March 30, 2026

Drafting Reinvented: Lessons from History and the Next Leap Forward

Every generation of lawyers has experienced a shift in how legal work gets done. From handwritten documents to form books, from typewriters to word processors, from templates to digital workflows: each evolution compressed time, reduced friction, and reshaped expectations. Now, drafting is entering its next era. In a recent LexisNexis® webinar, Drafting Reinvented: Lessons from History and the Next Leap Forward...

March 19, 2026

Room to Breathe: How Harris County District Courts Have Responded to an Easing Backlog

Following the introduction of new judicial districts, Houston, Texas’ civil case backlog dropped significantly in 2025. Across several key pretrial motions in civil cases, Harris County District Court judges ruled far more quickly in 2025 than in 2023 and 2024, with substantial reductions in time from filing to order. Table 1: Median days from case filing to order on motion According to the Harris County District...

February 27, 2026

Private, Secure and Authoritative: Three Pillars of Trustworthy AI in Legal Workflows

The legal profession stands at a crossroads in which AI tools have been adopted rapidly for the unprecedented efficiency gains they promise, yet lawyers continue to wrestle with how to harness AI’s power in a way that respects the integrity, confidentiality and accuracy that define legal practice. As legal workflows evolve from manual processes to AI-powered systems, three non-negotiable pillars have emerged as...

February 27, 2026

Context Windows In Legal AI And Why Content Still Determines Quality

By Greg Dickason, Chief Technology Officer, LexisNexis Legal teams ask a practical question. If large language models are so capable, why does legal AI still depend on curated content, and why does surfacing that content matter so much? Context windows in legal AI are a key part of the answer. A model can only consider a finite amount of text in a single run. If the system passes too much material, the model can...

January 30, 2026

Humans in the Loop: The People Powering Trusted Legal AI

By Serena Wellen, VP Product Management, LexisNexis As the use of artificial intelligence permeates legal practice, a critical question confronts every legal professional who uses these tools: Can I trust this? When an AI platform is relied upon to draft a motion, summarize case law or identify relevant contract language, the stakes are too high for uncertainty. It is therefore not surprising that some of the important...

January 23, 2026

What is Legal Analytics?

Data and AI are reshaping how decisions are made across industries, and the legal sector is no exception. Today’s legal analytics combine advanced data analysis with AI-enabled insights to support legal work. You may hear it referred to as litigation analytics, law firm analytics, or legal data analysis. Put simply, legal analytics is the science of drawing insights by mining large volumes of data. In practice,...

November 28, 2025

Study Confirms Shepard’s^® Delivers More Citation Research Analysis Than KeyCite^®

Lawyers have always valued the importance of grounding their legal arguments in “good law” that is current, on-point and accurately cited. The risks of failing to ensure the integrity of their legal research has been prominently on display in the last couple of years as more legal professionals have embraced the power of AI tools, sometimes without properly validating their AI-generated case citations. The...

November 13, 2025

How Protégé General AI Unlocks New Levels of Legal Drafting

Discover how LexisNexis Protégé™ transforms legal drafting into a strategic collaboration between lawyers and AI—enhancing quality, speed, and defensibility. Protégé General AI extends the advantages of AI-powered drafting workflows to communication, exploration, and strategy for legal professionals. In this article: Trusted legal AI Flexible general AI Legal...

November 06, 2025

5 Ways LexisNexis Protégé Helps You Draft Your Best Work

Discover how LexisNexis Protégé™ is transforming legal drafting with AI. Protégé streamlines repetitive tasks, grounds first drafts in trusted legal sources, and helps lawyers focus on strategy and client outcomes with transparency, consistency, and citation integrity. In this article: Why legal drafting needs innovation Connected legal drafting with LexisNexis Protégé...

November 04, 2025

The LexisNexis Trust Center: Building Confidence Through Transparency

* The views expressed in externally authored materials linked or published on this site do not necessarily reflect the views of LexisNexis Legal & Professional. Introducing the LexisNexis ® Trust Center, the source of truth for security, privacy, and compliance information for LexisNexis Legal & Professional products. The Trust Center puts everything in one place so you can deploy industry-leading technology...

October 30, 2025

First Draft to Final: How to Use AI to Accelerate Legal Drafting Workflows

Discover how LexisNexis Protégé™ transforms legal drafting into a strategic collaboration between lawyers and AI—enhancing quality, speed, and defensibility. In this article: From Steps to Strategy with AI for Legal Drafting Step 1: Prepare with Clarity Step 2: Draft with Authority Step 3: Finalize with Confidence Deliver Outstanding Work Legal drafting is now...

October 28, 2025

Win New Business with CourtLink^® and Lex Machina^®

In This Article: Introduction: Be the Trusted Partner Clients Need The Power of Rapid Insight CourtLink®: Be the First to Know Lex Machina®: Turn Data into Strategy The Synergy: Speed and Strategy Combined FAQs Conclusion: Stay Ahead with LexisNexis® Be first. Be informed. Be the trusted partner clients need. Picture a general counsel whose company has just been served with a lawsuit...

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...