What Is a Legal AI Workflow and How Does It Deliver Value?

Legal professionals are under constant pressure to deliver high-quality legal work quickly, consistently, and with confidence. Whether managing heavy caseloads, complex matters, or tight timelines, the challenge is not just doing legal work faster. It is delivering work that can be trusted, every time. 

On January 21, LexisNexis announced the global launch of Protégé AI workflows for legal professionals, workflows purpose-built for legal work, backed by LexisNexis citable authority.  

To understand the value of a workflow, it’s helpful to start with: What is a workflow? 

What Is a Legal AI Workflow? 

A legal workflow is an AI-guided, step-by-step process that helps legal professionals complete complex legal work from start to finish. A workflow enables:  

• Higher-quality legal work, with built-in guidance and validation that support accuracy and consistency 

• Greater efficiency, by reducing rework and helping professionals move to final work product faster 

• Confidence in results, knowing cited law is validated and legal standards are applied consistently 

• Scalability, so trusted legal processes can be used across matters, teams, and jurisdictions 

Rather than using AI for isolated prompts or one-off tasks, a workflow brings the entire sequence of legal work into a single, repeatable process, from research and analysis through drafting, review, and citation validation. 

Legal AI workflows help legal teams move beyond single AI prompting by turning best practices into repeatable, reliable, and scalable processes they can trust. As a result, legal professionals can consistently deliver high-quality outcomes.  

What Do Legal Workflows Look Like in Practice? 

Protégé brings together private, secure, authoritative legal AI workflows, built for rigorous legal standards in a complete, integrated workspace. For example: 

In litigation, Protégé workflows can help legal professionals: 

• Analyze pleadings against governing law to draft motions to dismiss 

• Prepare for depositions by synthesizing documents, facts, and issues 

• Automatically Shepardize cited authority to confirm the law is still valid 

In transactional work, Protégé workflows can: 

• Guide contract or clause drafting using firm or company templates 

• Review agreements to identify diligence risks or high-risk provisions 

• Summarize redlined changes so lawyers quickly see what changed and why it matters 

For general work, Protégé workflows can: 

• Draft a client alert 

• Extract timelines from documents 

• Summarize interviews or testimony 

• Organize research and next steps 

These workflows don’t replace legal judgment. Workflows make high-quality legal work easier to deliver, consistently and at scale. 

What Makes Protégé Workflows Different? 

Protégé workflows are designed specifically to support high-quality legal outcomes with confidence: 

• Authoritative data sources, including LexisNexis trusted legal content and customer-provided data 

• Designed for rigorous legal standards by product, data science, and engineering teams working alongside legal professionals 

• Built-in validation, powered by Shepard’s Citations 

• Enterprise-grade privacy and security in an encrypted environment 

• A complete integrated legal AI workspace, supporting both authoritative legal work and exploratory tasks 

• Customer-driven innovation, informed by how legal professionals actually work 

• Anchored in trust, from data sourcing through final output 

A single prompt produces an output. Protégé workflows deliver trusted, repeatable, and scalable results.  

Learn more about how Protégé workflows can help legal professionals scale trusted legal processes.