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CoCounsel Legal
Introducing CoCounsel Legal launching to faculty on Oct. 15th and students on Jan. 5, 2026.
Accelerate your legal work with a comprehensive AI solution that helps you complete research, document analysis, and drafting all in one place. Harnessing advanced AI and trusted legal content, CoCounsel Legal guides you through complex legal work from start to finish. It enables you to move faster so you can drive better outcomes.
To help you prepare for the arrival of CoCounsel legal in law schools, all faculty users will automatically gain access to CoCounsel Legal on October 15, 2025 ahead of the student launch on January 5, 2026.
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Support your student's education and understanding of their new generative AI tools with our curated On-Demand Learning content. Assign helpful guides, tutorials, and professional development resources to ensure your students get the most out of their Thomson Reuters suite of generative AI products.
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Faculty Training
Develop generative AI skills with live and recorded expert-led webinars.
Generative AI & Ethics - Recording
View this recording to learn how to harness the power of generative AI in your summer positions and your future legal career.
Explore the following.
- The historical context of AI in the legal profession
- Strategies to distinguish responsible and irresponsible uses of AI
- Practical and trustworthy applications of generative AI, including legal research, document review, and contract analysis
- Applying legal ethics requirements to generative AI
Crafting Prompts to be an AI Wizard - Recording
View this recording to gain valuable insights, practical tips, and a glimpse into how to be a linguistic sorcerer with AI!
This webinar will supply you with essential knowledge about how the language you use influences the output you receive from AI products. We will break down prompt engineering’s practical applications and purpose in AI, provide best practices in creating your own queries for generative AI products, and clarify the limitation of AI today that not even prompt engineering can overcome (yet). Fundamentally, you will
- Acquire a solid understanding of prompt engineering and its application by different AI users;
- Learn best practices for crafting prompts in legal AI products, like Westlaw’s AI-Assisted Research and CoCounsel;
- Gain awareness and appreciation for the current limitations of AI and prompting.
Employer Emerging Tech Expectations - Recording
View this recording for a candid chat with Career Services professionals on what your students need to be prepared for in the workplace. Our panel will share insights on what employers expect of the next generation of lawyers, especially with regard to generative AI.
Discover CoCounsel 2.0: The Next GenAI Legal Assistant - Recording
View this recording to unlock the power of simplified, streamlined, and supercharged productivity.
CoCounsel 2.0 is the latest innovation in legal technology. With a single cross-product login, new integrations, and enhanced capabilities, you'll be able to complete complex tasks with unprecedented ease and speed.
Experience the future of legal workflows.
- Faster and More Intuitive: CoCounsel 2.0 understands requests better, delivering more thorough and nuanced results 3x faster. It remembers the full context and history of sophisticated requests, making it easier to use than ever before.
- Accessible Everywhere: Work seamlessly across Thomson Reuters and Microsoft 365 products, as well as through server-to-server DMS integrations. Directly access and utilize your documents and data with ease.
- More Skilled and Powerful: Enjoy more flexible and accurate product capabilities and features, including the ability to create and respond to discovery requests and compare documents.
CoCounsel: Foundational Training - Recording
FACULTY & LIBRARIANS ONLY
View this recording to deep dive into the basics of how to work with your new generative AI assistant, CoCounsel.
CoCounsel experts will help you gain foundational skills to build upon over the next few months as you begin your journey with Thomson Reuters suite of Gen AI products. Bring your questions as you will have time at the end of the session to submit inquiries to our experts.
CoCounsel: Prompting 101 - Recording
FACULTY & LIBRARIANS ONLY
View this recording to continue your journey with your new generative AI assistant, CoCounsel..
Learn how the language you use influences the output you receive from AI products. Join our prompt engineering experts to understand best practices in creating better queries for CoCounsel.
Westlaw AI-Assisted Research Training
FACULTY & LIBRARIANS ONLY
View this recording to learn more about Westlaw AI-Assisted Research. You'll learn how to improve your research efficiency with clear and focused prompting to generate high quality answers grounded in trusted Westlaw authority.
CoCounsel: Advanced Prompting
FACULTY & LIBRARIANS ONLY
View this recording to learn how to refine prompts and ask more thoughtful, precise questions. As your prompting skills improve, your results will continue to improve as well.
CoCounsel Office Hours
FACULTY & LIBRARIANS ONLY
View this recording to hear from our Advanced Prompting Specialist on how to approach intricate problems in real-time.
Check out the second session here.
Effectively Integrate GenAI into your Law School Classroom
FACULTY & LIBRARIANS ONLY
View this recording to hear from your colleagues, Joe Regalia and Drew Simshaw, in an open discussion on incorporating generative AI solutions into your classroom. Be the catalyst in preparing your students for legal practice by overcoming hurdles and creating meaningful learning experiences for the next-generation of lawyers.
Perspectives Author Chat: Teaching Ethical Use of Generative AI
FACULTY & LIBRARIANS ONLY
Join your colleagues, Emily Florio, Rebecca Fordon, and Jenny Wondracek, for a panel discussion on teaching ethical use of GenAI. Through the lens of their upcoming Perspectives Newsletter article, the authors will address a comprehensive framework for teaching law students and practioners how to navigate the emerging technology in an ethical and practical way.
