Aug 07, 2026 |

CoCounsel Legal — July 2026 Releases

July brings CoCounsel Legal closer to the tools legal teams already rely on and further into the everyday moments where they work. This month’s releases center on two themes: a more connected platform that reaches into firm document repositories like NetDocuments and Smokeball, and tools built for how legal teams actually work, from importable playbooks to an agentic contract review experience. Read on for what’s new.

Global Connected PlatformÌý

CoCounsel Integration with NetDocuments (Canada)Ìý

CoCounsel Legal customers in Canada can now bring documents directly from NetDocuments into CoCounsel Legal through the new NetDocuments ndConnect integration. Instead of manually downloading files and re-uploading them, legal professionals can access their firm’s NetDocuments content directly inside CoCounsel Legal — reducing context switching and making it easier to bring trusted firm documents into AI-assisted research, analysis, and drafting workflows.


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Smokeball Knowledge Search Connector (US & Australia)Ìý

The new Smokeball Knowledge Search connector makes a firm’s matter documents searchable directly inside CoCounsel Legal, so attorneys can pinpoint the right file no matter where it lives — without bulk-loading every document into the platform. Knowledge Search surfaces only the files that matter, alongside authoritative Westlaw and Practical Law content. By grounding AI in a firm’s own matter documents alongside trusted Westlaw and Practical Law content, attorneys get more relevant answers and can search across every connected repository at once — saving the time otherwise spent hunting across separate systems.


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Unified Search and Upload ModalÌý

CoCounsel now offers a unified search and file upload experience, powered by Knowledge Search, that replaces fragmented upload flows with a single modal. Users can upload files from their device, pull from CoCounsel, or search across connected document management systems such as iManage and SharePoint — finding what they need across every source without knowing where it lives. The result is less time troubleshooting uploads and more time on the work that matters and greatly simplifying file discovery.

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Built for How You Work

Import Your Complex Playbook in CoCounsel for Word (UK, Canada & Australia)

Instead of rebuilding a firm’s playbook clause by clause inside CoCounsel for Word, customers in the UK, Canada, and Australia can now import an existing playbook directly. Simply upload a file, and CoCounsel intelligently reads and structures the content — including preferred clauses, negotiation guidance, escalation guidance, scenario guidance, fallback clauses, and tabular content — bringing a firm’s institutional knowledge into the platform and ready to work, with no rebuilding required. This eliminates the manual, error-prone work of recreating firm guidance clause by clause — preferred language, negotiation positions, escalation rules, and fallback clauses come in as-is, for faster setup and a playbook that fully reflects the firm’s own language and style.

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Agentic Playbooks in CoCounsel for Word (US)Ìý

A new, agentic contract review layer is now available for transactional attorneys and corporate counsel in the U.S. CoCounsel handles the orientation, setup, and first-pass work automatically — identifying the agreement, the represented party, and the applicable playbook before the attorney even begins. From there, attorneys can review issue-by-issue or accept in bulk, and iterate on redline language conversationally, in plain English, shifting their role from operator to decision-maker. By eliminating the manual setup that slows down every contract review, attorneys move straight to shaping, reviewing, and approving the agent’s work — cutting the time from first read to final redline.


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Personal Injury Content Expansion on Deep Research (Westlaw Advantage UK)Ìý

Personal injury quantum content is now part of Deep Research on Westlaw Advantage UK, including Lawtel Quantum Reports, Kemp Quantum Reports, and the Judicial College Guidelines for the Assessment of General Damages (18th Edition). PI practitioners can now ask natural-language quantum questions and receive a structured Deep Research report that brings this content together — without manually searching Lawtel, Kemp, and the Judicial College Guidelines separately. This gives PI practitioners a faster, more consistent way to benchmark general damages and build quantum assessments, without losing time toggling between separate resources.


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