Highlights
- CoCounsel Legal combines Westlaw Precision, Practical Law, and GenAI for comprehensive legal work.
- Document analysis that traditionally takes hours can now be completed in minutes.
- Legal drafting time reduced by up to 50% while maintaining quality standards.
The legal profession has fundamentally changed. Gone are the days when success meant simply being in the office from dawn to dusk. Today’s corporate legal professionals are navigating a hybrid world where productivity isn’t measured by hours logged, but by value delivered—often from kitchen tables, coffee shops, or anywhere with reliable Wi-Fi.
This shift presents both opportunity and challenge. While hybrid work offers flexibility, it also demands new levels of efficiency and precision. Corporate legal teams face mounting pressure to reduce costs, accelerate decision-making, and maintain the highest standards of work—all while adapting to distributed collaboration and evolving client expectations.
Enter CoCounsel Legal, Thomson Reuters’ most powerful GenAI legal solution yet—a comprehensive platform that’s reshaping how legal professionals work, regardless of where they happen to be working from.
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The hybrid work reality
Automating the routine, focusing on the strategic
Drafting with confidence and speed
The competitive edge in action
Strengthening client relationships
The hybrid work reality
Corporate legal departments aren’t just adapting to hybrid work—they’re embracing it. Research shows that 85% of large law firms don’t require five days in the office, recognizing that productivity and collaboration can thrive in flexible environments.
But flexibility comes with complexity. Legal professionals need technology that travels with them, supports seamless collaboration, and maintains the precision their work demands. They need tools that understand the stakes are always high, whether they’re reviewing contracts from their home office or conducting due diligence from a client site.
When AI meets legal precision
Not all AI is created equal, especially in the legal profession. While generic AI tools might work for casual tasks, legal work demands something far more sophisticated. CoCounsel Legal delivers the only comprehensive AI solution that unites Westlaw Precision and Practical Law content, advanced AI, and your own knowledge and tools to help you complete complex legal work—research, document analysis, and drafting.
This isn’t about replacing legal expertise—it’s about amplifying it. CoCounsel Legal, with its integrated GenAI assistant CoCounsel, handles the foundational tasks that consume valuable time: document review, correspondence drafting, and deposition preparation. This frees legal professionals to focus on strategy, analysis, and the high-value work that defines exceptional legal counsel.
Automating the routine, focusing on the strategic
Document review traditionally requires one to four hours for every 100 pages, depending on complexity. CoCounsel Legal can analyze that same volume in minutes through its advanced document analysis capabilities, answering complex questions and identifying key issues with remarkable accuracy.
One knowledge management counsel at an AmLaw 200 firm captured this evolution perfectly: “When I was a junior associate doing M&A contract due diligence, I remember spending so much time in the data room doing manually what CoCounsel can do in minutes. [This is] really amazing stuff!”
The efficiency gains extend beyond speed. CoCounsel Legal’s seamless integration of research, analysis, and drafting provides AI-assisted capabilities that deliver actionable insights and first drafts grounded in authoritative legal sources. This combination of speed and reliability changes how legal professionals approach research, enabling faster decision-making without compromising quality.
Drafting with confidence and speed
Legal drafting demands precision, consistency, and attention to detail—qualities that become even more critical in hybrid work environments. CoCounsel Legal’s comprehensive drafting capabilities can reduce drafting time by up to 50%, while maintaining the quality standards that legal professionals require.
J.J. Ball, legal counsel at Systemiq, experienced this firsthand: “There are substantial time savings when using CoCounsel Drafting. When we are operating on an average turnaround time of three to four business days for a response, we can cut that down to one to two business days by utilizing the tool to get drafting work done.”
The competitive edge in action
The benefits of CoCounsel Legal extend far beyond individual efficiency gains. Legal departments using this comprehensive AI solution create sustainable competitive advantages that compound over time.
One litigation managing attorney highlighted this quality advantage: “CoCounsel helps improve the quality of our representation. It finds things in 2,000-page police reports and transcripts that humans miss. And it doesn’t just read, it interprets—that’s the game-changer.”
Bridging the hybrid work gap
Beyond universal productivity benefits, CoCounsel Legal specifically addresses the unique challenges of hybrid work environments:
Reducing isolation: When you can’t simply walk down the hall for a quick consultation, CoCounsel Legal serves as an intelligent sounding board. Legal professionals can test ideas, explore different approaches, and validate their thinking against AI analysis before moving forward with confidence.
Supporting professional development: New attorneys in hybrid environments may have limited access to senior colleagues. CoCounsel Legal helps bridge this gap by providing immediate access to comprehensive legal analysis and research capabilities, reducing dependence on specific colleagues while maintaining high standards of work product.
Enabling responsiveness: Remote work sometimes raises questions about productivity and availability. CoCounsel Legal enables legal professionals to respond quickly to complex requests, regardless of their location.
Andrew Bedigan, counsel at Larson LLP, values this capability: “The ability to type a question, get an answer, and have all the supporting resources right underneath that answer so you can ensure it is supported by case law within Westlaw is very important.”
Strengthening client relationships
The efficiency gains from CoCounsel Legal create opportunities for deeper client relationships and more strategic legal counsel. When routine tasks are automated through this comprehensive solution, legal professionals can invest more time in understanding business objectives, anticipating challenges, and providing proactive guidance.
This shift toward value-based legal services aligns perfectly with corporate client expectations. As legal departments become more efficient and take on more work in-house, they expect their external counsel to operate with similar efficiency while providing differentiated strategic value.
An attorney from Valiant Law Group captured this evolution: “When I can solve somebody’s problem quicker, not only is my client happy with me, but my reputation in the community is strengthened.”
The future of legal work
We’re approaching an inflection point in legal technology adoption. Legal professionals who embrace comprehensive AI solutions like CoCounsel Legal are experiencing dramatic time savings, reduced errors, and improved consistency across their teams. This efficiency evolution frees up time for strategic counsel, relationship building, and the high-value work that drives client satisfaction and professional fulfillment.
CoCounsel Legal represents more than technological advancement—it’s a pathway to working smarter, not just harder. In a hybrid work environment where flexibility and productivity must coexist, CoCounsel Legal provides the foundation for legal professionals to excel wherever they choose to work.
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The hybrid work era demands new approaches to legal productivity. CoCounsel Legal offers corporate legal professionals the comprehensive AI solution they need to maintain excellence while embracing flexibility.
Experience how CoCounsel Legal can enhance your legal practice. Schedule a demo today to see this powerful, integrated solution in action and discover how professional-grade AI assistance can improve your team’s productivity, accuracy, and client satisfaction.
