Each year for the past three years, the LexisNexis African Ancestry Network LexisNexis Rule of Law Foundation Fellowship has awarded fellowships to promising law students to participate in research projects related to eliminating racism in the legal system. This year, 15 students received fellowships of $10,000 each…
LexisNexis Unveils Two New Generative AI Products
Just three weeks after introducing its generative AI legal research product Lexis+ AI, LexisNexis is keeping the momentum going, today introducing two more products that use generative AI.
One, Lexis Snapshot, provides AI-generated summaries in alerts of new case filings. The other, Lexis Create with Lexis+ AI, brings generative AI drafting assistance to the…
LexisNexis Rolls Out Lexis+ AI for General Availability, Promising Hallucination-Free Answers to Legal Questions
Last May, LexisNexis first revealed plans to launch Lexis+ AI, a new product that would use large language models to answer legal research questions, summarize legal issues, and generate legal document drafts. At the time, it limited availability to a select group of Am Law 50 firms that had agreed to participate in a…
Nearly Half of Legal Professionals and Consumers Believe Generative AI Will Transform Law Practice, LexisNexis Survey Finds
A new international survey of lawyers, law students and consumers finds that nearly half believe generative AI will have a significant or transformative impact on the practice of law.
Conducted by LexisNexis and released this morning at ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, the survey polled 7,950 lawyers, law students and…
LexisNexis Lays Out More Details On Its Collaboration with Microsoft to Roll Out Generative AI Products
LexisNexis is providing new details today on its collaboration with Microsoft to offer legal professionals AI-powered products and capabilities directly within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem that is typically the center of their workflows.
In a briefing yesterday, Jeff Pfeifer, chief product officer, Canada, UK and USA, at LexisNexis, revealed new information about the products…
Targeting Small-to-Midsized Firms, LexisNexis Releases Cloud Version of InterAction, Long A Leading CRM Product Among Large Firms
Launched in 1993 and acquired by LexisNexis in 2004, Interaction is one of the most established client relationship management (CRM) products in the legal market. An on-premises product designed for large law firms, InterAction is used by three-quarters of the Am Law 100 and three-quarters of the largest firms globally, according to LexisNexis.…
LexisNexis’s New ‘Agreement Analysis’ Uses AI To Help Transactional Lawyers Analyze And Revise Deal Clauses
When LexisNexis launched its Lexis+ premium legal research service in 2020, the service included Brief Analysis, its answer to a line of products pioneered by legal research company Casetext with its CARA brief analysis tool and followed by companies such as Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg Law. Last year, LexisNexis expanded that to add…
CounselLink’s FastTrack Changes The Payments Paradigm, Paying Outside Counsel Within Two Days, While Inhouse Teams Get 90 Days to Review Invoices
A new product out today from the legal department management platform LexisNexis CounselLink could change the paradigm for how legal departments pay outside counsel, enabling law firms to receive payments within two days of initial invoice approval, while allowing corporations up to 90 days to more thoroughly review, process and fund the invoices.
CounselLink…
Breaking: LexisNexis Announces Preview Launch of Lexis Connect, AI-Powered Matter Management within Microsoft Teams
LexisNexis today announced the preview launch of Lexis Connect, a legal intake and matter management product that works within Microsoft Teams and uses conversational AI assistants to help deliver answers more quickly.
The product is being developed in partnership with Microsoft, and Microsoft’s Corporate, External and Legal Affairs (CELA) department has signed on as the…
LexisNexis Enters the Generative AI Fray with Limited Release of New Lexis+ AI, Using GPT and other LLMs
With legal technology companies of all ilks rapidly moving to develop products that incorporate the new generation of generative AI typified by ChatGPT, it was only a matter of time before one of the legal research giants would enter the fray.
Today, LexisNexis is announcing the launch of Lexis+ AI, a new product that…
Using Litigation Analytics Is Now ‘Table Stakes,’ Lex Machina Survey Finds
Way back in 2018, as an increasing number of legal technology companies were launching litigation analytics products, I wrote about the trend in a post on Above the Law, where I posited that it could someday be malpractice for a lawyer not to use analytics.
Now, a survey out today from Lex…
Few Legal Professionals Using Or Planning to Use Generative AI So Far, LexisNexis Survey Finds
Few legal professionals are using or planning to use generative AI tools in their legal work, according to a survey conducted March 15-16 and published this week by LexisNexis Legal & Professional.
The survey finds that legal professionals — the survey polled 1,176 U.S. lawyers and 1,239 law students — are generally more aware…