LexisNexis Expands Its Protégé AI Assistant to Lex Machina for Effortless Litigation Analytics

Protégé in Lex Machina provides a next-level AI-powered user experience that delivers instant, data-driven legal insights  

San Jose, CA — Lex Machina®, a LexisNexis® company, today announced the incorporation of Protégé™, an AI-powered assistant, into its renowned Legal Analytics® platform. This new user experience is set to transform legal work by delivering real-time, data-driven insights with ease, speed, and increased accuracy.

LexisNexis Protégé™ is a personalized AI assistant designed to boost productivity, augment superior work quality and enable legal and business professionals to unlock new economic value with case insights from Lex Machina’s trusted database of civil litigation in Federal District Court practice areas, the U.S. Court of Appeals, and state courts.

Protégé in Lex Machina empowers users to input questions, statements, or prompts and receive instant analytics to address common pain points in legal research, such as time-consuming manual searches and difficulty navigating complex data. Now, users of all experience levels can effortlessly type a query and get immediate, high-quality analytics, simplifying legal research and decision-making.

For example, the user may input any of the following and receive corresponding analytics:

  • Trial Damages from Contract Cases in Los Angeles County Superior Court: Provides damages analytics to set realistic client expectations and advise on litigation or settlement, enhancing client value.
  • How Long Does It Take to Get to Class Certification in Arizona?: Offers timing analytics to inform settlement strategies, aligning with client goals and optimizing resources.
  • How Often is Summary Judgment Granted in Delaware Court of Chancery?: Delivers motion analytics to refine case strategy, increasing the likelihood of favorable outcomes.
  • Attorneys with the Most Experience in Antitrust Cases in the Last 3 Years: Provides attorney analytics to help companies select the best legal representation, ensuring expertise and better case results.
  • Cases in SDNY Involving Companies Headquartered in Canada: Offers party analytics to assess risk and guide forum selection, leading to strategic decisions and efficient resource use.

“Protégé in Lex Machina marks a significant milestone in Legal Analytics, enabling attorneys to harness legal insights with ease,” said Carla Rydholm, GM and Head of Product at Lex Machina. “Protégé simplifies how legal professionals interact with data and allows every user to get a jumpstart on access, which eliminates research bottlenecks and supports precision in legal strategy.”

“Unlike generic AI tools, Protégé in Lex Machina is built on a solid foundation of structured Legal Analytics, ensuring insights are accurate, relevant, and actionable. This layered approach — where AI enhances an already robust data infrastructure — ensures Protégé in Lex Machina is not just another off-the-shelf AI-powered tool, but a true evolution in legal intelligence. By eliminating the learning curve of navigating complex legal databases, users can simply type a query and receive immediate, high-quality analytics, making legal research faster, smarter, and more intuitive.”

As the legal industry increasingly embraces AI for legal research and decision-making, Protégé in Lex Machina offers customers:

  • Increased efficiency: Users can streamline data analysis by simply entering a prompt or question and receive precise analytics, saving valuable research time.
  • Uncover hidden data patterns and trends: The combination of Gen AI and high-quality structured data provides actionable intelligence in an intuitive format that enables smart decision-making.
  • A competitive edge for a range of users: New or intermittent users will find it faster and easier to get data-driven insights, and super-users will find more options for tailoring their output to their precise needs.

To experience the future of streamlined, AI-enhanced Legal Analytics, visit https://www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/products/lex-machina.page.

About LexisNexis Legal & Professional

LexisNexis® Legal & Professional provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services. LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.

About Lex Machina

Lex Machina fundamentally changes how companies and law firms compete in the business and practice of law. The company provides strategic insights on judges, lawyers, law firms, parties, and other critical information across 22 federal practice areas and a rapidly growing number of state courts. Lex Machina allows law firms and companies to anticipate the behaviors and outcomes that different legal strategies will produce, enabling them to win cases and close business.

Lex Machina was named one of Forbes’ Best Workplaces in the Bay Area in 2024, Winner of the “Media Excellence Award” for Analytics/Big Data 2024, “Great Places to Work 2023-2024”, one of “Legal Tech’s Most Promising Solution Providers” (CIO Review Awards 2022), “Greater Bay Area Top Workplaces 2022” (The San Francisco Chronicle Top Workplaces in the Bay Area 2022), “Legal Tech Company of the Year 2021" (CIO Review, 2021), “2021 Legal Technology Trailblazer” (National Law Journal Trailblazer Awards, 2021), and Winner of the “Media Excellence” Award for Analytics/Big Data (13th Annual Media Excellence Award, 2021). Based in Silicon Valley, Lex Machina is part of LexisNexis, a leading global provider of legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics. For more information, please visit www.lexmachina.com.