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Sample prompts to illustrate use cases

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.

To get started, go to the skills menu and select “Summarize."

CoCounsel summarizes real sources of information. Upload documents, or click "See other upload options" to select information in other formats.

Use the drop down to select previously uploaded files, or upload or drag and drop files. Then click "Summarize."

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.

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

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."

CoCounsel can provide summaries with different levels of detail. Select the summary length, then click "Summarize."

CoCounsel shows its work with a research memo. Begin reviewing CoCounsel’s response from the chat, or open the full response.

From the chat, mouse over the response to expand the full response, download the response, or copy the response to paste somewhere else.

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.

.doc, .docx, .pdf, .txt, and .zip folders

Files within a .zip folder must comply with file size and type limitations.

500 MB .pdfs

20 MB text files

200 files

15,000 characters (a warning appears when 5,000 characters remain)

Various summary lengths, as selected in step (3).

CoCounsel's summaries will be limited by the selected length in step (3).

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.

Summarize police reports to quickly understand exactly what a client said, and to identify potential Miranda or voluntariness issues.

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.