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Staffing shortages affect 77% of government legal offices. These are the efficiency gains that change the equation. AG offices face a familiar equation: caseloads growing, budgets flat, headcounts unchanged. The cases keep coming — consumer fraud, environmental violations, antitrust investigations, civil rights complaints — but the budgets and headcounts haven’t moved to match. Three out of four AG offices are short-staffed, and that gap continues to grow.

Leaders Alex Fawcett and Omar Bari reveal how evaluation-driven development contributes to the next generation of CoCounsel Legal Highlights The next generation of CoCounsel Legal combines startup speed with enterprise infrastructure for measurable law firm returns. A dedicated development team ships features continuously while a parallel team supports the existing product version. Thomson Reuters backing provides security standards and integrated legal content from day one.

Navigate the critical decision between consumer, or general-purpose, AI tools and legal technology designed specifically for legal practice. Free AI tools expose legal professionals to malpractice claims, regulatory sanctions, and competitive disadvantage. Consumer AI platforms compromise client confidentiality through opaque data retention and training practices. Workflow disruptions and integration failures eliminate productivity gains while creating quality control risks.

Meet the Senior Associate Editor with Practical Law testing the next generation of CoCounsel Legal from a lawyer's perspective Highlights Elaine Cedrone tests CoCounsel Legal using real litigation workflows, not isolated features. Practical Law attorney-editors provide feedback on citations, precision, and legal reasoning for product improvement. Repeated testing shows measurable progress in consistency and user-friendliness over time.

Mitigate risks and use AI confidently with this Legal AI Protocol by Jennifer Case, J.D., founder of Law Tech AI Enterprise AI accounts with data processing agreements are required to protect client confidences under ABA rules. Purpose-built legal AI paired with verified databases prevents fabricated citations and hallucination risks. Every AI-identified citation must be personally reviewed and verified before filing with the court.

CLEAR Investigate uses agentic AI to automate multi-source searches and connect findings intelligently. The platform consolidates public records, proprietary data, and open-web sources into one interface. Built-in documentation and source transparency support audit-ready, high-stakes investigative decisions. Every investigation starts with a question. Who is this person? Is this business legitimate? Where does this network of relationships lead?

Advanced integration enables seamless workflow collaboration across corporate legal teams and platforms. Scalable research functionality adapts to evolving jurisdictional and regulatory complexity requirements. Every legal technology provider talks about “deep research” capabilities. They promise comprehensive analysis, thorough investigation, and detailed insights. But when corporate legal teams dig beneath the surface, the differences become clear—and the stakes couldn’t be higher.

Apply AI to the investigations you already know how to run. CLEAR Investigate uses AI to automate repetitive investigative tasks and surface relevant findings faster. AI-powered connection tools identify complex relationships between individuals and entities in minutes. Automatic audit trails provide defensible documentation for court, regulatory, and compliance reviews.

The People's Lawyer never had a simple job. Today, that job is harder than ever. State attorneys general sit at the intersection of some of the most consequential legal work in the country. On any given day, an AG office might be pursuing a major consumer fraud case across a dozen states, conducting environmental enforcement against an industrial polluter, or defending a civil rights investigation — often all at the same time, often with the same overworked staff.

Discover how leading legal teams are cutting research time while maintaining full attorney oversight Highlights Agentic AI enables autonomous execution of complex multi-step legal workflows with attorney oversight. CoCounsel automates discovery drafting while attorneys maintain control over strategy and final output. Westlaw's AI Deep Research delivers comprehensive legal reports in minutes with transparent reasoning.