AI in the legal
The legal industry, historically careful for adopting disturbed technologies, is now in a subversion point that is powered by AI. Focusing on this transformation is Lexisnexis Law and Professional, utilizing artificial intelligence to redefine how lawyers perform their daily work. Their latest innovation, the protected, a genetic and representative legal assistant of AI, aims to provide efficiency, precision and personalized legal flows to businesses around the world.
According to Jeff Reihl, EVP and Leader of Technology at Lexisnexis Legal & Professional, the impetus to AI was a natural development for industry. “Working lawyers are perfectly offered in genetic AI: Documentary, interlocutor to improve a question and many more,” Reihl notes. “AI is offered extremely well in legal work.”
The only value proposal of Lexisnexis lies in the proprietary content and technology infrastructure. Lexisnexis uses an Augmented Generation (RAG) recovery platform, which ground large linguistic models (LLMS) in an extensive database of over 160 billion documents, increasing daily by 1.6 million new files. This approach ensures the accuracy, relevance, verification and timeliness that is critical to legal work.
“A key differentiate for us is our own content,” Reihl explains. “We have an unparalleled repository – over 160 billion documents and records, with 1.6 million new documents added daily from more than 50,000 sources.” “We use a multi -model approach to which we select the best AI model for any legal use and a privately owned rag platform that responds to our legal content repository for high quality answers with validated reports.
The company is working closely with industry leaders such as AWS, Microsoft, Humanity, Mistral and Openai for the development of AI models that specifically cover the legal sector, coordinated in any case of use.
The personalized touch of protégé
The protector does not only respond to the requests, expects the next moves by lawyers. “The vision behind protégé is to personalize the AI experience,” says Reihl. “Not every lawyer works in the same way. Instead of putting weight on the end user, Protégé will walk the user throughout the work flow and predict what they would want to do.”
The first adopters already report impressive results, according to the company. Lexisnexis claims that protected law firms have seen significant improvements not only in productivity but also in the quality and completeness of legal research and documentation. For Lexisnexis, the AI advantage goes deeper than efficiency. Its purpose is to reshape how lawyers are approaching their work.
Overcoming the skepticism of industry
Law professionals have long been hesitant to embrace the AI, partly because of the early versions that were still excessively subdued. Lexisnexis faces these obstacles by emphasizing the safety, compliance and moral development of AI with strong human supervision.
As Reihl points out, “credibility remains an obstacle due to security, confidentiality, illusion and dangers from the extent to public LLMS-all serious issues for lawyers.
To address AI’s moral and responsible use issues, Lexisnexis Legal & Professional is part of RELX and have created their solutions according to AI RELX authorities.
The cost of waiting
Reihl sends a clear message to businesses that still hesitate to hug AI: “Waiting for AI hugs it means falling back because you will not be as effective as your competition or peers already using these tools.
Indeed, other industries provide warning stories. Businesses are slow to adopt transforming technology often lose competitive ground, as evidenced by Kodak’s failure to adapt to digital photography or dismissal streaming services by Blockbuster.
Other inheritance companies can take lessons from Lexisnexis’s approach: Priority to customers’ needs, adopting a culture of experimentation and ensuring organizational flexibility to quickly embrace emerging technologies. Reihl suggests: “You can start small with experimentation with some cases of use and expand as you learn the benefits.”
The future of law: a human relationship
Looking five years ahead, Reihl predicts a landscape where every lawyer will benefit from a personalized AI assistant similar to protégé. “Our vision is that every legal professional worldwide will have an AI assistant who is extremely personalized to them,” he explains. “Autonomous agents will perform work in the background, providing legal professionals with additional information they need even when they do not work actively.”
Despite AI’s extensive role, Reihl stresses that he will not replace the fundamentally human nature of the law. “The law is fundamentally a human system, based on values, interpretation and confidence in the public. AI can help law professionals, but will not replace human responsibility at the center of justice.”
