Driving legal tech innovation with CoCounsel and Copilot
“Show me you know me.”
This is important in lawyer-client relationships and crucial in lawyer-assistant relationships. If you’re considering adopting an AI legal assistant, you should look for one that knows what you need, and when, and delivers it.
This is exactly what Thomson Reuters CoCounsel, when paired with Microsoft Copilot, can do for you. While CoCounsel is purpose-built to help you more quickly and accurately complete legal tasks such as case law research, contract analysis, and drafting, Copilot automates standard business tasks such as generating meeting notes and summaries, prioritising email inboxes, and developing presentations. By using these two powerful tools together, you can unite legal and administrative work, so that insights from one context can be immediately applied in another. that insights from one context can be immediately applied in another.
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Copilot and CoCounsel better together
Legal professionals adding more value assisted by AI
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CoCounsel
Integrated with tools you already use
CoCounsel is the only AI legal assistant that can be at your side everywhere you work: in your document management system (DMS), in Microsoft 365, and in your legal research. CoCounsel minimises errors and allows you to easily connect your work across platforms into consistent, end-to-end workflows, then applies the power of its industry-leading AI legal skills to complete tasks more quickly, thoroughly, and accurately.
Because CoCounsel can move data and insights seamlessly among applications, you can more easily move forward in a project, rather than making the same updates in multiple places. Working through these tasks quickly will change the way legal professionals think about how they allocate time and add value. If you can complete in a few hours tasks that now take a few days, you can reframe your contribution in terms of impact delivered rather than hours spent.
Copilot and CoCounsel better together
So how, exactly, can CoCounsel and Copilot work together to make a lawyer’s life easier? They both handle routine or repetitive tasks for you: Copilot reduces administrative burdens while CoCounsel improves the output of your legal work — and both can complete this work much more rapidly than you could on your own.
Managing your calendar without chaos: You juggle client meetings, court deadlines, and internal team discussions. Copilot can keep your calendar updated and notifies you of any changes. Meanwhile, CoCounsel can generate timelines of important dates based on your documents, letting you easily flag and avoid potential conflicts.
Bringing legal research into your workflow: Instead of bouncing among emails, research, and meetings, you can let Copilot and CoCounsel connect the dots for you. Imagine receiving an email from a client asking about the implications of a new regulation. You can open CoCounsel from within Outlook and tap into Westlaw and Practical Law to find information about the regulation. CoCounsel can even draft the response, with citations to the source content, all without leaving Outlook. You can then ask Copilot to find out when the next meeting with the client will be or schedule time to discuss the client’s options related to this regulation. No more hunting through your inbox — just relevant info where and when you need it.
Using Teams to keep everything in sync: Now, let’s add Teams to the mix. Suppose you have a litigation strategy call. CoCounsel in Teams can help brainstorm litigation strategies and test for weaknesses in an argument. You can ask CoCounsel to find relevant case law to support the argument, all from within Teams. Copilot summarises the meeting in real time, flags action items, and reminds you later about deadlines discussed. If a client emails a new development mid-call, Copilot can surface that email, so you don’t miss a thing.
Automating meeting prep and follow-ups: Because Copilot can see your email and calendar, it can generate pre-meeting briefs summarising the latest case updates, suggest follow-up emails post-meeting, and transcribe and analyse Teams meetings action items. Let’s say one of the action items is to redline a contract, which can be done in Word with CoCounsel Drafting.
Reducing administrative load: Ultimately, this AI duo drastically reduces your busy work so you can focus on what really matters — the strategic, creative, and interpersonal work machines can’t do, which leads to better serving clients, winning cases. For example, you can ask it to flag billing opportunities such as meetings that should be tracked for billable hours. And you’ll reduce the risk of missed deadlines by aligning research timelines with scheduled obligations.
Legal professionals adding more value assisted by AI
By embracing the combined power of CoCounsel and Copilot you can step away from busy work and focus on the strategic elements of the practice of law. Copilot puts your legal matters into the context of your whole practice, ensuring you have the time and resources to complete work efficiently, according to your specific schedule. CoCounsel amplifies your legal expertise, speeding up routine tasks within the software you use every day, from Microsoft Office to Westlaw, so you can focus on delivering better work product and outcomes to your clients.
Instead of drowning in emails and scrambling for research, you can take advantage of a streamlined, AI-powered workflow that knows your schedule and your clients, helps you communicate effectively and efficiently, and relieves you of keeping track of moving pieces. The result? You can deliver exemplary service, and your clients know they’re in good hands.
CoCounsel integrates with Microsoft 365 and CoPilot as well as other legal tools such as Westlaw and Practical Law.
