“I agree, it sounds like a simple and fast process but after playing with these tools for an hour yesterday I knew I could have pulled the cases manually faster than it was taking Westlaw to process.”
On r/paralegal · Jul 9, 2026
Unverified voice about CoCounsel
Said in “Advice needed: Efficiently pulling cited cases from opponent’s PDF briefs?”
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“They seem to focus more on generating a big, fancy AI report about the brief rather than just letting me download the cases themselves.”
in “Advice needed: Efficiently pulling cited cases from opponent’s PDF briefs?” · 2 voices
“I work at a law firm and CoCounsel[1] is pretty good.”
in “Higher-paid employees looking for work are having a tough time”
“I attended a demo of Westlaw's CoCounsel a few weeks ago and was thoroughly impressed.”
in “Opinions on CoCounsel?” · 17 voices
“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
“The legal knowledge and database of citations and flags with Claude’s reasoning models can't be beat.”open
“I use CoCounsel extensively as a corporate associate. It is very good.”open
“The last time I ran a prompt through cocounsel, its output was that I should consult an attorney.”open
“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
“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
“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
“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
“No way to save instructions that I know of.”open
“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
“I think it’s overpriced for what it does. But that’s based on my free trial a couple of months ago.”open
“It's pretty good for broadly picking stuff out of there but connected Claude can't see it which is a bummer.”open
“I've reduced understating/overstating significantly through those.”open
“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
“It's got access to resources but the actual AI of it doesn't seem any better than the other products out there.”open
