cocounsel-legal:deep-research

Legal research analysis across up to three jurisdictions is provided by synthesizing relevant caselaw, statutes, and regulations into a written report. You simply request a jurisdiction-specific report naming your issue and target jurisdictions.

Westlaw deep research is an agentic research cycle that retrieves and synthesizes caselaw, statutes, and administrative materials. It mirrors human legal researchers to produce a written report analyzing governing standards and arguments on both sides of an issue.

Yes, an available cocounsel-legal MCP connection is required to run statutory interpretation research. The Skill requires this connection to initiate, monitor, and retrieve the final deep-research output for your completed report.

Yes, you can use this for legal memo writing on unsettled issues. It is ideal for understanding how courts interpret and apply law, and synthesizes relevant authority to frame arguments on both sides within your specified jurisdictions.

The best way to research legal standards across different jurisdictions is to request a report naming your issue and up to three jurisdictions. If unspecified, the Skill asks you to clarify which jurisdictions to use before synthesizing the authority.

Yes, a limitation is that legal research supports analyzing up to three jurisdictions per report. You must name the jurisdictions in your request, or the Skill will ask you to specify them before initiating the research cycle.