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Prepare your students for the new generation of legal practice.
Empower your students to blaze the trail in the age of generative AI with exclusive access to tutorials, webinars, teaching guides, and more.
Bookmark this Faculty Resources page to stay up-to-date on the latest offerings from Thomson Reuters throughout the school year.
- CoCounsel
- Westlaw with CoCounsel
- CoCounsel Drafting
- Practical Law with CoCounsel
CoCounsel
Use CoCounsel Core and its comprehensive set of generative AI-powered skills to assist you with a variety of legal tasks within one interface. Whether its help with summarizing documents to extracting contract data, simply use a conversational tone with your new GenAI assistant and you'll be prompted towards best next steps based on Thomson Reuters leading content and expertise.
SECTION SPECIFIC FUNCTIONALITY
Summarize
CoCounsel’s Summarize Skill can be used to quickly understand lengthy and complex documents.
Timeline
CoCounsel's Timeline Skill creates a chronological timeline of events from multiple files, extracting date, time, and event information.
Review Documents
CoCounsel's Review Documents Skill analyzes files based on used-supplied questions and generates an answer table that allows users to browse through source documents.
Prepare for a Deposition
CoCounsel's Prepare for a Deposition Skill assists lawyers in drafting relevant topics and questions for depositions, interviews, and investigative meetings.
Compare Documents
CoCounsel's Compare Documents Skill identifies key differences and similarities in your uploaded legal documents.
Draft
CoCounsel's Draft Skill assists lawyers in drafting a wide variety of documents and content.
Westlaw Precision with CoCounsel
AI-Assisted Research allows you to ask legal research questions in everyday language and provides answers with linked references to the trusted Westlaw authority used to generate the response. Don't waste precious time looking through documents types or sifting through search results. You don't need to know exactly where to start within Westlaw, just begin with AI-Assisted Research.
WESTLAW WITH COCOUNSEL LEARNING
AI-Assisted Research
Learn best practices for prompting with clear, focused queries and improving research efficiency.
Running an affective AI-Assisted search
Learn more best practices for AI-Assisted researching by using everyday language and keeping queries clear, concise, and focused.
Research Confidence
Learn how Westlaw uses prompt engineering and techniques like Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to minimize errors and hallucinations.
AI Jurisdictional Surveys
Learn to streamline the process of finding relevant laws across multiple jurisdictions by analyzing, identifying, and comparing statutes on a specific legal topic with generative AI.
Claims Explorer
Learn how entering the facts of your case can generative a list of relevant claims ensuring no potential claims are missed.
Counterclaims
Learn to identify potential counterclaims efficiently using Claims Explorer and generative AI.
CoCounsel Drafting
CoCounsel Drafting will revolutionize your drafting processing. Securely built upon the trusted contract language of Practical Law, this GenAI-enable drafting solution will help you find the best starting point for your drafting task and allow you check your work against vetted gold-standard language.
COCOUNSEL DRAFTING LEARNING
Find a Drafting Starting Point
Efficiently find drafting starting points using CoCounsel Drafting with Practical Law integration..
Draft Agreements with Questionnaires
Learn to efficiently draft documents using CoCounsel Drafting, Practical Law, and Contract Express templates with guided questionnaires.
Find Gold Standard Language
Access and integrate expert contract clauses efficiently into your documents with the help of Practical Law Clause Finder.
Practical Law with CoCounsel
Search & Summarize Practical Law is a conversational, specific use AI tool for getting up-to-speed on unfamiliar legal topics. Simply ask a plain language question to receive a response grounded in Practical Law's know-how guidance written and maintained by 650+ attorney editors. Make Practical Law with CoCounsel your first stop when beginning a new research project.
PRACTICAL LAW AI TOOLKIT
Generative AI and Large Language Models
A Practice Note discussing what LLMs are, how they work, and their key benefits and limitations.
AI Key Legal Issues
A Practice Note providing an overview of key legal issues relating to the use, acquisition, and development of AI.
AI and Legal Ethics
A Practice Note considering best practices for using generative AI in compliance with the American Bar Association's Model Rules of Professional Conduct.
On-Demand Learning
Assign GenAI On-Demand Learning
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.
Three Comprehensive Certifications
Basic
Intermediate
Advanced
Each Covering Six Core Topics.
Cases
Statutes
Secondary Sources
Citators
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Features & Tools
Faculty Training
Develop generative AI skills with live and recorded expert-led webinars.
CoCounsel: Advanced Prompting
FACULTY & LIBRARIANS ONLY
After learning prompting basics in our Prompting 101 session, join our CoCounsel team 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.
Attend one session or both! Each training will cover a different hypothetical problem.
Thursday, January 16
12PM ET/9AM PT
Register now
Friday, January 24
12PM ET/9AM PT
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CoCounsel: Office Hours
FACULTY & LIBRARIANS ONLY
Join us for open Q&A office hours. Our Advanced Prompting Specialist will show you how to approach intricate problems in real-time. Submit your questions in advance of the session to have your queries worked into the training.
Two date/time options are available. Choose once that fits best with your schedule.
Friday, February 7
12PM ET/9AM PT
Friday, February 21
12PM ET/9AM PT
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.
