Go Legal AI vs CoCounsel (formerly Casetext)

Go Legal AI is a consumer legal tech platform where you can ask legal questions, draft documents, edit contracts, and review paperwork from one dashboard. It pairs a library of 5,000+ lawyer-approved templates with Legal AI tools and a network of 300+ lawyers and 70+ service partners across 150+ jurisdictions.

The workflow is guided rather than open-ended chat. You select a template or upload a document, answer targeted questions, and the platform builds or reviews your paperwork using AI trained with lawyer input. Smart Reviews flag risks with traffic-light analysis, scenario testing, and custom scoring against industry standards.

Go Legal AI is backed by University of Oxford, LAWTECHUK, Innovate UK, and Barclays. It fits small business owners, landlords, freelancers, and consumers who need affordable legal documents, fast contract reviews, or on-demand lawyer consultations without retaining a full legal team.

CoCounsel is a legal research and drafting assistant now owned by Thomson Reuters after acquiring Casetext in 2023 for $650 million. It runs case law research, document review, contract analysis, and guided drafting grounded in Westlaw and Practical Law rather than the open web.

Standalone legal chatbots pull from generic training data. CoCounsel ties every answer to Thomson Reuters authority, which means citations trace back to Westlaw primary law and Practical Law guidance. The 2026 next-generation release adds Workspaces for matter-specific context, Brief Builder for agentic motion drafting, and a firm-intelligence layer for encoding internal expertise.

Litigation teams, transactional lawyers, and in-house counsel at firms already paying for Westlaw use it to cut research time and review contracts at scale. Pricing is sales-led with no public rate card, and the tool delivers the most value when bundled with an existing Westlaw subscription.