Litigators generate drafts from firm precedent
In Lexis+ with Protégé and Lexis® Create+, leverage your firm’s prior work and precedent to generate AI-powered drafts, build timelines, and move cases forward.
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LexisNexis Protégé AI Assistant for Legal Professionals
Introducing Protégé legal AI workflowsWhat is LexisNexis Protégé?
LexisNexis Protégé™ is the legal AI assistant that accelerates legal work across litigation, transactions, regulatory, and corporate matters—embedded in LexisNexis solutions and grounded in trusted sources and your organization’s knowledge.
What’s New in Protégé
Trusted workflows. Smarter legal AI.Now available in Lexis+® with Protégé™, workflows are part of a redesigned, intuitive experience. These structured, repeatable processes help legal teams work efficiently with AI while maintaining legal rigor.
Legal Workflow Automation Software
Pre-built workflowsMove faster on common litigation and transactional tasks.
Custom Legal Workflow Optimization
Custom workflowsCustomize any workflow for your specific practice.
AI Assistant Integration Across LexisNexis Solutions & Sources
Workflows built on trusted sourcesScale 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.
In Lexis+ with Protégé and Lexis Create+, cut repetitive tasks and run AI analyses purpose-built for complex transactional work.
Transactional attorneys automate repetitive tasks
In Lexis+ with Protégé and Lexis Create+, cut repetitive tasks and run AI analyses purpose-built for complex transactional work.
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In Lex Machina<sup>®</sup>, use AI summaries of court and docket searches to sharpen strategy and drive data-backed decisions.
Litigation teams sharpen strategy with court data
In Lex Machina®, use AI summaries of court and docket searches to sharpen strategy and drive data-backed decisions.
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In CourtLink<sup>®</sup>, find, analyze, and act on court data with AI-powered summaries and natural language search.
Legal teams monitor litigation
In CourtLink®, find, analyze, and act on court data with AI-powered summaries and natural language search.
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In CounselLink+<sup>™</sup>, use AI to surface matter insights, track spend trends, and manage legal work with greater visibility.
In-house legal teams manage matters and legal spend
In CounselLink+™, use AI to surface matter insights, track spend trends, and manage legal work with greater visibility.
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In Intelligize+ AI™, instantly surface disclosures and analyze SEC filings from peers to move from question to insight faster.
Compliance teams benchmark against peer filings
In Intelligize+ AI™, instantly surface disclosures and analyze SEC filings from peers to move from question to insight faster.
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In PatentSight+<sup>™</sup>, use AI to search and summarize global patent data. Use scientifically developed metrics to benchmark technologies.
IP professionals find opportunities
In PatentSight+™, use AI to search and summarize global patent data. Use scientifically developed metrics to benchmark technologies.
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In Lexis+ with Protégé, collaborate with AI to explore complex questions, pressure-test arguments, and draft freely within a secure legal workspace.
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.
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In Lexis+ with Protégé and Lexis<sup>®</sup> Create+, leverage your firm’s prior work and precedent to generate AI-powered drafts, build timelines, and move cases forward.
Litigators generate drafts from firm precedent
In Lexis+ with Protégé and Lexis® Create+, leverage your firm’s prior work and precedent to generate AI-powered drafts, build timelines, and move cases forward.
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Key Features
Explore how Protégé fuels your legal work
Draft full transactional and litigation documents
Draft from your organization’s document management system (DMS)
Draft from your organization’s document management system (DMS)Advance exploratory work with general-purpose AI
Summarize documents and legal search results instantly
Upload and analyze sensitive legal documents with Vault
Upload and analyze sensitive legal documents with VaultVerify linked legal sources with Shepard’s®
Prompt easily with AI suggestions and voice-to-text
Personalize your legal drafting style
Who is Protégé for?
Protégé helps legal professionals across the public, private, and academic sectors enhance their work.
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- Small law firms
- Large law firms
- Law schools
- Courts & the judiciary
- State, local & federal government agencies
- Corporate legal departments & enterprises
Related Solutions
Where Protégé works
Protégé powers AI capabilities across these LexisNexis solutions. Explore each to see how Protégé supports your specific use case.
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Frequently asked questions
Protégé is the AI assistant layer that powers and connects LexisNexis solutions. LexisNexis solutions—such as Lexis+ with Protégé, Lex Machina, CounselLink+, and others—deliver specific research, drafting, analytics, and matter management 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.
LexisNexis Protégé™ is the legal AI assistant built on authoritative and exclusive LexisNexis sources. It is the only legal AI 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:
The result is AI-generated work product that is authoritative, secure, and tailored to each legal professional.
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:
Protégé supports both pre-built workflows for common legal tasks and customizable workflows aligned to how a legal team operates.
- 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 users preferences, jurisdiction, practice area, and document history. Users control their personalization settings and can modify or disable them at any time.
Protégé now 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 now choose from multiple configurations for Protégé tailored to their needs. Explore Protégé General AI for more information.
LexisNexis Protégé is designed with enterprise-grade privacy and security safeguards. Key protections include:
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
- 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
Protégé combines three core types of artificial intelligence used in modern legal AI software:
By combining extractive, generative, and agentic AI, Protégé supports research accuracy, drafting efficiency, and structured legal workflows.
- Extractive AI: Extractive AI retrieves specific information from existing legal documents and datasets. Used for precise legal research, document search, and targeted summarization.
- Generative AI: Generative AI creates new content based on learned patterns. Used for legal drafting, conversational research, document summarization, and timeline generation.
- Agentic AI: Agentic AI enables software to take action across multi-step processes. Used for guided legal workflows, proactive suggestions, and automated document analysis.
By combining extractive, generative, and agentic AI, Protégé supports research accuracy, drafting efficiency, and structured legal workflows.
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 1-888-AT-LEXIS.
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 1-888-AT-LEXIS.
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