A client or business partner has a “quick question” for you. Maybe – How long is the HSR waiting period? Or What does ‘evident partiality’ mean in arbitration?
Do you know the answer? And can you explain it quickly, in plain language? Or will you have to spend some time digging for answers, validating, and summarizing?
Good news: You don’t need to know everything off the top of your head. You just need fast, reliable tools to find the answers.
Search & Summarize Practical Law is a feature in the Practical Law Dynamic Tool Set with CoCounsel that help you get answers quickly and communicate them effectively. Other features of Practical Law Dynamic Tool Set with CoCounsel include Quick Compare, Interactive Matter Maps, What’s Market Analytics, and Knowledge Maps.
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Get to the right answer quickly with Practical Law
Search & Summarize Practical Law is a CoCounsel generative AI skill that uses the entire Practical Law collection to answer your natural language questions. It reads the relevant resources and summarizes the answer. You can use it to get faster answers to legal questions. You can move from questions to work product much more quickly. Because it’s drawing from Practical Law’s trusted content, you can rely on the accuracy of the information. You can also verify the summary by reading the source material yourself.
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To use Search & Summarize Practical Law, navigate to it from the Practical Law main page or the Dynamic Tool Set menu. Enter a detailed, natural language question in the search bar. The AI will generate a summarized answer, grounded in Practical Law resources, with footnotes linking to the sources for validation. Review the answer, explore cited and related resources, or ask follow-up questions to refine your understanding. The tool retains context, tracks search history, and ensures accurate, reliable responses.
Answers you can trust
If the system is unable to generate an answer, it will say so! Practical Law tools will never make up an answer. If the AI reaches the limits of the available Practical Law content, it will tell you. This is an important safeguard against hallucinations and mistakes.
The Practical Law content has established itself as an important source of truth for the legal industry. It is relied upon to help legal professionals get started faster and to stay on the right track:
- A team of 650+ full-time expert attorney editors write and update these resources. They average 12 to 14 years in practice at leading law firms, corporate law departments, and all levels of government.
- Content is rigorously peer-reviewed and published according to a strict publication process.
- Practical Law is trusted by more than 10,000 law firms (including 97% of AmLaw firms), more than 11,000 corporate law departments (including 82% of the Fortune 100), and federal, state, and local government agencies and regulators.
- Judges and litigants across U.S. federal and state courts have cited Practical Law resources as persuasive legal authority hundreds of times in recent years.
Get time back for work product and high value tasks
Your business partners and clients don’t need to know that you don’t know the level of market share that is proof of monopoly power off the top of your head. They certainly don’t need you to spend 35 minutes trying to write a clear explanation of manifest disregard for the law.
Your business partners and clients value your ability to apply these concepts effectively. Your years of legal training and practice might not encompass every practice area, but they do equip you to apply facts and the law to just about any legal situation. What you need is fast access to context and legal protocols in new practice areas so you can help the organization move forward.
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Ready to find answers faster? Find out more about Search & Summarize Practical Law, Dynamic Search, and the entire Dynamic Tool Set by visiting Discover the Dynamic Tool Set in Practical Law. You can explore the features, watch additional demonstrations, and consider how these tools can benefit their practice.
