CoCounsel Core
What is cocounsel?
CoCounsel Core is a generative AI–powered legal assistant from Thomson Reuters designed to help legal professionals complete essential but time-consuming tasks more efficiently, freeing them to focus on higher-value legal work. It leverages advanced large-language models (LLMs) and a suite of predefined legal skills to automate and accelerate common workflows such as document review, data search, summarization, and comparison. (Thomson Reuters Canada)
1. What CoCounsel Core Is
CoCounsel Core is a professional-grade AI assistant built specifically for legal and related professional work. It is part of the broader CoCounsel suite of AI solutions from Thomson Reuters, which integrates generative AI into legal research and practice environments. The Core product focuses on foundational tasks that most legal professionals encounter routinely. (Thomson Reuters Canada)
It is positioned not as a replacement for legal expertise but as an augmentation tool that handles routine, data-intensive tasks quickly and accurately while ensuring confidentiality and security of user data. (Thomson Reuters Canada)
2. Core Capabilities and Skills
CoCounsel Core is built around a set of generative AI “skills”—task-specific capabilities that can be invoked with natural-language prompts. Common skills include:
Review Documents: Upload documents (contracts, opinions, transcripts) and ask questions; the AI reads, extracts, and analyzes key information. (Thomson Reuters Canada)
Summarize: Rapidly generate brief, detailed, or comprehensive summaries of long and complex documents, preserving critical legal content. (Thomson Reuters Canada)
Compare Documents: Identify differences and key points across multiple documents such as contracts or agreements. (Thomson Reuters Canada)
Search a Database: Retrieve relevant data from large collections of uploaded files (e.g., emails, brief banks) based on contextual questions. (Thomson Reuters Canada)
Timeline: Create chronological sequences of events from document evidence, useful in litigation and case planning. (Thomson Reuters Canada)
Draft Correspondence / Prepare for a Deposition / Extract Contract Data / Compliance Checks: Additional skills designed to assist with drafting and preparation tasks. (Legal IT Professionals)
These skills work with your own uploaded content and data sources, enabling context-aware results grounded in your documents. (Thomson Reuters Canada)
3. Target Users and Use Cases
CoCounsel Core is intended for:
Law firms (litigators and transactional lawyers) to improve productivity and accuracy in document-intensive tasks. (Thomson Reuters Canada)
Corporate legal departments to speed up contract review, risk assessment, and compliance tasks. (Thomson Reuters Canada)
Government legal teams to handle public sector workflows more efficiently. (Thomson Reuters Canada)
By automating repetitive and labor-intensive activities, it enables professionals to redirect their time toward strategic, analytical, or client-facing legal work. (Thomson Reuters Canada)
4. Technology, Security, and Reliability
Generative AI foundation: CoCounsel Core employs state-of-the-art large language models to interpret prompts and produce legal-relevant outputs. (Thomson Reuters Canada)
Security and privacy: Customer data and queries are protected by rigorous security practices; data is not used to train third-party models and is processed under strict controls. (Thomson Reuters Canada)
Testing and quality assurance: Thomson Reuters reports extensive testing of the system to ensure dependable performance in real-world legal tasks. (Thomson Reuters Canada)
5. Relationship to Broader CoCounsel Platforms
CoCounsel Core serves as a foundational AI assistant focused on core legal workflows. It can integrate with broader CoCounsel solutions (including advanced platforms that add deeper research, broader workflow automation, and premium integrations with tools like Westlaw or Microsoft 365), forming part of a scalable legal AI ecosystem from Thomson Reuters. (Thomson Reuters)
In summary: CoCounsel Core is a generative AI-driven legal assistant tailored to streamline routine legal tasks (review, search, summarize, compare, extract) with high accuracy, allowing legal professionals to focus on strategic, analytical, or judgment-based work, all while maintaining secure data practices. (Thomson Reuters Canada)
https://legal.thomsonreuters.com/en/products/cocounsel-legal
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