Staffing shortages affect 77% of government legal offices. These are the efficiency gains that change the equation.
AG offices face a familiar equation: caseloads growing, budgets flat, headcounts unchanged. The cases keep coming — consumer fraud, environmental violations, antitrust investigations, civil rights complaints — but the budgets and headcounts haven’t moved to match. Three out of four AG offices are short-staffed, and that gap continues to grow.
CoCounsel Legal is engineered to work at the level of a senior associate— using the same sources and standards your office relies on every day. It is the only legal AI that reasons from Westlaw, Practical Law, and your organization’s own knowledge. It addresses this pressure not by adding headcount, but by making existing AG teams substantially more productive. The five efficiency gains outlined below apply whether your office has 50 team members or 500, and whether you are managing 10 consumer protection cases or 100.
CoCounsel Legal is a tool, not a replacement for the legal judgment your office provides.
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| 1. Multi-state research efficiency |
| 2. Document review acceleration |
| 3. Drafting consistency across practice areas |
| 4. Integrated workflow: Eliminating handoff friction |
| 5. Training efficiency: One platform, not five |
| These gains scale with your office |
1. Multi-state research efficiency
A 50-state statutory analysis—the kind required for consumer protection investigations involving national online marketplaces or multi-jurisdictional fraud—can take two to three weeks of manual research. With Westlaw Advantage’s multi-state search functionality integrated into CoCounsel Legal, the same analysis is completed in two to three days.
Practical Law’s consumer protection toolkit provides enforcement strategy templates alongside that research, and KeyCite verification confirms that every authority your team plans to cite is current and valid before it becomes part of a public enforcement position. Research findings flow directly into CoCounsel’s document analysis and drafting environment. There is no manual transfer, no re-entry of legal frameworks.
Efficiency gain: 15% reduction in research time across all research-intensive workflows.1
2. Document review acceleration
Large-scale document productions are a routine feature of AG office work. A Clean Water Act investigation may yield 10,000 pages of compliance records and internal correspondence. A consumer fraud matter may involve thousands of business records and consumer complaints. Manual review at this volume strains even well-staffed offices.
CoCounsel Legal analyzes document productions systematically, surfacing the most relevant materials, identifying inconsistencies, and extracting key dates into an automated violation timeline. Critically, every AI-flagged document is accompanied by an explanation grounded in Westlaw legal authority—giving your office a reasoned, verifiable analysis rather than a prioritized list to sort through manually. The reasoning path is visible as it works, and every source is linked so you can click through and verify the work yourself.
Efficiency gain: Document analysis up to 68% faster than traditional manual review, enabling your office to handle significantly more investigations without adding headcount.1
3. Drafting consistency across practice areas
AG offices advise dozens of state agencies across diverse practice areas—consumer protection, environmental, antitrust, civil rights, appellate. Maintaining consistent quality across that breadth, with staff of varying experience levels, is a persistent challenge. Disconnected tools compound it: staff working in separate research, drafting, and review systems produce work product of uneven quality, and training staff to proficiency across multiple platforms takes months.
CoCounsel Legal’s integrated drafting environment, grounded in Westlaw Advantage content and supported by Practical Law templates, provides structural scaffolding that standardizes quality across your office. Every suggested citation and legal argument is anchored to authoritative sources that the drafting attorney can verify and stand behind—a particular requirement when the work product is a formal legal opinion issued to a state agency.
Efficiency gain: Drafting up to 50% faster, with improved consistency across practice areas and attorney experience levels.1
4. Integrated workflow: Eliminating handoff friction
In offices relying on disconnected point solutions, every transition between tasks creates friction and risk. Research conducted in one system must be manually translated into a document review platform. Findings from that review must be re-entered when drafting begins. Each handoff is an opportunity for error, inconsistency, or information loss.
CoCounsel Legal handles each stage in sequence, without manual handoffs. Research insights from Westlaw Advantage flow directly into CoCounsel’s document analysis environment. Document review findings are accessible within the drafting workflow without export or re-entry. For offices that add HighQ for multi-state coordination, the entire research, analysis, and drafting output is accessible to all participating states within a single secure workspace—preventing the duplicate research and version control issues that routinely slow multi-state matters.
Efficiency gain: Integrated workflow eliminates redundant re-work between research, document review, and drafting phases. Multi-state coordination via HighQ delivers an additional 48% collaboration efficiency improvement.1
5. Training efficiency: One platform, not five
When a new Assistant Attorney General (AAG) joins your office and must become proficient across separate systems for research, document review, drafting, and collaboration, the onboarding timeline extends accordingly. Reaching full proficiency across disconnected tools can take up to six months—months during which that team member is operating at reduced capacity.
Because CoCounsel Legal integrates research, document analysis, drafting, and practice guidance within a single platform, new AAGs and support staff reach proficiency in six to eight weeks. The training burden on supervisors is reduced, onboarding is standardized across your office, and new staff contribute at full capacity substantially sooner.
Efficiency gain: Time to proficiency reduced from up to six months (multiple disconnected tools) to six to eight weeks on a single integrated platform.1
These gains scale with your office
The math works whether you have 30 team members or 3,000.
The efficiency gains above aren’t reserved for large, well-resourced offices. A 75-attorney office in Wyoming gets the same proportional return as a 1,000-attorney operation in California: faster research, faster document review, faster drafting, one platform to train on. The platform adapts to the size of the operation; the underlying efficiency gains do not diminish.
That said, CoCounsel Legal is a tool, not a replacement for legal judgment. The efficiency gains are real, but the conclusions your attorneys reach, the enforcement positions your office takes, and the decisions that carry public accountability still belong to the people doing the work. Every step of the reasoning is transparent and auditable, so your office can confidently stand behind the work product CoCounsel Legal helps produce.
For offices where multi-state litigation is a regular part of the work, HighQ extends that further. Participating states share a single, secure workspace with the same research and the same drafts, eliminating duplicate work and version control headaches. That is where the 48% collaboration efficiency gain comes from.
See what CoCounsel Legal can do for your AG office. Whether you’re managing a multi-state investigation or working to fulfill your office’s mission with a lean team, a free demo will show you exactly where the efficiency gains are.
¹ Efficiency figures based on CoCounsel Legal workflow analysis across AG office use cases.
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