Legal tech is moving fast, and we’re moving with it. Our roadmap for CoCounsel Legal is built around four core areas that we know matter most to the way our customers actually work: “Built for How You Work,” “Agentic AI Grounded in Expertise,” “Rooted in Your Knowledge,” and “Global, Connected Platform.” The goal is simple – make our customers’ days easier, their decisions faster, and give them the kind of tools that actually fit into their workflow.
At the 2025 SYNERGY Legal Professionals conference, we are unveiling new beta features for CoCounsel Legal that tackle document review and agentic execution in a much more powerful way. Over the coming months, these new features will expand CoCounsel Legal’s capability to handle the broadest range of legal work with even more precision. We’ve also released several drafting improvements and announced a new partnership to seamlessly bring our trusted, authoritative content together with a law firm’s proprietary work product.
Built for How You Work
Focusing on speed, security, and collaboration, we’re making CoCounsel Legal faster, more intuitive, and more collaborative – all while maintaining the professional-grade trust and compliance our customers require.
Bulk Document Review (beta)
The beta release of CoCounsel Legal’s bulk document review redefines the approach to high-volume document analysis. Designed to tackle one of legal practice’s most resource-intensive challenges, this powerful solution will empower legal professionals to ingest vast document sets and receive intelligently structured, sortable results in an intuitive table format.
This capability will overhaul traditional review cycles, moving beyond the limitations of manual methods by enabling the efficient analysis of up to 10,000 documents in a fraction of the time. This can directly reduce the number of write-offs firms take when reviewing documents – an area that often impacts profitability per attorney. CoCounsel Legal’s structured analysis provides immediate access to critical data, allowing for rapid filtering and sorting to pinpoint key information across a spectrum of vital workflows: from optimizing litigation discovery and streamlining M&A due diligence to enhancing regulatory compliance reviews and accelerating contract analysis.
Agentic AI, Grounded in Expertise
Leveraging an unmatched foundation of expertise and authoritative content from Westlaw and Practical Law, CoCounsel uses advanced AI to plan and execute complex, multi-step legal workflows.
Independent Execution of Legal Tasks (beta)
CoCounsel Legal will independently plan and execute complex, multistep legal workflows. With a single natural language prompt, legal professionals can trigger sophisticated workflows – whether conducting legal analysis, drafting documents, or researching case law. The platform intelligently interprets each request, maps the optimal execution strategy, and completes the entire workflow by integrating Thomson Reuters authoritative Westlaw and Practical Law content with the law firm’s proprietary knowledge base. The result? Less time managing tasks, more time delivering strategic counsel.
Custom Workflows (beta)
CoCounsel Legal’s workflow builder lets legal professionals design, save, and share custom workflows that combine Thomson Reuters’ trusted content with their firm’s own expertise. It’s a straightforward way to build repeatable processes that capture institutional knowledge and scale best practices across the entire firm—making everyone more efficient and consistent in how they work.
Deep Research on Westlaw – Expanded coverage, enhanced precision
Deep Research now covers state administrative materials in addition to federal sources, giving customers a more complete view of the regulatory landscape. Customers also get timely, curated updates on case law, regulatory changes, and practice developments from JD Supra, Quinlan, and Westlaw Daily Briefings. Plus, the new Clarifying Questions feature asks for additional details when it spots gaps, then reruns the analysis to make each report more precise and tailored to what customers actually need.
Identifying Citation Issues
CoCounsel’s Identifying Citation Issues feature allows users to upload a brief or memo and get an instant review for inaccurate or missing citations eliminating tedious, line by line checks. CoCounsel flags potential errors and presents a clear side by side table showing the original cite and the issue detected, allowing the ability to fix problems fast. Every check is validated against the trusted authority of Westlaw, delivering confidence that the cited sources are accurate before filing. The result: tighter documents, fewer surprises, and more time for the substance of the argument.
AI Overview for Statutes Compare
Comparing statute versions just got easier. With AI Overview in Statutes Compare, users can click once to get a clear, plain language summary of what changed materially between two versions – so less time is spent wading through long sections and cosmetic edits, and more time spent understanding the impact. It filters out formatting and nonsubstantive tweaks to spotlight the revisions that matter for analysis, improving efficiency, reducing the risk of missing a key change, and briefing clients or colleagues with confidence.
Find Practical Law Drafting Language
Find Practical Law drafting language is a new skill available to quickly find the drafting language needed by simply entering in a prompt for specific clauses or to fit certain scenarios, such as “find me drafting language where party A resides in a different state but agrees to this state’s forum.” This AI-powered search capability eliminates the need to navigate complex taxonomies or remember exact clause titles, reducing drafting time while maintaining the rigor and reliability users trust and expect from Practical Law.
Practical Law Search & Summarize in Word
Designed to deepen the Practical Law integration within Word, this feature, coming soon, lets legal professionals ask how-to questions and get summarized, synthesized answers pulled from Practical Law’s full collection of practice notes, checklists, and standard documents. Responses include citations to source materials, making it easy to verify information or dig deeper.
Update Contract Terms
CoCounsel can now handle the tedious work of updating contract terms. Upload a term sheet, and it populates your template or precedent agreement with tracked changes and annotations showing what was revised. It’s a straightforward time-saver that reduces manual data entry errors and frees up legal professionals to focus on higher-level work
Rooted in Your Knowledge
By integrating with document management systems, precedents, and templates, CoCounsel Legal delivers insights that draw from both a firm’s institutional knowledge and Thomson Reuters authoritative sources
NetDocuments and the ndConnect Program
A partnership with NetDocuments delivers another advantage for legal professionals. With the introduction of ndConnect, NetDocuments’ new interoperability program, legal professionals can securely incorporate AI capabilities from CoCounsel Legal into their document management workflows. Users can now conduct legal research with Westlaw and Practical Law, draft documents based on both their own internal content and that of Thomson Reuters, and analyze documents with advanced review capabilities – all while maintaining their documents’ integrity and metadata within NetDocuments.
