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Litigation prompt structures for CoCounsel
Thomson Reuters describes CoCounsel Legal as supporting research, drafting, and document analysis. These prompts can help frame custom direction where the selected workflow accepts it; product grounding does not remove the need for lawyer review.
Product-source review: . Capabilities and data terms vary by plan and can change. Confirm the current product documentation and your organization’s approval before using case material.
CoCounsel for litigation — product fit and limits
Strengths
- The product is designed for legal research, drafting, and document-analysis workflows.
- Available plans combine CoCounsel skills with Thomson Reuters legal and practical-law content in different configurations.
- A structured legal workflow can provide more task context than an unconfigured general chat.
Watch-outs
- Plans, integrations, and supported custom instructions vary; not every CasePrompts template maps directly to a product skill.
- Subscription and firm rollout requirements make it less accessible than a free general-purpose chat.
- Legal-specific output can still be incomplete or wrong and must be checked against the record and controlling authority.
This is an editorial product comparison, not an endorsement or a security assessment.
Using CasePrompts with CoCounsel
Use the document review/summarization skill and paste this as your instructions when the skill accepts custom direction; otherwise use the closest built-in skill and apply the TEMPLATE block to its output in a follow-up.
Tool interfaces change — adapt as needed, and check your firm's AI use policy before uploading case materials.
Why structure helps more than “summarize this”
Every prompt is built on the CITE method — Context, Instructions, Template, Evidence. It states who is doing the review, what source is in scope, the exact task, the requested output, and how to identify supporting locations. That structure can make an answer easier to inspect, but it cannot keep a model from inventing or misreading material. Check every material output against the source.
Prompts to try in CoCounsel
All templates →Admissions & Key Testimony Extractor
Pull every admission, damaging concession, and 'I don't know' on your key issues out of a transcript — with verbatim Q&A and page:line cites.
Prior Statement Cross-Examination Builder
Align a witness's deposition against every prior statement, classify each conflict, and get a lock-in → confrontation cross sequence with dual cites.
AI Medical Chronology Prompt for Lawyers
Build a date-ordered medical chronology from the complete record, with source citations for every encounter and explicit flags for treatment gaps, prior history, causation language, and missing records.
AI Page-Line Deposition Summary Prompt
Turn a complete deposition transcript into a topic-based page-line summary with precise cites, verbatim excerpts, admissions, exhibits, and unanswered questions.
Record Interrogation Session Setup
The standing-rules prompt: paste this once at the start of a chat session and every answer after it comes cited, sourced, and honest about gaps.
Expert Report vs. Deposition Audit
Audit an expert's deposition against their report: new opinions, abandoned opinions, changed bases, and undisclosed reliance materials — exclusion-motion fuel.
CasePrompts is vendor-neutral and built local-first — the builder runs in your browser and never sees your case files. See how your data is handled → Know which tier of tool your firm has approved before uploading case materials to CoCounsel.
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