LexisNexis Protégé: AI Legal Assistant for Research, Drafting, and Legal Workflows

Legal work, moved forward by Protégé

What Is LexisNexis Protégé?

LexisNexis Protégé is the AI legal assistant that accelerates legal work across transactions, litigation, regulatory, and corporate matters. Embedded in LexisNexis solutions, Protégé responses are grounded in trusted LexisNexis Canada sources and your organization’s knowledge.

What’s New in Protégé: Latest AI Legal Assistant Innovations

What’s New in ProtégéTrusted workflows. Smarter legal AI.

Legal AI workflows are structured, repeatable sequences that help legal teams work efficiently with AI while maintaining legal rigor. Embedded in Lexis+® with Protégé, they’re part of a redesigned, intuitive experience.

LexisNexis Protégé pre-built legal AI workflows for analysing provisions and drafting alerts

Pre-built workflows

Move faster on common transactional and litigation tasks.

LexisNexis trusted legal content with CaseBase citation verification

Workflows built on trusted sources

Scale consistent, high-quality work across your organization — grounded in LexisNexis sources and your documents.

Use Cases

How legal professionals use Protégé

Discover some of the ways Protégé helps legal professionals across practice areas move faster, enhance work quality, and strengthen decision-making with AI.

Transactional lawyers automate repetitive tasks

In Lexis+ with Protégé and Lexis® Create+, cut repetitive tasks and run AI analyses purpose-built for complex transactional work.

Litigators meet tight deadlines and support clients

Prepare case materials, respond to client inquiries, and draft litigation documents faster with AI grounded in your firm’s prior work and trusted LexisNexis sources.

Legal professionals think freely in a secure workspace

In Lexis+ with Protégé, collaborate with AI to explore complex questions, pressure-test arguments, and draft freely within a secure legal workspace.

Transactional lawyers automate repetitive tasks

In Lexis+ with Protégé and Lexis® Create+, cut repetitive tasks and run AI analyses purpose-built for complex transactional work.

Testimonials about LexisNexis Protégé

What people are saying

“As a business lawyer, I’ve confidently expanded into criminal law, civil litigation, and class actions — areas that used to be overwhelming. The ROI? Your advertised figures are ultra-modest.”

Chad PantingAssociate Lawyer, Cassidy Ramsay Barristers, Solicitors & Notaries

“As a small general practice law firm, the issues we encounter are varied. I cannot imagine operating this way without this resource [Lexis+ AI].”

Carman FengOwner, Carman Feng Law

“Gluckstein Lawyers uses Lexis+ AI to streamline research and drafting decreasing time spent on non-billable work and increasing hours dedicated to providing real value to our clients.”

Charles GluckstienName Partner, Gluckstein LLP

Data Security, Privacy, and Governance

Data Security, Privacy, and Governance Security and privacy you can count on

Privacy by design

LexisNexis protects customer data wherever it is stored, sent, or accessed. We apply privacy by design principles at every stage of our systems, products, and business processes to ensure security and compliance are built in from the start. Our advanced encryption and rigorous compliance protect your sensitive information.

Strict security protocols

LexisNexis systems meet the highest standards for information security. We partner with trusted, enterprise-grade cloud providers, continuously monitor and improve our infrastructure, and undergo regular third-party audits to maintain industry-leading certifications.

Responsibly developed AI

LexisNexis follows the RELX Responsible AI Framework to ensure our AI protects privacy, is transparent and explainable, avoids unfair bias, includes human oversight, and is designed for real-world impact.

We never use customer data to train AI models and maintain robust data retention and deletion policies. Identifiable information is removed from AI interactions so that we can improve performance without compromising privacy.

FAQs about Protégé and AI legal assistant capabilities

Frequently Asked Questions

Protégé is the AI assistant layer that powers and connects LexisNexis solutions. LexisNexis solutions, such as Lexis+ with Protégé and Lexis Create+, deliver specific research, drafting, and analytics capabilities. Protégé enhances those solutions with advanced AI built on authoritative LexisNexis content and your organization’s knowledge, helping teams work more efficiently while maintaining legal rigor.

Protégé is the AI legal assistant built on authoritative and exclusive LexisNexis sources. It is the only AI legal assistant with direct access to exclusive LexisNexis sources continuously refined and updated by human professionals.

Unlike general-purpose AI tools or standalone legal AI software, Protégé:
  • Is grounded in trusted LexisNexis sources
  • Provides access to exclusive legal sources unavailable to other AI platforms
  • Can incorporate organization documents and prior work (when enabled)
  • Operates within a secure, enterprise-grade legal workspace
  • Does not use customer data to train models for other users
  • Enables user-controlled personalization by role, jurisdiction, and practice area

The result is AI-generated work product that is authoritative, secure, and tailored to each legal professional.

A legal AI workflow is a structured, repeatable sequence of legal tasks — such as intake, research, drafting, and review — executed as a guided multi-step process instead of ad-hoc prompts. Legal AI workflows help:
  • Standardize common processes
  • Improve consistency across projects
  • Reduce manual task switching
  • Accelerate document production

Protégé supports both pre-built workflows for common legal tasks and customizable workflows aligned to how a legal team operates.

AI personalization adapts research results, drafting output, and analysis to match an individual user’s preferences, jurisdiction, practice area, and document history.
Users control their personalization settings and can modify or disable them at any time.

Protégé General AI brings the power of leading general AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to the secure Lexis+ AI environment, so legal professionals can draft with greater control, explore broader topics, and tackle complex problems without leaving their trusted legal workflow. Users can choose from multiple configurations for Protégé tailored to their needs. Explore Protégé General AI for more information.

Protégé is designed with enterprise-grade privacy and security safeguards. Key protections include:
  • User-controlled personalization settings
  • No cross-user data training
  • Encryption of sensitive information
  • Compliance with applicable data protection laws
  • Ongoing security assessments and audits

Customers decide whether personalization services are enabled and whether their organization documents are used in AI responses. LexisNexis solutions are built to balance AI capability with confidentiality and compliance

Agentic AI enables software to take action across multi-step processes. Increasingly being used for guided legal workflows, proactive suggestions, and automated document analysis.

Protégé is included within supported LexisNexis solutions such as Lexis+ with Protégé, Lexis Create+, and others. It is not available as a standalone product.


Pricing is customized based on organization size, practice needs, and subscription requirements. For detailed pricing information, contact LexisNexis using the form on this page or call 1-800-255-5174.

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