Microsoft launched legal skills in Copilot on 15 October, the fourth AI company in five months to enter legal, and its legal chief later said it is staying.
Microsoft launched Copilot for Legal on 15 October 2026, offering more than 20 legal-specific skills in Microsoft Copilot, according to LawNext. The capabilities bring contract review, drafting and obligations tracking into Word and Cowork, its agentic workspace, along with plugins from more than two dozen legal technology partners. Microsoft said they are generally available to Microsoft Copilot customers worldwide.
LawNext reported that Microsoft is the fourth major AI company in five months to roll out a dedicated legal offering, following Anthropic's Claude for Legal in May, Google's Gemini Enterprise for Legal in August, and OpenAI's Astra for Law last month. The skills build on Legal Agent, the contract review and redlining tool released to Microsoft's Frontier early-access program in April.
In an interview published on 3 November, Carina Negreanu, Legal Vertical leader, told Artificial Lawyer about Microsoft's plans for legal. Artificial Lawyer summarised its key point as Microsoft being in legal for the long term. It reported that the product offers three core workflows, covering Q&A, review and editing, plus 20 skills, and draws on both OpenAI and Anthropic models. It said Negreanu reported acceptance rates of 70% or more for suggested review changes.
Artificial Lawyer reported that the legal capabilities are automatically available to those signed up to Copilot, which it put at over 30 million people globally. It also reported that the product works with Excel, PowerPoint and Teams. Its commentary said the offerings of legal tech companies connected to Copilot for Legal will inevitably sometimes be replaceable with what Copilot for Legal offers.
Microsoft also said a new Word experience for navigating between defined terms and their definitions will enter preview later in October, per LawNext.
