Legal IT Insider: India's legal tech market: homegrown ambition and global inroads

Legal IT Insider examines India’s rapidly growing legal technology market, where approximately 1,000 homegrown startups — second only to the United States — are competing alongside global platforms for a share of one of the world’s fastest-growing legal sectors.

Mina Jenkins draws on iManage research from the Knowledge Work Benchmark Report 2026, which reveals that Indian legal professionals lose 37 to 40 minutes per day searching for information — what the study calls the “hidden search tax” — underscoring both the scale of the knowledge management gap and the opportunity for structured document platforms to close it.

The piece notes that Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has run iManage since 2009 and achieved 100 percent platform adoption firm-wide — a benchmark that contrasts with the majority of Indian law firms in the RSGI Resight 100, which still operate without formal document management systems.

Jenkins frames the landscape as one where homegrown platforms and global providers are beginning to compete in earnest, with iManage data offering the clearest picture yet of how far the market has to travel.

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