Thomson Reuters, a global content and technology company, has continued the rapid execution of its AI technology strategy by making CoCounsel Core available in Canada and Australia. These are the first of the English-speaking international markets the generative AI legal assistant will be rolled out to, less than three months after the launch of CoCounsel Core to Thomson Reuters customers.
CoCounsel Core, introduced in the United States last year, equips today’s customers with eight generative AI-powered core legal skills, including Prepare for a Deposition, Draft Correspondence, Search a Database, Review Documents, Summarize a Document, Extract Contract Data, Contract Policy Compliance and Timeline. Together with AI-Assisted Research on Westlaw Precision and Ask Practical Law AI on Practical Law, these constitute the industry’s most comprehensive set of generative AI skills, designed to help lawyers quickly gather deeper insights and deliver a better work product.
In less than a year since its launch, CoCounsel, the first-ever legal AI assistant has been rolled out to more than 45 large law firms in the United States—including six of the Am Law 10—which employ in total more than 50,000 lawyers. More than 9,000 of those lawyers have received comprehensive, hands-on instruction, preparing them to confidently use this powerful technology both effectively and ethically—from a training staff of only four. Now that the Casetext and Thomson Reuters teams have joined forces, this proven rollout “playbook” is rapidly scaling. Lawyers in Canada and Australia will now be empowered to work more efficiently and thoroughly, to better serve more clients.
The product is already being used in the proof-of-concept phase by McCarthy Tétrault LLP in Canada and Maddocks in Australia. McCarthy Tétrault LLP is a national law firm providing a broad range of legal services and industry-focused advice and solutions for Canadian and international interests. The firm has substantial presence in Canada’s major commercial centres as well as in New York City and London. Maddocks is a full service commercial law firm founded in 1885. It is one of Australia’s largest independent law firms with more than 85 partners and 580 lawyers and support staff across offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra.
“Bringing CoCounsel Core to markets that until now haven’t had access to professional-grade AI is a tremendous accomplishment as we approach the one-year anniversary of CoCounsel’s debut, and just three months after launching CoCounsel Core in the US with Thomson Reuters,” said Jake Heller, head of Product, CoCounsel, Thomson Reuters. “As we empower more customers to realize tremendous improvements in productivity and work product quality, we’re motivated to move even faster to bring the power of generative AI to more of the world.”
The combined strengths of the former Casetext team and Thomson Reuters has made it possible to deliver a more robust set of products to more places more quickly. These two international launches of CoCounsel Core mark an important moment in the company’s AI leadership strategy. And foundational to these efforts is the Thomson Reuters Generative AI Platform, an overarching innovation resource that enables the company to quickly and easily launch new solutions by leveraging reusable components and bringing together content, artificial intelligence, generative AI, and more, as the building blocks for future products.
