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Cross-border legal research is getting a shake-up as Thomson Reuters launches a new CoCounsel Legal capability that brings content from more than 100 countries and territories into one workflow.
Thomson Reuters’ global update to CoCounsel allows practitioners working across borders to research legal requirements, compare key differences, identify issues needing local advice, and trace every finding to its underlying source without leaving their trusted platform.
Chief product officer David Wong said a cross-border lawyer’s worst headache was that research used to stop at the border.
“They piece together sources from multiple platforms with no guarantee the result meets the professional standard their work demands. The Multinational Profile changes that, and Thomson Reuters has the scale, the content and the expertise to deliver it.
“The professional standard now travels with work, wherever the matter takes it,” Wong said of the new development.
The Multinational Profile works by drawing on Thomson Reuters’ extensive and globally trusted legal content and vetted official legal and regulatory sources to deliver responses that legal professionals can confidently examine, verify and then act on.
The next generation of CoCounsel will also provide market-leading research; workspaces that bring together firm documents, precedents and institutional knowledge; tabular analysis to bulk review documents; and integrations with everyday tools.
Partner and CTO and head of development at Gosschalks, Steve Savage, said: “When we evaluate technology, the question is whether it will genuinely work for our lawyers and stand up to professional scrutiny.
“The next generation of CoCounsel Legal is a leap forward in both functionality and quality of output, grounded in the authority of Westlaw and Practical Law.
“Our time in the beta made the difference clear, and it’s encouraging to see Thomson Reuters bringing that to firms around the world.”
Multinational Profile is available in the next generation of CoCounsel Legal and will be available to customers in more than 90 countries and territories throughout 2026. Australian lawyers will have access to the fully agentic platform, grounded in Westlaw and Practical Law, in October.
