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 drafting, unlocked 

• The payoff for lawyers 

Protégé General AI makes general-purpose models safe, authoritative, and legal-ready. 

The rise of general-purpose AI has changed how professionals everywhere work. In law, innovation comes with heightened stakes. Opportunities are vast, but the risks around privacy, confidentiality, and accuracy are more critical. 

LexisNexis Protégé™, the personalized AI assistant that powers Lexis+ AI and other LexisNexis AI solutions, helps legal professionals deliver outstanding legal work through legal drafting, research, and analysis capabilities. Lawyers have already experienced how Protégé Legal AI can transform these key legal workflows. Protégé General AI now extends that advantage to communication, exploration, and strategy.  

Trusted Legal AI 

Protégé Legal AI is purpose-built for legal workflows and designed to handle highly sensitive information. It grounds responses in LexisNexis legal authority and user knowledge bases through DMS integration. Legal professionals can draft full legal documents, conduct legal research, and perform a variety of legal analyses on documents. To support legal-grade accuracy, Shepard’s® Citation Service verifies the legal treatment of each source. Legal AI is ideal for:  

• Ensuring defensibility in drafted legal documents 

• Researching legal questions and verifying legal treatment 

• Conducting legal analysis on documents 

Flexible General AI  

Lexis+ AI includes General AI capabilities within Protégé, giving legal professionals secure access to powerful models including GPT-4o, o3, and GPT-5 by OpenAI and Claude Sonnet 4 by Anthropic. Different models specialize in different tasks—some are better for rapid ideation, others for deep reasoning—so Protégé lets you choose the best one for the work at hand. 

Even when responses draw on general knowledge, Protégé operates within the secure Lexis+ AI workspace, meaning all activity remains private, and responses are supported by the built-in Shepard’s citation checker.  

Instead of switching between tools—potentially risking client privacy if the tool has no enterprise license—with Protégé General AI legal professionals can conduct key adjacent tasks to deliver their very best work. General AI helps legal professionals:  

• Conduct foundational research on the regulatory or business context before diving into legal issues 

• Break down high-complexity issues into clear outlines  

• Brainstorm with AI on potential arguments and angles 

• Craft client communications or plain-language explanations in their preferred style 

• Upload a drafted legal document and interrogate for weaknesses 

Legal Drafting, Unlocked 

Legal drafting is a layered process that involves many discrete tasks, from information gathering and document analysis to strategizing, writing, and refinement. With Protégé General AI, Lexis+ AI customers can conduct more of their steps with the support of the AI model that suits the work.  

Every legal drafting project starts with information gathering and ideation. Protégé General AI helps attorneys clear those hurdles in fewer repetitive steps and with greater confidence in the output.  

For example, a litigator might use General AI to summarize a fact pattern or brainstorm potential arguments, then switch to Legal AI to build a defensible brief. The litigator might then switch to General AI again to identify weaknesses in the draft before finalizing.  

A transactional lawyer could use General AI to refine negotiation points in a contract or generate plain-language explanations for clients. The transactional lawyer can then finalize the agreement with Legal AI, comparing it against previous contracts in the organization’s knowledge base.  

General AI helps lawyers to use technology as a thought partner throughout the drafting process, resulting in higher-quality work product—all within the secure Lexis+ AI workspace. Shepard’s citation agent supports their duty of verification on any citations, ensuring confidence in their work.  

The Payoff for Lawyers 

With Protégé in Lexis+ AI, legal professionals can draft with authority using Legal AI and craft with confidence using General AI, all in one secure workspace. The end-to-end legal drafting workflow is more efficient and more flexible when general AI meets legal AI through Protégé. 

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