{"id":114850,"date":"2025-04-14T15:55:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T23:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/14\/legal-industrys-first-voice-ai-assistant-steals-the-show-at-2025-legalweek\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T15:55:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T23:55:01","slug":"legal-industrys-first-voice-ai-assistant-steals-the-show-at-2025-legalweek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/14\/legal-industrys-first-voice-ai-assistant-steals-the-show-at-2025-legalweek\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Industry\u2019s First Voice AI Assistant Steals The Show At 2025 Legalweek"},"content":{"rendered":"

The post Legal Industry\u2019s First Voice AI Assistant Steals The Show At 2025 Legalweek<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 2025 Legalweek<\/a> conference, which is the largest annual gathering of the legal technology industry, was stirred up this week by a product launch that touched off a buzz about new ways that artificial intelligence (AI) technology will transform legal work.\u00a0<\/p>\n

LexisNexis kicked off Legalweek with the announcement<\/a> of the legal industry\u2019s first personalized voice AI assistant for completing complex legal work, with the rollout of an enhanced version of LexisNexis Prot\u00e9g\u00e9.<\/p>\n

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Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 is a personalized AI assistant that seamlessly connects across the LexisNexis product ecosystem and can also be grounded in customer data via secure integration with a Document Management System (DMS). It is available within the Lexis+ AI<\/a> legal workflow solution and Lexis Create+<\/a> tool for legal drafting in Microsoft Word.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The new version<\/a> of Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 includes a voice-enabled AI experience for streamlined legal workflows. Users can ask a legal question, initiate a drafting task and request case law summarization using voice commands, seamlessly integrating speech input into AI-driven legal work.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Voice AI assistance and new advanced reasoning capabilities simplify AI use, allowing legal professionals to interact naturally with Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 using spoke language, rather than manually entering prompts. This new, multi-modal experience provides users with greater workflow flexibility, making it easier for them to deliver next-level legal work even faster and making their workday more efficient.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to make it increasingly effortless for our customers to collaborate with LexisNexis AI solutions to generate outstanding legal work,\u201d said Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO of LexisNexis North America, UK and Ireland, in a press release<\/a> unveiling the enhanced product. \u201cWith the launch of the legal industry\u2019s first personalized AI voice assistant, we are drawing on our deep technology expertise to make the human-AI exchange more intuitive, productive and beneficial to each individual customer for achieving better outcomes.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

News of the innovative technology breakthrough made a splash at Legalweek and touched off immediate reaction throughout the industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n

LawSites<\/em>, the popular industry blog published by veteran industry journalist Robert Ambrogi, broke the news with a feature story<\/a> that heralded the launch of \u201cthe industry\u2019s first voice AI assistant in Prot\u00e9g\u00e9\u201d as the big product announcement to kick off Legalweek.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Legaltech News<\/em> reported<\/a> the launch in the headline of its roundup story at Legalweek, noting that \u201cthe voice assistant will allow users to interact with Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 verbally, and allows them to ask legal questions, initiate document drafting and request case summarization with spoken prompts.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 leverages proprietary agentic and generative AI technology from LexisNexis, and the tool is built with enterprise-grade security, compliance and privacy. In addition to the breakthrough voice AI assistance, the company also announced other new features<\/a> coming to Prot\u00e9g\u00e9, including:\u00a0<\/p>\n