Following the preview release in August and the commercial release in October of its Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 General AI, LexisNexis Legal & Professional today rolled out what it is calling the product\u2019s next generation, expanding its capabilities to unify authoritative legal content, customer documents and open web insights within a single secure AI workflow environment. LexisNexis developed [\u2026]<\/p>\n
Following the preview release in August<\/a> and the commercial release in October of its Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 General AI, LexisNexis Legal & Professional<\/a> today rolled out what it is calling the product\u2019s next generation, expanding its capabilities to unify authoritative legal content, customer documents and open web insights within a single secure AI workflow environment.<\/p>\n LexisNexis developed Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 General AI as a way to provide customers with secure access to multiple general-purpose AI models alongside Prot\u00e9g\u00e9\u2019s existing legal-specific AI tools. The version unveiled today represents what LexisNexis describes as the most comprehensive integration yet of multiple data sources for legal AI work.<\/p>\n \u201cLegal professionals want one trusted legal AI workflow solution,\u201d said Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO of LexisNexis North America, UK, and Ireland. \u201cOnly LexisNexis can bring together agentic intelligence, customer documents, open web insights, and our authoritative content to produce next-level legal drafts and work output backed by Shepard\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n The product\u2019s rapid pace of development from August to now also underscores the competitive intensity in the legal AI market, as well as what LexisNexis describes as its commitment to \u201ccustomer-driven innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 General AI is designed to work alongside Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Legal AI and allow legal professionals to access general AI models within the company\u2019s existing Lexis+ AI workflow.<\/p>\n LexisNexis says this enables users to choose between Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Legal AI, which is optimized for authoritative legal AI workflows like legal drafting and analysis, or Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 General AI, which allows users to perform various tasks using the latest available AI models grounded in web content and LexisNexis content.<\/p>\n The core advancement in this release is Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 General AI\u2019s ability to easily combine insights from three distinct content sources:<\/p>\n Users retain control over which content sources Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 draws upon, allowing them to ground responses in all sources or select specific combinations of LexisNexis content, web sources, and their own documents.<\/p>\n Another significant enhancement is the introduction of \u201cBest Fit\u201d mode, which automatically selects the optimal AI model for each specific task. Users can also manually choose from an expanded roster of AI models, including:<\/p>\n Anything generated from these models that Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 General AI recognizes as legal citations are verified and linked through the Shepard\u2019s Citation Agent, providing an additional layer of reliability for legal professionals working with general-purpose AI models.<\/p>\n Behind the scenes, Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 General AI includes what LexisNexis describes as \u201ca new agentic infrastructure\u201d that enables AI agents to collaborate on complex legal workflows requiring broad understanding from diverse data sources.<\/p>\n The system includes four specialized agents:<\/p>\n LexisNexis says this infrastructure extends what it calls \u201cAgentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG),\u201d which itsays excels at understanding user intent, intelligently planning workflows, and retrieving authoritative information to ensure accurate and grounded AI responses.<\/p>\n According to LexisNexis, the enhanced Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 General AI now enables legal professionals to:<\/p>\n The system also now supports Deep Research capabilities and advanced reasoning for high-complexity legal problems, features that users can toggle on or off as needed.<\/p>\n LexisNexis emphasizes that all of this functionality operates within what it describes as a \u201cfully encrypted Lexis+ AI environment\u201d that provides \u201centerprise-grade data privacy protections for confident access to general purpose models.\u201d<\/p>\n Organizations can disable general AI access entirely for users, and individual users can toggle the feature on or off according to their preferences or firm policies.<\/p>\n The company also highlights a \u201cstreamlined interface\u201d that keeps questions, sources, citations, and drafts together for what it describes as \u201ca more efficient, transparent workflow.\u201d<\/p>\n Today\u2019s announcement represents the latest milestone in the rapid evolution of LexisNexis\u2019s Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 AI assistant since its initial unveiling in August 2024.<\/p>\nUnified Content Sources<\/h3>\n
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