Canadian Product Spotlight
What’s New in Practical Guidance: March/April 2026
AI Summary by LexisNexis Protege TM , your personalised AI legal assistant (available in Lexis+ AI TM ) Practical Guidance updates deliver tools for M&A, compliance, employment, family law, IP, and litigation. Highlights include fairness opinions, forced labour compliance, multi-jurisdictional comparisons, AI risk management, and trial prep. These additions streamline legal workflows, improve efficiency, and enhance...
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
As administrative tribunals across Canada continue to modernize their processes, technology has become a central component in discussions about accessibility within administrative justice. With tribunals nationwide becoming increasingly familiar with the power and potential of digital tools, an important question arises: how can these technologies, including virtual and hybrid hearing formats, meaningfully improve access...
Lexis+ AI™︎ Mobile App Supports Lawyers with Legal AI Anywhere
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, and more efficient ways to serve clients. Across the profession, mobile technology...
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...
What’s New in Practical Guidance: February 2026
AI Summary by LexisNexis Protege TM , your personalised AI legal assistant (available in Lexis+ AI TM ). This article highlights the most valuable Practical Guidance content added in 2025 across key practice areas, including new resource kits, expanded jurisdictional materials, and insights on emerging topics like ESG and AI risk. It shows how these additions help lawyers quickly access high-impact, practice-ready guidance...
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...
What’s New in Practical Guidance: Best of 2025
AI Summary by LexisNexis Protege TM , your personalised AI legal assistant (available in Lexis+ AI TM ). This article highlights the 2025 expansion of Practical Guidance across key practice areas, including new resource kits, expanded jurisdictional content, and added materials on market trends and emerging topics like ESG and AI risk. It shows how these updates improve access to practical, jurisdiction-specific legal...
What’s New in Practical Guidance: November/December 2025
As Canadian legal practices continue to navigate increasing complexity across employment, technology, litigation, and real estate matters, Practical Guidance continues to expand with new jurisdiction-specific content, enhanced tools, and practical resources shaped directly by customer feedback. The November and December 2025 updates reflect a strong focus on labour and employment law expansion, technology-driven legal...
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...
What’s New in Practical Guidance: October 2025
Supporting Legal Professionals with Fresh, Targeted Content Each month, Practical Guidance expands to meet the changing needs of Canadian lawyers — adding new precedents, practice notes, checklists, and templates across multiple jurisdictions. The October updates introduce enhancements that make it easier to work efficiently, stay compliant, and deliver high-quality client service. From expanded Quebec coverage to...
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...
Staying Ahead in Canada’s Legal Landscape | Practical Guidance Updates 2025
Practical Guidance offers new tools to help Canadian legal professionals work faster and with confidence. This update covers recent additions across key practice areas — including resource kits, practice notes and checklists — all designed to support drafting, compliance, and client service. Quick Navigation Capital Markets and M&A: Clarity Amid Complexity Employment Law: Reflecting the Realities of Today’s Workforce...
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
Summary: Lexis+ AI Canada delivers reliable, citation-backed legal research and drafting tools, built exclusively on Canadian authorities. With bilingual support, data security protections, and integration with resources like Halsbury’s® Laws of Canada and Juris Classeur , it ensures accuracy and compliance across all jurisdictions. Canadian lawyers benefit from efficiency gains without risking trust, using AI designed...
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...
What's New in Practical Guidance: June/July 2025
Practical Guidance offers new tools to help Canadian legal professionals work faster and with confidence. This update covers recent additions across key practice areas — including law kits, playbooks, and checklists — all designed to support drafting, compliance, and client service. Supporting Legal Professionals with Practical, Targeted Content The legal landscape is constantly evolving, and Practical Guidance continues...
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...