Thomson Reuters clients automate compliance and legal workflows with AI-powered assistance
Thomson Reuters has integrated its GenAI CoCounsel assistant directly into the Microsoft 365 environment through Copilot extensions. This enables legal and compliance professionals to automate tasks like regulatory analysis, contract drafting, and reporting using secure organizational and proprietary content without leaving core business apps. In live demos, complex processes that once took days now take seconds, accelerating compliance and reducing risk. The solution brings together trusted Thomson Reuters legal content with the collaborative and workflow power of Microsoft 365, leveraging privacy and security protocols. The vision extends across use cases in legal, tax, risk, and media segments.
- Organization
- Thomson Reuters
- Industry
- Legal
- Location
- United States
- Published
- January 2024
Reported outcomes
Strategic outcomes
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Use case focus
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- 1Automated Regulatory Analysis and Compliance
- 2Contract Drafting powered by GenAI
- 3Integrated Legal Workflow Management
- Regulatory compliance requirements are increasingly complex and time-consuming.
- Legal and compliance workflows are inefficient, relying on manual review and multiple applications.
- Professionals need consolidated insights from both organizational and proprietary legal content.
- High effort needed to stay up-to-date and mitigate risks.
- Integrated Thomson Reuters CoCounsel GenAI with Microsoft 365 using Copilot extensions.
- Automated regulatory analysis, contract drafting, and compliance workflow management.
- Delivered trusted answers by combining organizational and Thomson Reuters proprietary content.
- Automated recommendations and workflows embedded in Outlook, Teams, Word, and SharePoint.
- Reduced legal and compliance task time from days/hours to seconds.
- Improved operational efficiency for clients.
- Enhanced risk mitigation and accuracy.
- Automated complex professional workflows in core business applications.
Architecture
Thomson Reuters CoCounsel AI is embedded in Microsoft 365 through Copilot extensions, enabling secure access to both organizational and proprietary content within Outlook, Teams, Word, and SharePoint. Workflow automation and recommendations are delivered directly in business apps, leveraging Microsoft security and privacy frameworks.
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