LexisNexis launches new AI program for law firms
LexisNexis officially announced Monday the commercial availability of its Protégé personalized artificial intelligence assistant in U.S. markets. (Screenshot via LexisNexis)
LexisNexis officially announced Monday the commercial availability of its Protégé personalized artificial intelligence assistant in U.S. markets.
Protégé, which has been designed for law firms, law schools, corporations and government agencies, will replace the existing Lexis+ AI and the Lexis Create+ AI assistant.
The new program uses Lexis+ AI technology to complete tasks based on the user’s goals. This includes its ability to draft transactional documents, litigation motions, briefs and complaints. A key component of Protégé is its ability to check its work, the company said in a press release.
Users can upload tens of thousands of legal documents to the Protégé vault, and the technology can summarize, draft and research the documents. Protégé can also create a timeline of events from that paperwork. It can help users discover similar motions and arguments to refine their strategy and identify weaknesses.
Users can ask Protégé to summarize complex documents up to 300 pages long, which is a 250% increase over previous limits, the company said.
“We’re continually evolving our AI solutions in collaboration with customers, and the Protégé personalized AI assistant marks a [steep] change in our legal AI functionality, whether legal professionals are using their own internal data or LexisNexis trusted resources,” said Jeff Pfeifer, chief product officer for LexisNexis North America and the United Kingdom, in a statement. “While we’re well-known as a leader in legal research, our integrated AI technology supports the full range of legal tasks in a very personalized way.”
According to Protégé, the program does this by understanding the user’s personal style, work requirements and firm standards, so that it can draft documents based on your style preferences.
Protégé was created following testing by more than 50 customers, including those from Am Law 50 firms, smaller firms, corporations and law schools, the company said.
It was determined that prompting could be a learned skill, so this new program, which uses Amazon Bedrock and other building block services to provide reliable, secure cloud infrastructure, uses basic prompts to achieve big results, said Min Chen, the chief AI officer of LexisNexis Legal & Professional.
Protégé is currently available within the Lexis+ AI legal workflow solution and via Lexis Create+, and it is expected to be launched across all LexisNexis products in the near future. According to the company, current customers of Lexis+ AI and Lexis Create+ will automatically have access to the Protégé personalized AI assistant.
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