Highlights
- Westlaw Advantage within CoCounsel Legal transforms research hours into strategic counsel time, helping attorneys focus on high-value client work.
- Trusted AI-powered research tools help legal professionals deliver thorough, verifiable results and build client confidence.
- Firms using Westlaw Advantage can better align with client expectations for value, efficiency, and transparent research processes.
Law firm clients expect legal research done on their behalf to be top-notch. And sometimes, they don’t want to pay for the time spent on the research. It’s a catch-22 for legal professionals: your research must be thorough to allow for sound case strategy and documents. But it can’t be excessive, or the client may be disappointed with the invoice.
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When technology meets legal expertise
Building trust in generative AI
Impressing clients with your case strategy
When technology meets legal expertise
How do legal researchers walk this tightrope? In the past, they’ve racked up hours and then written them down on the final invoice — impressing clients with their efficiency by cutting their timesheets.
Today’s legal researchers have a better way: using Westlaw Advantage within CoCounsel Legal to apply agentic AI to trusted industry-leading content and activate expert researcher capabilities to quickly move from research to strategy with thorough results.
CoCounsel Legal unifies legal research, document analysis, and drafting into one streamlined process. By delivering comprehensive answers faster, attorneys can focus more time on strategic counsel and client relationships, demonstrating their expertise in ways clients can clearly see and experience.
Westlaw Advantage
Enhance your legal research efficiency with Westlaw Advantage
Explore Westlaw Advantage ↗Building trust in generative AI
80% of legal professionals believe AI will have a transformative or high impact on the profession over the next five years, according to the Future of Professionals Report 2025.
Legal professionals need an AI solution they can trust. With over 20,000 law firms and legal departments already using CoCounsel, including 80% of the Am Law 100, CoCounsel Legal is the industry’s professional-grade AI legal solution of choice.
Westlaw Advantage within CoCounsel Legal represents the evolution of legal research excellence that Thomson Reuters has been perfecting for over 225 years. With advanced AI capabilities grounded in authoritative Westlaw and Practical Law content created by 1,200+ attorney editors, CoCounsel Legal combines trusted legal expertise with powerful generative AI capabilities to help you research with confidence and deliver results faster.
Impressing clients with your case strategy
With Westlaw Advantage within CoCounsel Legal, researchers don’t have to go through dozens or hundreds of related cases, statutes, and regulations because AI does it for them. Deep Research takes this even further by emulating expert researchers’ practice, formulating a multi-step plan and using proprietary Westlaw content and tools to complete comprehensive research.
Importantly, Westlaw Advantage within CoCounsel Legal shows its work: all research results are grounded in exclusive Westlaw content and cite sources for easy verification. With links to trusted Westlaw authority, researchers can quickly verify results and decide if they are satisfied with the response or want to dig further.
This is an important feature for risk-averse attorneys who want to be sure they can stand behind the research that informs their case strategy. With results that synthesize trusted legal information and deliver relevant answers with proper citations, attorneys can work confidently knowing their research is both thorough and verifiable.
With those answers in hand, lawyers can spend more time crafting their case strategy and drafting persuasive documents. For litigation matters, attorneys can further leverage Litigation Document Analyzer to identify potential misrepresentations in opposing briefs, analyze strategic arguments with suggested counterarguments, and transform complex complaints into clear summaries. This comprehensive document analysis demonstrates thorough case preparation that directly impacts client outcomes.
According to the Future of Professionals Report 2025, 53% of respondents believe their organization is already experiencing at least one type of benefit from AI adoption, and legal professionals expect to save around 240 hours per year with AI.
Aligning with client desires
According to the 2026 State of the Legal Market report, only one-in-four buyers reported never experiencing an outside law firm that provided excellent value despite premium pricing.
One way law firms can delight corporate legal teams is by showing how they help clients manage costs. That might mean shifting to fixed fee arrangements, but it could also mean using tools that increase efficiency without compromising results. They could show a reduction in time spent on legal research and an increase in time spent on case strategy and drafting, for instance.
Westlaw Advantage within CoCounsel Legal helps researchers get answers to complex legal questions much more quickly. It shows researchers where those answers come from, so they know they can trust them — and they can explain the authority to their clients. More efficient research supports client goals around managing outside spend, and everyone is happier with more time spent on case strategy. It’s the best of all worlds for law firm attorneys and their clients.
Experience the difference that trusted AI-powered research can make for your clients and your practice. See how Westlaw Advantage within CoCounsel Legal combines speed, accuracy, and authority in one seamless solution.
