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

What 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: Latest AI Legal Assistant Innovations

Workflows are structured, repeatable AI processes in Lexis+® with Protégé™ that take legal work from start to finish using trusted LexisNexis sources and your documents.

Legal Workflow Automation Software

Pre-built & custom workflows: Move faster on litigation and transactional tasks.

Custom Legal Workflow Optimization

Guided agentic workflows: Use expert-built skills to delegate complex legal work.

AI Assistant Integration Across LexisNexis Solutions & Sources

Apply legal AI workflows consistently across your organization, backed by LexisNexis legal sources and your documents.

How AI Legal Assistants Improve Legal Workflows

Use Cases

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

Litigators meet tight deadlines and support clients

Promotional video for LexisNexis Protégé showing how litigators manage a fast-paced day that includes client meetings, drafting motions, and court appearances. The video highlights Protégé accelerating litigation workflows by turning complaints into structured, strategy-aligned answers in minutes, drafting litigation documents and client communications faster, and surfacing data-driven insights.

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.

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.

Legal teams monitor litigation

In CourtLink®, find, analyze, and act on court data with AI-powered summaries and natural language search.

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.

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.

IP professionals find opportunities

In PatentSight+™, use AI to search and summarize global patent data. Use scientifically developed metrics to benchmark technologies.

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.

Core Capabilities of Protégé as an AI Legal Assistant

Key Features

Draft full transactional and litigation documents

Draft from your organization’s documents

Draft from your organization’s documents.

Advance exploratory work with general-purpose AI

Summarize documents and legal search results instantly

Upload and analyze sensitive legal documents with Vault

Verify linked legal sources with Shepard’s®

Prompt easily with AI suggestions and voice-to-text

Personalize your legal drafting style

Who is an AI legal assistant like Protégé for?

Protégé helps legal professionals across the public, private, and academic sectors enhance their work.

  • Small law firms
  • Large law firms
  • Law schools
  • Courts & the judiciary
  • State, local & federal government agencies
  • Corporate legal departments & enterprises

AI Legal Assistant Integration Across LexisNexis Products

Protégé is the AI assistant that powers and connects LexisNexis solutions—bringing drafting, research, analysis, and broader legal workflows into a connected experience.

AI Legal Assistant Integrations with Microsoft 365 and More

Protégé works across Microsoft 365 and your document systems. Drafting, research, and analysis stay grounded in authoritative LexisNexis sources and your organization’s knowledge.

Microsoft 365 Copilot

Ask legal questions and draft using Protégé custom agent.

Microsoft Word

Draft legal documents with linked LexisNexis sources directly in Word.

Microsoft Excel

Bring legal context directly into your spreadsheet-based work in Excel.

Microsoft PowerPoint

Develop presentation materials with legal context in PowerPoint.

Microsoft OneNote

Connect your legal research directly to your working notes in OneNote.

Microsoft Teams

Get answers to quick legal questions without leaving Teams.

Microsoft Outlook

Turn emails into actionable legal work from your inbox.

Ground AI Responses in Your Organization’s Legal Knowledge

Securely connect Protégé to iManage, SharePoint, OpenText, and Google Drive to ground AI responses in your documents and LexisNexis legal sources.

Awards and Recognition

LexisNexis is committed to innovation, leadership, and excellence in delivering cutting-edge technology.

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.