Legal AI · Copilot / assistant

CoCounsel

Thomson Reuters' AI assistant, grounded in Westlaw and Practical Law.

CoCounsel (Thomson Reuters) is a legal assistant for research, review and drafting, sitting on Westlaw, Practical Law and the firm's own matter data. Often used where citation integrity and primary-law grounding are treated as non-negotiable.

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Practice
Legal research, Litigation, Contracts, eDiscovery / investigations
Jurisdictions
United States, England & Wales, Canada, Australia
Autonomy
Copilot / assistant
LLM family
OpenAI (Azure) + Westlaw retrieval
Evals
Westlaw accuracy evals, hallucination gating
Pricing
Enterprise / seat · Westlaw package
HQ
Toronto / London
Last checked
13 Sept 2026
Last updated
13 Sept 2026
CitationsGroundingTool useWestlaw researchDatabase reviewDeposition prepContract Q&ACitation checking
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Evidence

Source-backed items on file. Coverage is not a quality score. Not paid placement.

Evidence file

3 independent · 1 vendor (1 historic)

Well documented · weight 3.2

Last checked 13 Sept 2026

  • 27 Feb 2025 · VALS AI

    VLAIR benchmark: CoCounsel tops document summarisation among evaluated tools

    The Vals Legal AI Report evaluated CoCounsel 2.0 on four tasks. It averaged 79.5% and led document summarisation at 77.2%, beating the lawyer baseline on three of four tasks.

    Independent reporting · Independent source · Source ↗

  • 5 Aug 2025 · Artificial Lawyer

    Thomson Reuters launches CoCounsel Legal with Deep Research

    Artificial Lawyer reported CoCounsel Legal as an agentic research system that plans, executes and cites Westlaw and Practical Law, with guided workflows for litigation and transactional work.

    Independent reporting · Independent source · Source ↗

  • 15 Sept 2025 · VentureBeat

    Deep Research framed as a multi-agent Westlaw researcher, not a chatbot

    VentureBeat described Deep Research on CoCounsel as a multi-step agent that spends minutes planning and searching Westlaw’s curated corpus rather than returning instant chat answers.

    Independent reporting · Independent source · Source ↗

  • Date not stated · Thomson Reuters

    CoCounsel Legal product page: Westlaw-grounded assistant

    Vendor documentation for CoCounsel Legal, positioning the assistant on Westlaw, Practical Law and agentic Deep Research workflows.

    Product documentation · Vendor source · Historic · Source ↗

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