June marks a major leap forward headlined by early access to the next generation of CoCounsel Legal in the U.S. as well as major releases that push agentic capabilities into more jurisdictions and more of the everyday moments where lawyers are already working. From cross-border research and citation-level verification to a clause library reaching new markets, this month’s innovations reflect our ongoing commitment to Agentic AI grounded in deep legal expertise, and tools built for how modern legal teams actually work.
Agentic AI, Grounded in Expertise
Early Access to the Next Generation of CoCounsel Legal is Here and Available for U.S. Customers
Every U.S. CoCounsel Legal customer now has access to the next-generation experience. Through a simple, in-product toggle, users will unlock a smarter chat interface that works the way an attorney works with a teammate. Describe your matter in plain language. CoCounsel Legal creates a plan, dives deep into legal authority, reasons through the legal issues, retrieves what it needs from your own precedents and from Westlaw and Practical Law, and drafts with citations. When new information changes the picture, it adapts. Instead of getting piecemeal answers, you get a professional standard response that you can iterate on.
As part of early access, the next-gen experience is still actively being developed, and new capabilities will be added on a rolling basis through general availability later this summer. General Availability later this summer!
Read more here.
Deep Research Verify on Westlaw Advantage UK
Deep Research Verify helps customers review Deep Research reports with greater confidence by automatically checking whether cited authority supports the assertions made. It validates cited Westlaw and Practical Law sources, highlights relevant supporting passages, and flags potential misattributions or mischaracterisations. Instead of manually verifying every assertion from scratch, lawyers can assess whether the cited authority supports the point and follow a suggested research path for further review — moving from AI-generated insight to well-grounded legal judgment. Verify is initially available in Westlaw native, with Practical Law native and the CoCounsel app to follow.
International Legal Research
International Legal Research provides answers to legal queries based on official and trusted legal sources across multiple jurisdictions. This new skill retrieves legal information from approved legal websites for France and Germany (including EU law) and is designed specifically for professional legal research — not general web browsing. Legal professionals can maintain a natural, conversational flow when conducting cross-border research, asking questions in plain language while the system intelligently determines the appropriate research path. Every result comes exclusively from authoritative legal sources, ensuring jurisdiction-specific accuracy without concern about unreliable or non-compliant information.
Joint Deep Research in CoCounsel Web Application (Canada)
Joint Deep Research is now live within the CoCounsel web application for Canadian customers. In one seamless experience, lawyers can move from question to strategy to execution in a single, uninterrupted workflow — grounded in the authoritative Westlaw and Practical Law content they already trust. Joint Deep Research can be accessed directly within CoCounsel either by asking a legal research question in the chat box or by choosing Deep Research from the CoCounsel Library, enabling AI-powered, multi-step legal research without ever switching tools.
Built for How You Work
On-Demand Download and Copy Experience in CoCounsel
CoCounsel now offers a new way to download results from skills and workflows that gives customers more control over how they use their output. Once a skill or workflow finishes, users can choose the exact file format and citation style they want — including two new formats, PDF and Markdown, and citation styles such as endnotes, footnotes, or none. A new Copy option also lets users copy just the core content with formatting and styling retained and citations removed, for quick reuse in documents or emails. The result is an easier way to get the right output, without unnecessary extra files or formatting.
Clause Library in CoCounsel for Word (Canada & Australia)
The personal clause library in CoCounsel for Word — already available in the US and UK — is now available to Canada and Australia customers. Lawyers can save frequently used clauses for quick access during drafting and negotiation, adding them to the library manually, saving them after AI drafting, or importing them from contracts or playbooks. Most lawyers keep a file of go-to clauses in a cumbersome document or notes file; now they can save time by pulling trusted language directly inside the CoCounsel Word add-in.
Explore These New CoCounsel Legal Features Today
Sign in to CoCounsel Legal today to put these new research, drafting, and document-review capabilities to work. Or explore training options at the CoCounsel Legal Product Training site.
To learn more, please visit the CoCounsel Legal web page.
