Starting 2026 with AI Momentum
We’re starting 2026 with a powerful lineup of CoCounsel Legal releases that signal where the product is headed—and what continues to set it apart. Each new capability reflects the principles driving our roadmap: agentic AI grounded in legal expertise, rooted in your knowledge, and built for how you work. Here’s what’s new to help you begin the year with clarity, speed, and confidence.
Agentic AI, Grounded in Expertise
Deep Research on Practical Law UK (US coming soon)
Deep research is an advanced agentic research capability inside Practical Law that plans multi‑step research, retrieves authoritative guidance and templates, and produces a supported research report. The new capability in CoCounsel Legal eliminates tedious research steps, connects insights across multiple sources, and helps make faster, more confident decisions with traceable authority.
Deep Research on Westlaw Advantage UK
Deep Research on Westlaw Advantage UK is a multi‑step, agentic research tool that builds, executes, and iteratively improves a research plan using trusted Westlaw content. It enables the ability to streamline complex research by easily gathering the right authorities with minimal effort and move from research to strategy with greater confidence and speed.
Smart Browse
Smart Browse automatically highlights the most relevant portions of case law and statutory materials based on your research purpose. Enabling faster case prep and reducing information overload, it cuts through noise and elevates what matters most, helping legal professionals save significant time scanning long documents while improving research precision.
Arguments and Counterarguments
Users can now quickly identify weaknesses in opposing arguments and develop stronger counter-positions with the new arguments and counterarguments skill. Leveraging Westlaw Advantage’s Litigation Document Analyzer, the new skill will summarize and extract the arguments, generate potential counterarguments, and provide legal insights grounded in Westlaw content for each counterargument, greatly reducing response preparation time.
Rooted in Your Knowledge
Custom Prompts & Sharing
You can now create, customize, save, and share prompts in empowering teams such as practice groups to standardize prompting for repeatable legal work and outputs.
Built For How You Work
Tabular Analysis
The tabular analysis capability, coming soon, lets users review up to 10,000 documents against 100 questions. Delivering results in an interactive, filterable table with source verification through clickable footnotes, users can add/remove files or questions mid-review and run multiple tables simultaneously. Tabular analysis helps relieve tedious document review delivering greater clarity more efficiently across thousands of documents.
UX/UI Refresh – CoCounsel Microsoft Word Add-in
dd-in offers a cleaner, more intuitive interface including simpler navigation, alphabetized skills, fast mode switching, and quick access to “What’s New?” updates. The refresh helps speed up your workflow and find the right skills more quickly—allowing more time spent practicing law and less time navigating menus.
