Lawyers have always been accountable for their work. That was true before AI, and it is just as true now. A brief carries your name. An argument carries your judgment. A citation carries your reputation. None of that changes because an AI tool helped you produce it faster.��

That’s��why when firms talk about adopting AI for legal work, the first question��shouldn’t��be about speed or cost savings. It should be: can I��actually verify��what this produces? If you��can’t��trace an output back to its source, check whether that source is still good law, and inspect the reasoning that connected the two, you��don’t��have work product. You have a draft you��can’t��stand behind.��

That standard is not new.��What’s��new is how many lawyers are finding out the hard way that the AI tools they adopted��weren’t��built with it in mind.��

Courts across the United States have now sanctioned attorneys for��submitting��briefs with fabricated citations, false quotes, and mischaracterized precedent — all generated by AI and not verified by the attorneys. When those tools are built on content scraped from the web rather than authoritative legal sources��maintained��by practicing attorneys, the risk of error is structural. The AI has no way to know whether a case is still good law, whether a statute has been amended, or whether a citation��actually supports��the argument��it’s��being used to make. Verification becomes difficult not because the tools��don’t��show their work, but because the underlying sources��can’t��be trusted in the first place.��

At��Thomson��Reuters,��we��understand��that lawyers��don’t��just need to find the law — they need to be able to stand behind what they find.��We’ve��always built Westlaw��and Practical Law��with that in mind, and��it’s��the same principle we carried into CoCounsel Legal from the very beginning.��

Built for Verification at Every Stage��

When we designed CoCounsel Legal, we started from a simple premise: a lawyer should be able to verify everything the AI produces before putting their name on it. That meant building��tools that give attorneys everything they need to do that��verification��themselves,��at every stage of the workflow.��

As the research unfolds,��Deep Research��shows you its work in real time, step by step. You can follow the reasoning as it develops,��explore��findings as they��emerge, and��refine��the research with more specificity��by answering��additional��questions.����

As citations are built, two things work in parallel.��KeyCite��is woven into every stage of the research workflow, flagging cases overruled in part, warning of proposed amendments to statutes, and surfacing cases that are��frequently��cited together even when they��don’t��cite each other. Alongside it,��CoCounsel Legal’s patent-pending citation ledger��tracks every source the AI draws on throughout the research process and confirms that each source was��actually read��and reviewed — not just referenced.��Together, they give attorneys what they need to��answer the question��that��should��precede every citation��they rely on: does this hold up?��

Before anything goes out, two more layers of review engage.��The Verify function, launched in February 2026, surfaces every assertion made in the research report alongside the relevant source passages and pointers for��additional��research — giving attorneys everything they need to��verify��before anything goes out the door.��Litigation Document Analyzer��goes further��by��identifying��potential misrepresentations of law throughout an entire brief, your own or opposing counsel’s. Because in litigation, what a document implies about the law matters just as much as what it explicitly says.��

Every one of these capabilities exists for the same reason: because when you use AI to do legal work, you are still the one responsible for it.����

The Question Every Lawyer Should Be Asking��

Not all legal AI is built the same way.��Some tools are little more than general-purpose foundation models with a legal label applied — with little ability to confirm whether the underlying sources are current, authoritative, or accurately represented in the answer.��They can be fast. They can be impressive in a demo. But when a client’s matter is on the line and a judge is asking questions, impressive in a demo is not the standard that matters.��

At ����VR��Ƶ,��fiduciary‑grade��AI is our standard for how AI should work in��high‑stakes professions.����It’s AI designed for professionals – built on our authoritative content; protected by rigorous privacy and security safeguards; shaped and validated by subject‑matter��experts; and designed to produce transparent outputs that can be verified.����

We’ve spent decades earning the trust of the legal profession. That history shaped how we built CoCounsel Legal. When your firm is evaluating which AI tools to adopt, the conversation about speed and efficiency matters. But it shouldn’t be the only conversation. Ask how the system handles accuracy. Ask what happens when you need to trace an output back to its source. Ask whether you can actually verify what it produces before your name goes on it. Those questions will tell you everything you need to know about whether a tool was built for legal work or just marketed to it.��

Lawyers have always been accountable for what they put their names on. The right AI gives you the tools to meet that accountability — and the confidence to know you have.

Building on the excitement of ����VR��Ƶ 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, 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

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Today’s fast-paced legal landscape forces professionals to take on increasing workloads, push the boundaries of their time, and navigate the constant challenge of staying abreast of complex legal changes. Westlaw Advantage is meticulously designed to address these pain points, transforming how you approach legal research. It will empower legal professionals to move from research to strategy with unprecedented speed and confidence like never before.

“The legal profession is evolving rapidly, and so are the solutions supporting it,” said Mary Acimovic, senior director of Product Management, ����VR��Ƶ. “Westlaw Advantage isn’t just an incremental update; it’s a paradigm shift. We’ve harnessed the power of agentic AI to truly understand and execute complex research tasks like an expert, freeing up legal professionals to focus on higher-value strategic work. This platform embodies our commitment to innovation that doesn’t just serve our customers’ needs, it pushes them into an entirely new realm of serving their clients.”

The Power of Agentic AI Applied to Legal Research

At the heart of Westlaw Advantage is��Deep Research, the legal industry’s first professional-grade agentic AI research capability. Deep Research emulates the practices of expert legal researchers and can serve as a seasoned colleague dedicated to your research question. It formulates a multi-step plan, leveraging Westlaw’s proprietary content and core tools like KeyCite and the Canadian Abridgment to deliver accurate, thorough, and comprehensive answers. Additionally, it refines the process in real-time, ensuring optimal results.

Optimized for both English and French language use and supporting both common law and civil law practice, Deep Research ensures no stone is left unturned – covering the current state of the law, recent changes, practical implications, governing laws, and more. Users gain unprecedented transparency with step-by-step research notes culminating in a comprehensive, detailed report that drastically reduces manual effort and accelerates the journey from research to strategic action.

“Traditional legal research, particularly on an issue that is on the periphery of my practice area, can yield helpful fragments of information – but often, not the full picture. What’s powerful about Westlaw’s Deep Research tool is that the multi-step approach weaves these fragments into a more comprehensive answer, identifying and filling gaps for a more complete understanding of what I might need to know,” Doug Higgins, associate lawyer, Hull & Hull LLP.

Westlaw Advantage recently launched in the U.S. and UK, and customers are already recognizing impactful benefits. “Deep Research is really easy to use. It is an order of magnitude better than any AI legal research tool we’ve used, producing much deeper and more complete analysis. It can do in 15 minutes what might take a human��an entire day to do manually,” stated Sam Dixon, chief innovation officer and partner at Womble Bond Dickinson UK.

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. It speeds up research, increases confidence in findings, reveals hidden legal connections, and provides all relevant materials on one platform. The result: better-informed strategies, superior preparation for trials and client meetings, and enhanced client value.

Discover how our cutting-edge agentic AI, combined with the trusted content you rely on, can transform your legal work. Learn more about Westlaw Advantage in Canada at .

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Rehausser l’excellence juridique : Westlaw Advantage maintenant offert au Canada

Aujourd’hui marque une avancée majeure pour la recherche juridique canadienne alors que ����VR��Ƶ, entreprise mondiale de contenu et de technologies, lance Westlaw Advantage Canada. Élément clé de CoCounsel, notre technologie d’IA, cette plateforme de recherche juridique de nouvelle génération est conçue pour les cabinets d’avocats, les services juridiques d’entreprise et les organismes gouvernementaux. Elle intègre de façon fluide une IA agentique avancée à une collection inégalée de sources canadiennes fiables en droit primaire et en doctrine, notamment le Canadian Encyclopedic Digest, les collections de doctrine, ainsi que les textes et annotations thématiques.

Dans le contexte juridique actuel, en constante accélération, les professionnels doivent composer avec des charges de travail croissantes, des contraintes de temps de plus en plus serrées et le défi permanent de rester à jour face à l’évolution rapide et complexe du droit. Westlaw Advantage a été conçu avec soin pour répondre à ces enjeux et transformer votre façon d’aborder la recherche juridique. Il permet aux professionnels du droit de passer de la recherche à la stratégie avec une rapidité et une confiance sans précédent.

« La profession juridique évolue rapidement, tout comme les solutions qui la soutiennent », a déclaré Mary Acimovic, directrice principale de la gestion des produits chez ����VR��Ƶ. « Westlaw Advantage ne représente pas une simple mise à jour incrémentielle ; il s’agit d’un véritable changement de paradigme. Nous avons exploité la puissance de l’IA agentique afin de comprendre et d’exécuter des tâches de recherche complexes comme le ferait un expert, libérant ainsi les professionnels du droit pour qu’ils puissent se concentrer sur des travaux stratégiques à plus forte valeur ajoutée. Cette plateforme incarne notre engagement envers une innovation qui ne se contente pas de répondre aux besoins de nos clients, mais qui les propulse vers une toute nouvelle façon de servir leurs propres clients. »

La puissance de l’IA agentique appliquée à la recherche juridique

Au cœur de Westlaw Advantage se trouve la Recherche approfondie avec l’IA, la première capacité de recherche juridique professionnelle fondée sur une IA agentique offerte dans l’industrie. La fonction Recherche approfondie reproduit les pratiques des chercheurs juridiques chevronnés et agit comme un collègue expérimenté entièrement dédié à votre question de recherche. Elle élabore un plan de recherche en plusieurs étapes, en s’appuyant sur le contenu exclusif de Westlaw et sur des outils essentiels comme KeyCite et le Canadian Abridgment, afin de fournir des réponses exactes, approfondies et complètes. Elle affine également son processus en temps réel pour garantir des résultats optimaux.

Optimisée pour une utilisation en français et en anglais, et prenant en charge tant la common law que le droit civil, la Recherche approfondie ne laisse rien au hasard��: elle couvre l’état actuel du droit, les changements récents, les incidences pratiques, les lois applicables et bien plus encore. Les utilisateurs bénéficient d’une transparence inégalée grâce à des notes de recherche détaillées, étape par étape, qui aboutissent à un rapport complet et approfondi, réduisant considérablement les efforts manuels et accélérant le passage de la recherche à l’action stratégique.

«��La recherche juridique traditionnelle, surtout lorsqu’il s’agit d’une question à la périphérie de mon champ de pratique, peut fournir des fragments d’information utiles, mais rarement une vue d’ensemble complète. Ce qui rend l’outil Recherche approfondie de Westlaw si puissant, c’est son approche en plusieurs étapes, qui permet de rassembler ces fragments en une réponse beaucoup plus complète, en repérant et en comblant les lacunes afin d’obtenir une compréhension globale de ce que je dois savoir��», explique Doug Higgins, avocat associé, Hull & Hull LLP.

Westlaw Advantage a récemment été lancé aux États-Unis et au Royaume-Uni, et les clients reconnaissent déjà ses avantages considérables. « La recherche approfondie avec l’IA est vraiment facile à utiliser. Elle est nettement supérieure à tous les outils de recherche juridique basés sur l’IA que nous avons utilisés, car elle produit des analyses beaucoup plus approfondies et complètes. Elle peut faire en 15 minutes ce qui prendrait une journée entière à un être humain pour le faire manuellement », a déclaré Sam Dixon, directeur de l’innovation et associé chez Womble Bond Dickinson UK.

Westlaw Advantage Canada est bien plus qu’un simple outil de recherche : il constitue un élément stratégique de CoCounsel, notre technologie d’IA, accessible à tous les professionnels du droit au Canada. Il accélère la recherche, renforce la confiance à l’égard des résultats, met en lumière des liens juridiques souvent cachés et rassemble tous les documents pertinents sur une seule plateforme. Résultat : des stratégies mieux informées, une préparation supérieure pour les procès et les rencontres avec les clients, et une valeur accrue pour la clientèle.

Découvrez comment notre IA agentique de pointe, combinée au contenu fiable sur lequel vous comptez, peut transformer votre pratique juridique. Pour en savoir plus sur Westlaw Advantage au Canada, visitez thomsonreuters.ca/fr

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.

Why Agentic AI Matters

The distinction between AI copilots and agentic AI solutions isn’t just semantic – it’s fundamental to how legal work gets done. While copilots offer suggestions and assistance, agentic AI like CoCounsel Legal takes on complex, multi-step professional work with advanced reasoning, authoritative content integration, and deep subject matter expertise.

The UK launch of CoCounsel Legal represents more than geographic expansion. It’s the convergence of critical innovations: Deep Research capabilities on both Practical Law and Westlaw Advantage, and seamless integration with existing legal technology ecosystems including Microsoft 365, document management systems, and ����VR��Ƶ HighQ.

Sam Dixon, chief innovation officer at Womble Bond Dickinson, said: “We knew we needed to bring in a GenAI legal assistant to help us deliver the best possible service we can for clients. For us, the fact that CoCounsel had the ability to lean on the Westlaw content and the Practical Law content was really beneficial. And it already integrates with a lot of the rest of our legal tech stack, such as HighQ.”

CoCounsel Legal’s native integration with existing workflows means legal professionals don’t have to choose between innovation and productivity – they get both.

“We have found the working relationship with ����VR��Ƶ very collaborative, transparent and supportive – real partners who go the extra mile to support us in getting value out of our relationship,” said Christina Demetriades, global operating officer, Accenture Legal. “CoCounsel is a massive opportunity for our function – we see it as a way of displacing outside counsel spend and augmenting our team in practice – I see it helping build the Future Ready Legal professional. I have already used it myself to prepare advice for our business on an upcoming opmodel transformation. It was a great value add.”

Deep Research: A Global First for UK Legal Professionals

The UK launch introduces several industry firsts. debuts globally in the UK, with its U.S. release set for February. The new brings professional-grade agentic AI research capabilities specifically tailored to UK legal content. Most significantly, both content sets are unified in a single platform, eliminating the need to navigate between systems while delivering comprehensive results across practice areas.

What makes Deep Research genuinely transformative is its ability to reason, plan, and execute comprehensive legal research autonomously. It doesn’t just retrieve information – it generates multi-step research plans, traces its logic with transparent reasoning, and delivers structured reports backed by Westlaw and Practical Law citations. Legal professionals can hand off complete research questions to an AI that understands the assignment, explains its process, sources its answers, and builds argument foundations, all with human oversight.

The Foundation for Professional AI

David Wong, chief product officer, ����VR��Ƶ, said: “Professional-grade AI is fundamentally changing how legal work gets done, and with CoCounsel Legal, we’re delivering enterprise-ready agentic AI that helps UK law firms and legal departments future-proof their practices. This isn’t just about efficiency – it’s about empowering legal professionals with AI that reasons through complex problems, integrates seamlessly into existing workflows, and scales across entire organizations while maintaining the trusted, authoritative foundation our customers depend on. This isn’t just about convenience – it’s about delivering real value to our clients and their work.”

That foundation – combining advanced reasoning models, authoritative content, deep subject matter expertise, and native integration – represents the essential components needed to complete complex, multi-step professional work. It’s what separates professional-grade AI from consumer-grade tools, and what makes CoCounsel Legal uniquely positioned to transform how legal work happens in practice, not just in theory.

Looking Ahead

The UK launch of CoCounsel Legal signals a broader shift in how professional services will be delivered. As agentic AI capabilities mature and expand, the question isn’t whether AI will transform legal work – it’s whether legal professionals and organizations will embrace tools purpose-built for their needs or settle for generic solutions that promise much but deliver little.

For UK legal professionals ready to explore what professional-grade agentic AI can do for their practice, the opportunity is here. The future of legal work isn’t waiting – it’s embedded in the work itself.

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At the 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 ����VR��Ƶ 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 ����VR��Ƶ’ 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 ����VR��Ƶ authoritative sources

NetDocuments and the ndConnect Program

A 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 ����VR��Ƶ, and analyze documents with advanced review capabilities – all while maintaining their documents’ integrity and metadata within NetDocuments.

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 ����VR��Ƶ 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 ����VR��Ƶ 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.

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