Skill: Draft

Category: Draft

The Draft skill is designed to assist legal professionals in creating a wide range of written content by utilizing the AI model's ability to draft creatively. It is a freeform skill that excels in drafting correspondence, including letters to opposing counsel, clients, and colleagues—as well as crafting contractual or persuasive language, statements of facts, and memoranda.

Features and benefits

  • What sets this skill apart is its ability to generate content based on your own information and style.
  • By uploading exemplar email correspondence, notes, or contracts, you can use CoCounsel to produce new responses, analyses, letters, or amendments consistent with the tone, style, and context of the exemplar documents. This ensures CoCounsel's output aligns with your expectations and maintains continuity in communication and documentation.

Practice tips

  1. Upload relevant documents to generate the best results. This saves time and improves the quality, accuracy, and consistency of the results.
  2. To prepare a contract clause or an entire agreement:
    1. Upload a sample document CoCounsel can use as a model.
    2. To draft a lease, upload a sample lease and instruct CoCounsel to model the draft based on the uploaded document.
  3. Use and refer to prior skill runs in your user prompts.
    1. After summarizing a deposition transcript using the
      Summarize
      skill, ask CoCounsel to draft an email to a colleague that describes the main points from the transcript using the previously prepared summary.
  4. Be as specific as possible when prompting CoCounsel's
    Draft
    skill. The more precise the prompt, the closer the output will fit your specific needs.
  5. Instruct CoCounsel on the preferred tone. You can ask CoCounsel to write in a casual, formal, or assertive tone.
  6. After an initial draft is prepared, you can follow up with edits and changes. CoCounsel will modify the draft accordingly. For example, you can ask for a change of tone, length, style, content, or formatting.

Limitations to keep in mind

  • CoCounsel needs sufficient context to draft a document. If you don't upload documents or include details in your prompt, the response will be less robust.
  • The
    Draft
    skill is not designed to draft full contracts, final drafts of demand letters, or documents containing graphics, such as PowerPoint presentations or graphs and charts. A typical output will be approximately 3-4 pages in length.
  • The skill can't use the name, email, or position fields from a customer account profile to draft correspondence.
  • Because the
    Draft
    skill can't access external resources, you must upload the specific files (for example, case files) or use prior skill responses you want CoCounsel to model or incorporate.
  • Individual file size is generally capped at:
    • 20MB per file for TXT, HTM, HTML, or RTF files
    • 500MB for PDF, DOC, DOCX, EML, MSG, WPD, and ZIP files

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