LexisNexis Expands Protégé AI Assistant to Lex Machina
Lex Machina®, a LexisNexis® company, today announced the incorporation of Protégé™, an AI-powered assistant, into its renowned Legal Analytics® platform. This new user experience is set to transform legal work by delivering real-time, data-driven insights with ease, speed, and increased accuracy.
LexisNexis Protégé™ is a personalised AI assistant designed to boost productivity, enhance work quality, and enable legal and business professionals to unlock new economic value with case insights from Lex Machina's trusted database of civil litigation in Federal District Court practice areas, the US Court of Appeals, and state courts.
Protégé in Lex Machina empowers users to input questions, statements, or prompts and receive instant analytics to address common pain points in legal research, such as time-consuming manual searches and difficulty navigating complex data. Users of all experience levels can effortlessly type a query and get immediate, high-quality analytics, simplifying legal research and decision-making.
For example, the user may input any of the following and receive corresponding analytics:
- Trial Damages from Contract Cases in Los Angeles County Superior Court: Provides damages analytics to set realistic client expectations and advise on litigation or settlement, enhancing client value.
- How Long Does It Take to Get to Class Certification in Arizona? Offers timing analytics to inform settlement strategies, align with client goals, and optimise resources.
- How Often is Summary Judgment Granted in the Delaware Court of Chancery? Delivers motion analytics to refine case strategy, increasing the likelihood of favourable outcomes.
- Attorneys with the Most Experience in Antitrust Cases in the Last 3 Years: Provides attorney analytics to help companies select the best legal representation, ensuring expertise and better case results.
- Cases in SDNY Involving Companies Headquartered in Canada: Offers party analytics to assess risk and guide forum selection, leading to strategic decisions and efficient resource use.
"Protégé in Lex Machina marks a significant milestone in Legal Analytics, enabling attorneys to harness legal insights easily," said Carla Rydholm, GM and Head of Product at Lex Machina. "Protégé simplifies how legal professionals interact with data and allows every user to get a jumpstart on access, eliminating research bottlenecks and supporting precision in legal strategy."
"Unlike generic AI tools, Protégé in Lex Machina is built on a solid foundation of structured Legal Analytics, ensuring insights are accurate, relevant, and actionable. This layered approach, where AI enhances an already robust data infrastructure, ensures Protégé in Lex Machina is not just another off-the-shelf AI-powered tool but a true evolution in legal intelligence. By eliminating the learning curve of navigating complex legal databases, users can type a query and receive immediate, high-quality analytics, making legal research faster, smarter, and more intuitive."
As the legal industry increasingly embraces AI for legal research and decision-making, Protégé in Lex Machina offers customers:
- Increased efficiency: Users can streamline data analysis by simply entering a prompt or question and receiving precise analytics, saving valuable research time.
- Uncover hidden data patterns and trends: The combination of Gen AI and high-quality structured data provides actionable intelligence in an intuitive format that enables smart decision-making.
- A competitive edge for a range of users: New or intermittent users will find it faster and easier to get data-driven insights. Super-users will see more options for tailoring their output to their precise needs.
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 worldwide.
About Lex Machina
Lex Machina fundamentally changes how companies and law firms compete in the business and practice of law. The company provides strategic insights on judges, lawyers, law firms, parties, and other critical information across 22 federal practice areas and a rapidly growing number of state courts. Lex Machina allows law firms and companies to anticipate the behaviours and outcomes that different legal strategies will produce, enabling them to win cases and close business.
