Trusted by Leading Law Firms & Enterprise Legal Teams

Microsoft Purview

DSPM

Information Protection

Compliance

Data Lifecycle Management

Solutions That Drive Confidence

Every engagement follows the same disciplined path, from understanding your exposure to enforcing controls to keeping them current. Whether you are turning on Copilot, deploying AI agents, or governing data across a mix of AI tools, we meet your firm where it is and take it to a governed state

Assess

Before you enable AI, know what it can see. Our assessments map your true data-and-access reality and hand you a prioritized path to a governed rollout.

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Deploy

Put the guardrails in place so AI adoption happens on a governed foundation. We configure classification, enforcement, and monitoring around how your firm actually works.

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Sustain

Governance is not a one-time project. Our recurring model keeps your controls current as your firm, its tools, and the threat landscape evolve.

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Knowledge Mobility & Departure Risk

Lateral attorney and partner moves are a normal feature of the legal market. They are also a concentrated governance event — an individual may have legitimate access to sensitive client, matter, and business-development information before a transition. Canalini helps firms establish what information moved, confirm controls were operating as intended, and maintain a defensible, auditable record. This engagement can be delivered as part of the Enterprise Knowledge Governance Index or scoped as a standalone engagement.

Built on Long-Term Partnerships

Greg Gillette

Rincipal Architect, Enterprise Microsoft Solutions

Greg brings more than 25 years of enterprise Microsoft expertise to Canalini's most complex engagements, with deep mastery of Microsoft 365, identity, messaging, eDiscovery, and automation. He embodies what Canalini stands for: diligent, methodical, and relentlessly high-standard, and clients genuinely love working with him. Whether architecting a firm's identity and messaging foundation or automating the work that keeps it running, Greg is one of the architects Am Law firms trust with their hardest problems.

Natasha Romanova

Manager of Finance and Operations

Natasha owns Canalini's finance and operations function, from accounting, invoicing, and financial reporting to delivery logistics, vendor relationships, and engagement governance. A CPA candidate with an MBA in Accounting and a background in forensic accounting and financial systems, she brings the disciplined, methodical stewardship that keeps the firm running smoothly and its engagements aligned to strategy.

Michael Warren

Senior Business Development Manager

Michael leads business development at Canalini, building the relationships that bring Am Law 100 and 200 firms into the fold. Consultative by nature, he helps legal IT leaders navigate Microsoft governance, Copilot, and AI adoption, working closely with our technical team and Microsoft partners to match every firm with the right solution. He is known for turning first conversations into long-term partnerships.

Corey Tracey

Principal Engineer, End User Compute

Corey is the engineer behind Canalini's most demanding infrastructure migrations, with more than 25 years across Citrix, Azure Virtual Desktop, and the identity foundations that keep Am Law environments secure.

He specializes in the complex, high-stakes environments where reliability and security are non-negotiable. Just as often, though, it's his calm, friendly demeanor that clients remember: unflappable under pressure and genuinely easy to work with, Corey has earned a loyal following of firms who ask for him by name.

Denesh Harrilal

Principal Architect, Purview & Copilot Studio

Denesh is the technical force behind Canalini's most advanced work, architecting solutions across the full Microsoft stack: Purview and Data Governance, Copilot Studio and AI agents, Entra ID, CI/CD pipelines, M365 Security and Azure infrastructure. He sets the standard for delivery, leads the firm's most cutting-edge governance, infrastructure & security engagements, and mentors the engineering team that lets Canalini scale. When a deal needs real architectural depth, Denesh is the one Am Law clients ask for.

Michael Canalini

Founder & CEO

Michael founded Canalini in 2016 to close a gap he saw in the legal technology world: Am Law firms needed a partner who understood both the Microsoft platform and the exacting confidentiality standards of legal practice. A decade later, he has built Canalini into the Microsoft governance partner of choice for Am Law 100 and 200 firms navigating the shift to AI.

Relationships come first in everything Michael does. Clients describe him as a straight shooter who acts in good faith and stands firmly behind his brand, and that reputation has become the foundation the firm is built on. He leads client strategy and delivery across Canalini's Am Law and enterprise relationships, guiding legal leaders through Copilot, data governance, and the diligent work of protecting privileged data in a new era. For Michael, earning and keeping a firm's trust is the whole point, and it is why so many of Canalini's client relationships have lasted for years.