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Summary and video
CoCounsel's “Summarize” skill will prepare a succinct summary of any long, complicated document, like a dense regulation or piece of legislation, a complex contract, a wordy email, or even a lengthy law review article.
Step-by-step instructions
(1) Select "Summarize"
To get started, go to the skills menu and select “Summarize."
(2) Select the information CoCounsel will summarize
CoCounsel summarizes real sources of information. Upload documents, or click "See other upload options" to select information in other formats.
Upload documents
Use the drop down to select previously uploaded files, or upload or drag and drop files. Then click "Summarize."
Tip: Consider separating long documents from their attached exhibits. For example, separate a motion from its attached judicial opinions. |
See other upload options
After clicking "See other upload options," select documents from an AllSearch database, or enter a text passage from another source. Select "Upload" to return to the prior upload screen.
Select from AllSearch
Use Casetext's AllSearch technology to create databases of large datasets of hundreds of thousands of documents, like internal brief banks, litigation records, contracts, or emails and transcripts for an e-discovery project. Learn more about AllSearch
After clicking "Select from AllSearch," then select the database with documents to summarize.
Use checkboxes to select specific documents, or all documents on a page. Use arrows to navigate between pages. Then click "Summarize."
Enter a text passage
CoCounsel can summarize text that is not in a document. After clicking "Enter a text passage," then type or paste text copied from another source into the box "Enter text." Then click "Summarize."
(3) Select the summary length
CoCounsel can provide summaries with different levels of detail. Select the summary length, then click "Summarize."
(4) Review CoCounsel's response
CoCounsel shows its work with a research memo. Begin reviewing CoCounsel’s response from the chat, or open the full response.
From the chat
From the chat, mouse over the response to expand the full response, download the response, or copy the response to paste somewhere else.
The full response
In the full response, navigate results by collapsing and expanding document title headings, and clicking a page reference to open the document at that page. Continue working by choosing a "Follow-up Skill," like Review Documents or other summary lengths. Download the response as a Word document or copy it to use somewhere else.
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Limits
Input limits
File type
.doc, .docx, .pdf, .txt, and .zip folders
Files within a .zip folder must comply with file size and type limitations.
File size
500 MB .pdfs
20 MB text files
File amount
200 files
Text passages
15,000 characters (a warning appears when 5,000 characters remain)
Requests
Various summary lengths, as selected in step (3).
TIP: If you have files that exceed the size limit, CoCounsel will reject the file. Divide the files into batches of 100 files or less before uploading. |
Output limits
CoCounsel's summaries will be limited by the selected length in step (3).
Sample prompts to illustrate use cases:
Franchise disclosure documents
Summarize these long, complicated documents to help clients understand their obligations under the agreement, to help clients prepare to give testimony, or to aid clients as they gather evidence.
Client statements to the police
Summarize police reports to quickly understand exactly what a client said, and to identify potential Miranda or voluntariness issues.
Complaints
Summarize pleadings to quickly review important information, like allegations and causes of action. Provide this summary to clients to help them understand the case, and so they can begin gathering evidence.
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