drafting Archives - Thomson Reuters Institute https://blogs.thomsonreuters.com/en-us/innovation-topics/drafting/ Thomson Reuters Institute is a blog from ¶¶Òõ³ÉÄê, the intelligence, technology and human expertise you need to find trusted answers. Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:19:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 CoCounsel Legal Monthly Insider /en-us/posts/innovation/cocounsel-legal-monthly-insider-march-2026/ Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:29:30 +0000 https://blogs.thomsonreuters.com/en-us/?post_type=innovation_post&p=70203 March’s CoCounsel Legal releases bring powerful new capabilities that transform how legal professionals draft agreements, manage their expertise, and review complex document sets. The key enhancements reflect the principles driving our roadmap: Agentic AI grounded in deep legal expertise, capabilities rooted in your own knowledge and workflows, and built to elevate the way modern legal teams operate.

Rooted in Your Knowledge

Draft an Agreement Based on Your Precedent & Practical Law Content

Draft agreements faster without starting from scratch as CoCounsel’s drafting agent enables U.S. users to generate a comprehensive first draft in minutes using a trusted precedent or a Practical Law Standard Document. Simply upload source material, add key details and requirements, and CoCounsel analyzes the template, applies its structure and style, and produces a tailored multi‑page draft aligned to the instructions provided. The result is a quicker path from blank page to a client-ready draft in a streamlined workflow with less manual assembly allowing users to spend more time reviewing, negotiating, and advising. Review and then export to Microsoft Word when ready.

Draft a new agreement with Practical Law

My Clauses

Using the new My Clauses in CoCounsel (U.S.), transactional lawyers can build a personal, searchable library of preferred contract provisions saved from playbooks, draft and modify outputs, or added manually so the right language is always within reach. Find what is needed in seconds, tailor it to the specific matter, and reuse it instantly across new agreements. That means less time hunting through old files, fewer drafting interruptions, more consistency across matters, and faster turnaround from first draft to final.

My Clauses

 

Built for How You Work

Draft Editor

Draft Editor is an integrated editing environment available in the U.S., UK, Canada, and Australia that lets users refine AI-generated outputs directly in their browser – no need to export to Word or switch applications. Available across key skills including Review Documents, Draft, Summarize, and Timeline, simply click ‘open editor’ to start refining work. By enabling in-place editing, it keeps users focused on their work instead of managing workflow. The result: faster turnaround times, fewer interruptions, and a seamless path from AI assistance to polished work product.

CoCounsel Global Draft Editor

 

Region Settings

Now available in the U.S., UK, Canada and Australia, lawyers can access a flexible, jurisdiction selection feature built directly into CoCounsel for Microsoft Word that enables seamless switching between region content and localization – regardless of regional subscription. Users also can access corresponding Westlaw and Practical Law content from existing subscriptions without purchasing separate regional entitlements or managing multiple logins. Additionally, an improved capability to switch between jurisdictions eliminates geographical limitations in the drafting workflow.

Citations Format Update

CoCounsel now delivers citations as endnotes (with hyperlinks) instead of footnotes in the U.S., UK, Canada and Australia – so your finished Word document reads cleanly from start to finish – a key preference often heard from customers. When exporting the output of any CoCounsel skill or workflow, citations appear at the end of the document, and each in-text citation links to the supporting source and back again. This creates less scrolling and fewer distractions while the work is reviewed, shared, and finalized, especially on longer drafts and research-heavy documents. The in-app experience stays the same; this update improves the readability of exported documents while keeping sources easy to verify.

Tabular Analysis

Tabular analysis is now available in Canadian French.  Users can review up to 10,000 documents and 100 questions, viewing the results in a dynamic, filterable table format.  This flexible capability enables users to add or remove files or questions mid-review, analyze results in a three-pane viewer, and run multiple tables simultaneously. The powerful solution significantly reduces document review time while enabling easy verification with clickable footnotes. This allows legal professionals to concentrate more on strategic, high-value tasks, and enhancing productivity while reducing valuable resource needs.

Explore These New CoCounsel Legal Features Today

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CoCounsel Legal Monthly Insider /en-us/posts/innovation/cocounsel-legal-monthly-insider-dec-2025/ Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:36:54 +0000 https://blogs.thomsonreuters.com/en-us/?post_type=innovation_post&p=68823 We’re closing out 2025 with a strong collection of releases that reflect where is headed – and what sets it apart. Each feature connects to the principles guiding our roadmap: agentic AI grounded in expertise, rooted in your knowledge, and built for how you work. Here’s what’s new.

Agentic AI, Grounded in Expertise

Draft a Complaint (US)

Drafting a complaint typically means toggling between research, form books, and jurisdiction-specific requirements – assembling pieces manually. This agentic skill handles that orchestration for you by pulling relevant precedents from Westlaw, integrating guidance from Practical Law, and applying jurisdictional rules to generate a first draft you can refine.

What once took hours now takes minutes – with the research trail built in.

Know Your Judge (US)

Preparation for oral arguments or a key motion often starts with the same question: how has this judge ruled on similar issues?

The new feature, Know Your Judge, is powered by Litigation Analytics and analyzes a judge’s past rulings, fact patterns, and cited precedents to generate a concise summary of their decision-making tendencies and judicial philosophy.

Now, you can walk into the courtroom knowing what arguments have worked – and what hasn’t landed – with the judge you are facing.

AI Jurisdictional Surveys – Adding State Cases (US)

Gain more comprehensive and well-rounded answers to legal questions leading to faster discovery of important information.  Jurisdictional surveys now integrate state case law directly into your answers alongside statutes and regulations. This fills gaps where statutory text alone doesn’t tell the full story, giving you more comprehensive responses with the nuance that case law provides.

Rooted in Your Knowledge

Legal work depends on context – your documents, your counterparty’s positions, your specific research question. These features connect CoCounsel’s intelligence to the materials and situations unique to your matter.

Summarize Changes from Redlines and Comments (US, UK, Canada, Australia)

When a counterparty returns a marked-up contract, the real work is assessing what changed and whether it matters. This skill analyzes the specific document, extracts material changes, organizes them into a structured table with location references, and flags risk levels – so you can focus attention where it counts.

Take these new CoCounsel features into the new year 

These new CoCounsel capabilities can help you end the year right and start your new year with more productivity.  If you’re preparing for a motion – try Know Your Judge. Reviewing a redlined contract?  Run Summarize Changes from Redlines.  Save time reviewing cases or statutes by using Smart Browse to show you what’s relevant to your matter.

To keep up to date on and new enhancements, sign up for the today.

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CoCounsel Monthly Insider: Sharpening Your Competitive Edge /en-us/posts/innovation/cocounsel-monthly-insider-sharpening-your-competitive-edge/ Wed, 17 Sep 2025 20:22:59 +0000 https://blogs.thomsonreuters.com/en-us/?post_type=innovation_post&p=67579 Driven by our commitment to our customers, each month, ¶¶Òõ³ÉÄê is delivering enhancements to CoCounsel Legal and additional solutions, making them more intuitive, customizable, and effortless to use. In this September edition, we spotlight the latest updates, featuring major upgrades and subtle refinements, designed to boost efficiency and support the delivery of exceptional, high-quality work.

Redesigned drafting capabilities unify CoCounsel tools, content, expertise, and workflows

Informed by customer feedback, we’ve reimagined the legal drafting experience – making it more intuitive, intelligent, and seamlessly integrated. The drafting capabilities in CoCounsel fuse users’ institutional knowledge with trusted ¶¶Òõ³ÉÄê content and AI-powered technology to expedite the legal drafting process. The redesigned homepage puts everything users need right at their fingertips – CoCounsel Chat, skills, and powerful litigation and document analysis tools – all in one clean, intuitive space. Eliminating the need to jump between tabs or hunt for resources, it’s now an even smoother, faster experience that lets users stay focused, work smarter, and get more done with less friction.

Drafting homepage

 

Live Draft brings the ability to summarize and modify a document using natural language in Word. Live Draft also delivers contextual awareness of the document and understanding of the content and structure, so every suggestion and edit is tailored to the content. This helps to further reduce time spent producing a final draft, by delivering more accurate, relevant suggested changes.

Live Draft

 

Append Authorities enables users to combine all cited documents into a single file suitable for court use, reducing the risk of errors and increasing efficiency. Every cited document is linked for verification purposes, and a hyperlinked table of contents is included.

Append Authorities

 

Region settings customizes CoCounsel tools for global legal professionals

The new region settings capability enables users to select their geographic preference from U.S., UK, Australia or Canada. Based on the selected region, region settings will automatically adjust tools and prompts in the CoCounsel Library making the work product more relevant. Users can now automatically tailor their documents using specific regional requirements, including for the UK and Australia, British English spelling variations, legal terminology, grammar, and content formats. Similarly, this will be coming soon for Canadian English. Additionally, CoCounsel Library is now available in the UK, Canada and Australia.

HighQ integrates CoCounsel AI for intuitive, conversational client data access

With CoCounsel’s Search a Database skill embedded within HighQ, this customer-driven development allows clients the ability to pose queries regarding their data and receive summarized, highly relevant answers. Sourced from pre-approved content within their site, clients can quickly review summaries, generate reports, and make informed decisions without waiting for manual responses.

Legal Tracker adds AI-powered capabilities

Legal Tracker’s new AI features help users manage legal spend more efficiently. The AI-powered PDF-to-LEDES converter and invoice review speed up invoice evaluation and ensure accurate billing. An AI assistant also streamlines reporting and reduces manual data handling.

Legal Tracker

 

These transformative features reinforce our commitment to empowering legal professionals with the tools and solutions they need to excel. or to see firsthand how they elevate work to new heights.

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