By:
LexisNexis Canada
All Canadian law students received access to Lexis+ AI on January 7, 2025. Since then, they have initiated over 18,000 Lexis+ AI sessions and usage has increased steadily week to week.
Here is what Canadian law students are telling us about Lexis+ AI, in their own words:
- Starting Point for Research: Lexis+ AI is valued as a starting point for research, especially for those unfamiliar with a topic or unsure of where to begin.
- "Lexis Ai is a great starting point for researching a topic I have little to no experience in."
R.B., University of Manitoba
- "I've used it to start the ball rolling on research when I am unsure what direction to go."
C.M., Lakehead University
- "I love it, it gives somewhere to start!"
M.F., University of Windsor
- "Lexis AI has been a helpful starting point for my research tasks!"
D.A., University of Manitoba
- "To generate ideas."
W.C., University of Toronto
- Broadening Research: Many students use Lexis+ AI to assist with broadening legal research, including finding additional case law, statutes, and secondary materials.
- "Lexis+ AI is helping me broaden my research for a paper this term."
S.F., University of Victoria
- "I am using Lexis+ AI to help direct my research to cases that would otherwise be difficult to come across."
W.C., Lakehead University
- "I have been using it to answer more obscure questions about current state of law."
D.J., University of Windsor
- "Double check my research."
L.R., University of Victoria
- Supplementary Educational Support: Lexis+ AI is used as an additional resource to enhance understanding of concepts taught in class.
- "I like using Lexis AI to summarize topics that I didn't quite understand when explained in class."
K.F., University of Alberta
- "I have been using it to help me better understand in class."
K.D., University of Montreal
- "Learning how to do legal research can be daunting, the new features make it far less intimidating."
R.W., Thompson Rivers University
- "Using it to go summarize concepts for memo research was extremely helpful. It will summarize long cases or concepts that may be confusing!"
I.D., University of Alberta
- Case Summaries: Students use Lexis+ AI frequently to summarize cases, providing quick overviews and helping students understand complex legal decisions.
- "Using it to summarize cases without headnotes!"
A.B., Lakehead University
- “I like to ask for the case summaries to provide a quick overview before reading the case itself.”
R.P., University of Windsor
- "I am using it to create summaries on cases, or clarify paragraphs in cases I am reading to get a better understanding of what the judges intentions are.”
A.G., Thompson Rivers
- "I found the automatic AI summary of cases useful and surprising."
A.H., University of Toronto
- "Case summary feature is great!"
M.R., University of Western Ontario
- Discovering a Growing Range of Applications: Lexis+ AI’s drafting and upload functions are proving useful for a growing range of tasks, from memos to moots, legal clinics and even exploring alternative legal arguments.
- "Help with my memos, moots, case reading."
A.F., University of Western Ontario
- "Researching for my first moot."
R.B., University of New Brunswick
- "I'm using it to give me alternate arguments."
M.J., University of Western Ontario
- "I am using it to summarize and ask questions for appellant/respondent's arguments."
Y.C., Queens University
- "To test my understanding."
E.M., McGill University
- "To start my research for my business law clinic clients."
J.M., University of Victoria
- Interface, Usability and Efficiency: Lexis+ AI is appreciated for its ability to quickly provide relevant information, making research more efficient.
- "I love how intuitive and thorough Lexis+AI is!"
D.H., Dalhousie University
- "Interface is easy to use which is very helpful as a beginning legal researcher."
R.R., University of Calgary
- "Super helpful tool, great way to modernize research!"
S.M., University of Ottawa
- "It’s been awesome to use it for research. So quick and easy to use!"
L.A., University of Calgary
- Support and Training: Students feel supported in their training and adoption of Lexis+ AI.
- "[Our LexisNexis Student Associate] has been setting up her Lexis+ booth and talking to students about the ways we can use the program throughout the semester which has been extremely helpful!"
A.H., University of Windsor
- "I attended a training session about Lexis + AI and watched all the training videos."
E.D., University of Ottawa
- "Awesome!"
M.B., University of Western Ontario
- "Génial!"
A.O., University of Montreal
* Responses from law student survey conducted from February 1, 2025, to February 28, 2025.