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We’re excited to announce new features added to Protégé™, your next-generation legal AI assistant in Lexis+ AI that will further streamline your legal research and practice. Designed to work the way you do, Protégé makes your Lexis+ AI experience more powerful, personal, intuitive, and will elevate your productivity to new heights.
We’ll also be sharing some practical tips designed to improve your proficiency with Lexis+ AI and featuring a number of new features – many of which stem directly from your feedback.
Protégé represents the next evolution of our generative AI Assistant in Lexis+ AI. Now seamlessly integrated into your digital workflow, Protégé provides you with a personalised experience that surpasses our previous AI Assistant.
A new major enhancement within Protégé, Vaults are secure, user-controlled spaces where you can upload and store matter or research-based documents. Each Vault can hold up to 500 documents, with up to 50 Vaults available per user.
Once uploaded, you can use the documents in your Vaults at any time for summarisation, reviewing documents. (Drafting tasks coming soon)
Unlike one-time uploads, Vaults persist across sessions, giving you continuity and efficiency without repeated re-uploads. But rest assured, documents uploaded to Vaults are fully encrypted, ensuring protection at all times, and your content is never used to train our AI.
This means your Vault aligns with firm confidentiality obligations and compliance standards, and also provides the assurance needed when working with sensitive material.
By combining robust security with context-rich insights, Vaults streamline workflows, enhance drafting and analysis, and make your legal work more powerful and efficient. And the best part, it’s all at no additional cost.
There are two simple ways to set up a Vault:
You can create up to 50 Vaults (each tailored to a specific matter or research project) with a maximum of 500 documents per Vault.
Vaults offer the same powerful and time-saving use cases, as one-time upload, without the need to re-upload your documents when returning to your workflow. These include:
Moreover, since Vaults support a higher volume of documents compared to one-time uploads, you’ll save even more time reviewing, and extracting insights, thanks to the power of generative AI.
Vaults have been built to meet LexisNexis’ enterprise-grade security standards, ensuring your documents remain private and protected. Each Vault is accessible only to you, with all data encrypted both in transit and at rest. Hosted in our secure cloud environment and safeguarded by strict access controls, Vaults give you complete control over your content. You can delete individual documents or entire Vaults at any time.
Voice-to-Text is a new feature within Lexis+ AI’s Protégé that lets you interact hands-free by simply speaking your prompt. It converts natural speech into accurate, structured text in real time, enabling legal professionals to:
With Protégé’s Drafting Mode, you can seamlessly refine your generated drafts with precision. Whether you’re revising specific clauses, refining individual sentences, or making direct edits in the drafting pad, every change is automatically tracked in distinct versions. This approach ensures you can review your changes thoroughly and maintain full control before finalising the document in your preferred drafting environment.
Further personalise your Protégé drafting workflow by selecting from two distinct drafting styles; each designed to suit different legal writing preferences and document types. Alternatively, you can let Protégé intelligently choose the best option for you based on your input and the context of your materials.
Drafting transactional documents involves creating legal documents that facilitate business transactions and agreements between parties. These documents outline the terms and conditions of a transaction, ensuring that all parties involved have a clear understanding of their rights and obligations. With the new feature in Lexis+ AI, users can draft a variety of transactional documents such as Sales Agreements, Non-disclosure Agreements, Employment Contracts just to name a few. Lexis+ AI leverages first in class LN precedents to generate these outputs.
After each step in your Protégé conversation, you will receive up to three tailored follow-up suggestions designed to help you advance your research more efficiently and effectively. These intelligent prompts aim to keep your workflow focused, ensuring you uncover deeper insights with less effort.
Protégé adapts to your specific needs by aligning with your user preferences, preserving your searches, and delivering real-time, context-aware suggestions. This streamlines your workflow, making legal research both efficient and intuitive, while ensuring you access the most relevant and current information with ease. Simply enable personalisation during the onboarding process or by visiting the Protégé Settings page. Rest assured, personalisation in Protégé is secure, private, and always under your control.
As part of the latest updates, Drafting Mode now includes a contextually aware drafting button which appears after selecting elements within your document. Lexis+ AI with Protégé now intelligently detects if you are drafting a transactional document, clause or one of the other supported document types, such as letters or emails and will provide tailored re-drafting options based on the type of content you’re editing.
Once you’re happy with the re-draft, simply click the ‘Replace in the document’ button to insert it directly into your main draft. Any redrafted sections will be marked with a purple pencil and note icon, so you can easily identify and review them.
Experience a more intuitive, efficient drafting process with these new drafting features available now for your own documents.
The New PDF upload service has OCR capability, meaning that users can now upload scanned or image-only PDFs. However, note that handwritten documents are not supported.
Failure to meet the minimum character count (1,500) has been removed for document upload tasks, allowing users to upload documents for analysis and summary tasks. The maximum file size has increased to a maximum of 1 million characters or 20Mb per doc.
You can now view your uploaded document alongside your Protégé session, minimising context-switching and helping you stay focused on the task at hand. This intuitive layout allows you to reference your source material while generating content, saving you valuable time and supporting you in drafting and analysing more efficiently.
When you upload documents, you will now be able to generate a graphical timeline that presents key events and milestones in a clear and concise chronological format. Protégé will instantly transform complex legal documents into an intuitive visual overview. This powerful feature enables you to quickly grasp the progression of a matter, streamlining both analysis and client communication.
If you would like to book a free demo of Lexis+ AI with Protégé for your firm, and discover how it can transform your legal workflow while saving you time, please submit the form below: