Powering Legal Advice in the Innovation Economy: LexisNexis Launches AI-Driven Technology & Innovation Guidance

SYDNEY 9 March 2026 — LexisNexis® Legal and Professional, a global leader in information, analytics, and AI-powered legal workflow solutions, today announced the release of Practical Guidance Technology & Innovation in Australia: the AI-powered legal guidance solution set to be the new home for lawyers preparing to advise clients in the technology and innovation sectors, advising start-ups, or handling traditional technology contracts and related advisory work.

Whether lawyers are advising large enterprises or a scrappy start-up, being on point is essential, especially when clients are developing, planning, procuring, adopting or implementing technology. 

Carol Chris, newly appointed Managing Director, LexisNexis Pacific said, 

“Aligning innovation with legal strategy is critical for both commercial success and responsible oversight of technology development. Practical Guidance Technology & Innovation gives lawyers the tools to make confident decisions in complex areas of technology law, and to deliver excellent client service.”

The new Practical Guidance Technology & Innovation solution equips legal practitioners with expertly authored guidance to navigate the hottest and most complex regulatory, transactional, and compliance challenges head on.

A stellar team of legal and technical experts from well-respected firms including, but not limited to, Hamilton Locke, Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer, Johnson Winter Slattery, King & Wood Mallesons and consultant ctrl:cyber have written and developed the content. They remain committed to ensuring that the solution reflects the latest developments impacting Australian industries. 

Practical Guidance Technology & Innovation is fully integrated with LexisNexis Protégé, the powerful personalised legal AI assistant that integrates world-class LexisNexis content with advanced legal workflow technology. Protégé delivers interactive search, intelligent legal drafting, document analysis, and linked legal citations to provide an efficient, accurate and secure platform for Australian legal professionals to execute exceptional legal work.

LexisNexis Practical Guidance has been delivering expert guidance to the legal profession since 2011 and employs a best-of-both-worlds author model that leverages the collective experience of practicing legal specialists and a dedicated in-house team of legal writers with practice experience.

About Practical Guidance Technology & Innovation

Practical Guidance was established in 2011 by LexisNexis, a company backed by over a century of service to the legal community.

Practical Guidance Technology & Innovation is a premium legal guidance solution written by legal and tech industry experts, designed for lawyers advising dealmakers on the landscape surrounding existing, emerging and disruptive technologies.

The solution equips lawyers with the requisite knowledge to help them navigate complex regulatory, transactional, and compliance challenges in this dynamic area of business. 

Practice areas range from core topics such as Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain & Digital Currency, IoT, Outsourcing, to rapidly evolving technologies such as Agritech, Biotech and Space.

Suitable for lawyers at any experience level who advise clients in the technology and innovation sectors, or clients adopting and implementing technology solutions, advising start-ups and supporting digital transformations as well as those handling traditional technology contracts and related advisory work.

The solution offers ready-made clauses, precedents, checklists and tools, with embedded citations and links to further guidance, all designed to simplify and streamline legal workflows and processes.

About the author team

The expert team includes

• Allison Lawrence, Senior Legal Writer, LexisNexis Practical Guidance Technology & Innovation
• Alec Christie, Partner, Head of Privacy Risk & Digital Law, Atmos
• Andrew Chalet, Partner, Thomson Geer
• Ish Omar, Partner, Webb Henderson
• Jaime Lumsden, Partner, Hamilton Locke
• John Swinson, Professor of Law, University of Queensland
• Jordan Wilson-Otto, Principal Consultant, ctrl:cyber
• Kathryn Hunter, Senior Associate, King & Wood Mallesons
• Katrina Chambers, Partner, Thomson Geer
• Keith Robinson, Partner, Johnson Winter & Slattery
• Kwok Tang, Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
• Melanie Marks, Director of Privacy, AI and Data Governance, ctrl:cyber
• Raymond Sun, Senior Associate – Technology, Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
• Tim Chan, Senior Associate and InsurTech Lead (Australia), Norton Rose Fulbright
• Tom Pils, Senior Associate, Macmillan Lawyers and Advisors

About LexisNexis Legal & Professional

LexisNexis Legal & Professional provides AI-powered legal, regulatory, business information, analytics, and workflows that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services. LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,900 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.

About LexisNexis AI Development

LexisNexis prioritizes a customer-driven AI innovation approach that solves complex problems and enhances value. The company employs over 2,000 technologists, data scientists, and legal experts to develop safe, purpose-built solutions with human oversight in line with RELX Responsible AI Principles. Backed by advanced encryption and privacy technology, its global technology platform seamlessly integrates the latest AI advancements, including agentic AI, legal-tuned models and a proprietary framework for the development of legal-tuned agents, within a multi-cloud infrastructure. This enables high model performance and authoritative responses anchored in comprehensive legal content, with validated citations powered by Shepard's®. Document Management System (DMS) integration personalizes and grounds responses in a customer’s own documents. The company’s multi-model approach selects the best AI model for each use case, supported by partners AWS, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Mistral, and OpenAI.

###

Media Contact
Monique Dorigo
LexisNexis Legal & Professional
monique.dorigo@lexisnexis.com.au