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LexisNexis Expands Lexis+ AI to French-Speaking Canadian Legal Professionals

2024-09-04T11:00:00Z

LexisNexis® Legal & Professional today announced that Lexis+ AI™, the legal generative AI solution, has launched in English and French for Canadian users, following the successful commercial launch of the English Lexis+ AI solution to the Canadian market on July 25, 2024, and previous launches in the USA, Australia, UK, and France.(read more)

Lex Machina Releases 2024 Contracts: Commercial Litigation Report

2024-08-22T14:00:00Z

Lex Machina, a LexisNexis company, today releases its 2024 Contracts: Commercial Litigation Report which examines commercial litigation trends in federal district and appellate courts.(read more)

LexisNexis Announces New Protégé Legal AI Assistant as Legal Industry Leads Next Phase in Generative AI Innovation

2024-08-12T11:00:00Z

Third-generation Lexis+ AI features highly personalized Protégé Legal AI Assistant, driven by customer feedback as part of US Commercial Preview program

NEW YORK — LexisNexis^® Legal & Professional, a leading global provider of AI-powered analytics and decision tools, today announced the US Commercial Preview program for LexisNexis Protégé^™ Legal AI Assistant on the third generation of Lexis+ AI^®. Protégé^™ marks a substantial leap forward in personalized generative AI that will transform legal work, with personalization choices controlled by the customer. Customer-driven innovation is core to the company’s product development, and LexisNexis is taking a customer-first approach to the generative AI technology journey as well. LexisNexis is teaming up with leading Am Law 100 firms as part of the US Commercial Preview program to tap into their continuous feedback.

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Protégé builds on Lexis+ AI technology and market leadership. Lexis+ AI is commercially available in the US, US law schools, Canada, the UK, France, and Australia. Lexis+ AI is the only major legal generative AI solution used in law school curricula today, available in 100 percent of US law schools. Near term, Lexis+ AI international market expansion plans include Austria, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Malaysia, and Singapore. Lexis+ AI users worldwide have generated millions of prompts and conversations, forming one of the world’s largest sets of user experience data in legal generative AI.

“Our customers are at the forefront of co-developing legal generative AI technology with us by testing, providing feedback, and adopting Lexis+ AI,” said Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO of LexisNexis North America, UK and Ireland. “Customers guide our vision. They are ready to progress from a Legal AI Assistant built for everyone, to the next phase – a Legal AI Assistant uniquely customized and tailored for each individual legal professional.”

LexisNexis Protégé is a private, trusted Legal AI Assistant, unique to each legal professional. Personalization choices are controlled by the user or their organization – creating a set of choices to optimize the user’s generative AI experience. Protégé will support legal professionals in making informed decisions faster, generating outstanding work quality, and freeing up time to focus on efforts that drive economic value for their clients and organizations:

Protégé is dedicated to understanding each user’s legal work needs, continuously improving and anticipating new ways to support them. Last month, LexisNexis acquired Henchman, a Belgium-based company, to catalyze its shift to personalized generative AI. Henchman’s advanced technology provides deeper access to law firms’ internal work product. Its technology enriches data from law firms’ Document Management Systems (DMS), enabling users to quickly mine internal repositories and extract and interact with key insights. Integrating Henchman^® DMS technology with trusted LexisNexis^® content using its proprietary Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) 2.0 platform improves answer quality and accelerates personalized generative AI.
Protégé personalization capabilities fuel a wide set of new AI-enabled tasks. Protégé knows specifics about each user like workflow preferences, daily task requirements, firm standards, teamwork and communication styles, legal areas of specialization, and past work product. It proactively suggests subscribed LexisNexis products to provide insights and analytics. Protégé will become increasingly versatile, flexible, and useful as new technologies are incorporated like voice and multi-media processing.
Protégé is ubiquitous across the LexisNexis AI-powered ecosystem––from the company’s portfolio of products to Microsoft 365 for Microsoft Word, Outlook, Teams, and Copilot. Protégé seamlessly works alongside the user, whether in a LexisNexis solution or third-party application like Microsoft, to reduce application switching time, accelerate efficiency, and meet the user where they work.
The Protégé core framework integrates safety, security, and Privacy by Design principles. This ensures that interactions are backed by state-of-the-art security and privacy technology to keep data and user information highly secure.

In Q3 and Q4 2024, the Protégé personalization journey begins for users with functionality that:

Knows my work and leverages my own work product – provides searchable internal firm data combined with AI for deep insights, enables batch upload capabilities and performs AI tasks, and analyzes my documents and provides contextual recommendations.
Knows my workflow and meets me where I work – integrates across LexisNexis solutions and Microsoft 365 and provides Shepard’s^® insights within conversations.
Knows my tasks and supports a wide range of new use cases – supports daily task organization, client meeting deliverables, and deposition preparation. Protégé builds timelines, conducts AI code compare, initiates statutory horizon scanning, enables document upload and analysis, drafts full documents, and conducts intelligent legal research.
Knows me and supports complex conversations – provides personalized responses based on user profiles and past behaviors, engages in sophisticated dialogue with clarifying questions and recommendations, and gives responses informed by subscribed LexisNexis products.
Knows how to harness innovative, new technology to uniquely support me (2025) – includes answering prompts by voice, multimedia processing across text, image, video and audio, and news horizon scanning to identify breaking opportunities and risks.

For more information on LexisNexis Protégé Legal AI Assistant, visit www.lexisnexis.com/protege. For more information on Lexis+ AI, visit www.lexisnexis.com/ai.

About LexisNexis AI Development

LexisNexis is responsibly developing legal AI solutions with human oversight. LexisNexis, part of RELX, follows the RELX Responsible AI Principles, considering the real-world impact of its solutions on people and taking action to prevent the creation or reinforcement of unfair bias. LexisNexis deploys ethical, powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi-model approach that prioritizes using the best model for each legal use case and enables the company to investigate and deploy new models with unmatched speed.

Using the LexisNexis advanced proprietary Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) 2.0 platform integrated with Shepard's^® Knowledge Graph, Lexis+ AI responses are grounded in comprehensive, exclusive legal content with case law relationship information to deliver validated citation references, ensuring high-quality and authoritative answers. Lexis+ AI delivers trusted results with state-of-the-art encryption and privacy technology to keep data secure. Uploaded documents are purged or retained as dictated by the customer, and customers can easily manage or delete their prompt conversation history. Lexis+ AI is continually improving with hundreds of thousands of rated answer samples by LexisNexis legal subject matter experts used for model tuning. LexisNexis employs over 2,000 technologists, data scientists, and subject matter experts to develop, test, and validate its solutions.

About LexisNexis Legal & Professional
LexisNexis^® Legal & Professional provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis^® and Nexis^® services. LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.

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LexisNexis Launches Lexis+ AI to the Canadian Legal Market

2024-07-25T11:00:00Z

Grounded in LexisNexis’ vast legal research and practical guidance content, following a successful commercial preview, Lexis+ AI is now commercially available in Canada, delivering fully encrypted, secure interactions with authoritative responses in seconds

Toronto, ON – LexisNexis^® Legal & Professional, a leading global provider of legal information and analytics, today announced that Lexis+ AI^® is now generally available for Canadian customers. This follows the successful commercial launches of Lexis+ AI in the USA, Australia, the UK, and France.

Lexis+ AI delivers trusted responses in a familiar, easy-to-use interface that uses an extensively enhanced LexisNexis proprietary Retrieval Augmented Generation 2.0 (RAG 2.0) platform. Lexis+ AI responses are grounded in one of the world’s largest collections of authoritative and exclusive legal content from LexisNexis, including primary, secondary, analytical content and expansive Practical Guidance modules.

Lexis+ AI provides direct links to underlying citable authority in its responses. This allows users to instantly validate results, reducing the risk of invented content, or hallucinations. Lexis+ AI automatically checks all linked citations against LexisNexis’ content to ensure they are valid.

Developed with input from leading legal professionals across Canada, Lexis+ AI has been built to meet the day-to-day needs of lawyers. Chris Figel, Executive Vice President and General Counsel at AirBoss of America commented, “I think of Lexis+ AI as the new gateway to all services in the LexisNexis universe and will use it that way. In addition, it allows me to explore features and functions which either I was not aware of before, or which didn't exist.”

The solution’s AI capabilities were built internally at LexisNexis with world-leading tech partnerships, enabling the company to rapidly introduce new features and technology and provide customers with a seamlessly integrated experience across the LexisNexis ecosystem.

Lexis+ AI features conversational search, intelligent legal drafting, insightful summarization, and document upload capabilities, all supported by state-of-the-art encryption and privacy technology to keep sensitive data secure:

Conversational search simplifies complex and time-consuming legal research by enabling users to conversationally interact with Lexis+ AI, explore new insights, and ask for adjusted and refined output.
Document drafting instantly produces contract clauses and client communications from a simple user prompt.
Summarization functionality delivers case summaries in seconds with more content and capabilities coming soon.
Document upload capabilities enable users to rapidly analyze, summarize and extract key insights from legal documents.

Lexis+ AI offers industry-leading data security and attention to privacy. Uploaded documents are always purged at the end of each session and users can easily manage or delete their prompt conversation history. The solution is continually improving, with LexisNexis legal subject matter experts regularly sampling hundreds of thousands of AI generated answers, to tune and educate the model. LexisNexis employs over 2,000 technologists, data scientists and subject matter experts to develop, test, and validate its solutions and deliver comprehensive, accurate information.

“This is a transformative milestone for the Canadian legal industry. We take immense pride in introducing a ground-breaking generative AI solution that empowers our clients to thrive securely and confidently,” said Sam Puchala, President and General Manager of LexisNexis Canada. “The enthusiasm about Lexis+ AI underscores its game-changing potential, and we are thrilled to provide our esteemed clients with seamless access to our extensive legal resources and state-of-the-art AI capabilities, fortifying their competitive edge like never before.”

LexisNexis is responsibly developing legal AI solutions with human oversight. LexisNexis, part of FTSE listed RELX, follows the RELX Responsible AI Principles. These require the business to consider the real-world impact of its solutions on people and to take proactive action to prevent the creation or reinforcement of unfair bias.

For more information on Lexis+ AI or to schedule a demo visit www.lexisnexis.ca/Lexis-Plus-AI.

About LexisNexis Legal & Professional
LexisNexis® Legal & Professional provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis^® and Nexis^® services. LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.

About RELX
RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. The Group serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs more than 35,000 people over 40 percent of whom are in North America. The shares of RELX PLC, the parent company, are traded on the London, Amsterdam and New York Stock Exchanges using the following ticker symbols: London: REL; Amsterdam: REN; New York: RELX. The market capitalization is approximately £49.5bn, €56.3bn, $61.8bn.

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LexisNexis Enhances Lexis+ AI with New Features, AI Models, and Graph Technology to Further Drive High Quality, Trusted Answers for Legal Professionals

2024-07-22T12:00:00Z

LexisNexis® Legal & Professional today announced a powerful set of customer-driven enhancements to the industry-leading Lexis+ AI™ that reinforce the company’s commitment to delivering high-quality, trusted results.(read more)

LexisNexis Completes Acquisition of Henchman

2024-07-22T11:00:00Z

LexisNexis® Legal & Professional today announced it has completed its acquisition of Henchman, a legal tech company that enriches data from Document Management Systems for faster document drafting.(read more)

LexisNexis Launches Nexis+ AI an Advanced Generative AI-Powered Decision Intelligence Platform to Transform Company Research

2024-07-17T13:00:00Z

Organizations can now utilize Nexis+ AI’s transparent Gen AI capabilities to access trustworthy content sources and powerful summarization to achieve faster time to insights

New York, NY – July 17, 2024 – LexisNexis^® Legal & Professional, a leading global provider of information and analytics, today announced the commercial launch of Nexis+ AI™, incorporating advanced generative AI-powered capabilities designed to transform and accelerate corporate research, intelligence gathering and business decision-making functions. Enhanced by more than 700 hours of in-depth customer interviews, Nexis+ AI is tailored to meet the evolving needs of modern businesses. Corporations can now deploy Nexis+ AI's powerful research, intelligence and document summarization features to find accurate information effortlessly, gain a competitive advantage and boost efficiency.

Trusted for over 50 years by thousands of corporations globally, LexisNexis delivers critical business decisioning information from a huge repository of licensed news publications and corporate data on millions of companies. Nexis+ AI leverages a portfolio of over 20,000 licensed titles, with GAI rights granted by some of the largest publishers and industry-recognized titles such as The Associated Press, Gannett, McClatchy, Benzinga, FiscalNote - CQ Roll Call, and many others. With Nexis+ AI, users can:

Quickly research and analyze business, financial and legal information and news;
Summarize lengthy documents and extract relevant entities and data points;
Compile, organize and share content;
Create first drafts or outlines of intelligence reports with a few mouse clicks; and
Derive actionable business insights with speed and precision.

“Business leaders across nearly every industry tell us they need deeper, more accurate insights to better facilitate timely decisions, but they find the amount of corporate data daunting and the process time consuming. Recognizing this, we’ve created Nexis+ AI to accelerate data-intensive research and strategic decision-making,” said Todd Larsen, President of Nexis Solutions. “We worked closely with our customers to develop Nexis+ AI’s powerful tools that help organizations gather corporate intelligence faster and seamlessly integrate into their existing workflows for greater efficiency.”

Publisher IP and Revenue Protection
With the growth in popularity of AI and generative AI tools, publishers and content owners have increasingly focused on protecting their copyright and intellectual property. LexisNexis has long-standing, extensive - and in some cases exclusive - content licensing agreements with publishers. These relationships allow LexisNexis to deliver contextually relevant, Gen AI-derived answers, with direct links to the original source material, to help minimize the risk of AI hallucinations.

With Nexis+ AI’s publisher-first approach, publishers can:

Ensure their intellectual property rights are respected, knowing that their content is never used to train any AI models without their knowledge or permission;
Rest assured that their content is presented transparently and in context to preserve brand integrity, with citations taking users back to the source material; and
Get paid fairly for the use of their content, whether that use is by human or by machine.

Commitment to Excellence
Earlier this year, LexisNexis launched a Nexis+ AI commercial preview program that granted early access to a select number of organizations. The preview program enrolled testers across a wide range of industries and professions, including representatives from large corporates, financial institutions, and six major consulting firms, among others, to ensure further refinement of the platform's already advanced features and functionality.

“The launch of Nexis+ AI represents a significant first milestone in our mission to provide organizations with the tools they need to accelerate company research and make informed business decisions,” said Dani McCormick, Vice President of Product, Nexis Solutions

Strong Focus on Transparency, Data Accuracy, Privacy and Security

LexisNexis’ commitment to data security and privacy spans more than 50 years. The company employs more than 2,000 technologists, data scientists and subject matter experts to develop, test, and validate its solutions. With data privacy top of mind among corporate executives considering Gen AI solutions, LexisNexis, part of RELX, follows the RELX Responsible AI Principles, considering the real-world impact of its solutions on people and taking action to prevent the creation or reinforcement of unfair bias.

Nexis+ AI also provides transparency and accuracy by design, utilizing retrieval augmented generation (RAG) to enhance the precision and reliability of generative AI models with information fetched from thousands of trusted, authoritative sources.

For more information about Nexis+ AI, please visit https://lexisnexis.com/NexisAI.

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Intelligize® Launches Intelligize+ AI™, Transforming SEC Compliance Analytics with Advanced AI and Search Capabilities

2024-07-15T11:00:00Z

Intelligize+ AI helps users cut through regulatory complexity, enabling them to more easily surface higher quality results than previously possible

NEW YORK – Intelligize today announced the launch of Intelligize+ AI, the next generation of its premier SEC compliance analytics and research platform. The reimagined platform includes generative artificial intelligence-driven capabilities and new search technologies that enable users to quickly and easily find, analyze, and compare documents using natural language processing.

Intelligize+ AI offers new search technologies, including a new Expand Keywords feature to make Boolean searching even more robust with variations and high-confidence substitutes. Advanced conceptual search technology also enables users to go beyond traditional keyword searches for more intuitive discovery of the most relevant documents based on the concepts of underlying queries.

“The Intelligize platform has long been known for its incredible depth and breadth, and that remains foundational to our product,” said Christian Berczely, CEO and CTO of Intelligize. “With the rapid development of AI technologies, we saw an opportunity to empower our users to efficiently surface higher quality search results than ever before, leading to improved compliance and reduced research hours.”

The platform’s “Ask AI” feature enables users to ask questions in plain English about their search results to speed document review and pinpoint the most relevant examples. Two additional AI-driven features, “AI Compare” and “AI Summarize,” help users highlight similarities and differences between documents for faster review, and provide condensed explanations of sections within documents, reducing the time spent manually synthesizing information. Using these three features, painstaking tasks like benchmarking peer filings – critical to avoiding SEC Comment Letters – become dramatically easier.

“Ask AI represents a significant step forward in the way our users manage their compliance-related research,” said Scott Gabrielle, Senior Director of Product Management at Intelligize. “It’s comparable to first finding a certain ball of yarn amongst millions of other balls of yarn, and then easily identifying a specific, microscopic yarn fiber within that ball.”

Berczely added: “Many AI-based tools feel experimental in nature – as though they are solutions in search of problems. We developed Intelligize+ AI from the perspective that AI is a wonderful tool, but the most valuable, strategic work can only be performed by smart, qualified humans. We wanted to give our customers a solution that uses AI to help them improve the quality of their results and reclaim much of the time they had traditionally spent on research.”

In addition to its new features, the Intelligize+ AI platform prioritizes user-friendliness, featuring a sleek, modern look-and-feel that makes searching, viewing, and analyzing SEC filings more straightforward and intuitive.

The development of Intelligize+ AI was guided by the RELX Responsible AI Principles, which prioritize secure and private interaction. Intelligize’s generative AI is powered by a privately hosted model and is never shared with third parties. It leverages a complex and proprietary retrieval augmented generation (RAG) process to enhance the accuracy of responses and make sure answers are grounded in authoritative sources.

About LexisNexis Legal & Professional
LexisNexis® Legal & Professional provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services. LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.

About Intelligize
Intelligize® is the leading provider of best-in-class content, exclusive news collections, regulatory insights, and powerful analytical tools for compliance, transactional and financial reporting professionals. public companies, private companies, law firms, accounting and consulting firms, and other organizations stay compliant with SEC regulations, build stronger deals and agreements, and deliver value to their shareholders and clients.
Headquartered in New York City, Intelligize serves Fortune 500 companies, including Starbucks, IBM, Microsoft, Verizon and Walmart, as well as many of the top global law and accounting firms.
For more information, visit www.intelligize.com

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Lex Machina Releases 2024 Consumer Protection Litigation Report

2024-07-03T14:00:00Z

Lex Machina today releases its 2024 Consumer Protection Litigation Report which examines consumer protection litigation trends in federal district and appellate courts.(read more)

LexisNexis Launches Lexis+ AI to the French Legal Market

2024-07-01T14:00:00Z

LexisNexis announced that Lexis+ AI is now available to all legal professionals in France, following its successful commercial launches in the USA, Australia and the UK.(read more)

Tolley announces the development of Tolley+ AI, as industry report reveals that two thirds of UK tax professionals have already embraced AI

2024-06-27T11:00:00Z

The report reveals that more than 66% of UK tax professionals either use generative AI on a regular basis or intend to do so soon, noting that an AI solution grounded in unrivaled tax content from Tolley will transform the tax industry.

London – Tolley®, part of LexisNexis® Legal and Professional, a leading provider of tax information, workflow and analytics, today announced the development of Tolley+ AI™, a generative AI solution designed to transform tax research and guidance. Grounded in the largest repository of accurate and exclusive tax content, Tolley+ AI combines the power of generative AI with proprietary search technology. Results on Tolley+ AI will always be backed by a verifiable, citable authority or source allowing users to check the validity of results instantly and effortlessly.

Tolley+ AI is using the same underlying and proven technology that drives Lexis+ AI®, the generative AI tool for lawyers. Following the successful launches of Lexis+ AI in the USA, Australia and the UK, the business is leveraging the global expertise and experience of over 2,000 technologists, data scientists and subject matter experts to develop, test and validate an AI solution specifically for the UK tax industry.

The role of generative AI in the UK tax market is of growing interest and importance. The new Tolley® report How Generative AI is Transforming Tax Practice reveals that UK tax professionals have quickly recognized the efficiency benefits of generative AI. The survey of 446 UK tax professionals in private and in-house practice reveals that 66% of tax professionals are either using or plan to use AI for work purposes.

The report goes on to reveal that 32% of tax professionals in private practice have made AI-related changes to their day-to-day operations. In-house tax teams are a step ahead of their private practice colleagues, with 43% saying they have changed their ways of working, including 24% adopting new AI policies, 18% launching AI-powered tools for internal use and 14% delivering staff training.

Despite the interest in AI, 79% of UK tax professionals have some level of concern over the ethics and trustworthiness of public-access and free-to-use generative AI platforms citing “lack of trust” and “potential content hallucinations” as their main concerns. However, 71% said they would be “somewhat” or “completely comfortable” using AI-powered tools that were grounded in proven, authoritative tax research and guidance content.

Tolley+ AI is grounded in up-to-date and exclusive Tolley tax content. Tolley+ AI will be able to provide answers to tax questions with results that are always linked back to the underlying source. Tolley+ AI will feature conversational search, insightful summarisation, intelligent drafting and document upload capabilities, all supported by state-of-the-art encryption and privacy technology to keep sensitive data secure.

“AI is set to transform and revolutionize the practice of tax and it is clear that tax professionals are keen to embrace the value that generative AI can offer” commented Jon Scriven, Director of Tax Markets at Tolley.

Gerry Duffy, Managing Director at LexisNexis UK added “By combining our advanced technological capabilities with outstanding Tolley tax research and guidance content, we will be able to help our customers accelerate their workflows, increase productivity and gain a clear competitive advantage.”

Tolley is responsibly developing an AI solution with human oversight. As part of the LexisNexis and RELX family, AI development at Tolley follows the RELX Responsible AI Principles, considering the real-world impact of its solutions on people and taking action to prevent the creation or reinforcement of unfair bias.

To support tax professionals in their understanding of AI and the opportunities it will present, Tolley has created the Tolley+ AI™ Insider program. This will offer free and exclusive access to webinars, thought leadership and breaking news on the latest AI technologies. Curated by Tolley, there will be insights from tax market leaders, innovation and technology evangelists and in-house experts. Tolley+ AI Insiders will be among the first to experience the Tolley+ AI platform.

To read the report How Generative AI is Transforming Tax Practice and become a Tolley+ AI Insider, visit https://www.lexisnexis.co.uk/research-and-reports/tax-generative-ai-report-2024.html

Matthew Leopold

Head of Communications

LexisNexis

Matthew.Leopold@lexisnexis.co.uk

+447788435569

Lex Machina Releases 2024 Insurance Litigation Report

2024-06-13T14:00:00Z

Lex Machina releases its 2024 Insurance Litigation Report which examines insurance litigation trends in federal district and appellate courts.(read more)

LexisNexis Launches Lexis+ AI to the UK Legal Market

2024-06-12T23:01:00Z

LexisNexis® Legal & Professional today announced that Lexis+ AI is now generally available for UK customers.(read more)

LexisNexis to Acquire Document Drafting Tech Provider Henchman

2024-06-03T11:00:00Z

Acquisition will combine Henchman’s Document Management System data enrichment with trusted LexisNexis drafting guidance content to deliver personalized generative AI experience

NEW YORK – LexisNexis Legal & Professional^®, a leading global provider of information and analytics, today announced it has agreed to acquire Henchman, a legal tech company that enriches data from Document Management Systems (DMS) for faster document drafting. Henchman is a Belgium-based company, founded in 2020, with 170+ legal and corporate customers globally including top U.S. and European law firms and companies.

By acquiring Henchman, LexisNexis will deliver personalized generative AI solutions to customers around the world. Henchman core product functionality will be available to existing and new customers. LexisNexis has immediate plans to utilize Henchman’s technology with its proprietary Retrieval Augmented Generation 2.0 (RAG 2.0) platform in its flagship Lexis+ AI solution, enabling the use of trusted customer data as grounding data for generative AI drafting. Henchman's capabilities will also be added to Lexis^® Create, the Microsoft 365 add-in solution that enables point-of-workflow integration for generative AI drafting in Microsoft Word, Outlook, Teams and Copilot.

Henchman is used by leading law firms and corporations to enrich internal work product, creating a layer of intelligence on contract databases to accelerate drafting tasks.

Henchman interacts with the DMS of a law firm or corporation, indexing the organization’s precedent documents at the clause level, making the data available for contract insights and drafting. Its technology works with legal‐specific DMS providers and general enterprise content management systems and is language agnostic. Henchman’s technology incorporates security and conflict settings that mirror document permissions within the DMS, preserving firm confidentiality and privacy requirements. These benefits are available to customers in days, not months, from deployment of the technology.

Advanced technology processes allow a customer to quickly find key insights from internal data repositories. LexisNexis will incorporate this enhanced document enrichment capability to deliver new generative AI drafting solutions.

“This is an exciting moment for our customers and the LexisNexis and Henchman teams,” said Mike Walsh, CEO, LexisNexis Legal & Professional. “We’re continuously engaging with customers to determine where AI can deliver the most value. Now, we’ll be able to address one of our legal customers’ top requests – to have searchable internal firm data, combined with our current drafting and AI offerings, allowing legal professionals to rapidly extract language and insights, and generate higher quality work using both internal data and LexisNexis solutions together.”

Henchman Co-Founder Gilles Mattelin added, “We see this union with LexisNexis as an extension of our drafting vision to proactively surface valuable and strategic insights for customers – delivering a center of knowledge to legal teams. We believe the combination of our teams and tech will empower customers to make informed decisions faster, generate outstanding work, and drive economic value for their organizations.”

Closing of the transaction is subject to customary regulatory consents and is expected early in the second half of 2024. The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.

Lexis+ AI delivers trusted results with state-of-the-art encryption and privacy technology to keep data secure. Using an extensively enhanced LexisNexis proprietary RAG 2.0 platform, Lexis+ AI responses are grounded in the world’s largest repository of up-to-date legal content which ensures the highest-quality answer with the most up-to-date validated citation references. Uploaded documents are always purged at the end of each session and users can easily manage or delete their prompt conversation history. The solution is continually improving with hundreds of thousands of rated answer samples by LexisNexis legal subject matter experts used for model tuning. LexisNexis employs over 2,000 technologists, data scientists, and subject matter experts to develop, test, and validate its solutions and deliver comprehensive, authoritative information.

For more information on Lexis+ AI and our generative AI resources for legal professionals, visit www.lexisnexis.com/ai.

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LexisNexis Australia Launches Lexis+ AI™, A Generative AI Solution That is Set to Change the Game for Australian Legal Practitioners

2024-06-02T23:30:00Z

The fastest legal generative AI on the market goes live in Australia following a successful trial, transforming legal work by delivering fully encrypted, secure interactions with reliable results in seconds.

SYDNEY (June 3, 9:30 am AEST / June 2, 7:30 pm EDT) — LexisNexis^® Legal & Professional, a leading global provider of information and analytics, today announced general availability of Lexis+ AI™ for all Australian customers, a generative AI solution designed to transform legal work. This follows a successful trial phase since February with more than 300 Australian legal practitioners across the entire industry.

Lexis+ AI delivers trusted results in a familiar, easy-to-use interface with reliable and linked legal citations that combine the power of generative AI with proprietary LexisNexis search technology and its leading authoritative content, including the vast primary, secondary, analytical content and expansive Practical Guidance modules.

Developed with commercial preview users from leading global law firms, corporate legal departments, small law firms, and government departments, Lexis+ AI answers are grounded in one of the world’s largest repositories of reliable and exclusive legal content from LexisNexis. Lexis+ AI provides comprehensive results in seconds versus minutes making it multiple times faster than other legal generative AI solutions available today.

The solution’s AI capabilities were built internally at LexisNexis with world-leading tech partnerships, enabling the company to rapidly introduce new features and technology in a native environment and provide customers with a seamlessly integrated ecosystem.

Lexis+ AI provides citations linked in its responses, providing trusted legal results backed by verifiable authority. It minimises the risk of invented content, or hallucinations, and checks citations against its authoritative content to ensure citation validation. The solution also offers users the ability to input specific citations to verify reliability and flag when a citation might be wrong. Customers can give instant feedback within the product to continually improve product performance, content relevance, and overall product quality. Lexis+ AI does not rely on or learn from user input. LexisNexis’ commitment to privacy and data protection have been cornerstone pillars in every aspect of its product development.

Lexis+ AI which is built for both litigation and non-litigation workflows, features conversational search, intelligent legal drafting, insightful summarisation, and document upload capabilities, all supported by state-of-the-art encryption and privacy technology to keep sensitive data secure:

Conversational search simplifies complex and time-consuming legal research by enabling users to conversationally interact with Lexis+ AI, explore new insights, and ask for adjusted and refined output.
Document drafting instantly produces contract clauses and client communications such as emails and letters from a simple user prompt.
Summarisation functionality delivers case summaries in seconds with more content and capabilities coming soon.
Document upload capabilities enable users to rapidly analyse, summarise, and extract key insights from legal documents.

LexisNexis deploys ethical, powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi-model approach utilising the right model for each use case and specific task. This approach includes working with large language models like Anthropic’s Claude 2, hosted on Amazon Bedrock from Amazon Web Services (AWS), and OpenAI’s GPT-4 and ChatGPT, hosted on Microsoft Azure. LexisNexis employs over 2,000 technologists, data scientists, and subject matter experts to develop, test, and validate its solutions and deliver comprehensive, reliable information.

Greg Dickason, Managing Director of LexisNexis Asia & Pacific, said: “This is a moment unlike any we’ve seen in the legal industry, and we are delighted to deliver generative AI that will safely and securely accelerate our customers’ success. Lexis+ AI gives legal professionals a significant competitive advantage by driving improved speed, productivity, and work quality gains for law firms and their clients. The time savings we have seen with our customers has been phenomenal.”

Clayton Utz Chief Executive Partner, Emma Covacevich said the firm was proud to be the first Australian law firm to use Lexis+ AI: “We have a culture of innovation that drives better client outcomes, and the adoption of Lexis+ AI is yet another example of that. Clayton Utz has assisted with the development and testing of Lexis+ AI and we are now excited to be the first law firm in Australia to use the product commercially. We see Lexis+ AI as a tool that complements our lawyers’ expertise by making legal research easier and more efficient.”

Gilbert + Tobin Partner and Chief Knowledge and Innovation Officer, Caryn Sandler said: “Gilbert + Tobin prides itself on innovation and is grateful to LexisNexis for providing the opportunity to be involved in the beta trial of Lexis+ AI.”

Holding Redlich Chief Knowledge Officer, Keren Smith believes innovative technology is essential for attracting and retaining outstanding lawyers: “Client Success drives all of our lawyers, and the new efficiencies of Lexis+ AI augment and enhance the skill sets of excellent, accurate and timely advice. It is exciting for our practitioners to be at the forefront of groundbreaking legal research technology.”

The Lexis+ AI Insider program, which is open to all legal professionals, is designed to support the legal industry with generative AI education and LexisNexis breaking news on the latest AI developments. To sign up for the Lexis+ AI Insider program, visit https://www.lexisnexis.com.au/en/insights-and-analysis/artificial-intelligence. For more information on Lexis+ AI and to sign up for a demo, visit www.lexisnexis.com.au

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