Why CoCounsel Legal is redefining how law gets done
CoCounsel Legal from Thomson Reuters is leading the way in redefining legal practice with its comprehensive legal AI solutions. Unlike single-purpose tools, this integrated platform combines generative and agentic AI to streamline workflows across all aspects of legal work. No longer confined to experimental pilots or niche use cases, these tools are beginning to integrate into the daily workflows of law firms and legal departments.
This unified experience enhances legal research, drafting, and document review, empowering professionals to expedite their processes, minimize routine tasks, and dedicate more time to strategic thinking, analysis, and client engagement. CoCounsel Legal quickly delivers more thorough and precise results, enhancing your workflow with features like Deep Research, guided agentic workflows, the Library, and CoCounsel, the AI legal assistant.
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Reshaping how legal professionals work
Deep research
Deep Research emulates the practices of expert researchers to provide precise, thorough, and comprehensive answers to legal research inquiries. It develops a detailed step-by-step plan, uses trusted Westlaw tools, and continuously refines the search process for optimal results.
For instance, a health care attorney can use Deep Research to quickly understand how different states interpret “medical necessity” in Medicaid regulations. Deep Research develops a multi-step plan to extract statutory definitions across jurisdictions, identify relevant regulations and administrative guidance, summarize how courts have interpreted the term in each state, and present a jurisdictional comparison table. This rapid output can significantly reduce the time and effort the health care attorney would otherwise spend on analysis and interpretation.
Guided agentic workflows
CoCounsel Legal goes beyond step-by-step prompting by planning the multi-step processes required to achieve objectives. It gathers information, takes action, and adapts as necessary. When appropriate, it escalates tasks or decisions for your review, ensuring you remain in control. Over time, CoCounsel Legal will introduce more specialized agentic workflows to further enhance your legal practice.
Here’s an example of a guided agentic workflow. When drafting contracts, a lawyer can have CoCounsel take the following steps:
- Identify the type of agreement needed such as an NDA or services agreement.
- Automatically gather client or matter-specific data.
- Create a first draft using jurisdiction-specific clauses.
- Flag any non-standard provisions for attorney review.
- Route the document for final review and client delivery.
Library
CoCounsel Legal’s new Library is a collection of skills, workflows, and AI prompts for a broad range of legal tasks, created and tested by Thomson Reuters experts. The Library streamlines your workflow by providing immediate access to expert guidance for research, review, and writing, significantly saving you time and enhancing your productivity.
Consider, for example, employment law attorneys who need a quick analysis of recent FMLA-related case law in the 7th Circuit. They could easily use a pre-built prompt like, “Summarize recent appellate decisions interpreting the FMLA within the 7th Circuit.” This saves them time and guesswork in deciding how to phrase a query.
Similarly, a transactional attorney reviewing a commercial lease for unusual or risky clauses can use a tested prompt. The CoCounsel team has optimized prompts like, “Identify and explain any non-standard or high-risk provisions in this lease agreement” to surface relevant insights from documents.
AI assistant
CoCounsel, the AI legal assistant, is central to the CoCounsel Legal experience. Accessible through chat, CoCounsel is by lawyers’ sides and ready to help, connecting every step in their workflows. It shepherds results from task to task, whether in CoCounsel Legal or a third-party platform such as Microsoft Word or their DMS.
This AI assistant can help you prepare for depositions, search databases, and review documents. It also supports summarizing long and complex documents, extracting contract data, monitoring contract policy compliance, drafting correspondence, and more.
An associate preparing a partner for a deposition in a complex tort case can use CoCounsel to simplify the process. She can quickly pull key facts and dates from pleadings and discovery, summarize the opposing party’s prior testimony, and generate a list of likely questions and objections. CoCounsel can use this material to assemble a quick-reference timeline of relevant events.
Here’s another example: A legal operations team that wants to ensure vendor agreements meet updated privacy policy standards can also use CoCounsel to scan contracts for compliance with specific data handling clauses, highlight contracts that require amendments, and draft emails or amendments for follow-up with vendors.
Trusted by the legal industry
Over the past several years, CoCounsel has stood out as the premier professional-grade AI legal assistant. CoCounsel solutions have been adopted across the US federal court system, including the Supreme Court, circuit courts, and federal public defenders. Additionally, courts in 94% of US states rely on CoCounsel. Further, more than 20,000 law firms and legal departments, including 80% of the Am Law 100, use CoCounsel.
The industry places its trust in CoCounsel due to our 225-year history of providing reliable content and tools to uphold the rule of law. CoCounsel Legal is built on the authoritative content and expertise of Westlaw and Practical Law, combining human expertise with the best in class technology.
Reshaping how legal professionals work
CoCounsel Legal is the trusted choice for legal teams looking to future-proof their practice with a single, comprehensive solution. It sets a new standard for AI-driven legal work, offering unmatched integration and reliability for legal professionals. By automating time-consuming tasks like research, document review, and drafting, CoCounsel Legal empowers attorneys to concentrate on high-value work.
With faster, more accurate results and expert-designed agentic workflows, attorneys gain time for strategic thinking, client advising, and creative problem-solving. CoCounsel Legal sharpens decision-making and strengthens work product — helping legal professionals be more effective, responsive, and competitive in a rapidly evolving industry.
CoCounsel Legal brings together generative and agentic AI, trusted content, and expert insights, built and supported by a team dedicated to getting customers the maximum benefits of AI. Discover how it helps legal professionals work more efficiently and deliver powerful results for clients.
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