Microsoft 365 Copilot · new from 15 October 2026Copilot for legal —
contracts reviewed right in Word
More than 20 legal skills are now built into Microsoft 365 Copilot. Copilot checks a contract against your playbook and proposes edits as ordinary tracked changes, drafts agreements from your approved precedents and pulls out obligations and deadlines. Your lawyers accept or reject every edit themselves.
On 15 October 2026 the Legal Agent left Microsoft's early-access programme and became part of Microsoft 365 Copilot for every customer — companies in Moldova included.
Microsoft data for the Frontier programme, April–October 2026.
The daily work of a legal team — now with Copilot
Draft from your precedents
Copilot drafts agreements and structured legal memos from your approved templates and precedents, with editable fields for the parties, amounts and dates.
Review against your playbook
Copilot checks the agreement against your standard positions, flags the terms that differ and proposes edits as native tracked changes, keeping the formatting intact.
Obligations and deadlines
Copilot pulls obligations, deadlines and triggers out of your agreements and traces the related contracts, so nothing slips through.
From research to guidance
Copilot compares materials, finds the gaps and turns research into structured guidance for the business.
Move matters forward
Copilot builds case chronologies, surfaces the key dates and turns meeting records into minutes and resolutions.
Your legal services, connected
Partner plugins bring in e-signature, document management and legal research — Docusign, iManage, Harvey and about twenty other services.
Source: Microsoft, “Introducing Microsoft Copilot for legal”, 15 October 2026. The usage figures come from Microsoft's own data.
Four scenarios for your legal team
The review and drafting skills work in Word on the desktop. Longer tasks across many files, emails and meetings run in Copilot Cowork.
Review against a playbook
Attach your playbook as a .docx file. Copilot turns it into topics and rules you can edit, runs the review and proposes edits as tracked changes.
Draft from a precedent
Point Copilot to an approved precedent or template. It drafts the new agreement and leaves editable fields where the details of the deal go.
Obligations and deadlines
Give Copilot Cowork a folder of agreements: it pulls out obligations, notice periods and renewal dates and builds a table you can check.
Case chronology
Cowork reads the emails, meetings and files of a matter and builds a chronology with key dates and their sources.
Illustrative mock-ups drawn by NQ DATA; the real Copilot interface may differ.
Your playbook sets the standard
Copilot reviews contracts against your own positions, not against some general idea of a “good contract”.
Playbook in Word
Your standard positions on key terms in a .docx file: liability, penalties, payment terms, jurisdiction.
Rules you control
Copilot breaks the playbook into topics and rules. You can edit them before the review starts.
Tracked changes
Copilot proposes edits in the contract itself. Nothing is applied until the lawyer approves it.
In-house lawyers, law firms and compliance teams
In-house legal teams
Supply, lease and service contracts every week: one playbook, the same positions in every contract.
Law firms
Drafts from the firm's precedents, case chronologies and minutes of client meetings.
Banks and financial companies
Large contract portfolios: obligations, notice periods and renewal dates under control.
Procurement and tenders
Comparing offers and contract terms, checking draft agreements against your requirements.
Your legal services inside Copilot
Partner plugins are arriving in the Microsoft plugin registry step by step. Each one needs your own subscription to that service.
Legal research
Documents and matters
Agreements and e-signature
Legal AI
E-discovery
Most of these services are built for the US and EU markets. Moldovan legal databases are not on Microsoft's list yet.
Client secrets stay inside your Microsoft 365
Data protection
- Prompts and responses are processed within the Microsoft 365 service boundary
- Your documents are not used to train foundation models
Access
- Copilot works only with documents the user can already open
- Sensitivity labels are respected
Control
- Edits are applied only after the user approves them
- The administrator can turn the legal skills off by policy
What Copilot for legal can and cannot do
Word on the desktop
Microsoft names Word on the desktop and Copilot Cowork. Business Basic includes only the web and mobile versions of Office, so lawyers need Business Standard or Business Premium.
Review from playbooks only
For now Copilot reviews contracts against playbooks, not against templates or other documents. It works best on one issue at a time.
Romanian and Russian
Microsoft 365 Copilot supports prompts and responses in Romanian and Russian. Microsoft has not published a separate language list for the legal skills, so during the trial we check them on your own contracts.
Not legal advice
Copilot does not give legal advice and does not replace a lawyer. AI output can be inaccurate, so a person checks every edit.
The legal skills cost nothing extra
They are part of the Microsoft 365 Copilot licence. You pay only for Copilot itself, and only for the people who need it — for example, only for the legal team.
Microsoft recommended (ERP) prices in USD, annual commitment, excluding VAT. Invoice in USD, payment in MDL at the MAIB rate on the payment date, tax invoice in MDL. The final price is fixed in the commercial offer.
A month with Copilot on your own contracts
Up to 25 full Copilot licences for 30 days at no cost — enough for a whole legal team. NQ DATA activates the trial in your tenant and runs a four-week legal pilot with you.
- Customers on Microsoft 365 Business Basic, Standard or Premium
- Up to 300 seats in the tenant
- Copilot has never been purchased before
- One trial per customer · available until 31.12.2026
For the legal skills, participants need desktop Word: Business Standard or Premium.
Request the trial →Your legal pilot, week by week
Preparation
We agree on the participants, check Word versions and tenant settings and help put your standard positions into a first playbook file.
Review
Lawyers review real incoming contracts against the playbook and note what Copilot caught and what it missed.
Drafting
New agreements and memos from your precedents, collected in one SharePoint library with the right access rights.
Obligations and deadlines
Contract portfolios in Copilot Cowork: deadlines, notice periods and renewals. Cowork is optional and billed by usage within a budget you set.
Results
Accepted edits, time saved and the lawyers' feedback — and a joint decision on how many licences you need.
Licences, set-up and training for lawyers
Microsoft CSP partner
Licences through the official channel, a contract under Moldovan law, invoice in USD, payment in MDL and closing documents for your accounting.
Precedent library
A SharePoint library for templates and precedents with the right access rights, so Copilot drafts only from approved documents.
Labels and data loss prevention
Sensitivity labels and DLP policies in Microsoft Purview for confidential matters and client data.
Training in RO / RU
Practical sessions for lawyers on their own documents, plus local support from engineers in Chișinău.
Frequently asked questions
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+373 69 155 143Do the legal skills cost extra?
No. They are included in the Microsoft 365 Copilot licence. Partner plugins such as Docusign or iManage need your own subscription to those services.
Do we need to join the Frontier programme?
No longer. Since 15 October 2026 the legal skills are generally available to Microsoft 365 Copilot customers. Frontier was needed only for the earlier Legal Agent preview.
Does it work with contracts in Romanian and Russian?
Microsoft 365 Copilot supports prompts and responses in Romanian and Russian. Microsoft has not published a separate language list for the legal skills, so during the free trial we check them on your own contracts before you buy.
Does it work in Word on the web?
Microsoft names Word on the desktop and Copilot Cowork. The desktop Word app is included in Business Standard and Business Premium; Business Basic has only the web and mobile versions.
Can Copilot change a contract by itself?
No. Copilot proposes edits as tracked changes, and they are applied only after the user approves them.
Is client data protected?
Copilot processes prompts and responses within the Microsoft 365 service boundary, works only with documents the user can open, respects sensitivity labels and does not use your documents to train models.
Can we buy Copilot only for the lawyers?
Yes. Licences are assigned per user, so you can license only the legal team and add other departments later.
Does Copilot replace a lawyer?
No. Copilot does not give legal advice; it speeds up routine work. Responsibility for the final text stays with the lawyer.
Give your legal team Copilot
Start with 25 free licences for 30 days and check the legal skills on your own contracts.