LexisNexis launches personalised AI assistant for Australian market

LexisNexis Protégé™ is a personalised AI assistant that intelligently powers productivity, drives next-level work quality, and enables legal and business professionals to unlock new economic value.

Developed with human oversight, agentic AI capabilities in Protégé can autonomously complete tasks based on user goals, including reviewing its own work and identifying areas where it can improve its own output. This means simplified AI use, accelerated productivity, and enhanced value for users.

Protégé is initially available within the Lexis+ AI® legal workflow solution and Lexis® Create+ for legal AI drafting in Microsoft Word and will soon be available across the remainder of the LexisNexis products.

This comes after the legal tech provider launched local hosting in Australia for its Lexis+ AI product in March this year, following its original launch in 2024.

The Protégé AI assistant can draft full, tailored transactional documents, as well as litigation motions, briefs, and complaints, and check its own work before turning them over to human legal professionals for final review, as well as suggest legal workflow actions based on the type of documents uploaded and generate personalised follow-up prompts.

The tool also allows users to securely upload and save thousands of legal documents to Protégé Vault, a secure storage system used for sensitive data. On each Vault, users can perform numerous AI tasks to summarise, draft, research, and more.

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Practitioners can also use Protégé to generate a graphical timeline of events from uploaded documents, upload transactional documents and conduct streamlined, systematic analyses with speed and accuracy and summarise large, complex documents of up to 1 million characters or approximately 300 pages – a 250 per cent increase over previous processing limits.

Protégé can be personalised and grounded in a customer’s own documents and past work product via Document Management System (DMS) integration, allowing for customisation control for better results and a more tailored AI experience and giving users the ability to query, extract clauses, and draft from their firm’s knowledge base, streamlining access to necessary precedents.

Australia’s legal landscape is central to the development of Lexis+AI with Protégé, according to LexisNexis Asia-Pacific managing director Katy Fixter (pictured).

“LexisNexis is focused on improving outcomes and unlocking new levels of efficiency and value in legal work to support our customers’ success,” she said.

“Our vision is for every legal professional to have a personalised AI assistant that makes their life better, and we’re delighted to deploy that through our world-class, fully integrated AI technology platform.”