CoCounsel Drafting
What is CoCounsel Legal?
CoCounsel Drafting is a generative AI–powered legal drafting solution from Thomson Reuters that streamlines and enhances the creation, revision, analysis, and finalization of legal documents. It is built on professional-grade AI and trusted legal content and is designed to operate directly within Microsoft Word, where legal professionals already perform most of their drafting work. (Thomson Reuters Canada)
1. What CoCounsel Drafting Is
CoCounsel Drafting is an end-to-end drafting tool that combines generative AI capabilities with Thomson Reuters’ authoritative legal content (including Practical Law and Contract Express templates) to make legal drafting faster, more accurate, and more consistent. It is part of the broader CoCounsel family of AI legal products, but specifically focused on document creation and refinement rather than general research or summarization. (Thomson Reuters Canada)
It is not a standalone word processor; rather, it is a productivity layer on top of Microsoft Word that brings AI-driven drafting assistance into the document environment lawyers already use. (Thomson Reuters Canada)
2. Core Capabilities and Features
Drafting and Clause Generation
Draft clauses from scratch: Generate initial clause language using natural-language prompts to the CoCounsel AI assistant. (Thomson Reuters Canada)
Modify existing clauses: Refine language, clarify terms, and improve precision with AI assistance. (Thomson Reuters Canada)
Clause repository: Automatically store drafted clauses for reuse across matters. (Thomson Reuters Canada)
Document Search and Starting Points
Search across repositories: Find relevant past documents or templates rapidly using natural-language search directly within Word. (Thomson Reuters Canada)
Access Practical Law Standard Documents and Contract Express templates: Use trusted templates and standard agreements as starting points. (Thomson Reuters Canada)
Analysis and Review
Deviation detection and redline automation: Compare documents against internal playbooks or Practical Law playbooks to identify inconsistencies and deviations, with AI-generated redlines. (Thomson Reuters Canada)
Playbook guidance: Apply preferred clause language and negotiation guidance consistently. (Thomson Reuters Canada)
Deal Proof and quality checks: Identify errors, omissions, or formatting issues before finalizing documents. (Thomson Reuters Canada)
Seamless Microsoft Word Integration
All drafting tasks—searching, generating, analyzing, updating—are performed within Word without switching applications, preserving workflow continuity. (Thomson Reuters Canada)
3. Target Users and Use Cases
CoCounsel Drafting is designed for legal professionals who spend significant time preparing contracts and other legal documents, including:
Law firms: To accelerate drafting of transactional documents, contracts, and agreements. (Thomson Reuters Canada)
Corporate legal departments: To ensure consistency in internal and external contracts while reducing manual workload. (Thomson Reuters Canada)
Government and public sector lawyers: To draft policy documents, agreements, and legislative text more efficiently. (Thomson Reuters Canada)
The tool reduces routine drafting effort, enabling practitioners to concentrate on substantive negotiation and strategy. (Thomson Reuters Legal)
4. Value Proposition
Efficiency and Time Savings:
By automating drafting and review tasks, CoCounsel Drafting significantly reduces hours spent on drafting and revision—improving turnaround and increasing billable time. (Thomson Reuters)
Quality and Accuracy:
Grounding AI suggestions in Practical Law content and trusted templates helps improve accuracy and consistency. (Thomson Reuters Canada)
Workflow Integration:
Operating inside Word means lawyers can access AI guidance without adopting new standalone tools or disrupting existing workflows. (Thomson Reuters Canada)
Security and Privacy:
The platform applies strict data governance and privacy standards consistent with enterprise legal workflows (e.g., zero-retention API calls and contractual data protections). (Thomson Reuters Canada)
5. Relationship to Other CoCounsel Products
CoCounsel Drafting complements other CoCounsel offerings such as CoCounsel Core by focusing specifically on the creation and refinement of legal documents, while Core addresses tasks like reviewing, summarizing, and comparing documents. Together, they provide a comprehensive AI-augmented legal workflow. (Thomson Reuters Canada)
In summary: CoCounsel Drafting is a generative AI-enhanced drafting assistant for legal professionals that empowers them to draft, refine, analyze, and finalize legal documents more efficiently and accurately—leveraging trusted legal content and seamless integration with Microsoft Word to improve productivity and document quality. (Thomson Reuters Canada)
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