CoCounsel Core

TL;DR

Professional-grade generative AI assistant designed specifically for legal work, powered by GPT-4 and Google Gemini
Automates time-intensive document review, summarization, contract comparison, and data extraction tasks
Built for law firms, corporate legal teams, and government attorneys who need secure, accurate AI assistance
Rigorously tested with over 1 million tests to ensure accuracy and prevent hallucinations

What is CoCounsel Core

CoCounsel Core is a professional-grade generative AI legal assistant developed by Thomson Reuters that transforms how legal professionals handle routine but time-consuming tasks. As an AI-powered platform specifically designed for the legal industry, it leverages advanced language models including OpenAI GPT-4 and Google Gemini to perform essential legal work such as document review, summarization, database searching, and contract comparison. The tool operates with enterprise-level security, ensuring that all customer data remains private and is never used to train AI models, while providing accurate, citation-backed analysis that legal professionals can trust.

Key Features

Review Documents: Upload multiple documents and ask questions to receive comprehensive analysis with citations to trusted information sources, dramatically accelerating document review and discovery processes.
Search a Database: Extract essential information from large databases of files including emails, brief banks, or contract sets by asking natural language questions about specific issues you need to understand.
Summarize: Generate brief, detailed, or comprehensive summaries of long, dense legal documents including contracts, court opinions, and transcripts without missing crucial details.
Compare Documents: Analyze differences between multiple legal documents such as contracts, purchase agreements, and bylaws with thorough, nuanced comparison results delivered faster than humanly possible.
Microsoft 365 Integration: Access CoCounsel Core's capabilities directly within your existing Microsoft workflow, allowing seamless integration with tools you already use daily.
Zero Data Retention: All interactions with AI models use zero-retention API calls, with contractual guarantees that neither OpenAI nor Google store or use customer data for training.

Who is CoCounsel Core for?

Law Firm Attorneys: Both litigators and transactional attorneys who need to prepare client work with enhanced efficiency and thoroughness
Corporate Legal Teams: In-house counsel seeking to quickly identify and mitigate risks, extract contract data, and draft effective agreements
Government Legal Professionals: Public sector attorneys who need to reduce costs while maintaining quality and delivering results in record time
Legal Operations Teams: Professionals managing large volumes of documents who need scalable solutions for review and analysis
Contract Managers: Teams handling multiple contracts who need efficient comparison and data extraction capabilities

Key Use Cases & Applications

Contract Due Diligence: Rapidly review and analyze large volumes of contracts during M&A transactions or procurement processes
Discovery Document Review: Accelerate e-discovery by quickly identifying relevant information across thousands of documents
Legal Research Summarization: Convert lengthy court opinions and legal briefs into actionable summaries for case preparation
Regulatory Compliance Analysis: Compare internal policies against new regulations to identify gaps and required updates
Brief Bank Management: Search through firm brief banks to find relevant precedents and arguments for current cases
Contract Negotiation Support: Compare different versions of agreements to track changes and identify key negotiation points

Pros

Rigorously tested with over 1 million tests performed, including daily automated testing to ensure accuracy and reliability
Enterprise-grade security with data encrypted in transit (TLS 1.2) and at rest (AES-256), with zero-retention API calls
Significant time savings on routine tasks, allowing legal professionals to focus on higher-value strategic work
Provides citations and sources for all analysis, ensuring transparency and verifiability of AI-generated insights
Seamless Microsoft 365 integration enables use within existing workflows without switching between platforms

Cons

Limited to specific legal tasks (review, summarize, compare, search) and may not cover all specialized legal research needs
Requires uploading sensitive documents to the platform, which may concern organizations with strict data residency requirements
Dependent on third-party AI models (OpenAI and Google), creating potential vendor lock-in concerns

Pricing Info

CoCounsel Core $247.08/month

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FAQs

Are user content or prompts used to train AI models?

No, Thomson Reuters does not use customer content or prompts to train CoCounsel Core or any third-party AI models. Both OpenAI and Google are contractually prohibited from using customer data for training, and systematic controls are in place to ensure no human access to customer data.

How long does Thomson Reuters retain user content in CoCounsel Core?

Retention policies are customized at the organization account level with support from a Thomson Reuters client manager. Data is deleted according to the customer's retention policy, and users can delete their content and prompts within the product at any time.

Where is data processed and stored?

All data is currently processed and stored in the United States, with interactions with OpenAI GPT and Google Gemini also processed in the US. Regional hosting will be available in the UK, Australia, and Canada starting December 2024.

How does CoCounsel Core prevent AI hallucinations?

Thomson Reuters employs a Trust Team of attorneys who manually create and peer review tests representing real-world legal work. CoCounsel completes over 1,500 automated tests nightly under attorney oversight, with more than one million total tests run since launch. The system uses prompting guardrails to ensure responses only come from verified information sources.

What integrations does CoCounsel Core offer?

CoCounsel Core offers Microsoft 365 integration, allowing users to access its AI capabilities directly within their existing Microsoft workflow. This enables seamless use of the tool without switching between different platforms or disrupting established work processes.

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