By: Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO, LexisNexis North America, UK, Eire
At LexisNexis®, we work with our prospects to rework authorized work … that mission is on the coronary heart of each product we develop and answer we ship. Our deal with expertise has positioned us as a frontrunner within the authorized trade’s progressive use of AI for a number of years.
Our Authorized AI innovation journey started with “extractive” AI instruments that use machine studying algorithms to search out related outcomes inside knowledge to floor deep insights. For instance, our fashionable Lexis+® Answers product took customers past conventional key phrase looking to determine relationships between ideas and return key passages extracted from the LexisNexis community of authoritative authorized sources.
The journey continued with “generative” AI instruments that create new content material from knowledge based mostly on user-entered prompts or directions, permitting our prospects to interact in human-like conversations and sort out advanced authorized duties with ease. We acknowledged the immense potential of Gen AI and naturally started leveraging this new expertise as a part of our ongoing, buyer knowledgeable innovation course of, which led to the debut in October 2023 of Lexis+ AI®, the primary complete authorized analysis platform powered by Gen AI for the authorized occupation.
Lexis+ AI represented a brand new customary for effectivity, precision and pace in authorized expertise innovation. We backed up this dedication by releasing a second-generation model of the Lexis+ AI platform in April 2024, with expanded use circumstances for authorized professionals, sooner supply of AI-generated solutions, and improved outcomes for patrons.
The Subsequent Chapter Begins
We’re proud to as soon as once more be on the vanguard of authorized tech innovation: Agentic AI, which guides customers to carry out duties aligned with their workflow, via customized AI fashions generally known as brokers. Whereas Gen AI focuses on creating content material, agentic AI assists in skilled decision-making and work process group based mostly on the consumer’s tailor-made necessities.
Welcome to LexisNexis Protégé™, our new AI assistant that leverages the facility of agentic AI to rework authorized work with personalization decisions managed by the consumer or their group to optimize the person’s AI expertise.
Protégé understands particular person preferences after which attracts upon our complete repository of authoritative authorized content material — in addition to the shopper’s personal proprietary work product and different agency data. It makes use of that universe of content material as grounding knowledge to supply deeply customized solutions, drafts, summaries and extra.
For instance, Protégé understands the consumer’s observe space, the jurisdictions during which they’re working, and their distinctive drafting fashion and preferences. This context informs the solutions that it creates and surfaces, enabling the device to assist information the authorized skilled to the tip end result that greatest meets their particular want. Protégé leads the authorized trade into a brand new period during which the Authorized AI expertise is tailored for every particular person authorized skilled.
Driving Subsequent-Degree Efficiency
How does Protégé obtain these bold objectives? Protégé will assist attorneys obtain next-level authorized efficiency for his or her shoppers in profound methods, reminiscent of:
- Drafting transactional , in addition to litigation motions, briefs, and complaints from a single immediate
- Producing drafts based mostly on uploaded pattern paperwork
- Suggesting authorized workflow actions (e.g., summarize, draft, analysis, proofread, Shepardize®, and so on.) based mostly on the varieties of paperwork uploaded (together with giant, advanced paperwork)
- Drafting tailor-made deposition questions based mostly on truth patterns, witness descriptions and different related data contained within the case paperwork
- Reviewing an uploaded movement or argument and discovering comparable motions and arguments within the LexisNexis system to additional refine the argument, discover stronger authority, and determine potential weaknesses
Furthermore, Protégé has the potential — with the consumer’s specific permission and authorization — to extract data securely from the group’s inside Doc Administration System (DMS). This knowledge helps a lawyer leverage their inside work product as reference knowledge for AI-powered drafting duties.
Protégé is embedded now on the Lexis+ AI platform and within the Lexis® Create+ tool for Legal AI drafting in Microsoft Word, and can finally be rolled out throughout the complete LexisNexis ecosystem.
The Innovation Journey Continues
As we glance to the long run, LexisNexis stays dedicated to staying on the forefront of innovation, repeatedly adapting and evolving to fulfill the ever-changing wants of our prospects. The subsequent chapter within the AI revolution is simply starting, and we’re excited to discover new frontiers and push the boundaries of what’s attainable within the authorized tech area.
We’re assured that Lexis+ AI with Protégé will revolutionize the best way authorized professionals work, enabling them to ship distinctive service to their shoppers whereas staying forward of the curve in an more and more aggressive and complicated authorized panorama.
At LexisNexis, we’re not simply embracing the way forward for AI, we’re shaping it. To study extra about Protégé, please go to www.lexisnexis.com/protege.
