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

ISO42001

Thomson Reuters CoCounsel achieves ISO ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certification. Learn more

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Talk to an expert

See how CoCounsel eases heavy workloads and transforms your daily legal work to free up more time.


 

Awards & recognition

Featured resources

Report

Future of Professionals Report 2025 – Thomson Reuters

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Article

How can AI help professionals attain their goals?

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Article

The truth about ethical AI for legal teams: A guide

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Frequently asked questions

Can CoCounsel handle documents in multiple languages?

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.

Does Thomson Reuters or any third party use customer content or prompts to train their GenAI products or large-language models (LLMs)?

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.

What steps does Thomson Reuters take to prevent user content or prompts from being used to train Thomson Reuters or third-party GenAI models?

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.

What is Thomson Reuters’ retention period for user content and prompts?

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.

What measures does Thomson Reuters use to safeguard user content and prompts?

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.

In what ways does Thomson Reuters use usage data to enhance CoCounsel?

Thomson Reuters analyses de-identified usage metrics to monitor account health, forecast capacity needs, and inform the product roadmap.

Where does Thomson Reuters process and store user content and prompts?

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.

Is CoCounsel Core data hosted and processed locally in Australia?

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.

What steps does Thomson Reuters take to reduce bias in its content?

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.

What does Thomson Reuters do to reduce hallucinations?

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.

Who owns user content, prompts, and CoCounsel-generated output?

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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