Multi-step processes conducted by professional-grade AI free attorneys to focus on more strategic and rewarding legal work
Highlights
- Traditional legal workflows are plagued by inefficiency, with attorneys spending up to 60% of their time on manual contract review, cumbersome litigation research, and complex compliance analysis.
- CoCounsel Legal addresses these challenges with professional-grade AI, automating contract analysis, accelerating litigation research with trusted Westlaw content, and optimizing compliance using Regulatory Intelligence from Practical Law.
- Moving beyond single-task automation, CoCounsel Legal introduces guided, multi-step workflows that coordinate entire projects, suggesting and executing next steps in research and drafting to free professionals for high-value work.
Legal professionals spend much of their workday on tasks that, while essential, require substantial time and attention. Contract review and litigation research form the core of legal practice, yet time spent on these often comes at the cost of developing strategic guidance or strengthening client relationships.
AI can now streamline legal workflows, solving these challenges. These tools automatically generate accurate content and manage convoluted, multi-step processes, so legal teams can work more efficiently. More important, attorneys maintain — and even improve — vital precision and attention to detail, even as productivity increases.
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Traditional challenges in legal workflows
The next generation of AI for legal workflows
The complete legal workflow management
Traditional challenges in legal workflows
Recent Thomson Reuters research shows that legal professionals consistently report having ineffective workflows. These challenges span three critical areas of legal work:
Contract review
On average, legal professionals spend 40–60% of their time on document drafting and review. Despite this significant investment, 96% of respondents indicate their current drafting tools do not efficiently meet their needs. Much of this time is consumed by reviewing standard agreements, checking compliance against internal playbooks, and identifying potential risks.
Manual contract review processes typically apply the same level of scrutiny to every document, regardless of its risk profile. Junior associates often spend weeks learning to identify common issues, while senior partners continue to review work that could benefit from automation. The challenge intensifies when dealing with large sets of contracts, as maintaining consistent standards across all documents becomes increasingly difficult.
Litigation research
Litigation research presents a distinct set of challenges. Lawyers sift through massive sources of information to identify relevant legal authority. This process involves examining thousands of search results, analyzing vast document collections, and cross-referencing multiple databases to construct compelling arguments.
Traditional research tools often produce broad result sets, leaving attorneys to manually determine which sources are relevant. Associates may spend significant amounts of time reading cases that ultimately prove to be irrelevant, while partners work to ensure that the research addresses all pertinent aspects of the case.
Compliance analysis
Compliance analysis requires a deep understanding of evolving regulatory requirements, as well as adherence to customer expectations and internal guidance. Legal teams continuously track changing regulations, evaluate their impact on existing agreements, and implement necessary updates across a variety of document types.
This area of work demands ongoing attention and expertise across multiple regulatory frameworks. Many teams struggle to maintain up-to-date compliance standards while managing the demands of daily legal operations. As a result, organizations can experience increased risk exposure, but improved processes and more effective tools can help mitigate these risks.
Introducing CoCounsel Legal
Professional-grade AI now addresses the tedious work legal professionals face by combining content generation with intelligent process management.
CoCounsel Legal is the most advanced single AI tool that helps firms complete research, drafting, and document analysis in one place. Built on trusted legal content and expertise, the comprehensive AI solution delivers advanced capabilities for each workflow area.
Enhancing contract review
CoCounsel Legal improves the contract review process by using automated analysis to deliver both speed and precision. Legal teams can upload sets of contracts and in minutes receive a detailed analysis complete with citations. This rapid turnaround replaces the traditional, time-consuming review cycle often requiring days of manual effort.
The platform automatically compares incoming contracts against established playbooks, immediately identifying any deviations from standard policies. When discrepancies arise, CoCounsel Legal suggests targeted updates to bring agreements in line with organizational standards.
With Contract Policy Compliance features, the system flags non-compliant language and generates automated redlines, enabling quick corrections and ensuring contracts meet all necessary requirements.
Additionally, the Deal Proof tool instantly detects errors, inconsistencies, and missing information, which can easily be overlooked during manual reviews.
Advancing litigation research
CoCounsel Legal accelerates litigation research by offering authoritative analysis rooted in exclusive Westlaw content. With this integrated approach, law firms can perform precise case law research in half the time.
Results are delivered complete with proper citations and verification sources, streamlining the process throughout every stage from research to trial preparation.
Other key capabilities include:
- Deep Research for faster, more confident progress: CoCounsel Legal’s Deep Research tool uses custom-trained agentic AI in combination with Westlaw’s extensive legal content to provide thorough and reliable legal research results.
- Uncovering deeper insights: Agentic AI within CoCounsel Legal helps identify key components of litigation documents, such as complaints. It highlights mischaracterizations of the law and detects hallucinated cases, which streamlines case assessment.
- Ensuring accuracy in filings: By integrating trusted Westlaw content with AI-powered document analysis and drafting tools, CoCounsel Legal ensures that legal filings are accurate, well-supported, and current with the latest legal precedents.
Optimizing compliance analysis
CoCounsel Legal enhances compliance analysis by using Regulatory Intelligence, which draws upon the trusted legal expertise available through Practical Law. This integration supports robust compliance workflows, allowing legal teams to access up-to-date regulatory guidance and ensure their processes align with industry standards.
The platform’s Document Comparison features facilitate the assessment of similarities, differences, and favorability across multiple compliance documents. By automatically comparing key aspects of these documents, firms can stay consistent throughout their compliance operations.
In addition, Preparation Support capabilities simplify the process of identifying relevant topics and important questions for investigative compliance projects. These tools assist teams in maintaining full coverage of regulatory requirements while managing their time efficiently.
The next generation of AI for legal workflows
CoCounsel Legal’s guided workflows represent a major step forward in legal AI, moving beyond individual task completion to intelligent process coordination. These workflows suggest and execute recommended steps for complex legal projects at firms’ requests.
Practical Law editors design workflows that suggest the best next steps based on project needs and legal best practices. The platform carries out recommended actions across research, analysis, and drafting, so firms don’t have to link each task manually. Knowledge transfer features provide context and guidance to help professionals learn new areas and maintain progress throughout a project.
CoCounsel Legal also includes collections of ready-made AI prompts for broad legal tasks, rigorously tested by Thomson Reuters experts to address practical workflow needs. This systematic approach allows legal teams to scale their legal operations efficiently without the need for extended AI training programs.
The complete legal workflow management
CoCounsel Legal coordinates entire legal workflows with measurable efficiency gains extending well beyond individual task completion. Multi-step processes powered by professional-grade AI free you to focus on the most rewarding and strategic aspects of your practice. By handling routine tasks with precision and speed, CoCounsel Legal enhances your professional judgment rather than replacing it — ensuring you remain at the center of every crucial decision.
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