The stakes are high in any litigation matter, whether a corporation is engaged in a bet-the-company matter or a family is taking on an insurance company for life saving coverage. Litigators devote countless hours to getting the facts straight so that they build their strategy on a solid foundation. Many are turning to tools powered by generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to create more time to work on complex or strategic legal tasks.
Legal AI assistants are emerging as a reliable and transformative tool to help lawyers in all practice areas streamline their work and create more time to craft strategy and work with clients and colleagues. They can also lead to better outcomes as they help reduce errors and identify ways to improve work product. Transactional attorneys should see our companion blog post on how GenAI legal assistants can benefit their work.
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Legal AI assistant defined
A legal AI assistant is a GenAI system that reliably handles simple and complex tasks under the direction of a legal professional. CoCounsel Core handles a variety of legal tasks in a single, user-friendly interface. These tasks are:
- Prepare for a deposition
- Search a database
- Review documents
- Summarize long, complex documents
- Compare documents
- Monitor contract policy compliance
- Draft correspondence
- Assemble timelines
How litigators use a legal AI assistant
“CoCounsel helps improve the quality of our representation,” a managing attorney at a legal aid nonprofit told Thomson Reuters. “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.”
Legal AI assistant skills truly are game changing. Here are some ways litigators use CoCounsel in their practice.
Legal research: Instead of spending hours reviewing and interpreting legal documents, ask CoCounsel for a summary in simpler terms and get it in a fraction of the time. This summary can help you communicate with clients and colleagues as you explain your approach and their options.
Document review and e-discovery: One of the most expensive aspects of litigation. CoCounsel helps litigators work smarter and faster – with greater thoroughness and accuracy – during discovery, cutting time and costs.
You can upload a set of documents and use CoCounsel to identify documents and synthesize information. For instance, you can ask CoCounsel questions related to the dataset and get a fast analysis that helps make sense of the data.
Deposition preparation and review: Depositions generate a lot of information, from the preparation to the review. You can develop a winning strategy for your deposition in a fraction of the time. Simply provide information about your deponent and case and receive a list of topics with pointed questions. After the deposition, use CoCounsel to identify key information in the transcript.
Drafting routine motions and pleadings: Knowing where to start is often the trickiest part of a drafting project. You can use CoCounsel to search through prior work product and quickly find briefs or documents addressing a particular topic, client, or claim. You can also provide CoCounsel with documents to draft a statement of facts for a motion.
 CoCounsel Drafting Powered by professional-grade GenAI for legal professionals
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Saving time and improving accuracy
Consider the last timeline of events you built. How long did it take? And how many times did you have to check the source material to be sure there were no mistakes?
We had CoCounsel create a timeline of events based on 644 pages of Enron emails, letters, memos, and attachments. What would have taken a person hours to read, annotate, and sort took just moments with the Timeline skill.
Working without GenAI, law firms are often reluctant to offer alternative fee arrangements because it is difficult to predict the time required to complete even standard tasks. A legal AI assistant powered by GenAI can complete common tasks like deposition preparation predictably faster, so firms can give clients more predictable legal spend estimates. Meanwhile, corporate clients are hungry for predictable pricing and eager to know that firms are working as efficiently as possible.
“Absolutely magical.”
Using a legal AI assistant helps litigators take advantage of GenAI advances. They can create time to focus on more complex aspects of case strategy while creating improved efficiency, working more cost-effectively, and reducing errors in their work overall.
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Whether you’re streamlining tedious tasks like document review or deposition preparation,0 looking to boost your productivity, or hoping to refocus your time on strategic work and respond to inquiries faster, CoCounsel can help you reduce the time pressure and deliver for your clients and organizations.
Ready to enhance your litigation practice with AI? Discover how virtual assistants can transform your legal work.
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