28 Jul 2025

LexisNexis Protégé™︎ Legal AI Assistant Launches Across Canada

LexisNexis has launched Protégé across Canada, a personalized legal AI assistant built into the Lexis+ AI platform. Designed to reflect each lawyer’s unique workflow, Protégé automates legal drafting, research, and document review using both firm-specific knowledge and LexisNexis content. It integrates with common DMS tools, provides citation-backed outputs, and emphasizes privacy, security, and responsible AI use.

Canadian legal professionals now have access to one of the most advanced AI assistants ever built for legal workflows: LexisNexis ProtégéTM, a personalized, context-aware generative AI assistant designed to elevate the speed, quality, and strategic impact of legal work across all practice areas.

A New Era of Legal AI in Canada

The Canadian legal market is embracing generative AI with increasing urgency — and substantial investment. The federal government’s CAD$568 million national AI strategy demonstrates a commitment to innovation, with the legal field poised to benefit from powerful, purpose-built tools.

Following its successful U.S. debut in January, as well as the July debuts in Australia and the UK, Protégé is now available in Canada within Lexis+ AITM and Lexis® Create+, replacing the original AI assistant experience. Protégé represents the next evolution of legal technology: a deeply personalized, multi-modal AI agent that understands your role, and jurisdictional needs.

Personalized Legal AI: Beyond One-Size-Fits-All

Unlike generic AI tools, Protégé adapts to the specific needs of Canadian legal professionals. It can be grounded in your firm's own documents through Document Management System (DMS) integration (including iManage and SharePoint), allowing it to draft content in your preferred style and with your firm’s precedent language. It’s also available within Microsoft Word through Lexis Create+, giving users immediate drafting support in the tools they already use.

Protégé understands Canadian law and jurisdiction-specific requirements. Its deep integration with authoritative LexisNexis Canada content and firm knowledge bases means it produces high-quality, contextually accurate legal outputs — from first drafts to polished documents.

What Protégé Can Do for You

Powering Productivity

  • Generate a Timeline: Upload documents and create a visual timeline of events.
  • Create a Vault: Securely store up to 500 documents per Vault (50 Vaults per user) and use them to summarize, draft, and research.
  • Prompt-Based Drafting: Describe what you need in natural language and receive tailored content.
  • DMS-Based Drafting (add-on): Draft clauses using content from your firm’s DMS platforms.
  • Vault-Based Drafting: Draft new documents using uploaded source material while preserving confidentiality.

Delivering Next-Level Work Quality

  • Full Document Drafting: Instantly generate complete litigation and transactional documents aligned to your jurisdiction.
  • Draft Mode Editing: Simplify, expand, or revise AI-generated content directly within the platform.
  • Personalized Style Controls: Choose from Dynamic, Expansive, or Focused styles to match your drafting preferences. 

Working Confidently and Securely

Protégé is designed with legal-grade security, including Canadian and EU data residency, SOC 2 compliance, and enterprise-level encryption. User data is never used to train models, and personalization is always opt-in. All functionality is grounded in LexisNexis Responsible AI principles, ensuring user control, privacy, and ethical oversight.

Use Cases for Canadian Legal Professionals

In litigation, Protégé helps legal professionals quickly draft motions and arguments that are tailored to case details and jurisdictional requirements.

For transactional work, Protégé speeds up drafting and contract analysis by identifying issues and generating tailored agreements from past work or natural language prompts — saving hours of manual effort.

In corporate legal and government settings, Protégé connects to internal knowledge bases via DMS integration to streamline research and produce consistent, compliant responses. Its privacy-first design and opt-in personalization make it a reliable partner in sensitive or high-volume legal environments.

The Vision for the Future

Protégé is more than just a feature — it's the foundation of a new generation of AI agents from LexisNexis. Over time, it will appear across additional LexisNexis solutions, helping professionals:

  • Prepare for depositions and client meetings,
  • Draft and redline documents,
  • Surface insights from firm work product,
  • And even track news, deadlines, and trends.

As a fully integrated AI assistant within the Lexis+ AI ecosystem, Protégé ensures that Canadian professionals can trust their tools to produce high-quality work product — faster and more efficiently than ever before.

Ready to see Protégé in action?

LexisNexis Protégé is now available in Lexis+ AI and Lexis Create+. Visit lexisnexis.ca/protege to learn more and request a free demo.