April brings transformative enhancements to CoCounsel Legal that empower legal professionals to work smarter, faster, and with greater precision. This month’s releases focus on streamlining workflows, expanding research capabilities, and connecting legal teams to the tools they rely on daily. The innovations underscore our commitment to: Agentic AI grounded in deep legal expertise, capabilities rooted in your own knowledge and workflows, and built to elevate the way modern legal teams operate.
Agentic AI, Grounded in Expertise
Help us shape the next generation of CoCounsel Legal
Earlier in April we announced the next generation of CoCounsel Legal, now available in Beta. Built from the ground up, it delivers on the vision we set out from the start: an AI companion that works alongside lawyers through every task and every stage of a matter, grounded in the trusted sources of knowledge they rely on.
We’re inviting customers to help shape what CoCounsel Legal becomes – an AI that works at the level of a senior associate, built with Anthropic cutting-edge technology, engineered for legal work with authority and verification at its core.
We are excited to put the next generation of CoCounsel Legal in the hands of more customers as the year progresses. Join our beta waitlist today!
Additional Sources in Deep Research
Deep Research reports in Canada now include additional sources that help further explore the legal question and provide logical pathways to continue the research process. A new section provides sources that, although not cited directly in the report, may provide further, helpful context to your question. This added material provides greater depth and perspective to support research, giving users more pathways to validate findings and expand their understanding of complex legal issues.
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Built for How You Work
Contract Policy Compliance Enhancement: Obligation Extraction
Contract Policy Compliance now enables uploading regulations and documents for a quick compliance check. Customers can now skip the manual entry of their policies by uploading a file, accelerating the compliance review process and reducing the time spent on repetitive data entry tasks.
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Westlaw Content Source Added to Knowledge Search
Now, users have the ability to search U.S. Westlaw cases inside Knowledge Search and use them instantly in CoCounsel Legal workflows—no tool-switching required. Users can search U.S. Westlaw cases alongside their DMS content, intranet content, Practical Law, or other sources. Upload cases directly into chat or your databases for further case analysis or to continue a workflow, making legal research more efficient and comprehensive.
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Tabular Analysis Enhancements
Manually edit cell values and add your own custom columns directly within a table to apply your own judgment, add context, and shape the output so it’s ready for the next step in your workflow. Review flags help you prioritize your focus by automatically highlighting extracted answers in the table that require a closer look due to ambiguity or nuance in the source document. It helps you prioritize the responses that require your human expertise review while trusting your final results. Download a table with applied filters directly into Excel, preserving your work in CoCounsel Legal without resetting those filters in a separate spreadsheet. Filter table results by data type to quickly narrow down and focus on the most critical information within the table. These tabular analysis enhancements offer the user more control over their tables, streamlining their workflow from analysis to action.
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Companies Search
A new search form on the Westlaw UK cases page searches for company-specific content across Cases, Dockets, and Pending Actions that helps users uncover company-related litigation more efficiently and from one place. This gives users a broader and more connected view of a company’s dispute landscape, improving research speed, confidence, and decision-making.
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Concise Answer
Now, users in Canada have the option for a concise answer when using Deep Research on Westlaw Advantage that will run in 2 minutes or less. This provides users with more flexibility in how they use Deep Research and can opt for a concise answer in instances where a quick, straightforward answer is needed over an entire report.
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Sharing and Saving Deep Research Reports (Canada)
Within a Deep Research report, users can now copy a link to share the report with colleagues or save it to a folder in Westlaw for easy access later. Quickly and seamlessly share Deep Research to streamline knowledge sharing with your teams.
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Explore These New CoCounsel Legal Features Today
Sign in to CoCounsel Legal today to enhance the speed and effectiveness of your research, analysis, and document review workflows. Or explore training options at the CoCounsel Legal Product Training site.
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