Introducing the Multinational Profile: Trusted cross-border legal research, powered by AI.
Highlights
- Multinational Profile enables cross-border legal research across 100+ countries in one workflow.
- AI-powered tool provides cited answers from Westlaw and validated official sources.
- Available now in U.S. and U.K., expanding to Canada and Australia this month.
Introducing the Multinational Profile: Trusted cross-border legal research, powered by AI.
A new data-handling policy. A supplier agreement. A restructuring that touches employees in five countries. For a legal team at a multinational organization, a single business decision rarely stays in a single jurisdiction.
The research that follows is often slow and fragmented. You search one country at a time, across several tools and public websites. You repeat much of the same work for each jurisdiction, then reconcile the results by hand. Along the way, you judge whether each unfamiliar source can be trusted, often in a language you don’t read and a legal system you don’t practice in.
The harder problem is not knowing what you don’t know. You rarely have detailed knowledge of every law involved, so it can be unclear which statutes, regulators, or local rules apply. That makes your decision, whether you’re looking to engage local counsel or reply quickly to a business query, slower and more difficult. It also makes generic AI tools a poor fit for foreign law research, because they can sound authoritative without showing where an answer came from.
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What to expect from cross-border AI research
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The Multinational Profile is now available in Thomson Reuters™ CoCounsel Legal in the U.S. and U.K. It brings cross-border legal research into the same workflow you already use for other legal work, covering over 100 countires.
You ask one question that spans borders. CoCounsel Legal researches across them, compares the requirements, and returns an answer organized around your question, with citations to the sources behind it. For example, you can:
- Compare employee data privacy obligations in Brazil, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- Identify how a standard U.S. software agreement may need to change for use in Brazil.
- Research licensing requirements and the responsible regulators in a new market before you commission local advice.
Because this functionality is built into CoCounsel Legal, it works with the document analysis and contract-related capabilities you already use, so cross-border research stays connected to the rest of the matter.
Sources you can check
For work that crosses borders, a plausible answer isn’t enough. You need to know where it came from, and where it needs more validation.
The Multinational Profile draws on Westlaw content for the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Australia, along with Practical Law Global and validated official sources from the web, such as legislation and regulatory websites. It is built for cross-border legal research, combining our authoritative content with curated, vetted web sources. It delivers Fiduciary-Grade AI™ answers that you can check and depend on, built on Thomson Reuters authoritative content.
Every response includes citations, so you can review the authority behind the answer. Citations appear in the source language. You can view every cited source within CoCounsel Legal – and dive deeper in Practical Law and Westlaw when you have access to the underlying content.
What to expect from cross-border AI research
Coverage is not uniform. Source availability, depth, and accessibility vary by jurisdiction, so results may be more comprehensive for some countries than for others. We will continue to add sources and jurisdictions, with users in Canada and Australia getting the Multinational Profile by the end of this month.
Citations make verification easier, but they don’t replace it. Treat each response as a well-sourced starting point and apply your own professional judgment to it. The Multinational Profile doesn’t replace the expertise of a trained lawyer.
Instead, it improves your work by giving you a defensible base to start from. You can understand the issue faster, see the jurisdictional differences that matter, and identify where deeper review is needed. Then you can continue your research, or brief local counsel, with focused expertise where it adds the most value.
Availability
The Multinational Profile is available to all customers in the current CoCounsel Legal experience in the U.S. and U.K. Just select Multinational instead of US or UK when you start your research.
If you don’t have CoCounsel Legal yet, contact us today for a demo to see how all of your legal work can have a quicker, smarter, defensible starting point.
