成人VR视频 was the first to offer legal customers access to our products and content inside the Microsoft 365 applications they use every day. Now we鈥檙e revolutionizing workflows with integrations in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft SharePoint.

“I really like this format because I don’t have to sign in to a bunch of different platforms, and I can just access it anytime I need it. It does feel more like an assistant rather than like a task-specific tool.” -Legal Counsel

Market leading end-to-end legal drafting

We鈥檙e saving legal customers up to 50% of drafting time with CoCounsel Drafting was our first official integration with Microsoft 365, allowing customers to draft entirely in Microsoft Word while leveraging 成人VR视频 trusted and authoritative legal research and know-how content. This first-of-its-kind integration was hailed by customers, proving we needed further integration to streamline complex workflows and save our customers hours of work.听 Enter CoCounsel on Teams.

World-leading content, right in your Teams chat

Whether 迟丑别测鈥檙别 working with a colleague, or calling a client, legal professionals are always on Teams. We understood the value of being able to access CoCounsel capabilities, from across multiple 成人VR视频 products, like Westlaw Precision, Practical Law and CoCounsel Core into that conversation. Now our legal customers 诲辞苍鈥檛 need to toggle between multiple platforms and tools. They can use CoCounsel for Teams on both desktop and mobile apps to pull the information they need right into chat. And later this year, users will be able to invoke CoCounsel in private mode during live meetings, in the same way they can use Microsoft Copilot in private mode.

In Spring 2025 飞别鈥檒濒 release 鈥淣otifications & Nudges鈥� features to help customers keep up with daily tasks. By receiving timely notifications, users are prompted to revisit and leverage the CoCounsel capabilities in Teams that they might have overlooked, ensuring they make the most of their subscription. Soon, this functionality will be customized to each individual user, suggesting new skills and messages based on the user鈥檚 usage and experience with CoCounsel.听

Making life easier with CoCounsel for Outlook

It was only natural that 飞别鈥檇 introduce CoCounsel鈥�s powerful features into the inbox so many professionals rely on daily. Now lawyers can cut distractions and respond to emails faster with more confident, informed insights by tapping into CoCounsel capabilities directly within Outlook.听

The benefits? Many:

• No more switching between apps: Users can access CoCounsel’s main features without ever leaving Outlook.听听

• Effortless matter intake: Users can create new client matters in seconds! Our AI automatically pulls information from emails to pre-populate forms, slashing manual entry time.听

• Instant legal research:鈥�Users can access Westlaw and Practical Law鈥痙irectly鈥痜rom within Outlook. The most up-to-date information is always at their fingertips.听

• Lightning-fast Knowledge Search:鈥�滨迟鈥檚 easy to find relevant documents and internal knowledge in seconds. No more wasting time digging through files!听

Knowledge Search helps lawyers get a stronger starting point for case work by allowing them to conduct abroad, ambiguous search across multiple repositories simultaneously, including the firm’s DMS, Practical Law, and Westlaw, to produce a collection of relevant documents.

We鈥檙e not done yet!听听

In late Spring 2025, 飞别鈥檒濒 integrate CoCounsel with SharePoint Embedded enhancing efficiency and security in document management. Legal professionals will seamlessly leverage the AI capabilities in CoCounsel directly within their familiar Microsoft 365 environments, eliminating workflow disruptions and enhancing productivity. The automatic content mirroring between SharePoint and CoCounsel knowledge bases ensures information remains current across platforms without manual intervention, saving valuable time and reducing the risk of working with outdated materials.听听

Perhaps most importantly, this integration addresses critical data security concerns by always keeping sensitive documents within the firm鈥檚 control, eliminating the need to upload documents to third-party servers and maintaining compliance with information governance policies. The integration is user-friendly and quick to implement, taking only minutes to get started, which minimizes disruption and allows firms to rapidly benefit from these enhanced capabilities.

As we continue to innovate and expand our partnership with Microsoft, we remain committed to delivering cutting-edge solutions that empower professionals to achieve more. 滨迟鈥檚 just one of the ways 成人VR视频 is poised to revolutionize the way professionals work across various sectors, including Legal, Tax and Accounting, and Tax and Trade. Stay tuned for more exciting developments as we push the boundaries of what’s possible and redefine the future of professional services!

Continued climb in law firm productivity听

I joined 成人VR视频 in February, and a notable way we鈥檝e seen the impact of generative AI solutions is the uptick in lawyer productivity. For the first time in years, Q2 saw a majority of law firms experience productivity growth. By Q3, an astounding 64% of law firms reported productivity growth, building on the gains made in Q2.听听

This uptick underscores how technology is key to boosting law firm profitability. Law firms that invest in new technology as well as adopt AI and generative AI solutions to streamline workflows and improve the efficiency and quality of their work are best positioned to improve client satisfaction and drive sustainable productivity growth.听

Build, buy, partner strategy听

I鈥檓 pleased with the progress 成人VR视频 has made on our vision to provide all the legal professionals we serve with a professional-grade GenAI assistant to augment their work. We鈥檝e committed to investing $100 million annually in AI over the coming years, including investing more than $200 million to incorporate responsible AI into our solutions鈥�in the past year alone.听听听

This year we continued investing in the latest technology through our build, buy, partner program. On the buy side in the legal space, our acquisition of Safe Sign Technologies 鈥� a UK legal large language model (LLM) startup 鈥� in August is proving a great fit. We鈥檙e incorporating Safe Sign鈥檚 tech and talent into our industry-leading content and expertise to bring customers even greater quality and performance from our AI solutions.鈥�听

On the build side, we introduced 19 legal generative AI solutions in 2024. Highlights include CoCounsel 2.0, the professional-grade GenAI assistant; Claims Explorer, a generative AI skill available in鈥�; CoCounsel Drafting, an end-to-end drafting solution that streamlines and improves the drafting process for legal professionals within Microsoft Word; and Mischaracterization Identification in Quick Check and AI Jurisdictional Surveys 鈥� two generative AI research features that help customers save substantial time and deliver greater confidence that legal research is accurate, thorough, and complete. We also delivered deeper integration of CoCounsel into Westlaw and Practical Law.听

On the partner side, we鈥檙e working with Microsoft, OpenAI, Google and others on plugins and integrations to enhance the generative AI-powered capabilities in our solutions.鈥疎very aspect of our build, buy, partner strategy is geared toward helping our customers automate their workflows, provide powerful insights to their clients and drive efficiencies.鈥��听

A maturing market听听

2024 saw the implementation of legal generative AI solutions as well as efforts to benchmark these solutions. Our benchmarking support is reflected in our participation in studies including Vals.ai plus two consortium efforts 鈥� from Stanford and Litig 鈥� exploring how to best evaluate legal AI.听听

I believe that benchmarking can improve both the development and the adoption of AI, but it鈥檚 just鈥痮ne component in how we consider and understand the benefits AI delivers for our customers.鈥疘 look forward to our ongoing collaboration with customers and industry partners as we continue working to minimize inaccuracies and increase the usefulness of the research outcomes for generative AI solutions.听

To date, 15% of law firms have adopted and implemented legal-specific generative AI solutions. I anticipate 飞别鈥檒濒 soon see a wave of fast followers 鈥� eager to be perceived as innovative 鈥� that will dramatically strengthen generative AI implementation.听

I can鈥檛 think of a more exciting time to have joined a business. Where our industry is at now mirrors the early internet era: initial excitement, followed by strategic integration.听听

We鈥檙e fast approaching a maturing market where legal professionals will not just desire but require AI capabilities for their workflows. We鈥檒l see more implementation of generative AI solutions among legal professionals as they increasingly realize the tangible benefits.鈥�鈥�听

For more on how generative AI is shaping the future of the legal profession, please check out my interview.听听

This is a guest post from Raghu Ramanathan, president, Legal Professionals, 成人VR视频.听

In April of this year, we shared our vision to provide a GenAI assistant for each professional we serve. CoCounsel embodies our ongoing efforts to augment professionals鈥� work with GenAI skills, enabling professionals to accelerate and streamline entire workflows to increase efficiency, produce better work, and deliver more value for their clients.鈥疧ur continued investment in GenAI is driven to enable professionals across industries to accelerate and streamline entire workflows through a single GenAI assistant.

We believe our investment in GenAI 鈥� along with our integration to customer data as well as third-party integrations 鈥� extends the value customers derive from CoCounsel beyond our connected experience and our verified and trusted content. Our work with Microsoft, for example, includes CoCounsel integrations across Word, Outlook and Teams 鈥� meeting professionals where 迟丑别测鈥檙别 already working.

AI and large language models are proving to be powerful tools that deliver efficiency gains and strengthen research practices for our customers. Yet our efforts to redefine work with GenAI are rooted in our strong foundation of editorial enhancements, authoritative content and technological expertise, alongside our long history of working closely with customers. That鈥檚 why we continue to build out AI- and non-AI-powered solutions to help with the entire workflow for legal, tax, and risk and compliance professionals. While AI may not be perfect, it can significantly help professionals reduce the amount of work and manage more complex and substantive work more efficiently. We collaborate with our customers to help them understand that AI is an accelerant rather than a replacement for their own research.

Benchmarking expectations

As a leader in innovation and AI research, we recognize the role that independent benchmarking brings in ensuring the accuracy, transparency, and accountability of evolving GenAI solutions. We believe that benchmarking can improve both the development and the adoption of AI. We also see it as one component in a broad range of ways we consider and understand the benefits AI delivers for our customers. We work with our customers as their trusted partners for change, helping them to confidently understand and adopt new technologies, looking at both their immediate value and role in long-term transformation, and leveraging our deep understanding of their businesses.

At 成人VR视频, our understanding of the holistic value of our products is based on customers鈥� usage and the benefits they derive. Our customers have run more than 2.5M searches through AI-Assisted Research鈥痮n Westlaw Precision since its launch late last year, and they tell us it’s saving time and improving productivity. Similarly, internal testing of CoCounsel’s skills has yielded impressive results, particularly with regards to CoCounsel鈥檚 document review capabilities.

Our benchmarking support is reflected in our participation in studies including Vals.ai as well as two consortium efforts 鈥� from Stanford and Litig 鈥� exploring how to best evaluate legal AI. We are submitting CoCounsel AI skills to the Vals.ai benchmarking study in five areas of evaluation 鈥� Doc Q&A, Data Extraction, Document Summarization, Chronology Generation, and E-Discovery.

is a first attempt at establishing a standard, and so we should view this work as the first iteration and an opportunity to learn versus treating it like a gold standard. For example, one limitation of the benchmarking methodology is that each vendor鈥檚 results are evaluated based on the text output alone, removed from the interface and experiences of the individual products. This discounts the work each vendor has done to design interfaces and safety features to minimize the harms of errors. This reinforces the need for a holistic evaluation of each product being tested, ideally as designed for the user.

Looking ahead, my expectation is that, while accuracy will continue to improve, no products will produce answers entirely free of errors. And as we鈥檝e shared with our customers, every AI product requires human expertise for verification and review 鈥� regardless of the accuracy rate. As the current approach to benchmarking rates an accuracy percentage 鈥� we need to be very clear on this point 鈥� whether the product produces a score in the low or high 90th percentile, all answers still must be checked 100% of the time.

I look forward to our ongoing collaboration with customers and industry partners as we continue our work towards minimizing inaccuracies and increasing the usefulness of the research outcomes for GenAI tools and all our solutions.

鈥淭here was a significant focus on the practical application and optimization of generative AI,鈥� said Valerie McConnell, senior director, CoCounsel, 成人VR视频. 鈥淎ALL attendees wanted to learn how to use AI tools in the most effective ways possible. They were looking for strategies to integrate generative AI seamlessly into their workflows. This shift in dialogue reflects a growing maturity in the adoption of AI, highlighting a readiness to leverage these technologies to their fullest potential.鈥�

Rachel Beithon, senior product manager, Westlaw AI & Analytics, 成人VR视频, also noticed attendees鈥� heightened interest in AI tools.

“I was a little concerned that after the last 18 months of near-constant AI discussion in the legal industry that there might be some fatigue setting in,鈥� Beithon said. 鈥淏ut people were so eager to talk more about generative AI solutions.鈥�

Claims Explorer, the new generative AI skill in that launched during AALL, was among the solutions sparking conversations with attendees.

鈥淭hey were absolutely thrilled with Claims Explorer and its use cases,鈥� Beithon said. 鈥淚t was obvious how much time this would save when doing the often-arduous task of exploring potential claims.鈥�

CoCounsel was also generating buzz.

鈥淥ne of the most frequent topics of discussion during our CoCounsel sessions concerned our integrations with Microsoft products and document management systems,鈥� McConnell said. 鈥淭here seems to be a strong interest in using generative AI seamlessly across multiple platforms and systems. Attendees recognized the potential efficiency and productivity gains from having CoCounsel work with the tools they already use daily.鈥�

Generative AI enabling small-scale innovation

The law librarian community鈥檚 readiness to implement generative AI stood out to Zach Warren, manager, Enterprise Content, 成人VR视频 Institute.

鈥淚鈥檓 intrigued by how much courts and government legal departments will play into this tech-enabled future,鈥� Warren said. 鈥淚 saw one presentation given by Judge Keven O鈥橤rady of Kansas where he explained how his court built a 鈥榯riage鈥� tool, helping categorize his family law docket into different pathways based on how much attention different litigants need. 滨迟鈥檚 this sort of small investment that can pay huge dividends, and particularly with GenAI allowing for more small-scale innovation, I鈥檓 excited to see what courts and government come up with to do more with less in the coming years.鈥�

Empowering the next generation of legal professionals

Beithon and McConnell were pleased with the feedback on their Day 2 session, 鈥淪ummoning the Magic Words: Crafting Prompts to be an AI Wizard.鈥�

鈥淲e both heard over and over throughout the conference how valuable that session was and how much more excited attendees were to try out prompting techniques in the Westlaw and CoCounsel Core AI skills, and to teach those to other users at their organization,鈥� Beithon said.

鈥淎ttendees were not just interested in refining their own skills but were also focused on how to empower the next generation of legal professionals,鈥� McConnell added. 鈥淭here was a strong emphasis on teaching law students, associates, and new lawyers the art of prompting. This proactive approach to education and training recognizes the importance of ensuring that everyone in the legal field can harness the full capabilities of generative AI.鈥�

Warren agreed, noting AALL鈥檚 optimistic tone.

鈥淭his year鈥檚 conference was shaped with optimism about the role law librarians can play as shepherds of this new paradigm rather than simply impacted by it,鈥� Warren said. 鈥淭his change comes as no surprise to me, as the 成人VR视频 Institute has noted that librarian and research positions are beginning to increase at law firms, reversing a long-standing trend. The crucial role law librarians play has been noted, both anecdotally and in dollars and cents, and law librarians know that now is the time to make their influence felt.鈥�