Draft, review, and analyze documents at enterprise scale
Move faster from first draft to decision-ready output with AI-powered analysis, trusted legal content, and practical guidance that increases consistency and reduces risk across the business
Legal teams are under pressure to move fast — fragmented systems and manual workflows get in the way
Draft with confidence, start stronger
Avoid reinventing the wheel or searching for precedents in different systems. Generate reliable first drafts grounded in trusted sources — so your team focuses on refinement, not rework.
Review with precision, reduce risk
End inconsistent reviews and hard-to-track changes that slow down approvals. Quickly surface key risks, compare versions, and focus reviewers on what matters — so reviews move faster and stay consistent.
Analyze with clarity, decide faster
Turn complex inputs into clear, defensible analysis. Leverage authoritative legal content and practical guidance to deliver faster, more confident recommendations to the business.
See the difference the right solution makes
60%
increase in the speed of researching legal questions and delivering strategic advice
85%
of users find more key information with advanced research and analysis tools, enabling better, faster decisions
*Thomson Reuters customer surveys and U.S. usage data on time savings, 2024
End-to-end draft, review, and analysis workflow
- Intake
- Gather
- Analyze
- Finalize
Intake and context definition
Clarify what needs to be accomplished before drafting or review begins.
What you can achieve by using CoCounsel Legal:
- Frame the legal task clearly, such as contract type, memo, policy, and analysis request.
- Surface key requirements, constraints, and success criteria.
- Establish shared context across stakeholders before work begins.
- Reduce downstream rework by capturing the right inputs up-front.
Gather and organize source materials
Assemble relevant agreements, precedents, and authoritative content to proceed confidently.
What you can achieve by using CoCounsel Legal:
- Locate relevant prior work, templates, and reference materials quickly by searching across your document management system and our content repositories at once.
- Access trusted legal content and expert guidance from Practical Law and Westlaw directly within your workflow — ensuring every draft and analysis is grounded in authoritative sources.
- Consolidate source documents into a single working set for seamless review and analysis.
- Work confidently knowing you're starting from current, consistent inputs backed by more than 1,200 attorney-editors.
Analyze issues, risks, and options
Understand what matters, where the risks are, and what options are available.
What you can achieve by using CoCounsel Legal:
- Identify key issues, obligations, and risk areas across documents with AI-powered document analysis.
- Compare provisions, versions, or positions to spot inconsistencies and deviations from standards.
- Structure analysis grounded in authoritative case law from Westlaw and practical guidance from Practical Law, ensuring your recommendations are defensible and citation-backed.
- Deliver clear, verifiable insights with full source attribution that stakeholders can act on with confidence.
Draft and finalize content
Create and refine legal language that aligns with objectives, risk tolerance, and internal standards.
What you can achieve by using CoCounsel Legal:
- Generate first drafts or clause language directly within Microsoft Word, using expert-maintained templates and clause libraries from Practical Law.
- Refine content based on your analysis, internal playbooks, and organizational standards — all within a seamless workflow.
- Identify substantive changes and deviations across document versions with AI-powered comparison tools.
- Produce approval-ready outputs with clear rationale and supporting sources, reducing review cycles and increasing consistency across your legal team.
Transform how you draft, review, and analyze with CoCounsel Legal
CoCounsel Legal
Access legal research, document analysis, and drafting in one single solution. Built on the authoritative content of Practical Law and Westlaw, CoCounsel Legal helps in-house teams draft contracts 60% faster, analyze documents with greater precision, and deliver confident strategic advice — all within Microsoft Word and your existing tools.
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Frequently asked questions
CoCounsel Legal supports a wide range of legal documents, including contracts — non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), master service agreements (MSAs), statements of work (SOWs), and employment agreements — legal memos, policies, compliance documents, and litigation materials. The solution works across practice areas and document types commonly used by in-house legal teams.
CoCounsel Legal integrates with Practical Law's expert-maintained templates and guidance, helping teams work from consistent starting points and standards. The AI assists with applying those standards during drafting and review, while Westlaw provides authoritative sources that ground analysis in trusted legal content.
CoCounsel Legal is built on our trusted legal content, drawing from Practical Law's expert guidance and Westlaw's comprehensive database of primary and secondary sources. All analysis and recommendations are supported by authoritative sources, ensuring your work product is defensible and reliable.
CoCounsel Legal is designed to integrate into how legal teams already work. It complements your existing document management systems, matter management platforms, and collaboration tools. Teams can use CoCounsel Legal alongside their current processes without disrupting established workflows.