LexisNexis has rolled out the next generation of its Protégé General AI. It now delivers a range of updated and expanded skills. This includes:
‘Unified answers across multiple content sources: With combined insights from customer legal documents, open web search, and LexisNexis comprehensive legal content, Protégé simplifies legal work in a seamless experience. Protégé General AI guides the user to authoritative Legal AI when appropriate, based on the nature of the user’s question or task.
Best Fit mode with user control: An intelligent model switcher selects the optimal AI model for the user’s task by default, or users can manually choose their preferred model.
Trusted citations: Shepard’s Citation checks and labeled sources let legal professionals work with confidence.
Flexible source selection: Users can choose to ground Protégé responses in all or any combination of LexisNexis, web, and customer content.
Advanced reasoning and Deep Research capabilities: Users can address high-complexity legal problems and toggle Deep Research capabilities for even more advanced reasoning.
Security and Privacy by Design: The fully encrypted Lexis+ AI environment ensures enterprise-grade data privacy protections for confident access to general purpose models.
Streamlined experience: A simplified interface keeps questions, sources, citations, and drafts together for a more efficient, transparent workflow.’
Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO, LexisNexis North America, UK, and Ireland, commented: ‘Legal professionals want one trusted legal AI workflow solution. Only LexisNexis can bring together agentic intelligence, customer documents, open web insights, and our authoritative content to produce next-level legal drafts and work output backed by Shepard’s.’
This next-generation release arrives shortly after the October commercial launch of Protégé General AI.
AL asked Lexis what is specifically different to what came before. They said: ‘There are several key updates from the initial launch of Protégé General AI:
Underlying platform with a new Agentic infrastructure that lets AI agents collaborate and reason through complex legal AI workflows that demand broad understanding from diverse data sources. Agents can dynamically plan, follow multi-step workflows and handle complex problems without losing context. This is an evolution of traditional RAG-based systems.
General AI now handles diverse data sources including LexisNexis content + open web content + customer content. The user can select the content source.
“Best Fit” mode that automatically selects the best model for the user’s task.
Or, user can choose the latest available general-purpose model – including latest models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google and others as they become available.
Users are empowered with choice through the entire experience – either automated or manual model choice as well as the content source – for next-level legal drafts and work output. In other words – it’s the most integrated AI workflow solution now for legal professionals.’
So, there you go.
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