Thomson Reuters (TR) is rolling out its genAI-driven CoCounsel for Drafting capability in the UK, after earlier launching in the US. The offering has been especially shaped for legal needs here and will directly engage with TR’s contract data in Practical Law.
Rawia Ashraf, VP Product, Legal Technology, told Artificial Lawyer: ‘You can use Drafting without Practical Law, but it will be best with it.
‘Plus, you will be able to use the LLM to modify a clause, for example, while also using RAG to find Practical Law content and notes. The response [of the clause content and connected notes] comes packaged together.’
She added that this level of detail was similar to what a junior associate might do when asked to draft a contract.
There will also be the option to use a playbook to help draft to a preferred set of terms, which could be your own, or from one of the Practical Law playbooks for a range of popular contract types.
Ashraf underlined that all of this contract-related content was especially for the UK market, and it is not the same as the US content already available.
There will of course be integrations with DMSs, such as iManage, and naturally with HighQ, which is part of TR. It will also operate within Word to provide a smooth workflow. She added that the way any documents are taken from a DMS will follow the security arrangements that the firm, or inhouse team, has already put in place.
She concluded that this LLM-supported drafting could be truly transformative, and that something similar would be launched next year for litigation drafting.
On one last point, Ashraf noted that the recent news about Spellbook’s integration with Practical Law is less close than what they are doing with CoCounsel Drafting, which will work directly within the contract database, and naturally Spellbook doesn’t make use of CoCounsel itself.