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By: Helen Voudouris, Called to the Bar in Ontario | Director of Online Products, LexisNexis Canada
Canadian legal professionals have been on the leading edge of adopting generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) technology. A LexisNexis® Canada Inc. survey found that 93% of Canadian lawyers are aware of Gen AI — as compared to 66% of Canadian consumers — and more than half of them have already used Gen AI tools. In July, 2024, we pioneered this new territory when we rolled out the first AI enabled legal research platform designed for the Canadian market with the launch of Lexis+ AI
for Canada. As we forge ahead in 2025, LexisNexis continues to lead the way in Legal AI innovation.
Moving the Needle in Legal Workflows
Feedback from our customers and industry observers indicates that Lexis+ AI is delivering on the promise of legal AI, gen AI tools trained specifically for the legal profession.
Lexis+ AI customers report to us that the research answer quality, document drafting skills and summarization capabilities provided by our new platform are significantly better than prior methods.
The proof that Lexis+ AI is moving the needle in Canadian legal workflows is borne out by recent developments in the Canadian marketplace:
- Canadian law schools support access to Lexis+ AI in January 2025
Canadian lawyers and law faculty have contributed to the development of Lexis+ AI and continue to provide important feedback since the rollout of the platform to Canadian law faculty in July. In the fall of 2024, we initiated limited student trials at a dozen Canadian law schools. Based on those trials, nearly all the law faculty, deans and students consulted by our team are supportive of providing Canadian law students with access to Lexis+ AI starting in January 2025.
- Professional accolades for Lexis+ AI
Since introducing Lexis+ AI as the industry’s first gen AI assistant for legal research and drafting, the platform has earned recognition as a 2024 CIO Award Canada Winner presented by IDC Canada. LexisNexis was also named Best Overall AI Company at the 2024 AI Breakthrough Awards, which recognize global leaders in the field of artificial intelligence.
Lexis+ AI is pioneering this next frontier of AI-enabled legal research and leading the way in the development of Legal AI solutions for the Canadian legal market.
Canada’s Leader in Legal AI
Lexis+ AI was the first comprehensive bilingual Canadian legal research platform powered by gen AI that is grounded in content specifically for the legal profession. This innovative platform enables conversational search, insightful summarization, intelligent legal drafting, and document upload and analysis capabilities — all supported by state-of-the-art encryption and privacy technology to keep sensitive data secure.
It incorporates multiple large language models to match the best model for each research task, which is why Lexis+ AI performs at greater speed (2X faster than Westlaw*) and at higher capacity than other legal AI products on the market.
The Lexis+ AI platform tailored for Canadian legal professionals is grounded in our extensive repository of accurate and exclusive Canadian law content and use cases. It provides first-of-its-kind tools for Canadian lawyers that take advantage of our exclusive, high-quality content to dramatically improve the speed, quality and effectiveness of their work. Other aspects of the platform that have been custom developed for the Canada legal market include:
- Supports interactions in both English and French;
- Access to Halsbury’s® Laws of Canada, the only complete Canadian legal encyclopedia offering coverage of all 14 Canadian jurisdictions**;
- Access to Juris Classeur, the only French-language legal encyclopedia in Canada;
- Exclusive English and French commentary;
- Pleadings, Motions and Facta Court Documents; and
- Practical guidance from more than 450 practitioners and 167 Canadian law firms.
Legal professionals can also stay on top of upcoming changes in Canadian legislation before they come into force with Legislative Pulse, an online bill and regulation tracking service.
Experience Lexis+ AI for Canada
Lexis+ AI pairs the unsurpassed legal content from LexisNexis with breakthrough gen AI technology in a way that could redefine the way that legal research is conducted — and legal work product is created — by Canadian legal professionals. Lexis+ AI responses are grounded in one of the world’s largest collections of authoritative and exclusive legal content that are backed by verifiable linked legal citations, and the platform is built with industry-leading data security and privacy protections.
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