Today kicks off Legalweek in New York, and LexisNexis Legal & Professional is kicking off the week’s flurry of product announcements with its launch in the U.S. of what it says is the legal industry’s first personalized voice AI assistant in LexisNexis Protégé, its AI assistant for complex legal work.

The company says that this new voice AI assistance, along with new advanced reasoning capabilities, will simplify AI use for legal professionals, allowing them to interact naturally with Protégé using spoken language, instead of having to enter prompts to conduct legal work.

I have not seen it yet, but I am scheduled to get a demo tomorrow and will follow up with more details.

Lexis launched Protégé to general availability in January, an AI-powered legal assistant that incorporates both generative and agentic AI capabilities. The company described it as a “substantial leap forward in personalized generative AI that will transform legal work.”

According to LexisNexis, this week’s announcement adds several new features to Protégé that are either available now or will become available in the coming weeks. They include:

  • Voice-enabled AI. Users will be able to ask a legal question, initiate a drafting task, and request case law summarization using voice commands, integrating speech input into AI-driven legal work.
  • Advanced reasoning. The company says that new agentic AI capabilities will deliver the highest-quality work and enable deeper collaboration between AI and the legal professional. This includes a Planner Agent that dynamically breaks down complex legal questions into several steps for more comprehensive responses, as well as an Interactive Agent that will allow the user to modify the agent’s plan and choose the best course of action. A Self-Reflection Agent self-evaluates and refines its work for superior document drafting.
  • Context expert witness analytics. A new pre-trial assessment lets litigators upload an expert witness deposition, and Protégé will deliver an AI-generated summary of the expert’s challenge record, experience and qualifications, litigation and testimony history, and more.
  • Legal prompt suggestions. Based on user-controlled customization options, expanded and new prompt suggestions help users get relevant insights without needing deep expertise in AI prompting.
  • AI analysis for legal search results. Users will be able to perform AI tasks on up to the top-10 returned legal research case results or on individual cases. This offers an integrated, bridged experience by providing AI-powered assistance within Lexis+ search workflows.

“We want to make it increasingly effortless for our customers to collaborate with LexisNexis AI solutions to generate outstanding legal work,” said Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO of LexisNexis North America, UK, and Ireland. “With the launch of the legal industry’s first personalized AI voice assistant, we are drawing on our deep technology expertise to make the human-AI exchange more intuitive, productive, and beneficial to each individual customer for achieving better outcomes.”

If you will be at Legalweek, you can learn more about Protégé by visiting LexisNexis at Booth 2101.

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