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When AI meets information governance: ILTACON 2026 takeaways

Law firms have spent decades making information findable. Now AI agents can reach across every system of record, and suddenly findability isn't the problem — access is. That tension framed an ILTACON 2026 roundtable on secure AI integration with knowledge systems, featuring Nathaniel J. Baker, Key Account Executive at Jus Mundi; Galina Datskovsky, board member at Future in Tech; Shalaka Natu, Senior Director of Product Management at Intapp; and Zorik Pesochinsky, Associate Director of AI and Legal Collaboration Technology at Cooley LLP. We sat down with Natu after the session to unpack the key themes.

Why the age of agentic AI is the age of the ecosystem

Professional firms are expanding their use of AI, adopting specialized “Practice AI” tools for everything from research and drafting to financial analysis and origination. These tools make individuals faster, but they don’t help run the firm itself. We’re now entering the age of agentic AI, and things are changing. With the right infrastructure and partner ecosystem in place, firms can connect their tools and use agentic AI coworkers to run operational work – compliantly – across the entire firm.

How to scale AI without scaling risk

With AI, professional firms are getting work done faster than ever before. But as firms give AI greater responsibility, they're also incurring exponentially greater compliance risk. Unlike other technologies, agentic AI doesn’t just help professionals complete tasks — it performs work on their behalf. This substantially increases efficiency, but it also means that a single mistake might be repeated hundreds or even thousands of times before anyone notices.