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LexisNexis continues to lead the legal technology revolution with the launch of Protégé™, the next-generation AI-powered legal research assistant.
Building on the success of Lexis+ AI®, Protégé delivers a fully personalised, secure, and efficient legal research experience tailored to the unique needs of each legal professional. With its upcoming launch in Australia, Protégé is set to transform how Australian lawyers access, analyse, and apply legal information.
What Sets Protégé Apart?
Protégé is not just another legal AI tool, it’s a private, trusted legal AI assistant designed to deliver a uniquely personalised experience for every lawyer in a private, secure setting.
Unlike earlier legal AI solutions built as one-size-fits-all platforms, empowering users and organisations to customise their AI assistant to fit their specific workflows, preferences, and security requirements. Personalisation choices are controlled by the user or organisation to optimise the user’s Gen AI experience.
Protégé Key Features and Benefits
Personalised Legal Research
Protégé understands your legal work product, anticipates your needs, and leverages your organisation’s Document Management System (DMS) to extract key insights. It works alongside trusted LexisNexis content to improve answer quality and accelerate drafting.
Tailored Workflow Support
The AI assistant adapts to your workflow preferences, daily tasks, and organisational standards, proactively suggesting relevant legal resources and analytics based on your LexisNexis subscriptions.
Seamless Integration
Protégé integrates effortlessly with the LexisNexis product suite and Microsoft 365 applications, including Word, Outlook, Teams, and Copilot, reducing time spent switching between platforms and boosting efficiency.
Advanced Security and Privacy
Built on a robust privacy framework, Protégé ensures that all interactions and client data remain secure, meeting the highest standards of data protection. Integrating safety, security and privacy design principles
The Protégé core framework ensures that interactions are backed up by state-of-the-art security and privacy technology that keeps user information and client data highly secure.
What's Next for Protégé?
Committed to continuous innovation, LexisNexis will be working closely with leading Australian law firms to refine Protégé based on their insights and feedback.
Throughout the remainder of 2025, we will introduce new Protégé features that deepen personalisation, enhance insights from internal firm data, and expand integrations across more LexisNexis legal research solutions.
Protégé will harness new technology innovations to uniquely support individual users, such as voice-activated prompts for hands-free interaction, multimedia processing across various formats, and news horizon scanning to identify emerging opportunities and risks.
Experience the Future of Legal AI
Lexis+ AI is the only legal AI solution that provides linked citations in every response, grounded in the world’s largest repository of accurate and exclusive legal content from LexisNexis, including case law, statutes, treatises, and more.
With a single subscription, you gain access to a suite of powerful AI tools for conversational search, summarisation, intelligent drafting, and document analysis - no add-ons required.
Be among the first to experience Protégé in Australia. Schedule a free trial of Lexis+ AI or join the Lexis AI Insider Program for the latest updates and educational content on legal AI.