Legal AI Drafting & Agentic Work

Legal AI Drafting & Agentic Work

From intake to review-ready work

What is legal AI drafting with Lexis+ with Protégé?

Lexis+® with Protégé helps legal professionals draft review-ready work. Put AI agents to work on complex legal tasks with visibility and control—grounded in trusted LexisNexis sources and organization documents.

Agentic drafting workflows in Microsoft 365

Integrated Microsoft 365 Drafting SolutionConnect drafting from intake to final review

With Lexis+ with Protégé and Lexis® Create+, move from intake in Outlook to research and drafting on web, then continue review and refinement in Word. Turn requests, legal sources, and organization knowledge into review-ready drafts.

Use AI agent skills to guide drafting and improve outcome

AI Agents for Complex Legal WorkYou guide the plan. Protégé carries out the work.

For multi-step drafting and analysis, Protégé outlines the steps before work begins. You review, refine, and approve the approach—then let AI agents carry out the work with visibility at every stage.

1. Define the goal

Tell Protégé what you need and add the documents, skills, and LexisNexis sources that matter.

2. Review the proposed plan

Protégé proposes a multi-step work plan for you to review, edit, and approve before execution begins.

3. Track and review the result

Follow progress step by step, then review grounded legal work.

Agentic skills built on expert intelligence, not just AI

Expert-built skills for specific legal outcomes

Skills guide how Protégé agents complete legal tasks—including how the work is researched, structured, and produced. Start with skills built by LexisNexis and Anthropic legal experts, or create custom skills tailored to your team.

LexisNexis legal skills

Use skills built for specific legal outcomes, such as comparing contracts, generating playbooks, filling in templates, creating timelines, and drafting litigation checklists.

Claude skills from Anthropic

Access Claude skills legal counsel roles such as AI governance, corporate, litigation, privacy, regulatory, and law students.

Create your own skills

Build custom skills tailored to your team’s workflows, document standards, preferred outputs, and review processes.

What legal professionals are saying about Lexis+ with Protégé legal AI

Legal professionals rely on Lexis+ with Protégé

"Protégé has been very helpful for me. I asked it about an urgent matter with a short litigation deadline, and it came up with a great idea of the type of motion to file. I asked it to draft the motion (it was an emergency motion) and it promptly did so. The drafting quality was excellent and all of the citations were accurate and on point. It was fantastic! The vault feature has also been very useful."

PartnerSmall Law Firm

"Our health system has been using Lexis+ AI for a number of months. The tool has been very helpful in drafting, analyzing and improving contracts, research, and legal memos. This has cut the cost associated with the use of outside counsel and made our legal team able to draft more content and support in a shorter period of time."

Corporate CounselSaint Francis Health System, Inc.

“Simply put, [Lexis+ Protégé] is a game changer. It is the future of the legal industry, it generates accurate results within seconds."

ParalegalBlack Rock Trial Lawyers

How legal professionals use AI for drafting

Video TutorialsSee trusted legal AI in action
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Draft a transactional agreement

Generate an initial draft of an agreement, revise, and export to Microsoft Word for further editing.

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Draft a litigation document

Generate a review-ready complaint using pre-built workflows, grounded in legal sources.

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Configure and personalize drafting preferences

Set personalization preferences so responses reflect your practice context.

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Draft discovery requests

Generate a starting draft of common discovery documents and revise to align with case strategy.

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Frequently asked questions about legal AI drafting

Frequently asked questions

Lexis+ with Protégé can help legal professionals draft a wide range of work product, including contracts, motions, briefs, complaints, discovery documents, deposition outlines, client communications, legal memos, timelines, and summaries. Drafts can be grounded in trusted LexisNexis sources, uploaded materials, and your organization’s documents where available.

A legal AI workflow is a guided, multi-step process for completing legal work such as drafting, analysis, review, and validation. In Lexis+ with Protégé, workflows help users move from source materials to work product through structured steps, rather than starting from a blank page or relying on a single prompt.

AI agents help plan and carry out complex legal tasks. In Lexis+ with Protégé, Protégé can propose a multi-step plan, let you review and approve the approach, then carry out the work with visibility into progress. This helps legal professionals stay in control while reducing the manual effort required to manage each step.

A legal skill is a reusable set of instructions that guides Protégé through a specific legal task. Skills can shape what sources Protégé consults, how the work is structured, and what kind of output is produced. Lexis+ with Protégé includes skills built by LexisNexis and Anthropic, and users can create custom skills tailored to their team’s workflows and standards.

Yes, with the right subscription, integrations, and permissions. Lexis+ with Protégé can use your organization’s documents, templates, playbooks, prior work, and uploaded materials to help generate drafts aligned to your standards. This helps improve consistency across work product while keeping drafts grounded in the materials that matter to your organization.

For complex drafting and analysis tasks, Protégé proposes a structured plan before work begins. Users can review, edit, and approve the plan, then follow progress step by step before reviewing the final work product. Legal professionals remain responsible for judgment, strategy, review, and final approval.

Lexis+ with Protégé operates within the secure LexisNexis environment. Customer data is not used to train public AI models or improve AI performance for other customers. LexisNexis applies privacy, security, and governance controls designed for professional legal work.

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