Protecting trust
CoCounsel Legal helps Teladoc safeguard privacy at the speed of innovation
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High stakes, higher standards
A leader in the growing virtual healthcare industry, Teladoc is moving quickly. Its corporate counsel is leveraging CoCounsel Legal to keep up with the speed of innovation, without ever losing sight of what’s at stake: patient trust.
The virtual health industry is growing, and Teladoc’s legal team needs to support quicker innovation, more complex technology, and proliferating vendor relationships. Attorneys are tasked with more compliance questions and internal counseling in an already highly regulated healthcare space. Meanwhile, every privacy impact assessment the legal team touches connects back to the private health data of thousands of people — so speed must never trump attention to detail, because patient trust is at the heart of Teladoc’s business.


Meet Teladoc
Teladoc Health is the global leader in virtual care, connecting millions of members to physicians, therapists, and specialists across medical disciplines. Headquartered in New York, the company serves employers, health plans, and health systems, empowering patients to access trusted medical care wherever they are, 24/7, through phone, web, or app. With two decades of experience connecting patients with online care, Teladoc has powered more than 50 million virtual visits.
Jerry Johnson, Chief Privacy Officer and Vice President, Corporate Counsel at Teladoc, is setting a new standard for legal and privacy leadership with Thomson Reuters AI. Johnson, based near Detroit, spearheaded his team’s adoption of CoCounsel Legal.
One trusted foundation
CoCounsel Legal is the heart of Johnson’s approach to AI and now a central part of his team’s privacy impact assessment workflows. Powered by Fiduciary-Grade AI™, attorneys use it to accelerate legal analysis and draft initial review statements, all linked back to authoritative Thomson Reuters legal content. Citations can be independently verified, keeping attorneys in the driver’s seat.
Fiduciary-Grade AI in action
CoCounsel Legal gives Johnson’s team answers grounded in trusted legal sources, transparent reasoning that attorneys can verify at every step, and a design built to support professional judgment rather than replace it. The ability to quickly validate responses enables Teladoc’s legal department to move fast without sacrificing rigor, keeping patient data safe.

The tools Teladoc uses
CoCounsel Legal
Built on advanced AI capabilities, CoCounsel Legal helps legal teams complete research, drafting, and document analysis with speed and precision. This is Fiduciary-Grade AI, with verified outputs grounded in authoritative content and customer context built directly into the architecture.
Westlaw Advantage
Applying the power of agentic AI, Westlaw Advantage provides the legal research capabilities of CoCounsel Legal. Westlaw legal research products have been the industry's most used for more than 20 years, trusted by more than 48,000 law firms and legal departments, including 80% of the Am Law 100.
“CoCounsel Legal has allowed us to shorten some of our tasks from days to minutes, which is incredibly impactful for our ability to ascertain risk and help the business mitigate those risks.”
Jerry Johnson
Chief Privacy Officer and Vice President, Corporate Counsel, Teladoc
Speed accelerated, judgment preserved, and trust protected
How Teladoc's legal technology transformation is driving innovation that benefits attorneys, teams, and patients
Boosting quality and speed
For certain legal research questions, work that once took approximately three to four hours — or days, if assigned to outside counsel — can reach a first-pass analysis in minutes with CoCounsel Legal. Contract reviewers who once needed an hour to spot initial issues can now do so within minutes. Attorneys can then review CoCounsel Legal’s citations and apply their own judgment with full legal context.
Cutting turnaround times by approximately 60%
Privacy impact assessments that once took about five business days can now often be completed in about two, fueling faster innovation at Teladoc and connecting business teams with the information they need to safely proceed.
Making sure that privacy stays protected
Teladoc's legal department is tasked with identifying privacy issues, framing risk, and deciding what needs to happen next. CoCounsel Legal ensures that as Teladoc innovates, the private health data at the center of that innovation stays protected.
“It just keeps getting better”
CoCounsel Legal has given Jerry Johnson and Teladoc’s legal team the tools to move at the speed the business needs — and the confidence to know they’re doing their strongest work. As Teladoc continues to expand its digital health offerings, Johnson says the next phase is moving from individual productivity gains to more structured, collaborative workflows across the legal and privacy team so that every contract benefits from the same trusted foundation. Meanwhile, Thomson Reuters continues to innovate, and the latest generation of CoCounsel Legal leverages agentic AI to fundamentally expand what its technology can do. It’s AI that doesn’t just answer — it executes. In Johnson’s words, CoCounsel Legal “just keeps getting better.”

“We considered a number of different AI tools for Teladoc and ultimately decided that Fiduciary-Grade AI was the only responsible choice.”
Jerry Johnson
Chief Privacy Officer and Vice President, Corporate Counsel, Teladoc
CoCounsel Legal
A Fiduciary-Grade AI solution grounded in Westlaw authority and Practical Law expertise.
As AI moves from experimentation into everyday professional use, a higher standard is required. CoCounsel Legal uses Fiduciary-Grade AI to guide attorneys through complex legal work from start to finish, enabling firms to move seamlessly from legal research and case strategy to drafting and document analysis — all in one continuous workflow.

2.6x
More than double the speed on document review and contract drafting, enabling attorneys to focus on higher-value work.*
85%
Nearly all users find more key information with advanced review and analysis tools, enabling better, faster decisions.*
24%
Almost a quarter of professionals are considering leaving within 24 months roles that limit AI potential, with replacement costs averaging $232,000 per professional.**
* Time savings data from Thomson Reuters customer surveys and U.S. usage data, 2024.
** Thomson Reuters Future of Professionals Report 2025, 2026.
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