ILTA Awards

Rawia Ashraf Head of Product, CoCounsel Legal, Transactional and Corporate Thomson Reuters A s H e a d o f P r o d u c t f o r C o C o u n s e l Legal (Transactional & Corporates) at Thomson Reuters, Rawia Ashraf sits at the intersection of law, product, and engineering, driving a transformation from traditional legal research tools to AI-powered workflows that deliver m e a s u r a b l e o u t c o m e s f o r l e g a l p r o f e s s i o n a l s worldwide. After nearly a decade practicing law in New York and Washington, D.C., Rawia transitioned into product management, where she found her calling: building high-impact, customer-centered legal technology. Her work has helped reposition Thomson Reuters from a legal content provider into a leader in legal AI, with products now used by tens of thousands of law firms and legal departments, including the majority of the Am Law 100. Her portfolio spans solutions generating nearly $1 billion in revenue, including CoCounsel, Practical Law, and Legal Tracker. R a w i a 's i n f l u e n c e i s p a r t i c u l a r l y ev i d e n t i n t h e generative AI era. She spearheaded the development and launch of CoCounsel Drafting, embedding AI directly into legal workflows to accelerate contract drafting, review, and negotiation. LINKEDIN /rawia-ashraf-6633959/ Her conviction is that legal AI earns trust only when its outputs are grounded in authoritative, citable sources -- the standard a lawyer is willing to sign their name to. Where most legal AI optimizes for fluency, Rawia has built for verifiability, treating the lawyer's professional accountability as the design constraint rather than an afterthought. That principle -- AI that meets the evidentiary bar of the profession it serves -- has ILTA AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE 2026 1 2

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