Four Key Enhancements to Lexis+ AI for Canada Deliver Bilingual Support and Faster Workflow

Canadian legal regulators are aligning to give a collective green light to lawyers across the nation that the coast is clear to adopt generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) tools in their practices.

The Law Society of the Northwest Territories issued guidelines for the use of AI in the practice of law in March 2025, following similar moves by a number of Canadian legal regulators that have provided AI-specific guidance for lawyers over the past year, according to Law360 Canada.

“The integration of Gen AI tools into legal practice offers significant opportunities for efficiency and innovation but also presents challenges that require careful navigation,” said the Northwest Territories law society, in what it revealed was a ChatGPT-generated conclusion.

As we blogged about recently in this space, in spite of a slow start to get on board the AI train, Canadian businesses and legal professionals appear ready to embrace this breakthrough technology in 2025. Our newly enhanced legal AI platform is poised to deliver extraordinary new capabilities for those Canadian law firms that are ready to embrace the AI transformation.

Legal AI for Canada

Lexis+ AI was the first AI-enabled legal research platform designed specifically for the Canadian legal market. This innovative solution enables conversational search, insightful summarization, intelligent legal drafting, and document upload and analysis capabilities — all supported by state-of-the-art encryption and privacy technology to keep sensitive data secure.

The Lexis+ AI platform tailored for Canadian legal professionals is grounded in our extensive repository of accurate and exclusive Canadian law content and use cases. It provides first-of-its-kind tools for Canadian lawyers that take advantage of our exclusive, high-quality content to dramatically improve the speed, quality and effectiveness of their work.

Since introducing Lexis+ AI as the industry’s first Gen AI assistant for legal research and drafting, the platform earned recognition as a 2024 CIO Award Canada Winner presented by IDC Canada.

How Lexis+ AI Has Evolved: 4 Notable Enhancements

Since launching in Canada in July 2024, Lexis+ AI  has rolled out a number of important enhancements that deliver improved bilingual support and more intuitive tools to streamline law firm workflows. These capabilities, which were designed for the unique environment of Canada’s distinct legal system, bilingual requirements and regulatory framework, include the following:

• Multi-Turn Recommendations elevate the “Ask” and “Draft” experience

The enhanced multi-turn capabilities in the Lexis+ AI “Ask” and “Draft” features transform how legal professionals interact with legal research tools by offering a truly conversational experience. By recognizing the user’s specific requirements and providing valuable recommendations, this enhancement enables lawyers to pose more precise follow-up questions and effortlessly produce high-quality documents.

• Case Summary Language Retrieval breaks down language barriers

Language barriers can present significant challenges when lawyers working in Canada’s bilingual legal environment are accessing critical case law or other legal research. When Lexis+ AI identifies a case within the LexisNexis^® database that aligns with the user’s search criteria — but is not available in the individual’s requested language — it provides a relevant response in the available language, rather than leaving the query unanswered.

• French Language Follow-Up Intent Model understands nuanced intent behind queries

The enhanced model for follow-up questions posed in French improves the system’s ability to comprehend contextual cues and legal terminology specific to French Canadian legal practice with greater precision. For francophone lawyers or those handling matters in French-speaking jurisdictions, this allows for a more natural and intuitive research experience.

• Regionalization ensures that AI interactions remain within Canada or the EU

All interactions between legal professionals and the Lexis+ AI platform are processed exclusively within Canada or the European Union. This approach supports data residency preferences and aligns with the regulatory expectations of many Canadian law firms and clients.

Lexis+ AI will continue to evolve over the course of the year; these recent enhancements represent just the beginning of what is possible when advanced AI tools are tailored specially for the needs of Canadian legal professionals. Forward-looking Canadian lawyers can achieve greater efficiency — while maintaining the high standards of legal excellence that clients expect — by leveraging the power of legal AI right now.

Experience Lexis+ AI for Canada

Lexis+ AI for Canada pairs the unsurpassed legal content from LexisNexis with breakthrough Gen AI technology in a way that redefines the way that legal research is conducted — and legal work product is created — by Canadian legal professionals. Its answers are grounded in the world’s largest repository of accurate and exclusive legal content, backed by verifiable linked legal citations, and the platform is built with industry-leading data security and privacy protections.

Go here to learn more about Lexis+ AI for Canadian legal professionals or to request a free trial of the platform.