Senior Account Executive - Law Firms

iManage and Wordsmith AI partner to connect trusted legal knowledge with agentic workflows. CHICAGO & NEW YORK, September 2nd 2026: In-house legal teams are absorbing more contracts, more questions and more risk every quarter, with headcount that rarely keeps pace. The tools meant to help often add a step rather than remove one. Work still has to be found, opened, drafted, checked and filed back by hand. Today, iManage and Wordsmith AI announced a technology partnership designed to help corporate legal teams get more value from the knowledge and work product they already manage in iManage. Wordsmith AI is joining the iManage Technology Partner Program, connecting its agentic legal workflows with the next-generation iManage platform, the AI-ready knowledge foundation for legal teams. The next-generation iManage platform brings AI into the flow of work while building toward a context fabric - a governed intelligence layer that connects an organization's documents, matters, people and institutional knowledge. Its open architecture is designed to enable approved AI tools, like Wordsmith AI, to access the trusted knowledge they need without requiring organisations to establish a new repository for every AI application. The partnership brings together two complementary capabilities: iManage provides the trusted knowledge foundation for legal work, while Wordsmith applies agentic workflows to tasks including drafting, review and answering routine legal questions. Through the integration, Wordsmith can securely access relevant content through iManage APIs. This enables customers to leverage that knowledge within Wordsmith's agentic workflows, with plans to return resulting work product back to iManage in future releases. "Corporate legal teams are building increasingly diverse AI ecosystems, and they need a governed foundation underneath them," said Ryan Begin, Vice President, Technology Partnerships and Ecosystem Strategy at iManage. "Our open architecture gives customers the flexibility to use great, specialised AI products while getting more value from the knowledge already held in iManage. Wordsmith AI is a strong example of that ecosystem in action - bringing agentic legal workflows together with the governed content and context that corporate legal teams rely on." "In-house legal teams already rely on iManage to hold critical matter content and institutional knowledge," said Ross McNairn, CEO and co-founder of Wordsmith AI. "Connecting Wordsmith to that knowledge gives our agents access to the context they need to support meaningful legal work, while enabling teams to bring resulting work product back into the systems they already depend on. We are not here to help lawyers search a little faster. We are here to take the request, do the work, and hand it back finished." What the integration delivers. The integration is built for in-house legal teams and connects Wordsmith's agents to the next generation iManage platform. It is designed to help corporate legal teams connect agentic workflows with the governed content and context already managed in iManage. * Work, not just retrieval: Wordsmith agents deliver substantive work, drafted, reviewed, redlined, within the workflow. Lawyers get finished-quality output ready for approval and sign-off, not raw material requiring assembly. * Intake to output in one flow: Requests triggered at intake route straight to the right agent, with matter workspaces created and populated automatically, so nothing is set up by hand. * Built on a trusted knowledge foundation: iManage remains the system where customers manage and govern their legal knowledge and work product. The integration enables Wordsmith AI to access relevant iManage content through supported APIs, helping agents work from an organisation's own legal knowledge rather than generic information alone. * Built for the in-house reality: Designed around the volume, mix and pace of corporate legal work, where a small team handles a long tail of contracts and queries. Availability. The iManage integration is offered to shared Wordsmith and iManage customers. Contact your Wordsmith account manager to discuss how iManage can be incorporated into your Wordsmith workflows. Joint go-to-market activity and enablement for in-house legal teams will follow over the course of the year. Media contacts iManage: [email protected] Wordsmith AI: [email protected] FEATURE SECTION BOOK A DEMO Ready to transform your legal department? See how the world's leading legal teams are building the future of in-house legal.

iManage links governed legal data to Gemini Enterprise. Fri, 28th Aug 2026 (Today) iManage has launched new artificial intelligence tools built on Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise for Legal. The integration gives users access to governed knowledge held in iManage from within Google's legal AI environment. The move links iManage's document and knowledge management system with Gemini Enterprise for Legal, allowing users to query matter files, precedent and internal expertise without leaving the Google Cloud workspace. It is aimed at legal teams, as well as users in financial services and life sciences, where sensitive records and access controls are central to daily work. At the centre of the announcement is an effort to address a recurring problem in corporate AI projects: staff often rely on duplicated or exported data sets that sit outside normal governance rules. iManage said the integration is intended to avoid that by retrieving information directly under existing permissions rather than from static copies of documents and records. That means the system can draw on matter, client and personnel data alongside unstructured content stored in iManage. Users can ask natural-language questions and receive responses based on current information that remains subject to the same controls and audit requirements already applied inside the platform. For law firms and in-house legal departments, this could affect work such as reviewing deal documents, handling e-discovery and searching for precedent. It also reflects wider demand for AI systems that can work with confidential information without forcing organisations to loosen long-standing compliance processes. Governance focus iManage framed the release as part of a broader effort to position itself as a knowledge layer for AI tools its customers already use. Rather than asking clients to move sensitive content into a separate AI repository, it is seeking to make its governed stores available to external systems while retaining existing controls. That approach is likely to appeal to companies that have already standardised on Google Cloud but remain cautious about applying generative AI to legal or regulated workloads. In sectors such as legal services, banking and life sciences, the quality of source material and the chain of access around it often determine whether AI can move beyond pilot projects. Google Cloud also used the launch to underline its legal industry strategy. "Legal professionals handle vast amounts of complex information and need AI tools that respect strict confidentiality while accelerating daily tasks. Bringing iManage into Gemini Enterprise enables teams to analyze deal documents, e-discovery files, and precedent with speed and confidence," said Satish Thomas, Vice President, Google Cloud. The partnership gives Google Cloud access to one of the better-known knowledge management suppliers in legal technology. iManage said it is used by more than one million professionals across 4,000 organisations, giving it an installed base that includes firms and corporate legal teams dealing with large volumes of documents and email. Industry pressure Legal technology suppliers have spent the past two years trying to show that generative AI can be introduced without creating unmanaged copies of client files or exposing confidential work product. Customers have pressed vendors on how models access information, whether permissions are preserved and how outputs can be traced back to source materials. Those concerns have become more acute as firms experiment with AI agents and workflow automation for drafting, research and document review. A system that can search governed repositories in place, rather than relying on one-off exports, addresses one of the practical barriers to wider deployment. For iManage, the integration also broadens its alliance strategy by tying its platform more closely to external AI models and interfaces chosen by customers. The company wants to give organisations choice in how they adopt AI while keeping core knowledge secure and available across different tools. David Zember, Vice President, Global Channels and Alliances, iManage, said the integration forms part of that effort. "This integration underscores our strategic commitment to building the industry's best ecosystem. This approach gives our clients choice in how they use AI to connect to the knowledge they already trust. Gemini Enterprise can securely draw on matter context, precedent and institutional knowledge in iManage while preserving the permissions, controls and auditability organizations already rely on," he said. He added: "It is a practical example of how enterprise AI and governed knowledge systems can work together to deliver more useful outcomes without compromising trust."

iManage to launch next-gen AI platform in October 2026. Wed, 26th Aug 2026 (Today) iManage said its next-generation platform will be generally available in October 2026. The release follows an early access programme involving law firms, corporate legal departments, and financial institutions. The launch centres on what iManage calls its Context Fabric, which links documents, communications, parties, and relationships within a matter or project, while adding context from practice management and financial systems. The system is designed to let AI tools work with an organisation's own knowledge while staying within existing access controls and information barriers. iManage is positioning the platform around a common concern among professional services and legal-sector clients: whether AI systems can produce useful work without losing track of permission settings, audit requirements, and the business context behind documents. The company said every answer generated through the platform traces back to an organisation's own information and that data is not exported outside the governed environment. That structure also underpins connections to external AI applications. According to iManage, the platform can connect with products including Microsoft Copilot, Harvey, Legora, Thomson Reuters, Spellbook, ChatGPT Enterprise, and Claude through an open ecosystem that uses governed access to organisational knowledge. Open connections A central part of that approach is the iManage MCP Server, which links compatible AI applications to an organisation's documents and contextual data while applying the permissions and audit controls already configured in iManage. With the next-generation release, the MCP server is also being extended to support actions such as creating workspaces and folders and filing, moving, and linking documents. iManage said those write actions are intended to ensure AI-generated work product returns to the governed record for a matter or project under the same access conditions and lifecycle rules as other material. The company argued that this creates a feedback loop in which new work written back into the system deepens the context available to future AI tasks. The platform also expands AI functions beyond a chat-style assistant. iManage said the software can answer questions across documents within a matter, build chronologies, analyse documents against internal playbooks, carry out tabular review across large document sets, and file the resulting work back into the organisation's knowledge base. Those functions are aimed at legal and other knowledge-intensive work. According to iManage, deal teams can compare current drafts against negotiated precedents and playbooks, while litigation teams can assess whether new evidence or expert reports align with pleadings, testimony, and earlier analysis across a case. Advisers can also use the system to surface previous advice and work product on similar issues before giving client counsel. Chief Executive Officer Neil Araujo set out the company's view of the market shift around AI adoption. "Every business is going through a transformation enabled by AI. It's reshaping how they manage their data, the tools people use, and how they operate," said Neil Araujo, Chief Executive Officer of iManage. "The organizations getting it right know AI has to reinforce their unique differentiation - while enabling safe and governed use, grounding it in rich context, optimizing token costs, and driving pervasive usage across the business. This is the foundation that we have built and will be available in October." Sector focus The announcement reflects a broader push among software suppliers to build AI features into document and knowledge management systems used by law firms and financial institutions. In those sectors, the commercial case for AI often depends less on broad, consumer-style generation and more on whether systems can work inside tightly controlled repositories without weakening confidentiality, compliance, and internal barriers. iManage said its early access programme covered organisations of different sizes, suggesting it is targeting both large global firms and smaller specialist practices. The company serves more than one million professionals across more than 4,500 organisations, giving it an established base from which to introduce the upgraded platform. The staged rollout also separates features already on the market from those included in the wider release. Playbook-based review, tabular review, and MCP read and write actions are available now, ahead of the broader general availability of the platform in October 2026. Alongside the software release, iManage said it is supporting user adoption with education and certification paths, as well as use-case videos organised by practice area, including employment and labour, intellectual property, litigation, M&A, real estate, and trusts and estates.