For lawyers, drafting legal documents has always been fraught with frustrations: finding a starting point, ensuring continuity, meeting legal requirements, and proofing, proofing, proofing. This extends to litigators, who are often bogged down in conducting thorough research to ensure factual accuracy.
The work that’s at the very heart of a litigator’s daily duties can be:
- Time-consuming: Research has shown that between 40-60% of a lawyer’s time is spent drafting documents.
- Inefficient: 96% of legal professionals report that they don’t feel their drafting tools are efficient.
- Burdensome: The drafting process is multifaceted. The sheer volume of tasks, inputs, and strict requirements of legal professionals’ output during litigation is overwhelming.
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Litigation obstacles and complexities
Your solution: CoCounsel Drafting
The power of GenAI for legal drafting
Reclaim valuable time with CoCounsel Drafting
Litigation obstacles and complexities
Litigators face a handful of unique challenges in the drafting process. It typically starts with an initial client consultation to gather information and assess the case, followed by extensive legal research to understand the relevant laws and precedents. Between draft pleadings, the discovery process, and preparation before and after trials, the complex legal issues they encounter demand a deep understanding of the law, which can be daunting without the right tools.
The sheer volume of legal research required to support litigators’ arguments and motions often leaves them with less time to focus on strategic planning and higher-value work. Getting caught in the blur of managing and drafting large volumes of documents can also lead to potential errors and inconsistencies.
Most lawyers know that using an integrated drafting tool can help create better legal documents in less time and with fewer errors. New to this equation is drafting using generative AI (GenAI). AI’s superpowers are speed and accuracy — what every litigator needs in the marathon, mission-critical task of drafting legal documents.
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Your solution: CoCounsel Drafting
GenAI is a transformational feature, but a true end-to-end drafting solution must include all of the comprehensive tools a legal professional will use. CoCounsel Drafting — powered by CoCounsel, the professional-grade GenAI assistant for legal professionals from Thomson Reuters — is built to serve the foundational elements of document drafting. By automating tedious tasks, improving accuracy, and streamlining workflows, it enables litigators to work more efficiently and focus on high-value tasks.
CoCounsel Drafting reimagines the litigation process, helping you avoid risk, produce the most accurate work product, and save hours by:
- Getting more accurate answers to legal research questions with links to trusted Westlaw sources.
- Receiving clear guidance on legal issues based on Practical Law’s expert resources, complete with links to supporting materials.
- Finding the best starting point for your drafting needs quickly and easily by searching across your own repositories like SharePoint, OneDrive, Net Documents, HighQ, and iManage.
- Drafting discovery requests and responses to objectionable requests much faster.
- Inserting hyperlinks to your legal authorities and checking embedded KeyCite flags within your document for instant validation.
- Drafting with confidence thanks to seamless integration with Microsoft Word.
The power of GenAI for legal drafting
As today’s professionals face increasing pressure to do more with less and process more information more quickly, CoCounsel Drafting enables litigators to automate substantive legal tasks and get relevant, verified responses. And because it’s grounded in content from Thomson Reuters, you can be sure it delivers trusted, authority-backed results.
One of the most compelling benefits of CoCounsel Drafting is its ability to reduce drafting time by 25% or more. This is achieved through several key features, including:
- CoCounsel AI Assistant: Draft Discovery Requests and Responses by leveraging generative AI to draft more quickly and with greater confidence by simply providing the relevant documents. CoCounsel then analyzes and generates precise discovery requests or objections to interrogatories, requests for production of documents, and requests for admissions.
- AI-Assisted Research of Westlaw: When you ask a legal research question in everyday language, AI-Assisted Research searches Westlaw’s trusted database to give you an overview with detailed insights and links to Westlaw authority.
- Search & Summarize Practical Law: Ask a legal how-to question to receive a summarized, synthesized answer from Practical Law’s collection of expert legal resources. Each answer includes links to supporting materials for easy validation.
- Add KeyCite flags: Ensure your document cites valid law by embedding Westlaw KeyCite flags to check the status of authorities. These flags indicate factors such as whether a case has citing references or has been overruled or not followed.
- Table of Authorities builder: Save hours by using automated cite identification on Westlaw to generate a Table of Authorities.
- Quick Check integration: Review the quality of a completed legal document, improve an early draft, update a filing from a prior matter, compare multiple filings, or jumpstart your research. Quick Check reviews your documents in just minutes to identify legal issues and show you highly relevant authority that traditional research may have missed.
As an end-to-end drafting solution, CoCounsel Drafting allows litigators to work more efficiently and produce high-quality documents, leading to stronger cases and faster resolutions. Early users laud it as “a definite time saver” and feel optimistic about its opportunities to cut down on low-level, repetitive tasks.
“CoCounsel Drafting empowers you to utilize what makes you special as an individual litigator, effectuating the exchange of routine for pure professional innovation.”
Litigating Attorney, Zennamo Litigation & Advocacy PLLC
Reclaim valuable time with CoCounsel Drafting
Litigators know that spending less time on tasks like document drafting allows them to spend more on client interaction, strategy, and new client acquisition. When legwork tasks are handled with GenAI — plus the thoughtful overview of professionals — clients, lawyers, and firms all reap the benefits.
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