September 30, 2025

U.S. Law Schools Have Public-Interest Access to Civil Rights Litigation Analytics in Lex Machina

Lex Machina ®, the LexisNexis® Legal Analytics® platform, has provided U.S. law schools with complimentary public-interest access to our leading collection of analytics and insights for civil rights litigation in federal courts. We warmly invite all current law students, faculty, and professional staff in the United States with an active Lexis+ profile to register here for free public-interest access to...

September 11, 2025

How AI Is Transforming In-House Legal Teams into Strategic “Departments of Yes”

Corporate legal departments may have once operated as risk-averse gatekeepers, but today’s in-house counsel are expected to serve as strategic business enablers. They want to shake off the stigmas of the past and establish a reputation for what Profile Magazine described as “ the Department of Yes .” This shift is now being facilitated by the strategic implementation of AI-powered in-house legal solutions...

August 26, 2025

Forrester Study Documents How In-House Legal Teams Achieved 284% ROI By Adoption of Lexis+ AI Platform

A recent commissioned study by one of the world’s leading independent business research and advisory firms has provided significant findings of the measurable impact that a legal AI platform can have on the internal productivity and operational efficiency of in-house legal departments. Forrester Consulting’s June 2025 study , The Total Economic Impact ™️ of Lexis+ AI ® for Corporate Legal Departments...

August 21, 2025

Three Ways That AI is Reshaping In-House Legal Hiring

In-house legal departments are experiencing notable shifts in hiring trends at all levels starting with the general counsel role. A recent study from Russell Reynolds Associates found that GC turnover last year was at its highest since 2018 and, in a departure from previous years, the majority of new appointments were internal to the organization. Of 70 Fortune 500 GC new hires in 2024, 54% were internal candidates...

August 20, 2025

A Panoramic View of Litigation Analytics and Claim Valuation with Lex Machina^® and Lexis^® Verdict & Settlement Analyzer

If you’ve ever sat across the table at a settlement negotiation wishing you knew how similar cases had resolved, you’re not alone. That’s exactly the challenge Lex Machina and Lexis Verdict & Settlement Analyzer were built to solve. Litigators, insurers, and corporate legal teams are under increasing pressure to harness data for liability risk assessment, claim valuation, settlement negotiations...

August 08, 2025

The Future of Legal AI: Answers to Your Top Questions about the LexisNexis and Harvey Alliance

By Tony Muljadi | VP of Large Law, LexisNexis As LexisNexis deepens its investment in innovative legal technology, our strategic alliance with Harvey has sparked plenty of thoughtful questions from our customers. Below, I’m pleased to address some of the most common topics raised, detailing what this collaboration means for the future of legal AI. Summary Why Harvey and LexisNexis® Chose to Form a Strategic...

August 05, 2025

How LexisNexis^® is Building Trust in AI for Legal Research with Shepard’s^® Citation Validation Enhancements

AI-generated false information represents one of the most significant risks facing all working professionals today. However, unlike other fields where minor inaccuracies might be inconvenient, legal research demands absolute precision. A single incorrect citation or misrepresented case holding can undermine an entire argument, damage a lawyer's credibility, and potentially result in judicial sanctions . As AI tools...

July 28, 2025

7 Key Facts about Legal AI Security and Privacy with LexisNexis^®

By Jeff Jenkins | Chief Information Security Officer, LexisNexis Legal & Professional Summary How LexisNexis is Upholding AI Security and Privacy in Law The Gold Standard of Security and Privacy Customer Data is Never Used to Train AI The Cutting Edge of Security Standards in Tech Security is in our DNA Fine-tuning with Legal Experts Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Ground...

July 21, 2025

Case Study: How Small In-House Legal Teams Use AI to Drive Efficiency and Business Value

In-house counsel that operate with a small team, or perhaps even as a one-person legal department, are all too familiar with the daily juggling act between corporate governance, contract drafting, employment policy development, intellectual property management and of course the crisis du jour. But this pressure to maintain high standards while managing costs and time constraints is now being boldly addressed with innovative...

July 07, 2025

7 Essential Soft Skills Every General Counsel Should Master

In-house counsel are caught up in a transformational wave, fueled by rapid innovations in AI, that could reshape the way they deliver legal services to their internal clients and manage work in partnership with their outside counsel. In this disruptive time, soft skills may well become the crucial differentiators for corporate legal executives, perhaps even surpassing technical abilities in determining professional success...

June 26, 2025

Making the Most of Outside Counsel Spend with Lexis+ AI

* The views expressed in externally authored materials linked or published on this site do not necessarily reflect the views of LexisNexis Legal & Professional. Corporate legal departments are under increasing pressure to do more with less. A key area of opportunity lies in how organizations manage their outside counsel spend. With outside counsel hourly rates continuing to rise and external legal work accounting...

June 26, 2025

How AI Elevates the Employee Experience for Corporate Legal Teams—and Drives Economic Value

* The views expressed in externally authored materials linked or published on this site do not necessarily reflect the views of LexisNexis Legal & Professional. As AI is poised to transform workplaces, employee engagement is falling, resulting in a real economic cost. For corporate legal departments, AI adoption presents a significant opportunity to increase department efficiency—while also improving employee...

June 17, 2025

How Legal Ops is Leading the AI Transformation in Corporate Legal Departments

By Mahala Miller, Corporate Legal In-house legal departments are turning to generative AI (Gen AI) technology as more than an IT upgrade—it is quickly becoming a transformative force. The adoption of Gen AI tools in corporate legal departments rose sharply last year, with 44% of in-house legal leaders reporting they are now using Gen AI (up from 28% a year ago), according to a March 2025 survey by FTI Consulting...

June 03, 2025

Why Top Legal Talent Is Choosing Firms That Invest in AI

The legal industry is at a tipping point. Amid record-high first-year salaries, an explosion of lateral partner movement, and an uptick in merger activity, one question looms large for every firm: How do you stay competitive in the race for top legal talent? Hint: It’s not just about the paycheck anymore. According to recent insights, today’s most sought-after attorneys — from ambitious associates...

May 29, 2025

How In-House Legal Departments Can Survive the Silver Tsunami of Retiring Baby Boomer GCs

America’s corporate suites are bracing for the impact of a steady flow of retiring executives, and the legal department is no exception to this demographic trend. The legal industry is “grappling with the impending wave of baby-boomer lawyer retirements,” reports Law360®. “In-house lawyers are on the verge of witnessing a significant generational shift as many Baby Boomer general counsel...

May 29, 2025

Why a Culture of Innovation Drives Impact for Law Firms

In today’s legal market, innovation is central to how firms deliver value, attract talent, and grow profitably. The difference between firms that see marginal gains and those that lead the market isn’t just what they adopt. It’s how they foster a culture of innovation. Firms that have shown that cultivating a culture of innovation—where technology is evaluated strategically and integrated deliberately—creates...

May 22, 2025

When Legal AI Gets It Wrong (Again!) and Why Trust Matters More Than Ever

By Serena Wellen, Vice President of Product Management at LexisNexis Legal and Professional May 22, 2025 A new article from Business Insider has brought yet another legal AI misstep into the spotlight. This time, counsel for a defendant in a high-profile federal case used a combination of generative AI tools to assist in drafting a legal brief — but the result was riddled with serious errors. The judge called...

May 21, 2025

LexisNexis Protégé for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Teams Unveiled at 2025 Microsoft Build Conference

By Serena Wellen, Vice President of Product Management at LexisNexis Legal and Professional May 21, 2025 LexisNexis® is proud to be leading the next wave of AI innovation in the legal industry with LexisNexis Protégé ™, a personalized AI assistant that intelligently powers productivity, drives next-level work quality, and enables legal and business professionals to unlock new economic value...

May 15, 2025

No Surprises: How Protégé™ in Lexis+ AI^® Reduces Hallucinations and Strengthens Citation Integrity

By Serena Wellen, Vice President of Product Management at LexisNexis Legal and Professional May 15, 2025 In a legal industry increasingly shaped by AI, the rise of “AI hallucinations” — fake legal citations generated by large language models — has made accuracy and citation integrity a top concern. This week, The Verge reported on a troubling case involving AI-generated legal research. A...

May 13, 2025

How AI Drives Law Firm Profitability

Large law firms are exploring the potential of generative and agentic AI to improve efficiency and enhance client service, while supporting long-term profitability. Executives at leading firms expect investment in AI technologies to increase over the next five years—a trend that is pronounced among the largest firms. Today, firm leaders aren’t asking whether to invest in AI, but how to invest wisely and quantify...

May 13, 2025

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...

May 12, 2025

Anything But Artificial: 3 Ways LexisNexis is Advancing the Rule of Law Around the World with Legal AI

By Sean Fitzpatrick | CEO, LexisNexis North America, UK & Ireland We are witnessing a profound transformation in the legal industry—one driven by the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence. At LexisNexis, we believe this technology has the power to unlock justice, elevate legal practice, and improve lives in ways we couldn’t have imagined just a few years ago. (Please visit the site to view this...

May 08, 2025

How AI is Transforming In-House Legal Teams: A Force Multiplier for Efficiency and Strategy

By Matt Lung | Head of Legal for Global Technologies and Operations, LexisNexis The adoption of generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) tools in corporate legal departments increased sharply in 2024, with 44% of in-house legal leaders reporting they are now using Gen AI (up from 28% a year ago), according to a March 2025 survey by FTI Consulting. “Most general counsel have indicated openness to using AI...

April 29, 2025

How Can AI Help Lawyers Move Up the Value Chain?

By Julie Chapman | LexisNexis Head of Legal, North America The acceleration in the adoption of new artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the legal industry has many lawyers anxious about how this technology will change their profession. This is perfectly understandable — as with any new tech innovation that impacts the way that law is practiced, there are uncertainties around what it is, whether it’s worth...

April 24, 2025

Revolutionizing Corporate Legal Departments: The Impact of Generative AI Tools on Efficiency and Strategic Value

The adoption of generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) tools in the corporate legal sector continues to accelerate. Nearly half (49%) of in-house counsel expect Gen AI tools to yield cost savings for their legal departments, and a quarter are already seeing cost benefits, according to an Association of Corporate Counsel survey. AI stands as a force reshaping how in-house legal teams operate. And while AI-powered...