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New Lexis+ AI Product Enhancements

July 26, 2024 (2 min read)

LexisNexis® is releasing new updates to their legal generative AI platform, Lexis+ AI®. These new updates, based on continuous user feedback, these new capabilities harness generative AI to streamline legal research, provide comprehensive, current legal analysis, and save time so legal professionals can focus on higher-value work.

Key enhancements from customer-led development include:

  • "Stop Response" Option – Gives users more control over the AI assistant’s actions, allowing them to halt responses if they need to make changes to their prompts, which will save them valuable time.
  • Default Jurisdiction – Users can now set a jurisdiction as their default jurisdiction, which allows it to appear pre-selected each time they access the jurisdiction panel for seamless workflow.
  • History – A new conversation history feature enables users to easily find, review, and re-run previous conversations with the AI assistant.

Legal research and drafting enhancements include:

  • Lexis+ AI Headnotes – Uses advanced AI technology to provide comprehensive headnote coverage for every case across the entire collection, allowing users to quickly grasp key points of law and easily locate similar cases, ensuring no critical legal insights are missed.
  • Shepardize Uploaded Documents – Users can run the renowned Shepard's® citation service directly within their uploaded documents using the AI assistant. This provides access to the full Brief Analysis report, identifying weaknesses in opposing arguments and strengthening their case.
  • Shepard's Treatment Summaries – Enables users to quickly determine if a case is relevant with at-a-glance summaries and seamlessly access the full Shepard’s report.
  • Shepard's Citation Graph
  • Lexis+ AI Uploads Grid View – Streamlines the research process by enabling side-by-side comparisons of multiple user-uploaded documents on a single screen for clear comparisons and efficient insights.
  • Law360 Integration – Direct access to premium legal news content is now integrated into the AI assistant, complementing existing legal research capabilities for comprehensive legal analysis in one solution.

Large language models added as part of our multi-model approach include:

  • Claude 3 models by Anthropic, hosted on Amazon Bedrock from Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • GPT-4o and GPT-4 Turbo, hosted on Microsoft Azure OpenAI
  • Fine-tuned Mistral 7B, an open-source model, hosted on LexisNexis-managed servers within AWS

Lexis+ AI is the fastest legal generative AI providing conversational search, drafting, summarization, and document analysis with responses backed by Shepard’s® Citation Validation – now with connectivity to your firm's DMS. To learn more request a free trial of Lexis+ AI.