Accelerating Legal Workflows with Agentic AI
Building on the excitement of Thomson Reuters announcing that more than one million professionals have chosen CoCounsel, the company’s professional-grade AI, this month’s CoCounsel Legal release brings a wave of new capabilities to streamline research, drafting, and document review for legal professionals. These updates reflect the principles driving our roadmap: Agentic AI grounded in deep legal expertise, rooted in your own knowledge and workflows, and built to elevate the way modern legal teams operate.
Agentic AI Grounded in Deep Legal Expertise
Westlaw Advantage Canada with Deep Research
Westlaw Advantage applies agentic AI to trusted authoritative content, acting like an expert researcher to help you quickly move from research to strategy. At the heart of Westlaw Advantage is Deep Research, the legal industry’s first professional-grade agentic AI research capability. By combining advanced AI with Westlaw’s unmatched content library, it streamlines complex research in English or French, delivering comprehensive coverage while significantly reducing manual research time. Westlaw Advantage Canada is more than just a research solution; it’s a strategic element of CoCounsel, our AI technology, available to every Canadian legal professional.
Westlaw Advantage Canada Deep Research Report
Deep Research in Practical Law US
Deep Research in Practical Law brings a smarter, more intuitive approach to using all the know-how resources. It feels less like searching Practical Law and more like working alongside a Practical Law editor who has instant command of every resource and tool at your disposal. Powered by agentic AI and grounded in Practical Law’s trusted and up-to-date content, it automatically plans research steps, pulls the most relevant guidance and templates, and delivers a clear, well-supported research report. Deep Research reviews multiple Practical Law resources, synthesizing the key guidance, and iteratively exploring further until it has exhausted its work, eliminating manual tedious, multi-step workflows—helping you move from “how to?” to “here’s how” faster. And, with easy access to the underlying sources for verification, you can move confidently to the next phase of your matter.
Deep Research Verification Tools for US
Verifying AI generated research shouldn’t slow attorneys down—and now it doesn’t have to. CoCounsel Legal’s built in verification tools surface clear statements alongside their supporting sources, use AI to assess how well those sources align, and apply adversarial review to highlight potential gaps or missing context. By bringing together supporting evidence, counter perspectives, and direct connections to Key Numbers and KeyCite, attorneys can quickly validate research, strengthen their arguments, and stay confidently in control—without losing momentum.
Rooted in Your Knowledge
Draft a New Agreement Using Your Precedent Document (Beta)
This AI-powered capability provides transactional attorneys the ability to create a comprehensive first drafts in minutes. Upload a trusted precedent document, describe specific needs, and receive a complete, multi-page draft that follows the firm’s structure and style. This transforms hours of drafting work into minutes, delivering relevant drafts that reflect firm standards allowing attorneys to focus more on strategy.
Draft a new agreement using your precedent document
Create a Lease Agreement Abstract
First released in the U.S. and now available in the UK, Canada, and Australia, this capability efficiently produces concise, tabular summaries of lease agreements using a user-specified template. Upload lease documents and receive structured summaries in Markdown or Microsoft Word format, complete with instant citations to relevant contract sections for enhanced accuracy and rapid verification.
Create a Lease Agreement Abstract
Benchmark Document Against Standard
Now live in the UK, Canada, and Australia, as well as the U.S., this tool lets users assess a negotiated document by comparing it against a user-uploaded “ideal contract” to highlight missing clauses or key deviations. It enhances alignment and risk management by identifying gaps and offering practical recommendations that help streamline negotiations.
Benchmark Document Against Standard
Syncly Box and Dropbox Integrations
CoCounsel Legal now integrates with Dropbox and Box through Syncly, enabling secure document import. This simplifies workflows by bringing documents stored across systems into one continuous workflow for analysis, research, and drafting.
Customise a Practical Law Agreement
Now available in the UK, Canada, and Australia alongside the US, this workflow enables legal professionals to tailor a Practical Law standard document according to specified instructions and provisions of a term sheet. By incorporating deal-specific details into template agreements and utilizing expertly drafted Practical Law content as a foundation, it significantly streamlines the drafting process.
Customise a Practical Law Agreement
Built for how you work
Tabular Analysis
Now available in the U.S., with UK and Canada coming soon, tabular analysis transforms high-volume document review by allowing users to process up to 10,000 documents and 100 questions in a dynamic, filterable table. With the ability to modify reviews in progress and run multiple tables simultaneously, it offers unmatched scalability and efficiency, enabling legal professionals to focus on strategic, high-value tasks.
Tabular analysis
Find Practical Law Drafting Language – UK
Quickly find drafting language from trusted content using a simple prompt within Practical Law Search & Summarise or CoCounsel. This capability streamlines the drafting process by helping users locate specific, verifiable drafting language powered by Practical Law’s expert-written content.
Outline Case File
This litigation-focused skill for the US examines entire case records to identify relevant documents, extract key facts, and create an outline connecting facts to claims. It significantly reduces review time, helping professionals quickly get up to speed and identify strengths, weaknesses, and gaps in the factual record.
Outline Case File
Explore these new CoCounsel Legal features today
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