CoCounsel Legal offers advanced AI legal assistance for boutique and solo law firms by providing authoritative, law-grounded research
Highlights
- CoCounsel Legal delivers research and litigation support grounded in authoritative legal sources, not the public internet.
- Solo and boutique law firms use CoCounsel Legal to save time, increase capacity, and improve client outcomes.
- Unlike general AI tools, CoCounsel Legal is purpose-built for legal professionals, ensuring accuracy, security, and measurable ROI.
Ask any AI tool a legal research question and you’ll get an answer. Whether that answer is grounded in current law or accurate enough to act on are separate questions entirely.
Consumer AI tools can draft a passable email or summarize a news article. But legal work demands something different: accuracy tied to authoritative sources, security that protects client data, and results you can stake your reputation on.
That’s the difference CoCounsel Legal delivers. Built by Thomson Reuters specifically for legal professionals, it goes far beyond what general-purpose AI can do. Here’s what that looks like in practice for solo or boutique firms.
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Research grounded in law, not the internet
Discovery prep and trial work, done faster
A force multiplier for solo or boutique law firms
Built for legal professionals, not general audiences
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Research grounded in law, not the internet
Consumer AI pulls from the public internet, which means results can be outdated, incomplete, or simply wrong for your jurisdiction. CoCounsel Legal draws on Westlaw and Practical Law content, reviewed and maintained by more than 1,500 expert attorney editors. Every answer is tied to current law and comes with clear citations you can verify.
For Safa Riadh of Valiant Law, the shift was immediate. “Westlaw with CoCounsel gives me language from the statutes or case law themselves to quickly understand what I need to understand and then apply it.” Before Westlaw Precision’s AI-Assisted Research feature, he was reading case after case to find what he needed. Now he gets answers on demand, even at trial. When a question came up that no one in the courtroom could resolve, AI-Assisted Research guided all parties to a clear answer in real time.
Discovery prep and trial work, done faster
GPT can summarize text. What it cannot do is act as a legal research assistant that understands case strategy, works from your uploaded documents, and returns structured, actionable outputs built for litigation.
Nolan Thomas of Thomas & Thomas LLC uses CoCounsel to work through discovery documents, asking it to generate detailed outlines organized around the legal factors dispositive to each case. “I’ll ask [CoCounsel] to make me an outline with questions directed to each of the legal factors or elements that are dispositive of a case or controlling on a legal issue.”
At a recent jury trial, Nolan needed to prepare two expert witnesses with very little time to spare. He uploaded the expert reports and asked CoCounsel to build examination outlines, and it delivered. “I was able to prep the witnesses and give them a thorough outline ahead of trial to ensure my experts were prepared,” he says. That kind of output, grounded in actual case documents and ready for immediate use in court, is not something a general-purpose chatbot can produce.
A force multiplier for solo or boutique law firms
For attorneys running lean practices, capacity is everything. CoCounsel Legal acts as the extra set of hands that makes it possible to take on more cases without sacrificing quality.
Diane Haar of Hawaii Disability Legal Services represents Social Security and veterans’ disability claimants — people who, as she puts it, can’t afford to get ripped off. Westlaw’s AI-Assisted Research has fundamentally changed how much she can accomplish. It delivers answers with direct links to cases and supporting material, cutting hours off research that previously consumed her day. “The time savings is massive,” she says, “and time is money.”
For her clients — veterans and people with disabilities who deserve real representation — that access makes a genuine difference.
The return is measurable
Solo or boutique firms often ask whether AI tools are worth the investment. Nolan Thomas answers that directly: “While these tools are an investment, they allow us to manage ten more clients a month, so the increased revenue more than justifies the expense.”
Safa Riadh frames it as a professional obligation.
“We have a fiduciary duty to spend our client’s money appropriately. If I know there are tools out there to help me do my job better and more efficiently, then I should be using those tools.”
Attorney at Law, Valiant Law
When he solves a client’s problem faster, the benefit extends beyond the billable hour. “Not only is my client happy with me, but my reputation in the community is strengthened.”
Built for legal professionals, not general audiences
CoCounsel Legal is not a repurposed consumer product. It is tested on real-world legal tasks, operated to meet professional responsibility standards, and built to keep your client data private and secure. It works where you already work, including in Microsoft applications and your document management system. And CoCounsel is the legal AI solution of choice for more than 20,000 law firms and legal departments.
Consumer AI tools handle basic tasks. CoCounsel Legal handles the complex ones, the ones that matter most to your clients and to your practice. Discover how the comprehensive AI solution can fit your solo or boutique law firm’s needs.
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