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AI Built for Law: Thomson Reuters CPO David Wong on why purpose-built tools matter in legal

Jun 1, 2026 · 36m

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AI is really good at coming up with plans. It's not always great at executing them. David Wong thinks that gap is the whole story for legal AI right now, and it's why Thomson Reuters has been building the way they have. David is Chief Product Officer at Thomson Reuters, which has been around for over a hundred years and is one of the most established names in legal information. He leads CoCounsel, their AI platform, which recently hit 1 million users across 107 countries. He also just published a widely read Fortune piece laying out his framework for where legal AI is heading. We recorded the day after Anthropic launched Claude for the Legal Industry, with both Thomson Reuters and Descrybe…