Legora to connect with iManage MCP Server for lawyers

Legora and iManage plan to connect Legora with the iManage MCP Server, expanding their existing integration for shared customers in the legal sector.

The connection will let lawyers access governed knowledge held in iManage directly within Legora, while iManage remains the central repository for documents and related information. User permissions set in iManage will determine what material each person can retrieve.

Legora already offers an API integration with iManage that lets lawyers browse, search, access and save documents back to iManage without leaving the Legora environment. The MCP Server connection is intended to add further options, including moving documents and updating document information through workflows in Legora.

Customers using iManage Insight+ will also be able to surface institutional knowledge and information from past matters inside Legora. That would extend access beyond current matter documents to wider firm knowledge stored in iManage systems.

Gabriel Quek, Senior Director, Technology Partnerships, at Legora, said the development reflects demand from firms to make greater use of existing legal work product and knowledge inside newer AI tools.

"A firm's iManage platform holds years of work product, know-how and context, and lawyers want to put that to work in Legora," said Gabriel Quek, Senior Director, Technology Partnerships, at Legora. "Our iManage integration already connects Legora to the matters and documents they work on every day. Connecting to the iManage MCP Server will let lawyers draw on firm knowledge and document history, and execute work in iManage, without leaving Legora."

Governed access

iManage says its MCP Server is designed to connect compatible AI applications with an organisation's documents and context while respecting permissions, information barriers and audit controls configured in iManage. Recent platform work extends the server to support actions such as creating workspaces and folders, filing, moving and linking documents.

That means work produced through AI tools can be written back into iManage under the same permissions, audit trail and lifecycle rules as the relevant matter or project. The approach is intended to preserve governance controls while allowing lawyers to work across both systems.

Ryan Begin, Vice President, Technology Partnerships & Ecosystem Strategy, at iManage, said the partnership is part of a wider push to connect AI products to trusted internal knowledge.

"Since launching the iManage MCP Server, we have continued to expand the ways technology partners can securely connect AI experiences with trusted organizational knowledge," said Ryan Begin, Vice President, Technology Partnerships & Ecosystem Strategy, at iManage. "Legora's connection to the iManage MCP Server will give our mutual customers additional ways to work with governed iManage content connected to Legora, while maintaining iManage as the single, secure source of truth."

Legal AI market

The agreement comes as legal technology suppliers seek to link AI assistants and workflow systems more closely to document management platforms that hold law firms' accumulated matter history, precedent material and internal knowledge. For law firms and in-house legal teams, those repositories often sit at the centre of day-to-day work and are subject to strict confidentiality and access requirements.

Legora describes itself as an operating system for legal work focused on research, review and drafting across complex matters. It says it is used by more than 130,000 legal professionals at more than 2,000 law firms and in-house legal teams across more than 80 markets.

iManage says it serves more than one million professionals at 4,500 organisations worldwide. The company has long supplied document and knowledge management software to law firms, corporate legal teams and other professional services organisations.

The companies framed the integration as a way to make AI use more practical inside existing legal workflows, with access controls staying in place through iManage. Neil Araujo, Chief Executive Officer at iManage, linked that approach to broader changes in how businesses handle data and adopt AI tools.

"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 at 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."