Why CoCounsel Legal is redefining how corporate law departments deliver for the business
CoCounsel Legal from Thomson Reuters is leading the way in redefining legal practice with its comprehensive legal AI solutions. Unlike single-purpose tools, this integrated platform combines generative and agentic AI to streamline workflows across all aspects of legal work. No longer confined to experimental pilots or niche use cases, these tools are beginning to integrate into the daily workflows of law firms and legal departments.
This unified experience enhances drafting, document review, and legal research, empowering in-house legal teams to expedite their processes, minimize routine tasks, and dedicate more time to strategic thinking, analysis, and consultative work with business colleagues. CoCounsel Legal quickly delivers more thorough and precise results, enhancing your workflow with capabilities like Deep Research in Westlaw, guided agentic workflows, the Library, and CoCounsel, the AI legal assistant.
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Reshaping how legal professionals work
Deep research
Deep Research emulates the practices of expert researchers to provide precise, thorough, and comprehensive answers to legal research inquiries. It develops a detailed step-by-step plan, uses trusted Westlaw tools, and continuously refines the search process for optimal results.
What would deep research look like in healthcare regulation?
An in-house lawyer in healthcare can use Deep Research to quickly understand how different states interpret “medical necessity” in Medicaid regulations. Deep Research develops a multi-step plan to extract statutory definitions across jurisdictions, identify relevant regulations and administrative guidance, summarize how courts have interpreted the term in each state, and present a jurisdictional comparison table.
This rapid output can significantly reduce the time and effort legal teams would otherwise spend on analysis and interpretation. They can use that time to discuss options with the business and support an effective policy or process rollout.
Guided agentic workflows
CoCounsel Legal goes beyond step-by-step prompting by planning the multi-step processes required to achieve objectives. It gathers information, acts, and adapts as necessary. When appropriate, it escalates tasks or decisions for your review, ensuring you remain in control. Over time, CoCounsel Legal will introduce more specialized agentic workflows designed to enhance your legal service delivery and business advisory capabilities.
Here’s an example of a guided agentic workflow. When drafting contracts, a lawyer can have CoCounsel take the following steps:
- Identify the type of agreement needed such as an NDA or services agreement.
- Automatically gather matter-specific data.
- Create a first draft using jurisdiction-specific clauses.
- Flag any non-standard provisions for attorney review.
- Route the document for final review and delivery.
Library
CoCounsel Legal’s new Library is a collection of skills, workflows, and AI prompts for a broad range of legal tasks, created and tested by Thomson Reuters experts. The Library streamlines your workflow by providing immediate access to expert guidance for research, review, and writing, significantly saving you time and enhancing your productivity.
What is a reliable prompt example for employment and labor law?
Consider, for example, a legal team that needs a quick analysis of recent FMLA-related case law in the 7th Circuit. They could easily use a pre-built prompt like, “Summarize recent appellate decisions interpreting the FMLA within the 7th Circuit.” This saves them time and guesswork in deciding how to phrase a query. In the past, the team may have sent this task to outside counsel because they didn’t have time to do the research. Now, they can keep the work in house, saving time and getting faster answers to the business.
What kind of prompt can you use for commercial contracts?
Similarly, a transactional attorney reviewing a commercial lease for unusual or risky clauses can use a tested prompt. The CoCounsel team has optimized prompts like, “Identify and explain any non-standard or high-risk provisions in this lease agreement” to surface relevant insights from documents.
AI Assistant
CoCounsel, the AI legal assistant, is central to the CoCounsel Legal experience. Accessible through chat, CoCounsel is by your side and ready to help, connecting every step in their workflow. It shepherds results from task to task, whether in CoCounsel Legal or a third-party platform such as Microsoft Word or their Document Management System.
This AI assistant can help you prepare for:
- board meetings
- respond to regulations, or
- support outside counsel during litigation
It assists by searching databases, drafting correspondence, and reviewing documents. Additionally, it summarizes long and complex documents, extracts contract data, monitors contract policy compliance, and more.
How can AI assist in due diligence?
Before presenting findings from a due diligence project, you can use the AI Assistant to verify outputs, draft disclosure schedules, and prepare a summary memo. The AI Assistant provides citations for transparency and supports fast, accurate prep. This enables the legal team to brief executives with confidence and address key risks before closing a deal.
How can AI streamline vendor agreements?
Here’s another example: A legal operations team that wants to ensure vendor agreements meet updated privacy policy standards can also use CoCounsel to scan contracts for compliance with specific data handling clauses, highlight contracts that require amendments, and draft emails or amendments for follow-up with vendors.
Trusted by the legal industry
Since its launch, CoCounsel has stood out as the premier professional-grade AI legal assistant. More than 20,000 legal teams — including corporate departments, law firms, and US courts — rely on CoCounsel. The solution has been adopted across the US federal court system and by courts in 94% of US states.
The industry has placed its trust in CoCounsel in large part due to our 225-year history of providing reliable content and tools to uphold the rule of law. Like CoCounsel, CoCounsel Legal — its newest, most advanced and capable version yet — is built on the authoritative content and expertise of Westlaw and Practical Law, combining human expertise with the best-in-class technology.
Reshaping how legal professionals work
CoCounsel Legal is the trusted choice for legal teams looking to future-proof their practice with a single, comprehensive solution. It sets a new standard for AI-driven legal work, offering unmatched integration and reliability for legal professionals. By automating time-consuming tasks such as document review and drafting, CoCounsel Legal empowers in-house attorneys to concentrate on high-value work.
With faster, more accurate results and expert-designed agentic workflows, attorneys gain time for strategic thinking, business partnership, and creative problem-solving. CoCounsel Legal sharpens decision-making and strengthens work product — helping legal departments be more effective, responsive, and competitive in a rapidly evolving industry.
CoCounsel Legal brings together generative and agentic AI, trusted content, and expert insights, built and supported by a team dedicated to ensuring customers get the maximum benefits of AI. Discover how it helps legal professionals work more efficiently and deliver powerful results for clients.
