Legal Document Drafting Software for Microsoft 365 | Lexis® Create+

Lexis® Create+
AI-powered legal drafting inside Microsoft 365

What is Lexis Create+?

Lexis Create+ is an AI-powered legal drafting solution embedded within Microsoft 365. It integrates authoritative LexisNexis® content, your organization’s trusted documents, and generative AI assistant LexisNexis Protégé, all within a secure and familiar workspace.

Legal Drafting Software Built for Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365 IntegrationsBuilt for how you work

Whether you’re building a first draft, revising documents, or responding to legal emails, Lexis Create+ brings everything you need into Microsoft Word and Outlook. Work faster, stay consistent, and deliver precise, polished legal documents—every time.

In Microsoft Word

Draft with authority

  • Generate and refine documents with linked citations and Shepard’s® signals
  • Benchmark clauses and check compliance as you go
  • Strengthen arguments with AI suggestions and supporting authority
  • Automate citations, Tables of Authorities, proofreading, and redaction

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In Microsoft Outlook

Respond with clarity

  • Draft clear, professional legal emails and responses
  • Summarize threads and attachments for instant context
  • Generate timelines to track case chronology
  • Identify action items and move matters forward

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AI-Powered Legal Document Drafting and Automation

Generative AIAI that understands legal work

Embedded within Lexis Create+, Protégé accelerates every phase of your work—from research to drafting to review. Ask legal questions, summarize cases, or generate first drafts in seconds. Strengthen clauses and arguments, identify missing elements, and produce clear, authoritative language tailored to your matter—with outputs grounded in your organization’s expertise and trusted LexisNexis sources.

Document Management System (DMS) Integration for Legal Drafting

DMS IntegrationYour precedent, instantly actionable

Secure access to your organization’s past work product helps you skip the blank page and move smoothly from proven materials to polished drafts—without switching systems or hunting through folders. Tailor your trusted clauses, agreements, arguments, and litigation documents with Protégé to accelerate your next draft. Your best work becomes immediately reusable and easy to build on, keeping every document aligned with established standards.

LexisNexis Content

Authoritative content you can rely on

Put trusted LexisNexis insight at the heart of every draft. Access the primary and secondary materials you rely on every day—complete with verifiable, linked citations to case law, legislation, Practical Guidance, and more—directly within Microsoft 365. Grounded in authoritative sources, every draft stays accurate, compliant, and fully traceable to the law itself.

Legal Drafting Tools for Every Practice Area

Drafting tools tailored to your practice

Lexis Create+ surfaces the tools most relevant to the work you do daily, streamlining document preparation and review.

Search

Find the right precedent—fast. Search your internal documents and trusted LexisNexis sources without leaving Word.

Clause analysis

Instantly benchmark a clause against trusted precedent within your database to ensure accuracy and consistency.

Content Libraries

Save, organize, and share key clauses and content in personal or team Libraries for effortless reuse.

Citation validation

Apply Bluebook or state-specific formatting and confirm accuracy with built-in Shepard’s® analysis.

Tables of Authorities

Automatically generate a polished Table of Authorities to save time and reduce court-prep stress.

Append cited documents

Attach full-text copies of cited authorities in one click to create complete, court-ready submissions.

Format styles

Instantly align any document with your organization’s approved templates and standards.

File conversion

Quickly convert PDFs into editable Word documents to accelerate drafting and review.

Proofreading

Identify inconsistencies, missing citations, and definition issues before they become costly errors.

Secure Sharing

Redact sensitive information, clean hidden data, and send securely via DocuSign®—without switching tabs.

Who Uses Legal Document Drafting Software Like Lexis Create+?

Who is Create+ for?

Whether you’re drafting contracts or crafting persuasive submissions, Lexis Create+ adapts to the way legal professionals work, delivering AI insights and bespoke tools for the task at hand.

Transactional attorneys

Draft consistent, high-quality agreements faster with clause analysis, Practical Guidance Playbooks, automated compliance checks, and validation tools designed to optimize your deal documents.

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Litigators

Strengthen your arguments and filings with AI-powered case summarization, Shepard’s analysis, TOA creation and litigation-focused tools to shape polished, persuasive submissions.

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Testimonials

What our users say

“With Lexis Create+, I was able to draft a document for a client in minutes by inputting the relevant data. It’s a huge time saver, especially since I am a solo.”

Law FirmSolo Practitioner

“Lexis Create+ automatically creates a Table of Authorities for appellate briefs and this alone has saved me hours of work.”

Law FirmPartner

"Lexis Create+, and specifically Lexis’s AI Assistant, has helped me do research projects that would’ve taken me all day in mere hours.”

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Awards and Recognition

Awards and recognition

LexisNexis is committed to innovation, leadership, and excellence in delivering cutting-edge technology.

Data Security, Privacy, and Governance

Security and privacy you can count on

Privacy by design

LexisNexis protects customer data wherever it is stored, sent, or accessed. We apply privacy by design principles at every stage of our systems, products, and business processes to ensure security and compliance are built in from the start. Our advanced encryption and rigorous compliance protect your sensitive information.

Strict security protocols

LexisNexis systems meet the highest standards for information security. We partner with trusted, enterprise-grade cloud providers, continuously monitor and improve our infrastructure, and undergo regular third-party audits to maintain industry-leading certifications.

Responsibly developed AI

LexisNexis follows the RELX Responsible AI Framework to ensure our AI protects privacy, is transparent and explainable, avoids unfair bias, includes human oversight, and is designed for real-world impact.

We never use customer data to train AI models and maintain robust data retention and deletion policies. Identifiable information is removed from AI interactions so that we can improve performance without compromising privacy.

Frequently asked questions

Lexis+ with Protégé and Lexis Create+ work together to deliver a personalized drafting experience—whether you prefer to work in Lexis+ with Protégé online, in Lexis Create+ within Microsoft 365, or to move effortlessly between the two. Both are powered by generative AI assistant Protégé.

Lexis Create+ is a Microsoft 365 add-in that can be centrally deployed by your organization's IT team. Set-up is fast, enabling you to get straight to meaningful work.

Yes. Lexis Create+ allows for the creation of team Libraries, where clauses and definitions can be saved and edited for future use.

Lexis Create+ provides verifiable, linked citations to trusted LexisNexis sources directly within Microsoft 365.

Yes. Within Lexis Create+, you can apply Bluebook or state-specific citation formatting and leverage built-in Shepard’s® validation to confirm legal validity, saving time and reducing legal risk.

Protégé is a personalized, generative AI assistant accessible within Lexis Create+ which streamlines drafting, research, and summarization—where you already work.

It’s a secure link between your Document Management System and the LexisNexis ecosystem, allowing access to your organization’s internal documents from products including Lexis Create+.

No, we do not maintain a live connection to your DMS. Our system accesses the DMS periodically to retrieve updates, ensuring that only the content you choose to share is surfaced.

Contact your LexisNexis account manager to confirm if DMS integration is part of your current package or to discuss adding it.

Lexis Create+ is the next generation of Lexis for Microsoft Office. It brings forward the core LMO capabilities—such as citation checking, quote verification, Shepardizing®, PDF-to-Word conversion, Table of Authorities creation, and integrated access to LexisNexis primary and secondary sources—in a more modern and intuitive drafting experience inside Microsoft Word. 

If you previously used LMO, you’ll find that Lexis Create+ continues to support the same key workflows for drafting, reviewing, and validating legal documents. Some legacy LMO interface elements have been updated or consolidated, but the underlying functionality remains available in Lexis Create+ alongside significant new benefits, including embedded generative AI assistant Protégé and secure Document Management System integration. Create+ also provides full drafting support for transactional attorneys, an expansion beyond LMO’s primarily litigation-focused experience.

Since acquiring Henchman in 2024, LexisNexis has incorporated its advanced technology—which enables organizations to quickly extract insights from their internal data repositories—in products including Lexis Create+ and Lexis+ with Protégé to deliver more powerful generative AI drafting solutions to customers.

Organizations typically see faster drafting and review times, improved accuracy and consistency—all driving measurable efficiency and ROI.

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