08 Dec 2025
What if your legal AI could also think strategically, communicate clearly and work beyond the law?
Discover how General AI in Lexis+ AI with Protégé unlocks smarter, more flexible legal work in a secure environment.
Lawyers obviously depend on accurate and trusted research tools. These days most forward-thinking lawyers are now turning to reliable, purpose-built legal tech to assist with their workflows, but what happens when you need to go beyond case law to draft a nuanced client email, explore an emerging topic like crypto regulation or break down a complex cross border compliance issue?
With the new General AI capabilities in Lexis+ AI with Protégé, the answer is now at your fingertips.
More than legal AI; it’s holistic, trusted legal intelligence without limits.
LexisNexis has expanded the power of Protégé, your AI legal assistant, to include General AI models that allow legal professionals to conduct a broader range of tasks without leaving the secure Lexis+ AI environment.
While Legal AI remains your go to for verified research, drafting and analysis grounded in LexisNexis content, General AI gives you the flexibility to:
- Draft communications in a natural conversational tone.
• Enrich your legal work with real world context and news data.
• Conduct foundational research on topics outside of traditional legal domains.
• Tackle constructs like strategy, ideation and complex problem solving faster.
Whether you are communicating with clients, explaining legal risks to leadership or exploring new legal territories, you now have the right model for every moment from OpenAI o3 for advanced reasoning, GPT 4o for clarity and speed, to GPT 5 for strategic thinking, to Claude Sonnet 4 for fluency and structure.
Power, choice and control all in one platform
Unlike publicly available AI tools, every prompt and document in the Protégé system remains protected within the LexisNexis secure ecosystem. No switching between apps. No copying information across different platforms. No risk of data loss or accidental exposure.
Here is what sets Lexis+ AI with General AI apart:
- Best-Fit mode lets Protégé match your prompt with the most suitable model.
• Manual model selection gives you direct control when needed.
• Legal Citation Agent verifies and links any legal citations that appear in a response.
• Secure upload and analysis allows you to work confidently with your own documents including contracts, memos and chronologies.
Smarter legal work with meaningful productivity improvements.
South African legal professionals can now meet rising client expectations and manage growing workloads, while staying ahead of rapid regulatory change with tools designed for modern legal practice.
Early results from global users show tangible time savings and stronger output quality, including:
- Astounding productivity increases of up to 200 percent.
• Time savings of between two and four hours each day on complex legal tasks.
Are you ready to work smarter, faster and with greater confidence?
The future of legal intelligence is not simply faster research, but rather it is strategic reasoning, seamless communication and flexible thinking all delivered from one trusted platform.
Get in touch with us to discover how General AI in Lexis+ AI with Protégé can help you power productivity, deliver higher quality work and unlock new economic value.