LexisNexis Protégé Enables Lawyers to Produce High Quality Legal Drafts with Speed and Accuracy

LexisNexis Protégé is transforming how legal professionals draft, review, and finalize legal documents, making it easier to move from first draft to final version quickly and accurately. With AI-powered drafting workflows, Protégé reduces repetitive, manual tasks while keeping expertise and judgment at the center at all 3 stages of legal drafting: 

1. Preparing with Clarity: Before drafting, legal professionals clarify objectives, define the facts, frame research questions, and identify potential exposure. Protégé lets them ask targeted legal questions in Lexis+ AI with linked sources and verified Shepard’s® citations, upload and summarize related documents in Protégé Vault, and use prompt suggestions to craft or refine well-structured instructions. 
   
   
2. Draft with Authority: With objectives and facts in place, users choose the right structure, refine their prompt and align the draft with firm playbooks and client preferences. Protégé generates authoritative starting drafts, refining language and arguments, benchmarking clauses against organizational standards in Microsoft Word via Lexis Create+, and keeping citations visible to ensure defensible work.
   
   
3. Finalize with Confidence: Within Word, legal professionals can refine the draft to match organizational precedent, customize terms, confirm standards, and package it for delivery. Protégé helps by benchmarking clauses against their firm’s internal precedent, analyzing provisions against industry practice, and cross-checking authorities for compliance as you edit. 

By automating repetitive drafting tasks, Protégé helps produce clear, defensible legal documents, faster and with confidence. 

Read the full article: First Draft to Final: How to Use AI to Accelerate Legal Drafting Workflows