Thomson Reuters CEO Steve Hasker on the Next Generation of CoCounsel, the ‘Future of Professionals’ Report, and Why TR Is Building Its Own LLM

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Yesterday, Thomson Reuters made two announcements. It opened early access to the next generation of CoCounsel Legal, the most substantial reworking of its flagship legal AI assistant since the company acquired Casetext in 2023, and it released its Future of Professionals Report 2026, which warns of a widening gap between AI adoption and…

Deal-Intelligence Platform Centari Adds Amendment Awareness and Deal Maps, Features that Deepen Its Multi-Document Analysis

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Centari, an AI platform for managing complex transactions, today launched two capabilities, Amendment Awareness and Deal Maps, that help attorneys understand how transactions change over time and how documents relate to one another.

Both features further extend Centari’s platform beyond single-document review to reasoning across the multiple agreements, amendments, and ancillaries that make up…

AI Legal Research Startup Descrybe Launches ‘Legal Reasoning’ Tool; Says It Outperforms ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini on Bar Exam Benchmark

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The AI legal research startup Descrybe today launched a “legal reasoning” product, DescrybeLM, that it says outperforms leading general-purpose AI models on a standardized legal reasoning benchmark — and it is publishing the methodology and scoring data to invite scrutiny.

The company also launched an all-new website that features the new product while…

EvenUp Launches AI Communication Agents to Handle Routine Tasks in PI Cases; Also Enhances Its AI Drafting

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EvenUp, a company that specializes in AI tools for personal injury law practices, today launched Communication Agents, AI-powered voice and text assistants designed to automate routine communications in PI case management. The company also announced enhancements to its AI drafting capabilities.

The company announced the new features during a keynote by cofounder Saam…