Perplexity just launched a product built only for lawyers.
Perplexity just launched a product built only for lawyers.
It plugs straight into the tools they already use.
It's called Computer for Counsel.
It wires research databases, document repositories, contract tools, and matter-management systems into Perplexity Computer.
Here's what Computer for Counsel does:
It clears the admin work off attorneys' desks
ā It handles research, document gathering, and contract triage in the background.
ā Perplexity points to a Thomson Reuters survey where nearly 75% of lawyers call admin a major time drain.
ā The trade is more hours on judgment, fewer on the work nobody went to law school for.
It picks the right model for each task
ā More than 20 frontier models sit under the hood.
ā Computer chooses the best one for research, reasoning, or contract work.
ā That's the same multi-model setup behind Perplexity Computer.
It links every answer back to a source
ā Outputs cite the case, statute, regulation, filing, or internal document they came from.
ā Attorneys verify accuracy before anything lands in a brief or reaches a client.
ā For a field that watched peers get sanctioned over fake citations, that's the whole sell.
It connects to the legal stack
ā MCP connectors include Box, Carta, Docusign, DeepJudge, and NetDocuments.
ā Inside Microsoft 365 it drafts in Word, pulls files from SharePoint, and reads context from Outlook or Teams.
ā Premium sources include Midpage for case law, with LegalZoom and Deel on limited access.
It assembles the deliverable for you
ā Computer pulls the relevant pieces into a brief, a memo, or a deal summary.
ā Live workflows cover third-party NDA intake, regulatory monitoring, and case research with citation review.
ā Clio and Ironclad are on the way, not live yet.
It's open now to Perplexity Enterprise and Max subscribers.
Perplexity isn't trying to out-Westlaw Westlaw.
It's going after everything that happens before and after the research, and betting that lawyers will trust it because every answer shows its receipts.
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