CRIV CONNECTION

The CRIV Semiannual Call with LexisNexis® Legal & Professional took place on June 25, 2025.

Participants: Monique Gonzalez (CRIV Liaison to LexisNexis); Lindsey Watson (Sr. Manager, Knowledge & Research and Faculty Programs, LexisNexis); Simon Weierman (Sr. Director, US Legal, LexisNexis); Shamika Dalton (AALL Board Member)

This update includes news and product enhancements released between December 2024 and June 2025.

LexisNexis® Legal & Professional Company Updates

• Here’s what to expect from LexisNexis at the AALL Annual Meeting & Conference July 19-22 in Portland.
• LexisNexis and Harvey Announce Strategic Alliance to Integrate Trusted, High-Quality AI Technology and Legal Content and Develop Advanced Workflows. Harvey customers will benefit from LexisNexis generative AI technology and exclusive legal content including U.S. case law, statutes, and Shepard’s^® Citations, and jointly developed legal workflows.
• Lexis+ AI Fuels $30M Revenue Growth in Law Firms, New Study Finds announcement for The Total Economic Impact™ of Lexis+ AI for Large Law Firms, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of LexisNexis. According to the new customer study, by scaling lawyer productivity, work quality, and client impact, the Lexis+ AI generative and agentic AI workflow solution drove up a substantial 344 percent return on investment (ROI) with $30 million revenue growth in just three years for global large law firms, for a composite organization representative of interviewed customers.
• LexisNexis integrates Protégé assistant into CounselLink+ and Lex Machina; secures a seven-year Lexis+ AI contract with the federal judiciary (and Lexis+ for Government becomes the only legal research solution to achieve FedRAMP ready status); collaborates with OpenAI to deliver customer AI technology for legal professionals; and introduces the legal industry’s first voice AI assistant.

Products & Services Updates

Lexis+ AI™ (US)

Multiple upgrades to Lexis+ AI subscribers were rolled out over the past six months, starting with the launch of Protégé, our personalized AI assistant that reduces repetitive tasks, tackles complex analyses, and delivers exceptional work for legal and business professionals. With the Protégé launch in subsequent months, key capabilities of Lexis+ AI have been enhanced and expanded to include enhanced legal drafting, support to connect to Document Management Systems (DMS), personalized follow-up prompts and recommendation.

Additionally, within Lexis+ AI you’ll now have:

• Access to AI generated summaries of headnotes (coming soon to law schools), federal and state administrative code, administrative decisions, and legal new articles from Law360 and Mealey’s, and case briefs in the IRAC format within the documents themselves
• The ability to Ask Protégé from your natural language or Boolean search results within the Legal Research Experience.
• Access to the new Lexis+AI mobile app.
• In online research, Lexis introduced Shepard’s enhancements were rolled out to boost the performance and reduce the time for users to review a Shepard’s report, add access to “Pending & Adopted” Regulatory Alerts, and introduce the new short Lexis (LX) citation format with coverage for all U.S. jurisdictions for greater efficiency when drafting work product including citation references.

Lexis® Create+

• Create+’s drafting capabilities were enhanced, enabling users through Protégé to directly edit their open document utilizing the AI assistant The Create+ landing page was refreshed to simplify access to Proofreading, Document tools, and Citation tools. The Proofreading services were updated to improve their processing time and accuracy, leading to 60 percent faster document review. Create+ also added support for the North Carolina citation style guide, expanding coverage for citation formatting to include 11 state style guides and support for Bluebook formatting (21st edition).
• Search Analytics for Create+ was made available to administrators to better understand user engagement and enable analysis of trending searches to inform knowledge management and address information gaps within the organization.
• Microsoft Copilot & Teams integration was previewed at Microsoft Build 2025 with Protégé integration showcased, offering subscribers access to LexisNexis’s AI powered research, analysis, drafting, and summarization capabilities within the Microsoft ecosystem.
• Lexis Create+ Global was launched to enable support for legal drafting in regions around the globe (outside of the U.S. and specific regional adaptations). The shared technical platform enables customers working around the globe to efficiently implement and support a seamless experience for end users working across jurisdictions.

CourtLink® & Lexis® Snapshot

• CourtLink released updated Strategic Profiles to all subscribers with a modernized interface and a new search system that enables users to develop report profiles across multiple court systems at once, engage with interactive charts and graphics which summarize the analysis, and benefit from the improved matching of entities harmonized with Lexis Context and across the LexisNexis platform.

Lexis Public Records:

• The U.S. Public Records collection has grown to 109B+ records to benefit subscribers with increased coverage.  LexisNexis Public Records won ALM’s “Best of NLJ” 2025 category for best Online Public Records Research provider. 
• For the SmartLinx Comprehensive Person Report, age was added as a field to make it easier to determine the age of the subject of the search, in addition to the current month and year of birth within the report.

Lex Machina®

• Introduced Protégé in Lex Machina, making legal intelligence more accessible and actionable for all users. This release simplifies access to Lex Machina’s comprehensive actionable analytics. With Protégé in Lex Machina, users of all experience levels can begin with a natural language prompt or question and Protégé™ will quickly retrieve relevant analytics to kickstart legal and business workflows.
• Released the 2025 Patent Litigation Report for public review: Patent Litigation Report

CaseMap+®

• CaseMap+ released new enhanced capabilities to subscribers, including Bulk ZIP Downloads, Exhibit Linking, and the ability to Search Within Documents for finding relevant documents for your current case matter—streamlining workflows in CaseMap and TextMap.
• CaseMap+ AI was updated to now provide transcript summarization and topic navigation across deposition content.

Nexis Newsdesk

• Streamlined monitoring for subscribers with new Email Ingestion capability, enabling customers to distribute insights from their email to stakeholders in their organization as a part of broader current awareness updates & topical newsletters

Law School Updates

Lexis+ AI: Lexis+ AI with Protégé launched to faculty first in January 2025. Visit the Lexis+ AI Faculty Resources page for videos, pdfs, and more. Over 275 faculty members were certified in Lexis+ AI during the spring semester. Prompting Certification to Faculty will be offered this fall.

Summer Faculty Webinar Series is AI focused with four sessions on:

• Ethical Boundaries in Legal AI: Understanding the ABA’s Guidance (6/17)
• Revolutionize Your Law School Teaching: A Faculty Guide to LexisNexis Protégé (6/25)
• The AI Toolbox: Comparing ChatGPT and LexisNexis Protégé for Legal Faculty (7/10)
• Boolean vs. Generative AI: Choosing the Right Research Approach (7/29)
• Reach out to lindsey.watson@lexisnexis.com for registration or recordings.

Resources for Legal Information Professionals:

• Interested in a Lexis+ AI Demonstration? Contact your LexisNexis Representative and request a demo from your account team.
• Certification Programs: (Talk to your firm’s KRC for more information.)
  • Lexis+ Core Certification Program for Information ProfessionalsLexis+ Proficiency Enhancer CertificationLexis+ AI Certification
  • Power Prompting Certification
• Knowledge & Research Consultant 2025 Webinar Series is available.
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