CoCounsel Legal: The Complete AI Solution for Legal Professionals
CoCounsel Legal from Thomson Reuters offers an all-in-one AI platform that transforms how legal work is done. Unlike single-purpose tools, this platform integrates both generative and agentic AI to support every stage of legal workflows. It’s no longer a concept limited to pilot projects—this technology is becoming part of daily operations in law firms and legal departments.
The platform improves legal research, drafting, and document review, freeing up professionals from repetitive tasks. This lets you focus more on strategic analysis, client communication, and higher-value activities. Key features include Deep Research, guided agentic workflows, the Library, and the CoCounsel AI legal assistant, all designed to deliver precise, thorough results quickly.
Deep Research
Deep Research replicates how expert legal researchers approach complex inquiries. It creates a detailed plan, uses trusted Westlaw tools, and continuously fine-tunes the search to provide comprehensive answers. For example, a healthcare attorney can use Deep Research to analyze how “medical necessity” is interpreted across Medicaid regulations in different states. The tool breaks down the task into steps like extracting statutory definitions, reviewing regulations, summarizing court interpretations, and compiling jurisdictional comparisons.
This approach reduces the time and effort needed for detailed legal analysis, speeding up the research process without sacrificing accuracy.
Guided Agentic Workflows
CoCounsel Legal goes beyond simple prompts by managing complex, multi-step processes to meet your objectives. It collects information, acts, and adapts as needed while keeping you in control by escalating decisions for review when necessary. Future updates will include even more specialized workflows tailored to legal tasks.
For example, when drafting contracts, CoCounsel can:
- Identify the type of agreement (NDA, services agreement, etc.)
- Automatically gather client or matter-specific details
- Create an initial draft with jurisdiction-specific clauses
- Flag unusual provisions for attorney review
- Route the document for final approval and delivery
Library
The Library is a curated collection of expert-tested skills, workflows, and AI prompts covering a wide range of legal tasks. It offers immediate access to proven guidance for research, review, and writing, saving time and improving productivity.
For instance, employment law attorneys can use a ready-made prompt to quickly analyze recent Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) appellate decisions in the 7th Circuit. Transactional lawyers reviewing commercial leases can use prompts that identify and explain any non-standard or high-risk clauses. These tested prompts eliminate guesswork and accelerate insights.
AI Assistant
At the heart of CoCounsel Legal is the AI legal assistant, accessible via chat. It supports lawyers throughout their workflows, whether inside CoCounsel Legal or integrated with third-party platforms like Microsoft Word or document management systems.
The assistant can help with tasks such as preparing for depositions, searching databases, reviewing documents, summarizing complex materials, extracting contract data, monitoring compliance, and drafting correspondence.
For example, an associate preparing a partner for a complex tort deposition can use CoCounsel to quickly assemble key facts, summarize opposing testimony, generate possible questions, and create a timeline of relevant events. Legal operations teams can also use it to scan vendor contracts for compliance with updated privacy standards and draft necessary follow-ups.
Trusted by the Legal Industry
CoCounsel has become a professional-grade AI legal assistant trusted across the entire federal court system, including the Supreme Court, circuit courts, and federal public defenders. It is also used by courts in 94% of US states and more than 20,000 law firms and legal departments, including 80% of the Am Law 100.
This trust is built on Thomson Reuters’ 225-year history of providing reliable legal content and tools. CoCounsel Legal integrates authoritative content from Westlaw and Practical Law, combining expertise with advanced technology.
Changing How Legal Professionals Work
CoCounsel Legal offers legal teams a single, comprehensive AI solution to streamline their practice. By automating research, document review, and drafting, it frees attorneys to focus on strategy, client advising, and problem-solving.
It delivers faster, more accurate results and uses expert-designed workflows to improve decision-making and work quality. This helps legal professionals enhance efficiency, responsiveness, and competitiveness in a demanding environment.
By combining generative and agentic AI with trusted content and expert insights, CoCounsel Legal supports legal teams in getting the most from AI technology.
For legal professionals interested in expanding their AI skills, exploring AI courses tailored for legal jobs can be a practical next step.
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