Corporate Counsel Business Journal: Legal AI is forcing a new architecture of trust, scale and control

In this byline for Corporate Counsel Business Journal, iManage Global Solutions Director Paul Walker argues that the real impact of legal AI is architectural, not just additive capability. As AI agents replace single human searches with continuous, iterative processes acting across documents, clauses, and versions simultaneously, the demand on enterprise systems compounds in ways traditional platforms were never designed to support. Walker describes the emerging priority: "keep the data where it is, and allow tools to access it in place" — repositioning the platform from a system of storage to one that governs how information is accessed and acted upon. The piece makes a compelling case that the platforms which will matter most will be defined not solely by what they generate, but by whether their outputs remain grounded in data that is controlled, understood, and trusted.

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