LexisNexis Protégé for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Groups Unveiled at 2025 Microsoft Construct Convention

By Serena Wellen, Vice President of Product Management at LexisNexis Legal and Professional

Could 21, 2025

LexisNexis® is proud to be main the following wave of AI innovation within the authorized trade with LexisNexis Protégé™, a customized AI assistant that intelligently powers productiveness, drives next-level work high quality, and allows authorized and enterprise professionals to unlock new financial worth.  Leveraging proprietary agentic and generative AI technology, Protégé™ can autonomously full complicated authorized workflows based mostly on person objectives, together with reviewing its personal work and figuring out areas the place it might probably enhance its personal output. 

This week, on the 2025 Microsoft Build convention in Seattle, we unveiled a strong new approach for authorized groups to boost productiveness and streamline workflows—Protégé for Microsoft 365 Copilot and for Microsoft Groups.

The Protégé Authorized AI Assistant

Protégé is a non-public, trusted authorized AI Assistant that locations the person in management and delivers uniquely personalised work product in a non-public, safe setting. Personalization selections are managed by the person or their group to optimize the person AI expertise.

What units Protégé aside is its potential to combine each our complete and authoritative authorized content material and our prospects’ personal paperwork and previous work product securely saved in a Doc Administration System (DMS). Inside Protégé, these sources are then mixed with superior agentic and generative AI capabilities in our international know-how platform, personalised to the authorized skilled’s workflow and their jurisdiction, making it a really highly effective authorized AI assistant that may stroll the person by their whole workflow and anticipate what they’ll wish to do.

New collaborative agent expertise in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Groups

Our new collaboration agent expertise in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Groups supplies a seamless expertise for authorized professionals to make use of Protégé inside the acquainted Microsoft 365 setting, the place lots of them already conduct their work.

Groups customers merely add Protégé as an agent in assembly, simply as they might invite a trusted colleague to affix the dialogue, and Protégé turns into one other “voice” within the assembly to supply extra real-time collaboration. The distinction is that Protégé is grounded in particular person contributors’ preferences, the authorized paperwork and related work product of their DMS, and all the authoritative LexisNexis content material that may inform the authorized dialogue.

The mixing of Protégé with Microsoft 365 Copilot and Groups is at the moment in preview and presents a number of key advantages for authorized professionals:

• enhanced legal research, as Protégé’s potential to entry and floor responses in LexisNexis authoritative content material ensures high-quality authorized analysis and insights;
• improved document drafting, as Protégé can present drafting options and automate repetitive duties to enhance high quality and effectivity; and
• streamlined collaboration, as Protégé in Groups facilitates seamless collaboration amongst authorized groups for real-time doc overview and decision-making.

Prime Use Circumstances That Energy Productiveness for Authorized Professionals

For instance, Protégé in Groups can assist authorized professionals work quicker and smarter by the next use circumstances:

Protégé can present real-time AI assist alongside reside discussions throughout conferences, whatever the variety of professionals on the decision unfold throughout varied time zones and areas. This functionality is very helpful throughout a gathering to overview the phrases of a contract beneath negotiation, the place Protégé may be known as upon to shortly summarize key clauses and flag essential deal factors that should be contemplated by the authorized staff members on the decision.

• Actual-Time Threat Evaluation

Protégé can help in group chats by reviewing proposed language in varied authorized paperwork and flagging dangerous language that needs to be rigorously thought-about, then present suggestions for revisions. The software may evaluate completely different variations of potential clauses in contracts or different paperwork and spotlight key variations in order that authorized professionals can use their judgment to find out how they want to proceed in a approach that finest mitigates threat to their organizations.

Protégé is a invaluable AI assistant for synthesizing info and escalating key motion objects throughout conferences. The software can analyze a contract or different authorized doc beneath dialogue, spotlight clauses that lack a legal responsibility cap or different important parts, and supply insights and proposals to the assembly contributors so they don’t finish the assembly till all key motion objects are decided.

• Assembly Prep + Assembly Observe-Up

Protégé can assist authorized staff members to organize successfully for conferences by summarizing paperwork which are related to the dialog and offering recommended dialogue factors, together with contextual insights knowledgeable by earlier interactions and work product. Then after the assembly has concluded, Protégé can proceed to supply assist in group chats, making certain that the context and insights from the assembly are preserved, and generate motion merchandise studies to assist groups keep on observe with their duties.

Expertise LexisNexis Protégé

Along with the brand new integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot and Groups, Protégé is available now inside Lexis® Create+ for full-document legal drafting in Microsoft Word, the Lexis+ AI® legal workflow solution, and the Lex Machina® Legal Analytics® platform. Protégé can be seamlessly built-in throughout the LexisNexis ecosystem and Microsoft merchandise, expertly aiding authorized and enterprise professionals wherever they work.

To study extra about Protégé, please go to www.lexisnexis.com/protege.