Protégé Builds on Lexis+ AI’s Economic Impact for Law Firms

When Forrester Consulting released The Total Economic Impact™ of LexisNexis Lexis+ AI for Large Law Firms, the results were clear: legal AI delivers measurable value. Firms using Lexis+ AI saw a projected 344% return on investment over three years, gained back thousands of billable hours, and improved per-lawyer profitability by up to 4%.

But those findings only capture part of the story.

Protégé Unlocks New Potential

The Total Economic Impact™ study focused on earlier Lexis+ AI capabilities: conversational legal search, drafting support, case law summarization, and document analysis. Even so, the economic upside was clear.

“What drove us to [invest in Lexis+ AI] is the belief that our clients will expect—and the standard of service we expect to deliver are both going to require—that we utilize some sort of generative AI in the future…” – Chief Information Officer, large law firm with $200M+ in annual revenue

Protégé represents that future. With advanced agentic AI and generative AI capabilities, Protégé gives legal professionals a broader, more personalized set of tools for daily work. Protégé knows the legal professionals’ workflows, jurisdictions, practice areas, and preferences to deliver next-level work quality.

These additions—like full litigation and transactional document drafting and the secure upload and analysis of thousands of legal documents—are built to extend and multiply the financial and operational impact firms already saw from Lexis+ AI.

Workflows Transformed, Hours Reclaimed

Protégé introduces new timesaving and work-quality enhancing capabilities across litigation and transactional work. Protégé can help legal professionals:

• Draft full, tailored transactional documents, as well as litigation motions, briefs, and complaints, and check its own work before turning them over to human legal professionals for final review.
• Ask questions of or summarize large, complex documents of up to 1 million characters or approximately 300 pages.
• Allow users to securely upload and save tens of thousands of legal documents to Protégé Vault. On each Vault, users can perform AI tasks to summarize, draft, research, and more.
• Suggest legal workflow actions based on the type of document and dynamically generate follow-up prompts that are personalized to the lawyer’s workflow.
• Deliver the highest-quality work through advanced reasoning capabilities that enable deeper human-AI collaboration.
• Work with ease using voice-enabled AI capabilities that streamline legal workflows like asking a legal question, initiating a drafting task, and requesting case law summaries all through voice commands.

These capabilities streamline and, in some cases automate, the kinds of tedious, first-pass work that previously consumed hours of valuable time that result in large write-offs. Forrester Consulting found that Lexis+ AI can support associates in performing work more efficiently, enabling the firm to reduce by up to 35% the number of billable hours it may have previously written off, while also helping senior associates and partners reallocate time savings to higher-value, strategic work.

Firms Win When Lawyers Work at Their Highest Level

Protégé does more than streamline legal work, it elevates it. By accelerating preliminary research, drafting, and review tasks, Protégé allows legal professionals to focus on the work only they can do, such as:

• Applying judgment to nuanced matters
• Crafting legal strategies
• Strengthening client relationships
• Engaging in business development for the firm

“These time savings [will] free up our attorneys’ time as well as our knowledge professionals’ time to focus more on the complex legal work that our clients are asking us to do… Some of the time savings will enable users to perform other activities [for the firm], such as business development or focusing on client growth.”
— Director of Knowledge for Research, large law firm with $3B in annual revenue

As a result, clients and the firm can benefit from improved client service and outcomes—and higher lawyer satisfaction.

Designed for Legal, Built for What’s Next

Protégé in Lexis+ AI is grounded in LexisNexis’s proprietary legal content and can be Document Management System (DMS)-enabled for a tailored AI experience, protected by enterprise-grade security, and developed with human expert oversight at every stage. With new features arriving throughout 2025 and deeper integration across the LexisNexis ecosystem, Protégé value to a firm is expected to increase over time.

Lexis+ AI has already demonstrated its financial value. Protégé builds on that foundation, transforming productivity, helping legal professionals deliver their best work, and enabling firms to differentiate through smarter service.

Explore Protégé in the LexisNexis ecosystem now and unlock the next wave of firmwide impact at www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/products/protege.page

Download The Total Economic Impact™ of LexisNexis Lexis+ AI for Large Law Firms, Forrester Consulting, May 2025 to explore Lexis+ AI’s business impact at www.lexisnexis.com/firm-ai-roi