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

Writing in Corporate Counsel Business Journal, Paul Walker, Global Solutions Director at iManage, argues that legal AI is not simply exposing inefficiency — it is exposing a deeper architectural problem in how legal data is stored and managed. AI agents, which iterate continuously across sources and act on documents rather than merely retrieving them, place fundamentally new demands on platforms designed for human-driven, predictable activity. "We thought we were building search," Walker notes. "What we realized is that it's doing everything that comes after search as well." The implication for knowledge-intensive organizations is clear: governance must shift from a secondary consideration to a foundational capability, with controls embedded in workflows and human escalation where appropriate.

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Publication: Corporate Counsel Business Journal
Type: Thought leadership / Opinion piece