AI Drafting and Analysis Tool
CoCounsel, your AI legal assistant at every step
Built on 174 years of Thomson Reuters trusted content, expertise and technology. Tested, trusted, and continuously crafted to support today's legal professionals.
Built to scale
CoCounsel scales with evolving legal needs – fueled by 174 years of expertise and 1000+ AI and data science professionals driving innovation in the legal industry.

Skip the heavy lifting
CoCounsel enhances productivity with the most advanced legal GenAI skills, reducing tedious tasks and freeing time for high-value work.

Integrated experience
CoCounsel connects with Thomson Reuters products, such as Westlaw, and industry leaders like Microsoft for seamless, efficient workflows.

Local support
CoCounsel is supported by Australian legal AI experts dedicated to advancing the practice of local lawyers. Connect with the professionals behind the technology.
CoCounsel integrates with:
Westlaw Precision Australia






Coming soon
Practical Law Australia
HighQ
What can CoCounsel do?
Legal research intelligence
Access trusted answers powered by Westlaw and soon, Practical Law, delivering authoritative content and expert insight you can rely on.
AI-powered intelligence
Tap into CoCounsel’s Library and Knowledge Search – taking the guesswork out of prompting and unlocking faster insights from your own work product.
Document analysis
From reviewing, comparing, and summarising documents to building timelines and preparing witness statements, CoCounsel equips you with powerful AI skills to analyse legal materials with speed and accuracy.
Drafting automation
Accelerate drafting with AI-powered tools that draw on your repositories, Practical Law, and playbooks – while built-in proofing ensures every contract is consistent, accurate, and error-free.
Talk to an expert
See how CoCounsel eases heavy workloads and transforms your daily legal work to free up more time.
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Frequently asked questions
Yes, CoCounsel can analyse and process documents in multiple languages including but not limited to Arabic, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese and Korean. This feature makes it a valuable tool for global legal practices, allowing legal professionals to access critical insights regardless of the language of documents they are working with.
No. Thomson Reuters does not use your content or prompts to train or enhance CoCounsel or any third-party LLMs, does not include them in Thomson Reuters or third-party outputs, and they are not stored by OpenAI GPT or Google Gemini.
Thomson Reuters’ GenAI partners (e.g., OpenAI and Google) are bound by contracts that prohibit using customer data for model training. In addition, where applicable, Thomson Reuters has implemented technical controls to disable third-party abuse monitoring features, preventing human access to customer data and ensuring it is not incorporated into third-party models.
Retention is configurable at the organisation level to align with each customer’s policy, set up with assistance from a Thomson Reuters client manager. We delete user content and prompts according to the customer’s retention schedule. Users can also delete their own content and prompts within the product at any time.
Data is encrypted in transit using TLS 1.2 and at rest with AES 256. All interactions with GenAI LLM providers use zero retention APIs, and requests are sent under the “Thomson Reuters” identity—never revealing the individual customer behind the request.
Thomson Reuters analyses de-identified usage metrics to monitor account health, forecast capacity needs, and inform the product roadmap.
Systematic procedures and hosting are based in the US. All interactions with OpenAI GPT and Google Gemini are processed in the US, and backups are stored in separate US availability time zones.
Region-based hosting options are also available in the UK, Australia, and Canada.
Thomson Reuters recognise the importance of data residency for legal professionals and are committed to delivering AI-powered tools like CoCounsel in a secure, compliant, and locally relevant manner.
Yes, local data hosting is available (and soon, local processing) in Australia to better support our customers’ regulatory, compliance, and data sovereignty requirements.
Thomson Reuters uses prompting guardrails that confine GenAI outputs to vetted sources, such as Thomson Reuters’ own content databases. By limiting the model to a defined set of verified information—and not the open internet—these controls help prevent biased or inappropriate responses.
A dedicated Trust Team of lawyers designs and peer reviews real world legal tests for CoCounsel. They compare CoCounsel’s outputs to expert-crafted answers and use those results to train an LLM for ongoing automated evaluations. Under lawyer oversight, CoCounsel runs over 1,500 tests nightly, with more than one million tests completed since launch.
For more details, see our benchmarking blog post.
Your content and prompts remain yours to the extent you hold ownership rights. Subject to applicable law and Thomson Reuters’ terms and conditions, you also own the outputs produced by CoCounsel.
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Don’t get left behind – Stay ahead of the curve and transform your legal work for the future. Take advantage of the power of AI in your legal practice with CoCounsel today.
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