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Lexis+ AI™︎ in Canada: Delivering Reliability Lawyers Can Trust

By: Alan Votary, Head of Product, LexisNexis® Canada

Lexis+ AITM Canada empowers lawyers to work with confidence by delivering accurate, reliable, and citation-backed responses. Built on trusted Canadian legal content, it ensures precision and security while transforming legal research, drafting, and client service

Lexis+ AI Canada: Precision and Reliability in Legal Practice

In the legal profession, accuracy is more than a virtue, it is the bedrock of trust. Every opinion written, every pleading filed, and every contract negotiated rests on the assumption that the information behind it is both reliable and precise. Canadian lawyers, working across a bilingual and multi-jurisdictional landscape, know this challenge well. As generative AI becomes more integrated into legal practice, questions of accuracy and reliability are front of mind. How can practitioners benefit from efficiency gains without sacrificing trust in the result?

For Lexis+ AI, the answer lies in its foundation: content drawn exclusively from authoritative Canadian sources, embedded safeguards against error, and continuous refinement for the Canadian market. At its core, Lexis+ AI is a legal intelligence system, engineered to deliver responses that meet the profession’s uncompromising demand for accuracy.

Built on Authoritative Canadian Sources

What sets Lexis+ AI apart is that it is grounded in extensive LexisNexis Canada legal content, including primary law, statutes, secondary sources, and practical guidance written for the Canadian market. Lawyers gain the advantage of working with materials already trusted in practice — Halsbury’s® Laws of Canada, covering all 14 jurisdictions, and Juris ClasseurTM, the only comprehensive French-language legal encyclopedia in Canada.

As a result, when the system generates responses, they reflect the same resources lawyers would consult manually. The AI retrieves, analyzes, and presents information from verified Canadian content, reducing the risks of inaccuracy. For practitioners, this translates into greater confidence that research and drafting remain anchored in trusted authorities.

Reliability Through Verification

The most common concern about generative AI is the risk of “hallucinations” — fabricated citations or inaccurate summaries. Lexis+ AI addresses this head-on. Responses include inline citations and direct links to the underlying legal materials. A lawyer can verify a quotation or principle with a single click, ensuring that the output can be trusted and confidently used in court or client-facing documents.

Beyond citations, the platform employs both semantic and keyword-based retrieval methods, improving the likelihood that complex, nuanced queries return the most relevant Canadian authorities. Whether the question involves constitutional division of powers, the evolving law of unjust enrichment, or specialized regulatory frameworks, the Lexis+ AI design minimizes ambiguity and strengthens precision.

Designed for Canadian Legal Workflows

Reliability in practice goes beyond content accuracy, it extends to the way lawyers work. Lexis+ AI has been built with multi-turn conversational capability, allowing lawyers to refine their queries iteratively. For example, a practitioner researching an emerging issue in privacy law can begin broadly, then narrow the scope by adding contextual details, all while the system maintains an understanding of prior queries.

The platform is available in French, providing a French-language experience for research, drafting, and document analysis. This supports practitioners who work in French — particularly in Quebec and francophone communities across Canada — and aligns with Canada’s bilingual legal environment.

Security and Data Integrity

Accuracy is meaningless without trust in the security of the platform itself. Canadian lawyers are rightly cautious about data residency, client confidentiality, and professional obligations. Lexis+ AI has been designed with these considerations at its core.

All ProtégéTM for Lexis+ AI interactions are processed and stored in Canada and the European Union, providing flexibility to meet client preferences around data location while maintaining strong privacy safeguards. The platform is subject to SOC 2 Type II audits, and its privacy architecture is based on a privacy-by-design model. Importantly, user interactions are never shared or used to train external models. For firms concerned about protecting client data, these safeguards are as important as the accuracy of the research itself.

Real-World Validation

The true test of any tool is not in theory but in practice. Canadian lawyers already using Lexis+ AI report measurable benefits. In the LexisNexis Canada blog article “Lexis+ AI︎: Insights from Top Canadian Law Firms”, lawyers from firms such as Gluckstein Personal Injury Lawyers and Loopstra Nixon LLP highlighted how Lexis+ AI supports their practice — helping them analyze complex documents, draft with confidence, and rely on the system’s security pedigree.

In one litigation scenario, Lexis+ AI was able to surface precedents showing that binding agreements could be formed through email exchanges — a finding directly relevant to the case at hand. It also suggested an alternative unjust enrichment claim, supported by citation-backed case law. This kind of reliability not only accelerates research but can shape the very strategy of a case.

These are not abstract efficiencies, they are examples of AI actively enhancing the accuracy and effectiveness of Canadian legal practice.

Continuous Innovation Without Compromise

Accuracy is not static. As the law evolves, so too must the tools that support it. The recent launch of LexisNexis Protégé, the AI assistant integrated into Lexis+ AI, adds another layer of functionality. It helps lawyers automate tasks like summarizing medical reports, analyzing contracts, and building litigation timelines — all while ensuring citations and underlying authorities remain accurate and verifiable. These innovations demonstrate a commitment to efficiency that never compromises reliability.

The Bottom Line

In Canada’s demanding legal environment, the measure of an AI platform is not just how quickly it produces text, but whether the results can be trusted. Lexis+ AI has been designed with this principle at its heart. It delivers responses grounded in authoritative Canadian sources, verified by transparent citations, and supported by the highest standards of data security.

For Canadian lawyers, this means more than productivity gains. It means being able to advise clients, draft documents, and argue cases with the confidence that the information they rely on is accurate, authoritative, and backed by trusted Canadian legal sources. In an era where the line between innovation and risk can be thin, Lexis+ AI offers something essential: the assurance that accuracy and reliability are never sacrificed.

Discover how Lexis+ AI can transform your practice with reliable, citation-backed responses and the confidence that comes from working with a trusted name in legal intelligence. Learn more about Lexis+ AI and Protégé today.