“I work at a law firm and CoCounsel[1] is pretty good.”
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“It works great for medical records and digesting discovery, especially deposition transcripts.”
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“I attended a demo of Westlaw's CoCounsel a few weeks ago and was thoroughly impressed.”
in “Opinions on CoCounsel?” · 17 voices
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- r/Lawyertalk · Oct 19, 2026CoCounselMixedThe Westlaw-backed knowledge base is the real selling point, but drafting and Q&A features are not much better than a well-prompted Claude, so value depends on how research-heavy the practice is. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/Lawyertalk · Oct 19, 2026CoCounselMixed
“I ran a 40 lawyer pilot recently and came away impressed. Expected to hate it based on what I read, but the updated platform they rolled out in August is much better.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Oct 19, 2026CoCounselValues
“The legal knowledge and database of citations and flags with Claude’s reasoning models can't be beat.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Oct 19, 2026CoCounselValues
“I use CoCounsel extensively as a corporate associate. It is very good.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselCriticizes
“The last time I ran a prompt through cocounsel, its output was that I should consult an attorney.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselMixed
“It can find cases that answer your question very well. But it can’t understand the significance of anything it finds, making it useless for drafting.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselCriticizes
“In my opinion, it’s not enough better than a top tier ChatGPT subscription to be worth paying the price Thompson Reuters is asking.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselMixed
“It's good - based off Claude - with LN resources (if you've paid and have access to them, of course). It's as perfectly mediocre as you'd expect.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselCriticizes
“The partner I’m working with LOVES Cocounsel and I consistently struggle to make it do what I need it to do. Almost always faster to do it myself.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselNeutral
“No way to save instructions that I know of.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselMixed
“From my experience, CoCounsel can reliably analyze facts/input I provide it with general legal concepts, but lacks the capacity to narrowly analyze or apply specific case law.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselMixed
“I think it’s overpriced for what it does. But that’s based on my free trial a couple of months ago.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselMixed
“It's pretty good for broadly picking stuff out of there but connected Claude can't see it which is a bummer.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026ClaudeValues
“I've reduced understating/overstating significantly through those.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselMixed
“Just act like it’s a law clerk and know you’re going to have to wade thru some crap to get things professional.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselMixed
“It's got access to resources but the actual AI of it doesn't seem any better than the other products out there.”
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“I use CoCounsel extensively as a corporate associate. It is very good.”
in “Opinions on CoCounsel?” · 17 voices
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- r/Lawyertalk · Oct 19, 2026CoCounselMixedThe Westlaw-backed knowledge base is the real selling point, but drafting and Q&A features are not much better than a well-prompted Claude, so value depends on how research-heavy the practice is. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/Lawyertalk · Oct 19, 2026CoCounselMixed
“I ran a 40 lawyer pilot recently and came away impressed. Expected to hate it based on what I read, but the updated platform they rolled out in August is much better.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Oct 19, 2026CoCounselValues
“The legal knowledge and database of citations and flags with Claude’s reasoning models can't be beat.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselValues
“I attended a demo of Westlaw's CoCounsel a few weeks ago and was thoroughly impressed.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselCriticizes
“The last time I ran a prompt through cocounsel, its output was that I should consult an attorney.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselMixed
“It can find cases that answer your question very well. But it can’t understand the significance of anything it finds, making it useless for drafting.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselCriticizes
“In my opinion, it’s not enough better than a top tier ChatGPT subscription to be worth paying the price Thompson Reuters is asking.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselMixed
“It's good - based off Claude - with LN resources (if you've paid and have access to them, of course). It's as perfectly mediocre as you'd expect.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselCriticizes
“The partner I’m working with LOVES Cocounsel and I consistently struggle to make it do what I need it to do. Almost always faster to do it myself.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselNeutral
“No way to save instructions that I know of.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselMixed
“From my experience, CoCounsel can reliably analyze facts/input I provide it with general legal concepts, but lacks the capacity to narrowly analyze or apply specific case law.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselMixed
“I think it’s overpriced for what it does. But that’s based on my free trial a couple of months ago.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselMixed
“It's pretty good for broadly picking stuff out of there but connected Claude can't see it which is a bummer.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026ClaudeValues
“I've reduced understating/overstating significantly through those.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselMixed
“Just act like it’s a law clerk and know you’re going to have to wade thru some crap to get things professional.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselMixed
“It's got access to resources but the actual AI of it doesn't seem any better than the other products out there.”
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