Generative AI
Countdown to CoCounsel
Launching in January 2025
Prepare for access to CoCounsel, your trusted GenAI partner.
CoCounsel Launch
Your Gen AI assistant coming in Jan 2025
Generative AI Prompting
Foundations of Generative AI and Prompting
Before using a Generative AI tool it is important to understand the three core principles of prompting. View this video and accompanying guide to learn more about prompting with clarity, specificity, and creativity.
Looking to learn more?
Review this learning path about AI's strengths, limitations, and risks while showcasing how it can be beneficial in legal practice.
Practical Law with CoCounsel
Available Now
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.
Westlaw Precision with CoCounsel
Launching January 2025
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.
CoCounsel Core
Launching January 2025
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.
Extract Contract Data
CoCounsel's Extract Contract Data Skill reads the contracts and extracts data in response to users prompts to speed up the contract review process.
Draft Correspondence
CoCounsel's Draft Correspondence Skill assists lawyers in drafting various types of correspondence, emails, letters, and memos, based on their prompts.
Future of Professionals Report
What trends will impact the legal profession over the next five years?
To examine AI-powered technology and the forces shaping professional work, we expanded this year’s research to survey 2,200 professionals and C-level corporate executives from over 50 countries to understand how they see the future unfolding. AI, tech, and automation continue to be the dominant driving forces, and professionals now have a more highly developed understanding of just how extensive and fast the impact will be in the years to come.
Review the report with this brief video highlighting key findings on the impact of AI in the legal space.
Generative AI Webinars
Develop skills prior to the CoCounsel Launch with live and recorded webinars.
Efficiently Use Generative AI on Your Next Assignment
Now that you have the basics of using CoCounsel and Westlaw AI-Assisted Research down, dive into a legal project with our generative AI experts in this 30-minute task-focused lesson. Whether you need to summarize lengthy documents or research a new legal concept, this session will help you combine skills to assist with your most common legal tasks.
Two date/time options are available. Choose once that fits best with your schedule.
Thursday, February 27
12PM ET/9AM PT
Thursday, February 27
3PM ET/12PM 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.
Generative AI Student Training Series - Westlaw AI-Assisted Research - Recording
View this recording to understand how to start your research project with Westlaw AI-Assisted Research.
Join our generative AI prompting specialists for a 30-minute session focused on best practices for legal research powered by GenAI. We'll discuss methods for improving your research efficiency with clear and focused prompting and generating high-quality answers grounded in trusted Westlaw authority.
Generative AI Student Training Series - CoCounsel - Recording
View this recording to learn how save time on various tedious tasks by using your new GenAI legal assistant, CoCounsel.
Hear from our experts in this 30-minute session to gain foundational skills on navigating CoCounsel. We'll discuss its comprehensive set of generative AI-powered skills and how to use them to your advantage in law school and your future legal career.
