CoCounsel Legal and Deep Research from Westlaw will be available to law students nationwide, preparing future lawyers with hands-on AI training.
Thomson Reuters has announced that its newly launched GenAI-enabled legal tools—CoCounsel Legal and Deep Research from Westlaw—will soon be available to U.S. law schools. The rollout reinforces the company’s role as a premier technology partner in legal education, currently serving more than 200 schools across the country, including all top-tier T-14 institutions.
Faculty will gain access to the tools in the coming weeks, while students will receive full access at the start of the New Year. With tens of thousands of law students expected to use the platforms, Thomson Reuters aims to prepare the next generation of lawyers for an AI-driven legal landscape.
“Students now enter law school familiar with generic consumer GenAI tools like ChatGPT,” said Professor Dyane L. O’Leary, Director of the Legal Innovation & Technology Center at Suffolk University Law School. “It has become more important than ever to steer them to appropriate and ethical use of this powerful technology. CoCounsel Legal offers a transformative combination of tried-and-true research basics with the efficiencies of agentic research partners. If consumer AI is a law student’s average helper, CoCounsel Legal seems more like a trusted, law-specific thought partner and colleague.”
Pat Eveland, GM of Government Business at Thomson Reuters, emphasized the company’s commitment: “Our latest GenAI tools represent a quantum leap forward. By introducing Deep Research and CoCounsel Legal to our academic partners, we’re ensuring that law students graduate with hands-on experience using the same cutting-edge technologies they’ll rely on in practice.”
Deep Research from Westlaw leverages generative AI to enhance case law analysis, statutory research, and precedent discovery. CoCounsel Legal provides AI-assisted document review, contract analysis, and legal drafting, serving as a virtual legal assistant to help students develop practical skills in legal writing, preparation, and analysis.
By embedding AI into law school training, Thomson Reuters is aiming to ensure students are not only familiar with the technology but are prepared to use it responsibly in professional practice.