LexisNexis Announces the arrival of Lexis+AI in South Africa, The Most Comprehensive Global Legal Generative Solution with a personalised AI Assistant

New LexisNexis platform delivers secure generative AI tools that fuel efficiency, effectiveness, and reliable results for lawyers 

Johannesburg, South Africa - March 14, 2025 - LexisNexis^® Legal & Professional, a leading global provider of information and analytics, today announced the South African commercial preview of Lexis+AI, a generative AI platform designed to transform legal work.

Lexis+AI is built and trained on the largest repository of accurate and exclusive legal content to provide customers with trusted, comprehensive legal results with unmatched speed and precision and backed by verifiable, citable authority.  

"Across the globe and in South Africa, LexisNexis has been at the forefront of integrating cutting-edge artificial intelligence technologies, such as natural language processing and large language models, into its legal solutions for years. Here in South Africa, we're taking it to the next level by harnessing the power of generative AI. This exciting leap forward is designed to meet the dynamic and evolving demands of South African legal professionals, ensuring they have the most innovative tools at their fingertips." says Terrance Naidoo, Chief Product Officer at LexisNexis South Africa. 

Lexis+AI technology features conversational search, insightful summarisation, and intelligent legal drafting capabilities, all supported by state-of-the-art encryption and privacy technology to keep sensitive data secure.  

Conversational search simplifies the complex and time-consuming legal research journey, providing a search experience for diverse legal questions with citations to facilitate effective and efficient research. Enhanced summarisation provides a custom summary of case law to speed up and guide insightful analysis. Generative document drafting guides customers through the legal drafting process, generating a first draft of a legal document, and allowing users to change the language and tone from a simple prompt.  

"Lexis+AI's technological architecture leverages the market's best standards in Large Language Models, augmented by the excellence of LexisNexis content. This enables Lexis+ AI to formulate precise, reliable and up-to-date legal answers, citing their sources and exploiting all the richness and diversity of our content, whatever the legal subject", explains Mathieu Balzarini, Chief Product Officer of LexisNexis CEMEA. 

 LexisNexis South Africa is responsibly developing legal AI solutions with human oversight. LexisNexis, part of RELX, follows the RELX Responsible AI Principles, which considers the real-world impact of its solutions on people and takes action to prevent the creation or reinforcement of unfair bias. The company’s commitment to data security and privacy in the legal industry spans more than 50 years. LexisNexis also employs over 2,000 technologists, data scientists, and subject matter experts to develop, test, and validate its solutions to ensure the delivery of comprehensive and accurate information to its users. 

Customer-driven innovation is also core to the company’s research and product development, and LexisNexis South Africa is taking a customer-first approach to the generative AI technology journey as well. In keeping with this, LexisNexis South Africa’s Lexis+ AI Insider program is now open to legal professionals across the country. The program is designed to support the legal industry with generative AI education and LexisNexis South Africa’s breaking news on the latest AI developments. Insiders can sign up to be among the first to experience Lexis+ AI. To sign up for South Africa’s Lexis+AI Insider program visit: Lexis+AI Insider program