Casetext
Casetext is a legal AI company that has been developing cutting-edge technology for over a decade, including CoCounsel, the world's first r...
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What is Casetext?
Casetext is an AI-powered legal research platform that helps attorneys find relevant cases faster and automate legal tasks. The platform offers both conventional search functionality and its CARA AI-powered contextual search, which focuses on the context of your research to help you find on-point authorities faster. Casetext also features Parallel Search, a smart search engine built on advanced AI that allows attorneys to type their argument as a sentence to instantly find on-point case law.
The platform's flagship feature is CoCounsel, the world's first AI legal assistant powered by GPT-4. CoCounsel completes document review, legal research memos, deposition preparation, and contract analysis in minutes with results lawyers can trust. Additional capabilities include drafting legal letters and emails, conducting research with explanations and supporting sources, creating deposition outlines, analyzing contracts line-by-line, summarizing documents in everyday language, and finding relevant information in document databases.
Casetext is designed for legal professionals including attorneys at Am Law 100 law firms, solo practices, tax professionals, audit professionals, and accounting professionals. The platform has been adopted across the legal market from the largest firms to solo practitioners, with over 10,000 firms nationwide and 1 million CoCounsel users relying on it. Founded in 2013 by former litigators from top law firms, data scientists, and AI engineers, Casetext helps legal researchers find the best cases faster, including many that they would otherwise miss.
Casetext pricing
Pricing model: Free
Casetext offers transparent online pricing with three plans for single licenses: Starter at $90/month (25 search queries/month, 2-year plan), Advantage at $100/month (unlimited searches, 2-year plan), and Pro at $225/month (includes document search with 1GB storage, 2-year plan). Price per attorney drops as you add licenses. CoCounsel Core starts at $150/month, CoCounsel Professional at $400/month, and Enterprise has custom pricing. A 7-day free trial is available. Custom quotes available for firms with 20+ attorneys.
Casetext pros
- GPT-4 powered AI legal assistant with unprecedented accuracy
- Up to 90% time savings on tasks like document review and research
- CARA AI analyzes uploaded briefs to find relevant uncited cases
- Parallel Search enables sentence-level conceptual searching
- Comprehensive database covering all 50 states and federal cases
- Intuitive natural language interface requires no keyword expertise
- Generate research memos with citations in seconds
- Automated deposition outline creation from case descriptions
- Line-by-line contract analysis with risk identification
- Document summarization using everyday terminology
- SOC 2 Type II certified with bank-level encryption
- Customer data never used to train AI models
- Integration with Westlaw, Practical Law, and Microsoft 365
- SmartCite instantly verifies if cases are still good law
- Zero-retention LLM calls protect client sensitive data
- Free 7-day trial available for new users
- Transparent online pricing with volume discounts
Casetext cons
- Higher price point starting at $90/month per license
- Requires internet connection for cloud-based access
- Learning curve for optimizing AI prompts
- Some lawyers hesitant to trust AI-generated results
- Fewer published opinions than Westlaw or LexisNexis
- Limited secondary materials beyond attorney blog posts
- CARA may focus on wrong issue when document has multiple points of law
- 2-year plan required for advertised pricing
Frequently asked questions about Casetext
What is CoCounsel?
CoCounsel is Casetext's AI legal assistant powered by GPT-4. It can perform substantive legal tasks like research, document review, deposition preparation, and contract analysis with high accuracy. CoCounsel understands context and nuance across products and workflows, allowing you to derive more in-depth insights faster than ever. It provides answers with explanations and supporting sources, and you can chat back and forth to refine results or make edits to drafts.
How does CARA AI work?
CARA (Case Analysis Research Assistant) analyzes uploaded legal documents like briefs or memoranda to find relevant cases that are not cited in the document. Using natural language understanding, it scans the text to locate and analyze case citations, understanding research context and customizing results. CARA works with any type of litigation document, including complaints with no citations, to find facts and issues. After analyzing your document, CARA deletes it from its system to preserve confidentiality.
What is Parallel Search?
Parallel Search is a smart search engine built on advanced AI that enables you to write a sentence or question as opposed to a boolean query or keyword search. It understands the concepts and ideas behind your query and finds case law directly on point conceptually, even if it doesn't contain the words you searched for. This helps find cases that may not have your exact terms but contain similar issues, and it's a much easier way to search like you think.
Is Casetext suitable for solo practitioners?
Yes, Casetext is excellent for solo practitioners. It provides access to powerful AI tools that level the playing field with larger firms, all at an affordable price point starting at $90/month for Starter. Solo practitioners can perform faster, smarter legal research and automate time-consuming tasks like document review and deposition preparation, enabling them to provide more efficient, higher-quality representation to more clients.
Does Thomson Reuters retain user content to train AI models?
No. Your user content and prompts are not used to train or improve CoCounsel and associated products or LLMs, used in Thomson Reuters or third-party output, or stored by OpenAI or Google. Thomson Reuters AI third-party partners are contractually prohibited from using any customer data to train their models. Additionally, systemic controls turn off third parties' abuse-monitoring solutions to ensure no human access to customer data.
How does Casetext protect user privacy and data?
All GenAI LLM requests from Thomson Reuters are processed under the identity 'Thomson Reuters,' never identifying the customer who made the request. Data is secured in transit via TLS 1.2, and AES-256 symmetric encryption protects data at rest. All interactions with GenAI LLM providers use zero-retention API calls. The platform is SOC 2 Type II certified with bank-level encryption and regular third-party audits.
What capabilities does CoCounsel have for contract analysis?
CoCounsel allows users to upload up to 10 contracts at once and ask up to 10 questions of each contract for line-by-line review. It can also identify all parts of contracts that don comply with specified policies, recommending revised clauses that comply and identifying risks. Relevant results hyperlink to identified passages in the corresponding contract, and CoCounsel analyzes contracts to pinpoint relevant clauses, conflicts, and risks while recommending necessary changes.
How accurate is Casetext's AI?
Casetext's CoCounsel has been rigorously tested and consistently performs at the level of experienced attorneys. It provides citations for all claims and encourages users to verify important information. The AI is grounded in trusted content from Thomson Reuters' own content databases, which restricts the large language model's ability to produce potentially objectionable content broadly sourced from the internet. Reference attorneys and top litigators help maintain accuracy.
What databases and content does Casetext cover?
Casetext searches all 50-state and federal cases, statutes, regulations, and rules. The database includes federal and state cases from all jurisdictions, federal and state statutes, federal and state regulations, secondary sources and practice guides, briefs and motions database, and federal dockets. The platform also includes legal commentary by topic where you can see what other lawyers are writing about in your practice area.
Can CoCounsel replace lawyers?
No, CoCounsel is designed to augment and assist lawyers, not replace them. It handles time-consuming tasks like document review, research memos, and deposition preparation so lawyers can focus on strategy, client counseling, and other high-value work. As one CFO noted, 'CoCounsel is not a replacement for outside counsel when the stakes are high, but for 90% of what I do day-to-day, it's the perfect solution.' The platform enables attorneys to provide more efficient representation while maintaining top-quality work.