cocounsel-legal:deep-research

Westlaw Deep Research is a process that produces a structured report analyzing U.S. legal authority for a given question. It covers caselaw, statutes, administrative decisions, regulations, Practical Law, and trusted secondary sources across up to three jurisdictions.

To start legal research, ask the tool to run Westlaw Deep Research on your specific legal issue and jurisdiction. It initiates a research cycle, polls until completion, and returns a final written text explaining the relevant standards and supporting authorities.

Yes, you can perform legal analysis across up to three jurisdictions. The research report synthesizes relevant U.S. legal authorities and supports arguments on both sides to help identify governing standards, elements, and defenses for the jurisdictions you specify.

Yes, for unsettled legal issues, the Westlaw Deep Research report provides two-sided legal analysis. It helps identify governing standards, elements, defenses, and interpretations by synthesizing arguments on both sides relevant to your specified jurisdiction.

The best way to synthesize secondary sources and regulations is to initiate a Westlaw Deep Research cycle. It mirrors human research workflows to explain, analyze, and return a structured written report based on statutes, administrative materials, and Practical Law.

The primary limitation is jurisdictional scope; the legal research process covers up to three U.S. jurisdictions. It relies on initiating a connected workflow to poll for completion and return the final answer text based on available legal authorities.