myDiscovery vs. CoCounsel
CoCounsel is just a tool.
myDiscovery is a service.
CoCounsel is a tool — it reads documents and answers questions when you ask them. myDiscovery is a managed AI-assisted service. We process your entire production: AI tags every document, reconstructs every email chain, extracts every name, generates the reports. A tool waits for you. A service doesn't.
CoCounsel
A tool. You still do the work.
CoCounsel is a tool. You ask it questions, it helps you find answers. It doesn't process your discovery. It doesn't read 7,000 PDFs. It doesn't reconstruct email chains. It doesn't flag the smoking gun buried on page 4,312 of a PDF you never opened. It waits for you to ask.
- Monthly subscription — whether you have a case or not
- Requires Westlaw — another monthly subscription
- You operate the tool
- General legal research, not discovery analysis
- Built for BigLaw and Am Law 100
- No overnight processing
- No personal support
myDiscovery
We do the hard work. You get the results.
Send us your discovery production. We process every document overnight — OCR, AI analysis, tagging, email reconstruction, entity extraction. You wake up to a fully organized case. Flat fee. No subscription.
- Flat fee per case — pay only when you have a case
- No other subscriptions required
- We run the entire analysis for you
- Built specifically for discovery document analysis
- Built for solo practitioners and small firms
- Processed overnight — results by morning
- Tags, priorities, email chains, charts, timelines — included
- Direct access to our team throughout the matter
Pricing
What you actually pay
Thomson Reuters deliberately doesn't publish a clean price sheet. The answer depends on what's stacked. Here's what it actually looks like.
CoCounsel
Westlaw Advantage + CoCounsel Essentials
Solo attorney, all states & federal
$7,668/yr
$639/mo
Source: Thomson Reuters pricing configurator, analyst estimates (AI Vortex, CostBench), June 2026. Pricing varies by firm size and contract term.
myDiscovery
Prices starting at
Flat fee — no variables, no hidden costs
Flat fees. No per-page charges, no overages, no hidden costs. The number you're quoted is the number you pay — before we touch a single document.
Unlike broad subscription platforms that impose high fixed monthly costs, myDiscovery is a true variable-cost model — a flat fee per production, no recurring charges, no long-term commitment.
A footnote worth reading
Casetext built a standalone AI legal platform and offered promotional "locked in for life" subscriptions. Thomson Reuters acquired Casetext, then shut down the standalone platform on March 31, 2025 — forcing those legacy subscribers onto new TR pricing at significantly higher rates.
CoCounsel is a per-seat rental of someone else's API wrapper, with Westlaw as the lock-in. If TR decides to change the terms, raise prices, or kill the product, you have no recourse. You've built your practice on their platform.
No per-page fees. No overages. No surprises. You know the number before we touch a document.
Under the hood
The AI powering each platform
Both platforms use large language models. The difference is transparency — and who's paying for it.
CoCounsel
Thomson Reuters discloses it uses "OpenAI GPT and Google Gemini" — no version commitments, no usage guarantees. Heavy usage is monitored via internal "account health" tracking.
myDiscovery
AI analysis is included in your flat fee. Every document, every page, every query. No usage monitoring, no account health conversations, no surprises at renewal.
What myDiscovery actually does
Everything. Overnight.
Send us the production. We handle the rest. Here's what's waiting for you in the morning.
AI tags every document automatically
After OCR, every document goes through AI analysis. The AI assigns tags — rollover, sep-ira, account-review, form-5f, margin-call, customer-complaint — based on what it actually reads. Not file names. Not metadata. The content. When you're ready to build your case, you filter by tag and pull every document on that topic instantly. 7,000 documents down to 14 relevant ones in one click. Tags are also fully searchable — find every document related to "suitability" or "unauthorized trading" across the entire production in seconds.
Timeline reconstructed from the documents themselves
Every document is dated and placed on a timeline — not by file creation date, but by the dates AI extracts from the actual content. Account statements, trade confirms, emails, internal memos — all ordered chronologically. The result is a complete case timeline you can hand to your expert on day one. See exactly when your client's instructions were ignored, when the warnings came in, and when things went sideways. The timeline doesn't lie — and neither does the paper.
Email chains reconstructed and filtered
Opposing counsel dumps thousands of individual email PDFs with no threading. We reconstruct the full chains — every reply, every forward, every CC — and reassemble them into readable threads. Filter by your client's address and you see every email they sent or received. Filter by the broker's address and you see what they said to their supervisor. The paper trail between the broker, the branch manager, and compliance — untangled, in order, searchable.
Every document gets a priority — and you control it
Every document in the production can be assigned a priority level — from low to critical. You set it. Filter the entire case by priority and your most important documents surface instantly. Hot Docs is a separate, curated list of your highest-priority documents — the ones you're actually building your case around. Flag a document, and it goes there. Your exhibit list, your deposition kit, your expert package — built as you work, not scrambled together the week before hearing.
Visual analytics across the entire production
Charts give you a bird's-eye view of the entire production: document activity by month, email volume over time, AI coverage, document types, top tags, top people. Patterns that are invisible in a file list become obvious in a chart. A spike in email volume in September 2021? Documents clustered around a single three-month window? The chart shows you before you've read a single page. That's not decoration. That's how you figure out where to look first.
Every person in every document — ranked and clickable
AI extracts every named individual, broker, supervisor, compliance officer, and firm from every document in the production. Every single one. They're ranked by how many documents they appear in. Click any name and you get every document that mentions them — across 7,000 PDFs — instantly. Witness prep that used to take days takes minutes. You walk into the deposition knowing every document your witness signed, sent, or appears in.
AI reads every document and flags what matters
Every document — PDFs, spreadsheets, Word docs, emails — gets an AI summary. Not a keyword match. An actual reading of what the document says and why it might be significant. AI-flagged documents go into your Hot Docs list. The thing buried on page 4,312 of a PDF you never would have opened — AI reads it, flags it, and puts it in front of you. That's not a search. That's a reader.
Full-text search across every word of every document
Every OCR'd word is indexed. Search an account number, a broker's nickname, a specific dollar amount, a regulatory term — across the entire production, instantly. Not a file name search. Not a metadata search. Every word of every document, including scanned faxes, photocopies, and handwritten notes that went through OCR. The needle in the haystack — found.
More than data processing
It's not a data dump.
It's a workspace.
Most discovery tools hand you a pile of processed documents and walk away. That's half the job. The other half is working the case — flagging what matters, tracking what's left, making sure your team is moving in the same direction.
myDiscovery is where you and your team live while the case is open. Notes tied to documents. Tasks assigned to people. Alerts that fire before you miss a deadline. Built for small firms fighting cases that need a 20-person firm.
Notes
Drop a note on any document — or on the case generally. Your paralegal sees it instantly. No email. No Slack. No "wait, which version are you looking at?" The note lives next to the document. So does the context.
To-Do
A running task list for the matter. Pull the client call notes. Cross-check the Bates gap. Follow up on the billing records request. Track what's done, what's open, and who's on it. Stop losing things in email threads.
Alerts
Deadlines don't wait. Set a date-driven alert and every attorney and paralegal on the case gets a notification when it's due — automatically. Response deadline. Expert disclosure. Status conference. Nothing slips.
Tickets
Something doesn't look right? A document is missing? Submit a ticket directly to our team from inside the case. We respond same day. No email threads, no lost context — the conversation lives in the case where it belongs.
Reports
Print-ready reports on demand.
CoCounsel doesn't produce reports from your discovery. myDiscovery generates a full library of PDF reports from your case — ready to share with co-counsel, your expert, or opposing counsel.
AI Case Report
Case narrative, key parties, red flags, hot documents, and your full AI Q&A history — compiled into a single PDF.
Intelligence Summary
AI-generated overview of the entire case: who's who, what happened, what's suspicious. Updated every time you run the AI.
Hot Documents
Every document you flagged as high-priority, in one report. Ready for your expert on day one.
Priority Report
Every document in the production sorted by priority level — critical down to low. See exactly what you've flagged and what's still unreviewed.
Document Inventory
Every document in the production — filename, Bates number, page count, AI summary. Full index, printable.
By Tag
Pick any tag — rollover, sep-ira, account-review — and print a PDF of every document with that tag. One click.
By Person
Pick any name from the production — broker, supervisor, compliance officer — and print every document they appear in.
Email Analysis
Sender volume, date distribution, top chains, and email forensics across the full production. The paper trail in one report.
Timeline
Every key event dated and ordered chronologically. Hand your expert a complete chronology on day one.
Notes Report
Your case notes — observations, strategy, witness prep — compiled and printed. Nothing lives only in your head.
To-Do Report
Open and completed tasks for the case. Share with co-counsel or your paralegal.
Alerts Report
Every AI-flagged anomaly and red flag in the production — inconsistencies, contradictions, items that need your attention. Nothing slips through.
Messages Report
Text message records from the production, threaded by contact. The conversations opposing counsel hoped you'd never read.
Tickets
Every support request and our response — a complete record of what was asked, flagged, and resolved throughout the matter.
All reports include clickable document links.
Every PDF report links directly back to the source documents in your case. Click a Bates number — open the document. No manual hunting.
Personal service
You're not a ticket number.
With CoCounsel, you're a Thomson Reuters subscriber. Support means a help center article. With myDiscovery, you work directly with us — +30 years in securities litigation — throughout the matter. Questions on a specific document? We look at it. Something doesn't add up? We flag it. That's not a chatbot. That's a person who knows your case.
We review before we deliver
We don't just run the pipeline and hand you a dump. We review what AI flagged before it reaches you.
Direct access throughout
Questions mid-case? You reach us directly. Not a support queue. Not a help desk. A person.
Plaintiff-side only
We only work with plaintiff attorneys. Never defense. That's not a policy — it's a principle.
The document dump is their weapon.
Flat fee. Overnight. Personal service. Plaintiff-side only.