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Skill: Draft Correspondence

Learn to use CoCounsel's Draft Correspondence skill
Lawyers frequently need to draft emails, letters, memos, and other correspondence. CoCounsel's Draft Correspondence skill uses your description of correspondence to quickly draft the content.
  1. Go to the chat and enter a description of the correspondence you need. CoCounsel will take a moment to review your request and then provide a confirmation.
  2. Review CoCounsel's response:
    1. In the upper right corner of CoCounsel's response, the Draft Correspondence skill is confirmed.
    2. Under
      Request
      , the description of the requested correspondence is confirmed.
    3. If you no longer need assistance, select
      Cancel
      .
  3. When you're ready to proceed, select
    Submit request
    . CoCounsel will begin its work and show its progress
    1. To receive a notification when the results are ready, select
      Email me when complete
      .
    2. To stop CoCounsel's work, select
      Cancel
      .
  4. When your results are ready, select
    View results
    . The results window will appear.
  5. Review any warnings.
  6. Review the drafted correspondence.
  7. To refine your result, select
    Refine result
    . The follow-up question box will appear.
  8. Enter your follow-up instructions and then select the send icon.
  9. To copy the results to paste somewhere else, select
    Copy
    . To download the results as a Word Document, select the ellipsis icon, then select
    Download
    , and then
    Word Document
    . The results will download.

Limitations

The request length can be up to 4,000 characters
The results length (correspondence) will generally be less than about 500 words. The length of the correspondence will depend on the request and complexity and detail of the request.
CoCounsel understands nuance, humor, and implied references. This means CoCounsel finds information and references that traditional search engines cannot. The best requests are specific, clear, precise, and concise. When requests are not, CoCounsel may omit additional information to focus on just a part of a longer, complex, overbroad question.
Tone can give the same content a new meaning, but it is also always approximate because everyone interprets tone differently. Generally, CoCounsel’s responses will follow these descriptions.
  • Adversarial
    • A direct tone with no polite niceties.
    • This may be appropriate for correspondence with opposing counsel.
  • Formal
    • A respectful, non-hostile tone.
    • This may be appropriate for correspondence with a judge or a new client.
  • Neutral
    • A broad category somewhere between respectful and friendly.
    • This may be appropriate to request information from a 3rd party, like accountants or a forensic lab.
CoCounsel can't use the name, email, or position fields from your Thomson Reuters Account profile to draft correspondence. As a result, CoCounsel can't comply with instructions that rely on this information, like "Add my position and email to the signature of this email" or "include my first and last names in the letterhead."

Tips

  • Use narrow, specific questions. It's better to ask multiple, narrow questions rather than a single, broad question.
  • Be precise and concise
    • Avoid using vague or ambiguous language, like passive voice.
    • Spell out legal terms a law student might not know.
    • Grammatical and spelling errors in a question can be misinterpreted.

This article applies to:

  • Product: CoCounsel
  • Subject: AI
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