Oct 14, 2025 | AI and product innovation

Our commitment to innovation continues through the latest enhancements to CoCounsel Legal and additional solutions. These updates optimize workflows, deliver more comprehensive insights, and strengthen your competitive advantage. This month, we are introducing several integrations and new features aimed at providing a seamless and cohesive workflow experience led by our beta of Deep Research in Practical Law, integration of HighQ and CoCounsel, and the expanded offering of CoCounsel in French, German, Portuguese, Spanish and Japanese.

Deep Research in Practical Law (beta)

Legal research is consistently one of the most important AI use cases for legal professionals. CoCounsel’s Deep Research is being built on authoritative Thomson Reuters content in Westlaw and Practical Law, giving lawyers the power to tackle complex, multi-step research through an agentic experience that is built on the legal authority they use and trust every day.

Deep Research on Practical Law, currently in beta with select customers, is a significant advancement toward the comprehensive, trusted, and seamless CoCounsel Legal research solution of the future. Deep Research on Practical Law plans the research steps, retrieves the most relevant guidance and templates from Practical Law, and presents clear, supported conclusions. It adapts as follow-up questions are asked, enabling deeper, more nuanced analysis.

This streamlined approach saves time, reduces friction, and builds confidence in the resulting work product. As the leading resource for legal know how content, Deep Research in Practical Law complements Westlaw’s primary-law expertise and supports the evolving needs of legal professionals.

 

HigQ and CoCounsel integration

Embedded with GenAI from Thomson Reuters CoCounsel, HighQ users can maximize and build on AI-generated insights and outputs through new waves of integrations that bring AI directly into their workflows and deliver greater client service.

Document Insights

This integration embeds CoCounsel’s document review and summarize skills directly into HighQ enabling users to understand documents faster, gain critical insights, and pinpoint and extract information at the point of need.

 

Integration with CoCounsel drafting capabilities

Within their HighQ workflow, users can seamlessly access drafting capabilities in CoCounsel to review a document, edit, redline it against a playbook and more. The new integration allows users to leverage their documents in HighQ and eliminate versioning risks and manual uploads, saving significant time on drafting and review tasks.

 

 

 

Self-Service Q&A

A new AI-powered chat experience within modernized HighQ dashboards leverages CoCounsel’s search a database skill. Clients and stakeholders can now ask natural language questions about curated document sets and receive summarized, highly relevant answers in minutes, transforming static repositories into dynamic knowledge hubs.

Streamlined workflows, connected experiences and performance improvements

Practice area specific prompts in the CoCounsel Library

New expert-crafted prompts by Practical Law editors are now available directly in the CoCounsel Library, providing a precise starting point for tasks across various practice areas including criminal law, personal injury, data privacy, litigation, and more. Developed by legal experts, these prompts ensure accuracy and efficiency, helping move work forward faster.

 

Expanded CoCounsel Library accessibility

As the CoCounsel Library becomes even more accessible, users will be able to access CoCounsel directly from Westlaw and Practical Law in the U.S., and Microsoft Word and Outlook internationally. This reduces context switching and accelerates workflow with faster start times, improved document analysis, and quick access to frequently used prompts and skills without switching platforms.

Syncly Google Drive connector for CoCounsel Legal

For law firms using Google Drive, CoCounsel Legal now connects directly via Syncly. The connection allows users to upload documents from Google Drive into CoCounsel while preserving metadata and permissions. This will eliminate manual downloads and uploads, ensuring you’re always working with the most current and auditable document. version.

 

AI Overview for Statutes Compare

When comparing two versions of a statute, you can choose to receive an AI Overview of the substantive changes. This intelligent feature filters out minor formatting adjustments and highlights the changes that truly matter, saving you valuable time in reviewing lengthy statutory documents.

Moving Faster, Working Smarter

Platform updates led to a 97% reduction in CoCounsel’s average file download time. Additionally, the average time required to complete tasks using skills rooted in our industry-leading content has a 31% average improvement, reflecting changes in AI performance on features including Ask Practical Law AI, Summarize Documents and user’s open documents within CoCounsel.

In addition, through testing and optimization efforts, we have improved the quality and reliability of the draft skill in CoCounsel by migrating the underlying LLM to GPT5. Users should experience reductions in application startup times and higher-quality precision output enabling them to complete first drafts more completely and accurately.

CoCounsel grows internationally adding multiple languages

CoCounsel is expanding its footprint internationally and adding new languages including French, German and Japanese. The professional-grade legal AI assistant will be available in France, Benelux /Brussels, Luxembourg and Quebec (French), Germany, Austria and Switzerland (German), Brazil (Portuguese), Argentina (Spanish), and Japan (Japanese) allowing more legal professionals to benefit from CoCounsel’s capabilities.

CoCounsel is also available in the U.S., UK, Canada, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia and United Arab Emirates.

And if you would like to see a deeper dive of Deep Research on Westlaw Advantage, check out the AL TV Product Walk Through.

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