CoCounsel provides substantive legal assistance with responses you can quickly review. CoCounsel does not respond "from memory" with years-old training data. Instead, each CoCounsel skill uses current sources of information to provide unique responses to real-time requests with familiar exporting formats.

Why is this important? Knowing how each CoCounsel skill works is the first step to working effectively with CoCounsel. For example, you will expect legal analysis from Casetext's legal database when you use the Legal Research Memo skill, but you will expect specific answers to questions about your documents from the Review Documents skill. You will also know to create an AllSearch database before trying to use a skill that uses AllSearch as its source of information. But the benefits are endless.

Sources of Information

This chart indicates the sources of information for each CoCounsel skill, including:

Casetext's legal database of case law, statutes, regulations, codes, rules, and more for 50 state and federal jurisdictions;
Uploaded documents from your device or from a dropdown menu of previously uploaded files;
AllSearch database of your large datasets;
Passage of text copied and pasted from anywhere; or
Description of your legal situation.

Skill	Casetext's legal database	Uploaded document	AllSearch database	Passage of text	Description
Legal Research Memo	✅
Summarize		✅	✅	✅
Review Documents		✅	✅	✅
Contract Policy Compliance		✅	✅
Extract Contract Data		✅	✅
Search a Database			✅
Market Check			✅
Prepare for a Deposition					✅

⚠️ CoCounsel Chat responses do not use a source of information.

Requests

This chart indicates the requests CoCounsel receives for each skill, including:

Research queries for answers across a large database;
Specific questions for specific answers; or
Filters, selections, or samples to focus CoCounsel's responses.

Skill	Research queries	Specific questions	Filters, selections, or samples
Legal Research Memo	✅
Search a Database	✅
Market Check	✅		✅
Review Documents		✅
Contract Policy Compliance		✅	✅
Extract Contract Data		✅
Prepare for a Deposition			✅
Summarize*

* The Summarize skill does not need additional request after a source of information is identified because the skill works the same way each time.

⚠️ CoCounsel Chat can receive text requests, but responses do not use a source of information. See Sources of Information.

Responses

This chart indicates CoCounsel's responses for each skill, including:

Memos with answers and analysis followed by a list of the relevant sources of information with clickable citations;
Specific answers in a grid with visible short answers; mouseover for explanations and page citations, or click to open the source for closer review; or
Other responses with specific relevance for that skill.

Skill	Memos	Specific answers	Other responses
Legal Research Memo	✅
Search a Database	✅
Market Check	✅
Review Documents		✅
Extract Contract Data		✅
Contract Policy Compliance			Granular review of relevant clauses
Prepare for a Deposition			List of relevant topics and questions
Summarize			Bulleted summary

⚠️ CoCounsel Chat responses do not use a source of information. See Sources of Information.

Exporting

This chart indicates how results from each skill can be exported, including:

Download Word Documents;
Copy the response to paste somewhere else;
Download Excel Spreadsheets; or
Download Redlined Docs to download a Word Document with tracked changes representing the suggested redline edits (available when a contract is uploaded to Contract Policy Compliance as a Word Document).

Skill	Download Word	Copy	Download Excel	Download Redlined Docs
Legal Research Memo	✅	✅
Search a Database	✅	✅
Market Check	✅	✅
Prepare for a Deposition	✅	✅
Summarize	✅	✅
Review Documents	✅ *	✅	✅
Contract Policy Compliance	✅	✅	✅	✅
Extract Contract Data			✅

*There are two download options, "With Explanations and Sources" or "Short Answers Only."

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The most current information about CoCounsel is always found in the articles at Help Center > CoCounsel, but you may also download the most recent version of our User's Guide at the link below.

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