Move your team from CoCounsel to Legora.
Each person gets a short interview, then a personalized step-by-step guide showing exactly where their saved work, prompts, and projects land in Legora — and the few things that need a manual step, walked through. You send one invite; nobody becomes the help desk, and nothing in CoCounsel is changed or cancelled. Want to see where you’re paying for both first? Run the free audit.
Both tools support AI-assisted contract drafting inside Microsoft Word. When moving from CoCounsel to Legora: export any firm playbooks or precedent templates from CoCounsel and upload them to Legora's Editor as reference documents; install the Legora Word Add-In in place of the CoCounsel Word add-in; run drafting tasks via the Legora AI assistant directly in Word or via the Legora web Editor. When moving from Legora to CoCounsel: export reference documents from Legora's Editor, upload them as precedent contracts in CoCounsel to auto-generate a custom firm playbook, then initiate drafts from the CoCounsel web interface and receive output end-to-end into Word. Both products support jurisdiction-aware first drafts but draw on different source libraries.
- Warning: CoCounsel's drafting pulls from Thomson Reuters Practical Law's 650+ attorney-editor templates and Westlaw authority; Legora draws on its own curated legal knowledge base with no disclosed equivalent to Practical Law. Teams relying on Practical Law standard templates will lose that source when moving to Legora.
- Warning: CoCounsel delivers output end-to-end into Word via a web-to-Word pipeline; Legora's Word Add-In works inline in the open document. The workflow handoff point differs and may require re-training attorneys on where to initiate tasks.
- Warning: CoCounsel reports 2.6x speed claims validated in production; Legora has not published equivalent benchmarks, so objective throughput comparison is not available.
Both tools batch-review legal documents and return structured, filterable output. When moving from CoCounsel to Legora: export CoCounsel analysis results (sortable tables, flagged items) as needed for reference, then re-upload the same document sets into Legora's Tabular Review module for cross-document comparison. Legora's Editor handles inline review while the Tabular Review view is used for structured multi-document analysis. When moving from Legora to CoCounsel: re-upload documents via the CoCounsel web interface; CoCounsel Essentials and Legal both support batch analysis of thousands of documents simultaneously, returning sortable filterable tables with key information, compliance flags, and conflict detection against loaded playbooks.
- Warning: CoCounsel's document analysis can flag deviations against firm playbooks loaded from Practical Law or uploaded precedents; Legora's review does not have an equivalent playbook-deviation detection mode, so compliance against internal standards requires manual follow-up.
- Warning: CoCounsel's 85% improvement claim in identifying key information is self-reported; Legora has not published a comparable accuracy metric.
- Warning: Discovery-scale document review (eDiscovery) is explicitly supported in CoCounsel's litigation workflows; Legora's document review module is oriented toward contract and transactional documents, not eDiscovery.
Both tools offer agentic legal research that autonomously plans and executes research tasks and returns cited results. When moving from CoCounsel to Legora: identify the jurisdiction and practice area scope your team researches; Legora's Legal Research module is optimized for M&A, Litigation, Tax, Banking, and Insurance across multiple jurisdictions, so map your practice areas to those. Run research queries through the Legora platform's Legal Research module, which returns results with source traceability. When moving from Legora to CoCounsel: use CoCounsel Legal's Deep Research feature, which uses multistep AI planning to query Westlaw's 150+ year corpus; queries return hyperlinked citations with KeyCite status flags verifying precedential standing. Both tools allow survey-of-law queries, but CoCounsel's output is grounded exclusively in Westlaw content while Legora's source base differs.
- Warning: CoCounsel's legal research is grounded in Westlaw (150+ years of case law, statutes, and secondary sources from Thomson Reuters) with KeyCite currency validation; Legora does not disclose which legal databases it indexes, so teams that rely on Westlaw authority for citation verification cannot assume equivalence.
- Warning: CoCounsel's Deep Research is only available on the CoCounsel Legal tier, not on Essentials; teams on Essentials will need an upgrade to match Legora's research depth.
- Warning: Legora's research is available across jurisdictions including non-U.S. markets; CoCounsel's Westlaw depth is strongest for U.S. law, with separate product tiers for UK and other regions.
CoCounsel has a dedicated litigation workflow module; Legora's AI Legal Assistant covers the same individual task types (research, document review, summarization, chronology) through its cross-context assistant. When moving from CoCounsel to Legora: map each litigation task type (intake assessment, discovery review, chronology assembly, case strategy) to the corresponding Legora assistant capability; use Legora's agentic research module for case law queries, Tabular Review for discovery document analysis, and the Editor for drafting briefs and motion papers. When moving from Legora to CoCounsel: access CoCounsel Legal (litigation tasks are a Legal-tier feature); configure agentic workflows for intake, discovery review, and chronology; connect Westlaw for case law grounding and Practical Law for checklists and litigation guides.
- Warning: CoCounsel's litigation support is a CoCounsel Legal-tier feature only; CoCounsel Essentials does not include litigation-specific agentic workflows. Teams on Essentials cannot replicate the full Legora assistant's litigation coverage without upgrading.
- Warning: CoCounsel's litigation module is explicitly integrated with Westlaw for case law and Practical Law for litigation guides and checklists; Legora's assistant provides cited results but does not disclose an equivalent to Practical Law's curated litigation guides.
- Warning: CoCounsel's event chronology assembly operates on uploaded case materials with automated extraction; Legora's chronology capability (if available) is through the general AI assistant and is not documented as a named automated module.
Both tools integrate with Microsoft Word and provide a Word add-in, so switching does not require attorneys to change their core editing environment. When moving from CoCounsel to Legora: uninstall the CoCounsel Word add-in and install the Legora Word Add-In from the Microsoft Office store; similarly install the Legora Outlook Add-In if email-based task initiation is needed. Reconfigure SSO access in Legora's admin settings. When moving from Legora to CoCounsel: uninstall Legora add-ins and install the CoCounsel Word add-in; connect CoCounsel to Microsoft Teams and Outlook for collaboration handoffs. DMS integrations (iManage, NetDocuments, etc.) should be reconfigured on the new side using the firm's existing DMS credentials.
- Warning: CoCounsel integrates with Microsoft Teams and Outlook for workflow handoffs and with DMS partners (iManage, NetDocuments); Legora's Outlook Add-In is primarily for handling legal tasks from email, and DMS integrations are not explicitly documented, which may affect firms with existing DMS infrastructure.
- Warning: Legora also ships a mobile app, giving attorneys access on iOS/Android; CoCounsel does not advertise a mobile client, so mobile-first workflows cannot be replicated on CoCounsel.
- Warning: CoCounsel delivers completed drafts end-to-end into Word from a web-initiated task; Legora's Word Add-In operates inline within an already-open document. Teams accustomed to initiating in the web and receiving in Word will experience a different interaction pattern with Legora.
CoCounsel has a dedicated playbook module; Legora handles standards-based review through uploaded reference documents in its review and drafting workflows. When moving from CoCounsel to Legora: export your firm's custom playbooks from CoCounsel as documents; upload those precedent documents to Legora's Editor or Tabular Review as reference materials so reviewers can compare incoming documents against them; instruct attorneys to use the AI assistant to flag deviations against the uploaded reference. When moving from Legora to CoCounsel: upload your firm's precedent contracts or standard clause documents via CoCounsel's playbook builder; the system auto-generates a custom firm playbook and applies it automatically during document review and drafting to detect non-standard language without requiring per-task instruction.
- Warning: CoCounsel automates playbook deviation detection: the system flags non-standard language against loaded playbooks during batch review without prompting; Legora has no equivalent automated playbook-deviation mode, so clause-level compliance checking requires manual comparison steps.
- Warning: CoCounsel also surfaces Practical Law's 650+ curated playbooks from Thomson Reuters editors as a second source; there is no disclosed equivalent third-party playbook library in Legora, so teams that rely on market-standard clause benchmarks lose that resource.
- Warning: Playbooks in CoCounsel are available across both web and Word add-in surfaces; Legora's reference-document approach is primarily editor-centric and may not surface the same guidance at the right moment in Word-based workflows.
Both tools offer enterprise-grade security with no AI model training on client data, and both encrypt data in transit and at rest. When switching, the key migration steps are: (1) confirm the new platform's certifications satisfy your firm's or client's compliance requirements before cutover; (2) export and retain any data subject to retention obligations before contract end, since Legora permanently deletes data at contract end (with an export option); (3) reconfigure data retention policies on the new platform to match your firm's policies; (4) re-establish SSO/IdP connections on the new platform. CoCounsel admins should document any custom retention periods in use; Legora admins should configure BYOK if encryption key control is required by policy.
- Warning: Legora holds ISO 27001, ISO 42001, SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and HIPAA certifications and supports BYOK; CoCounsel's published certifications are less granular and do not advertise BYOK or ISO 42001 (AI governance). Firms with strict third-party certification requirements should verify CoCounsel's current certification status before moving from Legora.
- Warning: CoCounsel uses both OpenAI GPT and Google Gemini APIs under zero-retention agreements; Legora does not disclose its underlying LLM providers. Teams with vendor-specific LLM prohibitions (e.g., some government clients ban specific providers) should clarify both platforms' sub-processors.
- Warning: CoCounsel processing defaults to the U.S. with regional options for UK, Australia, and Canada; Legora's data residency options are not explicitly disclosed beyond GDPR compliance, which may be a factor for EU-domiciled firms.