The tool your legal organization needs to conquer hybrid work
In a given week, attorneys may move between the office, a client site, a courthouse, home, or a business development meeting. They travel to other corporate or law firm locations, all while trying to be productive on airplanes, trains, and cab rides. The pressure to deliver answers and work product regardless of location has never been higher. This leads legal professionals to adopt tools that support a “work from anywhere” approach.
In 2024, the legal profession adopted AI at a rate four times higher than in 2023, and indications show that adoption will continue to increase. In an increasingly remote legal workplace, legal AI solutions enable lawyers to maintain productivity and competitiveness from any location. These integrated tools provide instant access to current legal research and documents, streamlined workflows and task automation, and increase responsiveness to client needs.
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Work from anywhere goes beyond remote work
An integrated solution for legal AI enables productivity
Enabling confident legal work anywhere you are
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Work from anywhere goes beyond remote work
Work from anywhere is a business model that organizations adopt so they can deliver services and manage teams from any location, using digital-first and remote-first technologies. This approach goes beyond traditional remote work by prioritizing digital solutions over physical ones, allowing legal organizations to enhance both virtual and in-person experiences seamlessly.
Moving to this model helps organizations access a broader talent pool and experience improved business continuity. They may find greater cost efficiency and scalability by leveraging cloud technologies and optimizing real estate expenses. They are also able to provide the popular perk of working remotely while maintaining productivity levels.
While challenges such as legacy systems and data security exist, the shift promises increased productivity, flexibility, and preparedness for future growth.
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CoCounsel Legal from Thomson Reuters is the ideal work-from-anywhere solution to support the profession. It enables multi-step work across legal research, document analysis, and drafting in a single, seamless, AI-powered workflow. Users beneift from comprehensive and precise results delivered quickly from a centralized platform. It provides powerful capabilities such as:
- Deep research: Deep Research emulates expert researchers’ practices to deliver more accurate, thorough, and comprehensive answers to legal research questions. It formulates a multi-step plan, leveraging proprietary Westlaw content and tools to conduct research, continuously refining the process for optimal results.
- Guided agentic workflows: CoCounsel Legal streamlines your workflow by planning multi-step processes required to achieve your objectives efficiently. It gathers information and takes action while adapting along the way and escalates tasks or decisions for your review when appropriate. With continuous enhancements, CoCounsel Legal introduces new, distinct agentic workflows that empower you to complete both straightforward and complex projects with ease.
- 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. Expert-written prompts remove the guesswork, so you can immediately get to work, supported by our guidance for faster legal research, document analysis, and drafting results.
- AI Assistant: Accessible through chat, CoCounsel is by your side and ready to help, connecting every step in your workflow. It shepherds results from task to task, whether in CoCounsel Legal or a third-party platform such as Microsoft Word or your DMS, capturing every detail to reveal key links and powerful insights you might otherwise miss.
Legal professionals experience significant efficiency gains with CoCounsel Legal, wherever they are — whether in the office, with a client, on the move, or working remotely. This comprehensive solution supports legal research, document analysis, and drafting, enabling users to complete their work more quickly, thoroughly, and accurately. By streamlining these processes, CoCounsel Legal empowers professionals to better serve their clients, dedicate time to refining their practice, and focus on growing their business.
Enabling confident legal work anywhere you are
Access to this level of support and expertise is especially critical when colleagues and clients aren’t in the same physical location. Here are three ways CoCounsel Legal supports a work from anywhere model:
- Having a sounding board: Legal professionals often need to consult with colleagues, but this is difficult when the team isn’t in the office. Attorneys can ask CoCounsel Legal to summarize documents or draft deposition questions as a starting point, then check that against their expertise to move forward confidently.
- Learning the ropes: New attorneys may struggle without direct, in-person access to more seasoned attorneys. CoCounsel Legal helps bridge this gap. Its agentic guided workflows plan out the best next steps for projects as outlined by experienced Practical Law editors, helping more junior lawyers understand best practices. Plus, document analysis capabilities can help lawyers review their own work, and lawyers drafting with CoCounsel within Microsoft Word can instantly check for errors in contracts.
- Maintaining responsiveness from anywhere: CoCounsel Legal helps attorneys enhance their responsiveness to clients and colleagues, regardless of their location. For instance, using the Library reduces the time required to get answers from the system. This allows you to respond to clients and make informed decisions more quickly
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CoCounsel Legal streamlines tasks, enhances accuracy, and allows legal professionals to provide exceptional service remotely. It enables you to quickly address urgent requests for document summaries, helps you verify that all important questions are covered in your deposition preparation, offers valuable insights and understanding, even if a colleague isn’t readily available, and more.
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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