iManage and Thomson Reuters Deepen Strategic Partnership with MCP-Enabled Knowledge Integration

iManage and Thomson Reuters announced an expanded strategic partnership on August 20 that brings MCP support to their existing API integrations, enabling approved Thomson Reuters AI tools — including CoCounsel Legal — to access governed iManage content while preserving access controls, ethical walls, and privilege boundaries. Documents flow from iManage into Thomson Reuters workflows and work product flows back automatically, maintaining governance within iManage without creating parallel repositories. The integrations span CoCounsel Legal, HighQ, Noetica, Contract Express, and Legal Tracker. For KM directors managing iManage environments, the practical consequence is that CoCounsel can now reason across matter files and work product without requiring manual export — and the governance boundaries that the firm has invested in building inside iManage extend into the AI layer without renegotiation. MCP support is expected to follow the API integrations that are live now.