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  

• Unexpected ways Protégé levels up your drafting workflow 

AI-powered drafting is reshaping how lawyers work. By removing repetitive steps and grounding first drafts in trusted sources, LexisNexis Protégé™ helps attorneys move faster to strategy and client advocacy without compromising on quality. 

Why legal drafting needs innovation 

Lawyers see vast opportunity to streamline legal drafting with artificial intelligence. In the LexisNexis International Legal Generative AI Report, 56% of lawyers identified drafting documents as a leading use case for generative AI. Interest in AI for legal drafting has only grown since the survey—and for good reason. Drafting is an iterative process that may start in an inbox, continue in a legal application, and end in Microsoft Word. Much of this process involves repetitive preparation, information gathering, and manual comparison tasks. By using AI to streamline those tasks, lawyers can devote more time to strategy, refinement, and delivery of stronger client outcomes. 

Connected legal drafting with LexisNexis Protégé 

LexisNexis addresses this need by offering a connected legal drafting workflow powered by LexisNexis Protégé, designed to support lawyers where they work.  Protégé streamlines repetitive preparation and information gathering tasks across Lexis+ AI® and Lexis® Create+ while keeping attorney judgement and expertise at the center:  

• Draft where you already work. Lexis Create+ is embedded in Microsoft 365 letting you draft directly from Microsoft Outlook or in Microsoft Word with secure access to LexisNexis legal authority.  

• Authoritative grounding and organization precedent. Protégé in Lexis+ AI drafts against trusted LexisNexis legal authority content and incorporate your own internal documents, ensuring the first draft reflects both the law and your practice standards. 

• Transparency and trust. Every response is backed by linked citations sources and with Shepard’s® citation support, providing confidence in citation accuracy and defensibility—and the information you need to review. 

With Lexis+ AI and Lexis Create+ connected legal drafting with Protégé, you can:  

• Summarize complex email threads and lengthy attachments to get up to speed 

• Ask questions about documents to extract key details in seconds  

• Get answers to legal queries, backed by LexisNexis authority and organization precedent  

• Draft full, tailored transactional documents, as well as litigation motions, briefs, and complaints 

• Revise and modify individual clauses or passages to better achieve goals 

• Craft communications and legal memos for stakeholders 

• Easily verify sources through linked legal citations with Shepard’s signals 

Unexpected ways Protégé levels up your drafting workflow 

If you've already explored legal drafting with AI, you’re familiar with the basics such as drafting a legal memo based on a research result or drafting a full legal document from a prompt. But did you know that there are numerous other ways that Protégé can power your legal drafting process, ensuring that you’re delivering your very best work?  

Here are a few thought-starters to try:  

1. Start from your documents, not a blank page.
   Upload documents on a given matter and save them as a Vault. Use them to generate a tailored first draft of litigation briefs, motions, pleadings or transactional contracts. 
2. Draft directly from email.
   Within Outlook, summarize long email threads and attachments, extract action items, convert PDFs to Word, or generate legal clauses. You can continue refining in Word without disrupting workflow. 
3. Maintain consistency with DMS integration.
   With the DMS integration, you can benchmark clauses against your organization’s other documents, preserve house style, and keep approved terms intact. This ensures consistency and reduces risk while saving time. 
4. Stress-test strategy quickly.
   Use Protégé general AI to generate counterarguments, anticipate opposing positions, or create buyer- and seller-friendly variations of a draft to get it across the finish line 
5. Built-in citation integrity.
   All Protégé legal AI answers are grounded in vetted LexisNexis content. Other general AI models apply Shepard’s citation checks to support your verification process. 

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

Conclusion 

Legal drafting is one of the most time-consuming tasks for legal professionals, and not all that time is the best use of your expertise. By delivering reliable first drafts and supporting you throughout a connected workflow, Protégé in Lexis Create+ and Lexis+ AI gives attorneys the ability to focus on what matters most: shaping arguments, advising clients, and driving client outcomes. 

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