Nov 26, 2024 | AI

I’m excited to share that Thomson Reuters rolled out CoCounsel Drafting – an end-to-end drafting solution that streamlines and improves the drafting process for legal professionals within Microsoft Word – for UK legal professionals. CoCounsel Drafting allows users to easily and quickly move through the phases of contract creation, and our latest version is tailored for the UK market.

The generative AI-driven solution enables UK legal professionals to find the best starting point from their own databases or Practical Law templates, use content from Practical Law alongside their legal department’s or firm’s contract repository to draft or revise clauses, leverage Practical Law contract playbooks, and correct common drafting errors. It uses AI to refine and review documents, producing more accurate, higher-quality work – without leaving Microsoft Word.

I recently shared a CoCounsel Drafting demo with Artificial Lawyer’s Richard Tromans.

“The offering has been especially shaped for legal needs here and will directly engage with TR’s contract data in Practical Law,” Tromans said in his blog on CoCounsel Drafting in the UK.

I highlighted CoCounsel Drafting capabilities and features for Tromans, and we discussed how “LLM-supported drafting could be truly transformative.” We talked about how users will be able to use the large language model (LLM) to modify a clause, for example, and how CoCounsel Drafting uses generative AI grounded in retrieval augmented generation (RAG) to access Practical Law content and notes.

We also discussed how CoCounsel Drafting delivers a level of detail similar to what a junior associate may produce when asked to draft a contract. I noted that CoCounsel Drafting allows customers to use their own playbook to draft a preferred set of terms for any contract type or use a Practical Law playbook for a range of popular contract types.

Finally, Tromans and I discussed integrations – with HighQ and with document management systems (DMS) including iManage – as well as security.

On the other side of the pond, U.S. customer feedback on CoCounsel Drafting, which we introduced earlier this year, has been overwhelmingly positive. I hope that UK legal professionals are equally pleased with the time savings and productivity increases CoCounsel Drafting offers.

As a former lawyer turned AI product leader, I’ve lived the pain of tedious legal tasks firsthand. That’s why I’m passionate about harnessing generative AI to transform legal drafting. I know how much time and energy gets wasted on repetitive tasks, taking away from the work that really matters. Now, I’m excited to help lawyers reclaim that time and focus on what they love – whether that’s helping clients, developing strategy, or simply enjoying a better work-life balance.

You can learn more about CoCounsel Drafting here, and check out Tromans’ blog here.

This is a guest post from Rawia Ashraf, vice president of Product Management, Thomson Reuters.