The legal technology landscape witnessed a significant development today as industry titans LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters both announced major enhancements to their AI-driven legal assistants. The updates signal a new era in how legal professionals interact with AI to streamline their workflow and improve efficiency.
Thomson Reuters, which acquired the CoCounsel legal assistant from Casetext last year, unveiled the “supercharged” CoCounsel 2.0. This new iteration aims to work three times faster, generating answers in seconds and offering more nuanced and thorough results. CoCounsel 2.0 will be accessible within Thomson Reuters products like Westlaw Precision and Practical Law, as well as Microsoft 365 applications such as Word, Teams, and Outlook.
According to Thomson Reuters, CoCounsel 2.0’s improvements stem from its ability to understand natural communication patterns better and to process more sophisticated requests. The AI assistant will also feature capabilities such as server-to-server integrations with document management systems like iManage, NetDocuments, and SharePoint, and a High Throughput Beta for large-scale document review.
In parallel, LexisNexis introduced the commercial preview of its Protégé Legal AI Assistant, part of the third generation of Lexis+ AI which launched last year. LexisNexis describes Protégé as a personalized legal AI assistant that adapts to the workflow preferences and daily task requirements of individual users. Key to its personalization is the recent acquisition of Henchman, a Belgium-based contract drafting legal technology company, which enables Protégé to mine a law firm’s internal work product for critical insights.
Protégé will integrate seamlessly across the LexisNexis ecosystem and offer capabilities such as AI-enabled document analysis, personalized responses, and sophisticated dialogue with clarifying questions. It will also be accessible through Microsoft 365 applications, reducing application switching time and boosting efficiency.
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