LexisNexis Legal & Professional today (21 January) announced the U.S. commercial preview program of LexisNexis Protégé AI Workflows for Legal Professionals, launching a new ‘workflow-first’ interface that includes hundreds of pre-built workflows built around LexisNexis’ content.
While LexisNexis in 2025 announced various drafting and research workflows (they are a core component of Protégé, which launched in preview in August 2024), it says that today’s announcement brings together previous workflow products in one interface and represents its global vision for workflows. These include practice-specific steps for litigation and transactional work plus customisable workflows, with advanced practice area workflows for the likes of M&A and real estate said to be coming soon. LexisNexis last year announced a judicial agentic workflow that is also part of the new workflow interface.
The pilot programme has been rolled out to LexisNexis’ own 52-strong legal team and speaking to Legal IT Insider, Alex Smyth, EVP and general counsel for LexisNexis Legal & Professional, based in London, said: “Our team here is excited about the ability to check all the citation and Shepherdize them, because that’s obviously a big spot where lawyers generally have been burned by AI.”
She added that the legal team has been using workflows for the likes of reviewing documents, looking at redlines, and checking for the biggest risks in a contract. “All the things which you know we can do ourselves but we can do it in a tenth of the amount of time with this,” Smyth said, “and it also gives you consistency, because no matter which team member is using it, it gives you the same answers. It’s much more scalable, which is obviously ideal.”
Diving a little deeper into the functionality, Smyth said that the legal team works on multiple different tasks on any given day but that with the likes of a customer contract, if a customer marks up a contract, using Protege will help the team quickly identify where the high risks are, observing: “If it’s on a customer’s paper, we can look at it very quickly and flag where the high risk areas are.” She adds: “I used to be in private practice doing M&A and using this to do your first draft SPA is incredible.”
It is comforting, Smyth said, that Protégé is grounded in LexisNexis citations; that workflows are in one environment; and that citations are hyperlinked to take you to a case (if it can’t be hyperlinked, that will be flagged.)
The commercial preview programme rolls out in the US on the 1st of February and LexisNexis will continue the global rollout across Canada, the UK and Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East.
In a statement, Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO for LexisNexis North America, UK & Ireland, said: “Customers have asked us for legal workflow solutions they can trust that naturally integrate with their existing processes, and we’re delivering that with Protégé workflows.”
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