Tech Innovators Spotlight

Building Trustworthy AI for Legal w/ iManage


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In this episode of Tech Innovators Spotlight, host Chad Merck and co-host Jennifer Martinez are joined by Paul Walker, Global Solutions Director at iManage, to explore how AI is transforming legal and professional services. Paul discusses how generative AI has shifted iManage’s platform from record-keeping to active intelligence, enabling lawyers to extract value from vast, highly sensitive document repositories while maintaining trust, security, and regulatory compliance. The conversation covers what “AI confidence” means in practice, including explainability, auditability, data containment, and completeness, as well as real-world efficiency gains, unexpected high-impact use cases, and the importance of strong information architecture. 


In This Episode You Will Learn:  

 

  • How generative AI is changing the way legal teams work with documents 
  • Why grounding AI responses in source documents improves adoption 
  • What’s next for AI in legal tech including platform openness and agentic workflows 

 

Some Questions We Ask: 

 

  • Why are trust, accuracy, and sensitive data handling so critical in legal AI? 
  • How does iManage make AI outputs trusted and explainable for users? 
  • What does the agentic future of AI look like for legal teams? 

    

Resources:      

View Paul Walker on LinkedIn  

View Jennifer Martinez on LinkedIn  

View Chad Merck on LinkedIn  

 

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