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Microsoft launches Copilot for Legal with more than 20 legal skills in Word and Cowork
Microsoft launched Copilot for Legal on October 15, 2026, adding more than 20 legal-specific skills to Microsoft Copilot for contract review, drafting, obligations tracking and case chronologies in Word and its agentic Cowork workspace. Plugins from more than two dozen legal technology partners, including Harvey, Legora, iManage and Relativity, begin rolling out through Microsoft's plugin registry.
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Key points
- Redlines are applied as native tracked changes in Word, and drafting can draw on approved precedents stored in SharePoint.LawSites
- Two Microsoft-built plugins are available, one in Copilot for Word on Windows desktop and one in Cowork; the Word plugin replaces Legal Agent.Artificial Lawyer
- Microsoft said Legal Agent's 1,800 early users generated nearly 100,000 edits since April and kept roughly seven in ten suggestions.LawSites
- Partners span research, document management, e-signature and e-discovery, including Bloomberg Law, NetDocuments, Litera, Docusign, Everlaw and Relativity.Artificial LawyerLawSites
- Clyde & Co is giving every colleague a premium Copilot license, with adoption approaching 90%, chief information officer Matt Simpkin said.LawSites
- The plugins began rolling out October 15 to Microsoft 365 Copilot commercial customers; Microsoft will demonstrate them in an October 22 webinar.Artificial LawyerLawSites
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