Legal AIOfficial product source linked

CoCounsel

By Thomson Reuters

AI legal assistant for research, document review, contract analysis, and brief drafting, integrated into Westlaw.

Launched March 20233 role mappings9 mapped tasks

Source and interpretation

Product availability comes from the linked official page. Capability summaries and task-overlap labels are AI Crisis editorial analysis, not measured job-loss rates.

legal.thomsonreuters.com

Capability notes

Work this product is designed to assist

Verify current features at the official source

Legal research across case law

Contract review and analysis

Document summarization

Brief drafting assistance

Regulatory compliance checking

Deposition preparation

AI Crisis estimate

Role and task overlap

High, medium, and low describe our qualitative review of task overlap. They do not predict that a role will disappear or state how many jobs will be lost.

Paralegal

high task overlap

Mapped tasks

Legal research compilationDocument reviewCase file organization

Law Clerk

high task overlap

Mapped tasks

Case law researchBrief summariesCite-checking

Junior Associate

medium task overlap

Mapped tasks

First-draft briefsDue diligence reviewDiscovery documents

Limits to verify

Cannot exercise legal judgment
Requires attorney review of all output
May miss nuanced legal arguments
No courtroom presence or advocacy

Work that still needs a person

Legal strategy and judgment
Courtroom advocacy and persuasion
Client counseling and empathy
Negotiation and settlement