Highlights
- Corporate lawyers using CoCounsel Legal review 60% more contracts by working smarter, not harder.
- Legal teams deliver research and answers 48% faster, enabling strategic influence on business decisions.
- CoCounsel Legal transforms legal departments from bottlenecks into trusted, proactive business partners.
Corporate legal departments know this story all too well: contracts pile up faster than you can review them, executives need answers yesterday, and compliance deadlines loom while your team scrambles to keep up. Sound familiar?
The constant pressure to do more with the same resources has pushed many legal teams into a reactive mode—always responding to urgent requests instead of providing the strategic guidance that could actually move the business forward. But what if there was a way to change that dynamic entirely?
CoCounsel Legal from Thomson Reuters® is helping corporate counsel flip the script, transforming how legal teams handle their most time-consuming work while positioning them as true business partners rather than bottlenecks.
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Getting more done without working harder
Finding answers faster than ever
Real stories from real legal teams
Transforming legal’s role in the business
Getting more done without working harder
Here’s what caught our attention: corporate lawyers using CoCounsel Legal are reviewing 60% more contracts than they could before. That’s not about putting in longer hours—it’s about working smarter.
The platform handles the heavy lifting of contract analysis through guided workflows that actually think ahead, planning multi-step processes and gathering information before escalating decisions that need human judgment. Instead of constantly prompting and re-prompting, legal teams can focus on the strategic decisions that matter most.
For document review and contract analysis specifically, teams are seeing time reductions of up to 63%. That’s the difference between staying late to finish contract reviews and having time to think strategically about risk management and business opportunities.
Finding answers faster than ever
When executives need market-entry guidance or procurement forwards an urgent vendor agreement, speed matters. CoCounsel Legal delivers the information legal teams need 48% faster than traditional research methods.
The platform integrates directly with Microsoft® 365, Practical Law, and Westlaw, creating a seamless workflow that doesn’t disrupt how people already work. Whether you’re preparing for a deposition, reviewing vendor agreements, or summarizing lengthy documents, everything flows together naturally.
This speed translates into something more valuable than efficiency—it means legal can actually influence business decisions instead of just reacting to them. When leadership needs guidance on tight timelines, legal teams can deliver thoughtful, well-researched advice that accelerates deals rather than slowing them down.
Real stories from real legal teams
The legal team at Century Communities discovered something interesting about CoCounsel Legal’s impact. General Counsel Jarrett Coleman put it this way: “There’s way more to it now, but the genesis for me was the ability to take a ton of data and summarize it quickly and then spit out a link to where it found that data so you can do your own double checking. A task that would previously have taken an hour was completed in five minutes or less.”
Their experience shows how the platform scales to handle complex projects. During an M&A transaction involving 87 different land contracts, they used CoCounsel Legal to organize and summarize documents for due diligence—work that would have required attorneys to read through each contract individually. The project was completed by a summer intern, demonstrating how the platform makes sophisticated legal analysis accessible across different experience levels.
Another legal department at a fast-growing tech company tells a similar story. Previously overwhelmed by vendor contracts, market-entry requests, and compliance reporting, they embedded CoCounsel Legal across their key workflows. The result? Legal evolved from being a bottleneck into a trusted business partner, scaling their impact and earning recognition as a strategic asset.
The strategic advantage
CoCounsel Legal enables something that many legal departments struggle with: moving from reactive to proactive operations. Instead of constantly playing catch-up, legal teams can anticipate needs, deliver guidance before decisions are made, and support business initiatives with confidence.
The platform’s integration of trusted Thomson Reuters content ensures that 88% of users report greater confidence in their advice. This confidence comes from transparent, verifiable outputs that build credibility across the organization. When legal recommendations are backed by authoritative sources and delivered with precision, business leaders pay attention.
Making the transition work
Successfully implementing CoCounsel Legal starts with choosing the right pilot projects—repetitive, high-volume tasks where risk is manageable and results are clear. Many teams begin with NDA reviews or vendor contract analysis, building confidence through weekly check-ins that capture lessons learned.
The key is moving from pilot to broader adoption with discipline: standardizing approaches, sharing results across the team, and expanding gradually from contracts to compliance and other areas. Training and change management ensure lawyers are comfortable with oversight practices while maintaining proper governance.
Transforming legal’s role in the business
CoCounsel Legal represents more than just efficiency gains—it’s about enabling legal teams to deliver their best work consistently and at scale. By handling routine tasks and augmenting human expertise, corporate legal departments can focus on strategic counsel, risk management, and business partnership.
Ready to see how your legal department can move from bottleneck to business enabler? CoCounsel Legal helps teams deliver faster, more consistent results while elevating legal’s role as a strategic partner throughout the organization.
