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The next generation of CoCounsel Legal is here

19 Oct 2026

Highlights

  • The next generation of CoCounsel Legal is now available, built to work at the level of a senior associate.
  • Deep Research and Multinational Profile deliver cited, verifiable insights across more than 100 jurisdictions from Practical Law and Westlaw.
  • Matter workspaces and Word drafting fit existing workflows, while your data stays private and is never used for model training.

 

Legal professionals across the UK have already made CoCounsel Legal part of how they practice, trusting it with contract review, risk-spotting, and the research and drafting work that used to eat entire evenings. That trust didn’t happen by accident. It was built matter by matter, on the strength of an AI that reasons from sources the profession already relies on.

Now, that foundation is getting stronger. The next generation of CoCounsel Legal is now available for you to bring to your organisation. Engineered to work at the level of a senior associate, CoCounsel Legal reasons through matters the way a lawyer does, and remains the only legal AI that reasons from Practical Law, Westlaw, and your own organisation’s knowledge on every single matter.

Westlaw and Practical Law aren’t places it points you to for follow-up research, they’re woven into how it thinks through your work from the first prompt. That’s Fiduciary-Grade AI™, built to the standard the legal profession actually demands, now taken further.

“I am using the new version of CoCounsel Legal extensively. It is a substantial improvement in both functionality and the quality of the output, and the difference is remarkable. In fact, before knowing when it would be launched in the UK I asked if our beta use could be extended, because going back to the current version at that point would have been difficult after using the new one.”

Simon Baxter

Partner and Head of Real Estate, Primas Law

 

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From prompt to polished work product


Reasoning you can see and verify


Research with confidence, across borders


Built for the way you already practice


Your data stays yours


An investment that compounds


The future of legal work is here

 

From prompt to polished work product

Describe what you need in plain language, reviewing a contract, structuring a multi-jurisdictional deal, risk-spotting in employment documentation, or building a litigation strategy, and CoCounsel Legal handles the rest. It develops the right legal approach, works through each step, and delivers polished work product with citations. No prompt engineering. No stitching together outputs across five different tools and three different tabs. Just describe the matter and get back work you can move on. From a single query, it handles research, analysis and drafting together, so you aren’t piecing results together across multiple conversations or tools.

“What stuck out to me was the more natural conversational prompting I could use with the new CoCounsel Legal versus the formal prompts that I’d use in the past. This was a more natural way of working.”

Rachel Chapman

Partner, Gosschalks LLP

 

Reasoning you can see and verify

And because trust has to be earned, not asserted, every step of the reasoning is visible as it works — what was planned, what was searched, what actually shaped the result. Every citation links back to the source so you can click through and verify it yourself. There’s no black box here. It’s real legal work that you, and the partners you report to, can stand behind, with the understanding that, like any AI, it isn’t infallible, which is exactly why that visibility matters.

Research with confidence, across borders

For research, Deep Research plans and carries out a thorough investigation into your legal question, shows you its process clearly, and delivers a complete report referencing trusted sources from Practical Law and Westlaw, helping you find insights that could otherwise be overlooked.

Multinational Profile lets you compare legal requirements across more than 100 jurisdictions in a single workflow, drawing on Westlaw, Practical Law and other vetted sources.

Built for the way you already practice

Every matter carries its own history, documents, prior positions, templates, and conversations. The next generation of CoCounsel Legal is built around that reality. Spin up a workspace for each matter, upload up to 200 documents, and all of it becomes part of how the platform reasons, no manually flagging which files matter. Your precedents shape the analysis. Your prior positions inform the approach. Your templates shape the draft. When you come back to a matter next week or next month, the context is already there.

This shows up concretely in how you draft. End-to-end drafting inside Microsoft Word means your first draft arrives jurisdiction-aware, leveraging Practical Law content and current market standards, with your firm’s own precedents surfaced right in context.

Your data stays yours

None of this comes at the cost of control. Your data always remains your data, secure, private, and never used to train underlying models. CoCounsel Legal also integrates with the tools already in your workflow, including Microsoft 365 and your document management system, so the platform meets you where the work already happens rather than asking you to change how you practice.

An investment that compounds

Most enterprise software peaks the day it’s deployed. The next generation of CoCounsel Legal is built to do the opposite. Its reasoning capabilities advance alongside the AI frontier, the authoritative content it draws on grows continuously, and new capabilities reach your team without another procurement cycle. Choosing it today is also a bet on where it will be in three years, as it’s designed to keep evolving alongside your organisation.

This is legal AI built with practicing lawyers, to the standard the profession demands. Not a shortcut around judgment, but a foundation for it.

Something this significant deserves a proper introduction. The next generation of CoCounsel Legal reasons from trusted legal authority, allows for the ability to build arguments faster and provides matter workspaces that are built around the way legal teams actually work.

Discover what’s new in CoCounsel Legal today.

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