CoCounsel provides groundbreaking assistance with legal research and know how
Legal professionals are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to help them do their jobs more quickly and accurately. A full 81% of professionals believe that AI can be applied to their work, and 58% of in-house lawyers expect their outside law firms to use AI.
It’s no wonder why — with AI, they can streamline legal workflows, enhance decision-making, and handle time-consuming, repetitive tasks quickly. This is especially true when they use tools that integrate with the systems they use every day, like Westlaw and Practical Law.
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Legal AI assistant defined
A legal AI assistant is an AI system that helps legal professionals to reliably delegate a wide range of tasks. CoCounsel is the industry-leading legal AI assistant that streamlines complex work, delivering results only possible with GenAI grounded in the authoritative content and expertise of Westlaw and Practical Law. With CoCounsel , you can quickly and more accurately complete time-consuming tasks. This could include finding relevant documents within a large database, drafting correspondence, tracking changes in laws or regulations, generating drafts of legal documents, and more.
Why use a legal AI assistant
A legal AI assistant provides immediate time–savings to legal professionals who are responsible for labour-intensive and detail-heavy work product. They can realise efficiency gains while maintaining or even improving accuracy and context. They can enjoy greater productivity in a user-friendly and reliable workspace.
“The obvious upsides of GenAI are around efficiency, productivity, and being more agile and interactive with your clients. It gives us a competitive edge in that sense. We’re able to do things a bit more cleverly and faster. And that will only increase.”
Managing Partner, Primas Law
Efficiency and time savings
CoCounsel can read and analyse vast quantities of material quickly and more accurately. For instance, a litigator preparing for a motion to dismiss can use AI-Assisted Research in CoCounsel to quickly surface relevant case law — faster than traditional keyword searches. Instead of manually sifting through dozens of results, CoCounsel understands context and retrieves only the most relevant cases, with AI-generated summaries highlighting key points.
There are other ways to find dramatic time savings as well. For example:
- In preparing for a witness cross-examination, a litigator can quickly pull prior witness statements, case law on expert witness credibility, and procedural rules in one place.
- M&A lawyers can ensure that corporate transactions comply with all the applicable regulations without spending hours manually searching a large volume of deal documents to find and check all relevant language.
Accuracy and context
Using a legal-specific AI assistant is crucial to ensure you have accurate information applied properly within the context of legal practice. This helps you minimise hallucinations and get the best outcomes.
The AI assistant can put your matter in the context of the jurisdictions you or your client are operating in. For instance, with Quick Compare you can analyse how different countries interpret key contract terms, corporate governance rules, or disclosure obligations. This makes it easy to determine which jurisdiction’s laws provide the most favourable terms for a transaction.
You can also stay ahead of emerging legal trends that might affect a deal’s structure with AI-Assisted Research. Confirm that a merger or acquisition agreement complies with antitrust laws, data privacy regulations, and foreign investment rules.
Enhanced productivity
Legal professionals at all levels — from paralegals to partners in leading global law firms and FTSE 250 in-house teams — can use CoCounsel to produce top-quality work with greater speed and accuracy. Over 17,000 organizations worldwide have already started using CoCounsel to enhance their work. Because CoCounsel reduces hands-on time significantly, legal professionals can focus on the rewarding work that machines can’t do.
Many lawyers use CoCounsel to create concise summaries of legal issues and data sets for their clients and stakeholders. Then they spend time with them answering questions and advancing the strategy rather than sweating over the documents and summaries themselves.
Advance your practice
Legal-specific AI assistants like CoCounsel are a great aid to legal professionals who want to experiment with AI but are concerned about giving up control. Lawyers and legal organisations that embrace AI now will be able to deliver more work and even find themselves on more interesting projects. They may even find themselves shaping the way AI evolves to serve the industry.
As technology evolves, its role in the legal field will expand, making this an ideal time to integrate tools like CoCounsel into your day-to-day work. CoCounsel can’t do the lawyering for you and your team, but it does set you up with the facts, trends, and insights you need to get to the actual lawyering faster. It does it with the legal tools you already use every day, helping you create work product more quickly, efficiently, and responsively.
CoCounsel integrates with Westlaw, Practical Law and other legal tools, as well as Microsoft 365. Find out how these systems together drive a significant shift in legal operations.
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