Revolutionizing the Field of Legal Research: Introducing Deep Research by Thomson Reuters
In an exciting development for the legal industry, Thomson Reuters has unveiled Deep Research, a groundbreaking AI-powered legal research system. Scheduled to be available in Westlaw Advantage and CoCounsel Legal next week, Deep Research promises to redefine legal research, making it faster, more thorough, and reliable.
Deep Research stands out from other legal AI systems as the legal industry's first professional-grade agentic AI research capability. Unlike traditional AI tools that often provide simple summaries or basic search assistance, Deep Research emulates the workflow of a seasoned legal researcher. It examines a legal question from multiple angles, refining results continuously, and delivers comprehensive reports with transparent reasoning.
One of the key unique features of Deep Research is its integration with Westlaw’s exclusive legal research tools. It uses Westlaw’s Key Numbers, KeyCite citation service, statute annotations, and Precision Research markup simultaneously within its AI-driven workflow, ensuring authoritative and precise information retrieval.
Deep Research's AI agents are designed for long-document comprehension, multi-step reasoning, and structured tool usage. They plan, review, and strategize like a great researcher would, handling complex projects rather than just isolated tasks. These agents are built with AI that has been tested, refined, and trusted through real-world testing, real constraints, and customer experiences and expectations.
The output from Deep Research is comprehensive and transparent. Instead of opaque AI summaries, it provides detailed reports with fully transparent reasoning, including links to primary authorities, jurisdictional comparisons, and continuous refinement based on follow-up questions or additional information.
Deep Research is also embedded in a unified legal AI platform. CoCounsel Legal combines Deep Research with drafting, document analysis, and strategic advisory capabilities, enabling a seamless workflow from research to legal practice tasks, all supported by trusted Westlaw and Practical Law content.
Despite its automation, Deep Research maintains safety, accuracy, and accountability through oversight by legal professionals. This human-in-the-loop governance ensures that the AI's outputs are reliable and trustworthy.
What used to take hours now takes minutes with Deep Research. This AI-native legal research system moves through complex legal research workflows with unprecedented speed and precision. Deep Research is not just a simple connection to the off-the-shelf deep research capabilities of major LLM providers; it is a product transformation.
Deep Research is featured prominently on the homepage of Westlaw Advantage, signalling its importance and significance. It is built for what's next in legal workflows, promising to revolutionize the way lawyers approach complex legal questions.
In summary, Deep Research offers agentic AI-powered, integrated, authoritative, and transparent legal research. It conducts multistep, iterative, expert-like legal research workflows within the trusted Westlaw ecosystem, empowering lawyers to get faster, more thorough, and reliable results for complex legal questions.
Deep Research's AI integrates artificial-intelligence and technology in a unique manner, emulating the workflow of a seasoned legal researcher for comprehensive and precise legal information retrieval. The AI agents conceived for this system are designed for long-document comprehension, multi-step reasoning, and structured tool usage, handling complex projects and delivering detailed reports with transparent reasoning.
