truly transformative.鈥� We talked about how users will be able to use the large language model (LLM) to modify a clause, for example, and how CoCounsel Drafting uses generative AI grounded in retrieval augmented generation (RAG) to access聽Practical Law content and notes.

We also discussed how CoCounsel Drafting delivers a level of detail similar to what a junior associate may produce when asked to draft a contract. I noted that CoCounsel Drafting allows customers to use their own playbook to draft a preferred set of terms for any contract type or use a Practical Law playbook for a range of popular contract types.

Finally, Tromans and I discussed integrations 鈥� with HighQ and with document management systems (DMS) including iManage 鈥� as well as security.

On the other side of the pond, U.S. customer feedback on CoCounsel Drafting, which we introduced earlier this year, has been overwhelmingly positive. I hope that UK legal professionals are equally pleased with the time savings and productivity increases CoCounsel Drafting offers.

As a former lawyer turned AI product leader, I’ve lived the pain of tedious legal tasks firsthand. That’s why I’m passionate about harnessing generative AI to transform legal drafting. I know how much time and energy gets wasted on repetitive tasks, taking away from the work that really matters. Now, I’m excited to help lawyers reclaim that time and focus on what they love 鈥� whether that’s helping clients, developing strategy, or simply enjoying a better work-life balance.

You can learn more about CoCounsel Drafting , and check out Tromans鈥� blog .

This is a guest post from Rawia Ashraf, vice president of Product Management, 抖阴成年.