When legal research giant LexisNexis and legal AI giant Harvey announced a strategic alliance last month, legal tech commentator Richard Tromans called it “possibly the most important legal tech move in a decade.” On today’s episode of LawNext, we go deep into the…
LexisNexis Announces Legal Industry’s First Voice AI Assistant to Simplify Legal Workflows, Surface Insights, and Complete Legal Work Faster
LexisNexis Announces Legal Industry’s First Voice AI Assistant to Simplify Legal Workflows, Surface Insights, and Complete Legal Work Faster
LexisNexis Protégé in Lexis+ AI delivers advanced capabilities that help legal professionals work collaboratively with AI, be more productive, and amplify their strategic impact
NEW YORK, March 24, 2025
In ‘AI Smackdown,’ Law Librarians Compare Legal AI Research Platforms, Finding Distinct Strengths and Limitations
How do AI-driven legal research platforms — specifically those that provide direct answers to legal questions — stack up against each other?
That was the question at a Feb. 8 meeting of the Southern California Association of Law Libraries, where a panel of three law librarians reported on their comparison of the AI answers…
LexisNexis Launches Protégé AI Assistant to General Availability, Promising Autonomous Completion of Legal Tasks
Last August, LexisNexis Legal & Professional released the preview version of Protégé, its AI-powered legal assistant that incorporates both generative and agentic AI capabilities, describing it as a “substantial leap forward in personalized generative AI that will transform legal work.”
Now, in what it says is a “step change” in its AI offerings, LexisNexis…
AI, Ethics, Essays and Scandals Ranked Among LawSites’ 40 Most Popular Legal Tech Stories of 2024
It says something about our collective attitude towards generative AI in legal that this blog’s most-read story of the year was about lawyers getting sanctioned for hallucinated case citations.
In fact, it will probably not surprise you to learn that, of my 40 most-read stories of the year, 24 involved generative AI in some way.…
Lexis Releases Mobile App for Its Lexis+ AI Legal Research Platform
A year after releasing Lexis+ AI, its generative AI legal research platform, to general availability, LexisNexis Legal & Professional today announced the release of a companion app for the U.S. market, the Lexis+ AI Mobile App, which is now available for download in both the Apple App Store and Google Play.…
Stanford Will Augment Its Study Finding that AI Legal Research Tools Hallucinate in 17% of Queries, As Some Raise Questions About the Results
Stanford University will augment the study it released last week of generative AI legal research tools from LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters, in which it found that they deliver hallucinated results more often than the companies say, as others have raised questions about the study’s methodology and fairness.
The preprint study by Stanford’s RegLab…
True To Its Name, LexisNexis Unveils New AI Capabilities For Both Its Lexis Legal Service and Its Nexis News Service
In a pair of AI announcements this week, LexisNexis said that it has significantly enhanced the speed and capabilities of its Lexis+ AI legal AI Assistant, and also that it has launched the commercial preview of Nexis+ AI within its Nexis news and business information research service.
LexisNexis first released Lexis+…
Powered By An Added 18M Cases, Lex Machina’s New ‘Litigation Footprint’ Visually Maps Parties’ Litigation Historys
A new tool from the litigation analytics company Lex Machina, which is owned by LexisNexis, allows attorneys to view visual maps of a party’s litigation history in order to help illuminate the party’s relationships and litigation trends that might not otherwise be obvious but that could be a factor in crafting a litigation strategy…
Clearbrief Partners with LexisNexis, Enabling Access to Lexis Legal Content While Using Clearbrief in Word
The AI-driven legal drafting tool Clearbrief has entered into a partnership with legal research company LexisNexis Legal & Professional that provides its customers who are also Lexis subscribers with access to legal content and citations on Lexis while drafting documents within the Clearbrief add-in for Microsoft Word.
With this new integration, Lexis subscribers…
My 40 Most-Read Blog Posts This Year Tell A Story Of A Legal Industry Consumed With Generative AI
Look over this list of my blog posts that were most popular this year, and there is no doubt about the topic that most captivated the legal industry. Of my 40 most-read posts of 2023, 30 directly involved generative AI and others implicated it.
Of course, there is a chicken-or-egg aspect to this. Were so…
LexisNexis Expands Access to its Lexis+ AI to Law School Students
In October, LexisNexis released its generative AI research tool, Lexis+ AI, for general availability for U.S. customers, along with limited release in law schools to select faculty, librarians and students. Now, the company is further expanding access to the tool, making it available to 100,000 second- and third-year law students starting in the spring…