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Product Spotlight: Lexis® Create+ for Litigators

Virginie De Smecht — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:31:00 GMT

Explore Lexis® Create+, the AI drafting solution for litigators. Reuse firm precedent, validate citations with Shepard’s®, and prepare documents for filing. (read more)

Data-Driven Insights: The Key to Winning Cases

beng — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:00:00 GMT

Litigation data analytics have become table stakes in modern lawsuits, with roughly seven in ten legal professionals at law firms of various sizes saying their clients expect them to use analytics in their work, according to an April 2025 survey. Like in the previous year’s survey, most respondents indicated that “successful litigation outcomes” drove their usage - which was by far the number-one response.

By extracting meaningful patterns and trends from millions of lawsuits, analytics equip attorneys to more deeply understand their own cases, identify potential weaknesses in their opponent’s arguments, and develop more effective strategies. Analytics do not introduce a new way to litigate cases; they simply uncover insights that can be placed in the hands of a skilled litigator to take that reasoning, analysis and persuasion to the next level.

How Litigation Analytics Help Improve Litigation Outcomes

Litigation analytics can provide a wealth of insights that enhance case evaluation, strengthen the persuasiveness of arguments, and optimize trial preparation. Ways they can help lawyers craft winning case strategies include:

Jurisdiction Insights

Choosing the right venue can be crucial to securing the best possible outcome for a client. Litigation analytics can bring to light the court with precedent most favorable to a client and help counsel avoid arguments that the court has previously rejected. They can also reveal similar cases that have been tried in a specific court, as well as how the court ruled on those cases. This helps practitioners determine whether a change of venue is in order, and should they decide to proceed, identify compelling language to support their motion.

Beyond enhanced analytical insights for all commercially relevant civil litigation in federal courts and more than 100 state courts, Lex Machina now also shows docket-level data and filing patterns for lawsuits in 1,200 additional state courts.

Alt-Text: Lex Machina now shows docket-level data and filing patterns for lawsuits in 1,200 additional state courts.

Litigant Insights

Understanding and anticipating the corporate risk profiles for parties involved in lawsuits can provide litigators with a more fulsome picture of what might represent a successful outcome for each side.

Judge Insights

When lawyers understand in advance what judges want to hear, they can win more arguments with proven persuasive authority tailored to their judges’ preferred language. Litigation analytics go beyond traditional legal research by mining each judge’s authored case opinions and rulings to uncover the language and citations they rely on most often.

Opposing Counsel Insights

The ability to anticipate opposing counsel’s next move is a major advantage for experienced litigators. Analytics can serve as a secret weapon for litigators of all skill levels by surfacing key insights about opposing counsel’s behavior in similar circumstances. By understanding opposing counsel’s practice-specific experience and successes, lawyers can draft more persuasive briefs that are tailored to neutralize counterarguments.

Expert Witness Insights

The persuasiveness of each side’s respective expert witnesses can be a crucial factor in a litigation outcome. Analytics from Context and Lex Machina enable legal professionals to quickly pinpoint whether (and why) judges have admitted or excluded a proffered expert’s testimony in other lawsuits.

Experience Lex Machina

Lex Machina, the LexisNexis® Legal Analytics® platform, helps lawyers drive superior litigation outcomes and business development. Our platform enables practitioners to understand the performance of their opposing counsel, analyze the behavior of a court or judge, and anticipate their clients’ chances for success. Request a free demonstration to experience the power of Lex Machina for your team.

Product Spotlight: Lexis® Verdict & Settlement Analyzer

ellenh — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 13:49:00 GMT

The Lexis® Verdict & Settlement Analyzer uses innovative analytics tools to help attorneys make data-driven decisions. It helps law firms maximize ROI from their legal work.(read more)

Transform Legal Reasoning into Business-Ready Results with General AI

beng — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:00:00 GMT

See how Protégé™ General AI helps in-house counsel turn complex legal reasoning into faster, clearer, business-ready results — securely and confidently.(read more)

Introducing Agent 365 for Protégé™—Your Digital Agent in Microsoft

Claire Russell — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:10:00 GMT

Discover Agent 365 for Protégé™ from LexisNexis—an autonomous digital agent in Microsoft 365 that streamlines legal workflows, boosts productivity, and ensures transparency.(read more)

Simplify Social Media Policy Drafting with Lexis+ AI®

beng — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:00:00 GMT

Learn how Lexis+ AI helps in-house counsel draft compliant, plain-language social media policies in minutes—reducing risk and freeing time for strategic work.(read more)

How Lexis+ AI® Transforms Litigation Risk Assessment

beng — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 14:00:00 GMT

Discover how Lexis+ AI transforms litigation risk assessment with fast, consistent, and AI-powered insights for in-house counsel.(read more)

New Protégé General AI Allows Legal Professionals to Use Both Legal AI and General-Purpose AI Models in Secure Legal Workflow

Claire Russell — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:41:00 GMT

Discover how Protégé General AI in Lexis+ AI lets legal professionals securely switch between Legal AI and general-purpose AI models in one workflow.(read more)

From Inbox to Impact: AI-Powered Legal Drafting in Microsoft® Outlook® for In-House Legal Teams

beng — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:00:00 GMT

In-house legal teams face the unrelenting challenge of delivering more support to business teams while maintaining accuracy and compliance standards. Research we conducted for a recent white paper found that 82% of legal leaders report feeling heightened pressure to deliver faster responses to inquiries.

In-house legal professionals are discovering that part of the solution to this pressure is to work smarter, not harder, directly within the technology tools they already use every day.

The Outlook® Inbox: A Hidden Productivity Drain for In-House Attorneys

In-house attorneys open Microsoft Outlook each morning to find a familiar scene: contract requests, compliance questions, vendor agreements and board resolution drafts scattered across dozens of emails. Each represents hours of manual drafting work to craft non-disclosure agreements from scratch, update employment agreements or create compliance documents.

In fact, LexisNexis® research found that 79% of attorneys identify legal drafting as one of the most time-consuming aspects of their practice and that roughly half of attorneys spend 50% or more of their time each week on drafting.

The problem is that, when drafting needs arise, the traditional workflow creates costly disruptions by jumping from Outlook to Microsoft® Word, then to legal research tools, then to the document management system, then back and forth until the draft is complete. Each context switch costs valuable minutes of refocusing time, multiplied across dozens of daily drafting requests. This drafting time diverts in-house legal professionals from high-value activities that substantially impact business outcomes.

Perhaps this is why an international survey of lawyers found that 56% cited the drafting of legal documents as a key use case for the application of AI tools to their daily workflow, the #2 response behind legal research.

Business executives across all sectors have gone all-in with AI adoption, but legal teams have learned the hard way that there are important risks of using general-purpose AI tools for helping to generate legal work product. The key is finding an AI tool that integrates seamlessly into existing workflows while maintaining the accuracy and security standards that corporate legal departments demand.

Transforming Microsoft Outlook into a Legal Drafting Powerhouse

Legal teams can transform their inbox from a source of overwhelming demands into a streamlined drafting environment by integrating an AI tool specifically designed for the rigors of legal work directly into Microsoft Outlook.

AI-Powered Legal Drafting Without Leaving Outlook. Imagine receiving a vendor contract request via email and being able to draft a thorough response—complete with appropriate clauses, risk assessments and compliance considerations—without leaving Outlook.

Access Clause Libraries, Templates, and First Drafts in Your Inbox. This kind of trusted integration would allow in-house attorneys to draft directly within email threads, access clause libraries and templates, generate first drafts right away and collaborate seamlessly with stakeholders who are also using Microsoft 365® tools.

Here are five essential capabilities that a legal AI solution for Microsoft integration must have:

Trusted Legal Sources with Verifiable Citations: The AI must be grounded in curated legal sources (e.g., case law, statutes, regulations and secondary authorities, etc.), rather than unverified internet content, with linked citations that attorneys can verify.
Enterprise-Grade Security and Compliance for Legal AI: The AI solution must comply with corporate security standards, keep client data isolated from model training, and provide audit logs for internal IT reviews.
Seamless Integration with Legal Workflows and DMS Platforms: The solution must connect intuitively with existing DMS platforms, support customization with company-specific templates and clauses, and eliminate disruptive context switching between applications.
Smarter Drafting with Built-In Quality Control: The AI must be responsibly developed in a way that allows it to review its own output, identify potential issues and refine content before presenting it to attorneys.
Deliver Measurable Business Impact for Legal Teams: The solution must deliver quantifiable value, such as time savings, improved accuracy and/or reduced reliance on outside counsel.

Our team set out to build a product that would make all of this possible. The development goal at LexisNexis® was ambitious: to create a tool that enhances the speed, quality and consistency of legal work for every legal professional in the world by providing a thorough, intelligent legal drafting solution that leverages AI capabilities and flexible DMS integration, accessible within Microsoft 365 applications.

Lexis Create+: AI Powered Legal Drafting in Microsoft 365

LexisNexis has delivered this to corporate customers with the rollout of Lexis Create+, an advanced legal drafting tool that securely integrates authoritative content from LexisNexis, robust generative AI capabilities and internal work product—all within trusted Microsoft applications, where a majority of in-house legal professionals spend significant time.

Lexis Create+ combines the drafting and proofreading tools of the legacy Lexis Create product with two new technology innovations from LexisNexis: AI-powered drafting capabilities via LexisNexis Protégé™, a personalized Legal AI assistant; and secure integration with a user’s internal Document Management System (DMS).

The result of these innovations is a powerful, personalized legal drafting solution in Microsoft 365 that meets legal professionals where they work, delivering everything needed to draft high-quality legal documents in one place.

Lexis Create+: AI-Powered Drafting for In-House Legal Teams

AI drafting tools don’t replace legal expertise—they amplify it. By embedding AI capabilities directly within Microsoft Outlook, in-house legal teams can respond to business needs faster with a focus on accuracy and greater strategic insight. The inbox transforms from a source of overwhelming demands into a launching pad for impactful legal counsel.

Lexis Create+ transforms in-house legal drafting by integrating cutting-edge AI technology, trusted LexisNexis content and secure access to shared internal knowledge—and placing all of this at the user’s fingertips within the familiar Microsoft 365 environment. The tool pulls together all the legal content, proofreading and redlining tools needed to create brilliant legal documents, swiftly and securely. Explore Lexis Create+ for in-house legal teams.

From Incident to Action: Using Lexis+ AI® for Quick Liability Guidance

beng — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 13:00:00 GMT

Discover how Lexis+ AI and Protege streamline on-premises liability analysis with fast insights, memos, and knowledge sharing to reduce corporate risk.(read more)

How Lexis+ AI Simplifies Multi-Jurisdictional Legal Research and Drafting

beng — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 13:00:00 GMT

Simplify multi-jurisdictional legal research with Lexis+ AI. Get fast answers, draft compliance communications, and create AI-powered 50-state surveys in minutes.(read more)

3 Ways the New “Source Link” Feature in LexisNexis Protégé Builds Trust in Legal AI

Claire Russell — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:57:00 GMT

Discover how new Source Link feature within Protégé builds trust in legal AI through instantly verifiable, citable, and reliable research. (read more)

Enhance Compliance through AI-Driven Risk Evaluation with Lexis+ AI

beng — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 13:00:00 GMT

For in-house counsel seeking to reduce legal exposure, AI-powered risk evaluation helps you spot compliance issues, draft policies, and close gaps using Lexis+ AI.(read more)

AI Powered Legal Drafting: Lexis+ AI® Transforms Blank Page to Draft

beng — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 13:00:00 GMT

In-house counsel: draft smarter with Lexis+ AI®. Go from blank page to first draft in seconds, spot risks, and strengthen contracts with confidence.(read more)

Cut Multi-State Legal Research from Weeks to Minutes with Lexis+ AI®

beng — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 13:00:00 GMT

Generate a complete 50-state survey in minutes with LexisNexis Protégé™ in Lexis+ AI®. Save time, improve accuracy and empower in-house counsel with AI-powered research.(read more)