Canadian Product Spotlight
Legal AI Enters a New Phase in Canada with Rollout of Lexis+ with Protégé
The conversation surrounding artificial intelligence in the Canadian legal sector has fundamentally shifted. No longer a novel concept or a distant future projection, AI has become a baseline reality for modern legal practices. Today, the real challenge facing law firms and corporate legal departments is operational: how to move past isolated, ad-hoc digital experiments and turn generative AI into a dependable, structured...
Legal Drafting With AI: A Practical Workflow for Canadian Lawyers Using LexisNexis Protégé™︎
AI Summary by LexisNexis Protege TM , your personalised AI legal assistant. This article explores how legal drafting is shifting from a step-by-step process to an iterative, connected workflow. AI tools like Lexis+ AI and Lexis Create+ streamline preparation, drafting, and review by reducing repetitive groundwork. For Canadian legal teams, Protégé integrates cross-jurisdictional research, firm standards, and real-time...
Enhancing Access to Justice in Canada: Leveraging Technology in Administrative Hearings
AI Summary by LexisNexis Protégé TM , your personalised AI legal assistant. The article "Enhancing Access to Justice in Canada: Leveraging Technology in Administrative Hearings" explores how Canadian administrative tribunals can utilize technology to improve accessibility and inclusivity in virtual and hybrid hearings. It highlights the benefits of virtual hearings, such as eliminating travel time and reducing physical...
Lexis+ AI™︎ Mobile App Supports Lawyers with Legal AI Anywhere
AI Summary by LexisNexis Protégé TM , your personalised AI legal assistant. The image of lawyers spending late nights buried in law libraries has largely faded. Today’s legal professionals increasingly work from home, in court, or while travelling, without losing access to the tools they rely on. Mobile applications have reshaped modern legal workflows, giving lawyers greater flexibility, faster access to information...
Five Lessons Learned from Virtual Hearings: What’s Working and What Needs Improvement
When the COVID-19 pandemic forced tribunals across Canada to pivot to virtual hearings, few anticipated how quickly this shift would reshape administrative justice. What began as an emergency measure has evolved into a permanent fixture for many tribunals. Virtual hearings have improved access to justice and efficiency, but they’ve also introduced new challenges, from technology gaps to questions of procedural fairness...
5 Drafting Challenges Solved with LexisNexis Protégé™︎
AI-powered drafting is changing how Canadian lawyers approach legal work. This article explores how the AI assistant Protégé TM , available in Lexis+ AI and Lexis ® Create+, supports a connected drafting workflow. By reducing repetitive tasks and providing drafts grounded in trusted legal authority, lawyers can focus on strategy, consistency, and client outcomes. AI Is Reshaping the Drafting Process Legal drafting...
McInnes Cooper Adopts LexisNexis Protégé™︎ Firm-Wide in Canada
LexisNexis® Canada is pleased to announce the firm-wide adoption of Protégé in Lexis+ AI™ by McInnes Cooper . This adoption highlights the ongoing investment by LexisNexis Canada in delivering advanced AI-powered solutions that support end-to-end legal workflows, including legal research, drafting, and analysis, for law firms across Canada. McInnes Cooper is advancing its legal technology leadership by deploying Protégé...
Digital Evidence Before Tribunals: Best Practices for Members and Practitioners
The rise of digital technology has transformed how evidence is presented and evaluated in administrative proceedings. From emails and text messages to social media posts and video recordings, digital evidence is now a common feature in tribunal hearings. These tools offer efficiency and clarity, but they also introduce challenges around authenticity, privacy, and procedural fairness. For tribunal members and practitioners...
Unlocking Key Regulatory Insights: How MLex Empowers Mid-Sized Law Firms
In the fast-paced world of legal practice, staying ahead of key regulatory changes is crucial for law firms of all sizes. For mid-sized law firms, with 11-49 lawyers, the challenge is even more pronounced. These firms often juggle a diverse client base with varying needs, all while managing resources efficiently. Enter MLex, a powerful tool designed to provide critical insights into the key global regulatory environment...
Secure General AI for Canadian Lawyers | Protégé™︎ General AI in Lexis+ AI™︎
Across Canada, lawyers are rapidly integrating artificial intelligence into their daily workflows, from early research to drafting memos, preparing client updates and exploring complex legal questions. Yet many professionals are still switching between specialized legal tools and general-purpose AI platforms such as ChatGPT or Claude to accomplish a full day’s work. This fragmented approach creates two key problems...
Artificial Intelligence and Administrative Law in Canada: Striking the Right Balance
From chatbots to predictive analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) is fundamentally reshaping how organizations deliver services and manage workloads. For Canadian administrative tribunals, under pressure to improve access to justice, reduce backlogs, and meet growing digital-era expectations, the potential of AI can be both promising and complex. The central challenge: How can tribunals adopt AI tools while safeguarding...
Unlocking Deeper Company Insights with Lexis®︎ Company Profiles
Bringing together company, executive, financial, and litigation intelligence from 26,000+ premium sources, Lexis ® Company Profiles delivers a complete view of organizations in Canada and beyond. It’s the next step forward from Lexis Dossier, built to simplify research, surface connections, and power smarter, faster decisions. In Canada’s fast-paced business and legal landscape, professionals are expected to make decisions...
Top 6 Supreme Court of Canada Cases Shaping Administrative Law and Tribunals (2019–2025)
Administrative tribunals and boards are on the frontlines of Canadian justice, making decisions that shape people’s everyday lives, from housing and employment to immigration, human rights, and professional regulation. As such, it’s imperative that administrative tribunals stay current with Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) decisions to uphold fairness, consistency, and compliance with evolving administrative law standards...
Beyond the Checklist: How Canadian Legal Teams Can Redefine Due Diligence with Technology
Why Modern Legal Risk Demands Continuous, Connected Due Diligence In today’s interconnected economy, legal risk doesn’t just live in courtrooms. It hides in supply chains you can’t fully see, in the background of your client’s next acquisition, and in the reputations of partners operating across the globe. For law firms and in-house counsel, due diligence is no longer a one-time box to tick — it’s a continuous discipline...
Mastering the Facts: Drive Litigation and Arbitration Success with CaseMap+™︎
Arbitration or litigation, the advantage goes to the side that masters the facts. Discover how disorganization derails even strong cases — and how CaseMap+ empowers legal teams to turn complex information into compelling, evidence-backed narratives. When legal disputes arise, the question of arbitration vs. litigation often hinges on factors like confidentiality, cost, and procedural flexibility. But regardless...
Canadian University Law – Book Review
Sayeh Hassan and Anna S.P. Wong’s Canadian University Law is a groundbreaking guide for those involved in the resolution of legal issues raised in our nation’s post-secondary institutions, but it is much more than that. It is also a lucid and engaging introduction to some of the most complex fields of Canadian jurisprudence, including administrative law. Those readers who are familiar with Hassan’s indispensable...
Lexis+ AI™︎ in Canada: Delivering Reliability Lawyers Can Trust
AI Summary by LexisNexis Protégé TM , your personalised AI legal assistant. The article "Lexis+ AI in Canada: Delivering Reliability Lawyers Can Trust" highlights how Lexis+ AI is revolutionizing the legal profession by providing trustworthy and practical AI solutions tailored to Canadian lawyers. Built with a focus on reliability, the platform combines advanced generative AI with LexisNexis’ trusted legal content,...
From Inbox to Action: AI-Powered Drafting with Lexis®︎ Create+ for Outlook®︎
Lexis ® Create+ for Outlook ® transforms the inbox into a drafting workspace for Canadian lawyers. With trusted LexisNexis content, firm precedent, and AI-powered insights, it streamlines email-to-document workflows, reduces errors, and keeps drafting secure, consistent, and efficient — right inside Microsoft 365. Your Inbox: Where Legal Work Really Begins For Canadian lawyers, the inbox isn’t just for correspondence...
Confidently Cited: The Lexis+ AI™︎ Approach to Reliable Legal Sources
Lexis+ AI TM is redefining legal research in Canada with citation-linked, Gen AI-powered responses grounded in trusted LexisNexis content. Using proprietary RAG technology, expert oversight, and rigorous safeguards, it delivers accurate, verifiable results that support legal professionals’ judgment. Introduction to Lexis+ AI and Its Impact on Canadian Legal Research When LexisNexis ® launched Lexis+ AI in July 2024...
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 Securities Regulation, 6th Edition – Book Review
The various editions of Canadian Securities Regulation have been a fixture in law school classrooms and law firm reference libraries since 1977. Over that time securities law has increased in importance as the scale of Canadian business, and its need for external capital, has grown. For nearly 50 years the book has remained the standard text on its subject matter, even as the securities regime has expanded into new (and...
New release: Lexis+ AI Prompt Library
A new resource for legal professionals has been introduced with the publication of the Lexis+ AI Prompt Library . Developed in response to the feedback received from users seeking a deeper understanding of Lexis+ AI’s capabilities, the Prompt Library has been designed to encourage exploration and streamline day-to-day legal tasks. The Prompt Library has been organized into distinct workflows that mirror the four main...
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...
4 Ways That Lexis®︎ Create+ Delivers Personalized Legal Drafting for Canadian Legal Professionals
Legal professionals who witnessed the remarkable ability of generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) to conduct conversations like humans soon realized its potential implications for the legal field. Many of them immediately envisioned its application in streamlining the burdensome task of drafting legal documents. According to our research, 79% of lawyers consider legal drafting to be among the most time-intensive...