6 Enhancements to Lexis+ AI That Improve Legal Research and Drafting Workflow

Since our initial rollout last year of Lexis+ AI, the industry’s first comprehensive legal research platform powered by generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI), we have been pro-actively seeking feedback from our customers and carefully studying the performance of the product in various professional settings. This continuous feedback loop is important in the development of any tech-enabled offering, but it is especially crucial when it involves breakthrough Gen AI technology that relies on machine learning and refinement.

We unveiled our first major series of improvements to Lexis+ AI earlier this year, when we introduced our next-generation AI Assistant that delivers an even more personalized experience to help legal professionals deliver outstanding work. We’re excited to share the latest innovative features for Lexis+ AI, based on the suggestions and feedback collected from users in recent months.

The Platform

Lexis+ AI is the only Legal AI solution that provides linked citations in responses. All answers are grounded in the world’s largest repository of accurate and exclusive legal content from LexisNexis, including case law, statutes, treatises and more. One Lexis+ AI subscription provides a powerful suite of AI tools; there is no need to purchase add-ons.

The solution provides conversational search, insightful summarization, intelligent legal drafting, and document upload and analysis capabilities — all in a seamless user experience. It incorporates multiple large language models to match the best model for each research task, which is why Lexis+ AI performs at greater speed (2X faster than Westlaw) and at higher capacity than other Legal AI products on the market.

We recently announced a powerful set of customer-driven enhancements to Lexis+ AI that harness the power of Gen AI to streamline legal research, provide comprehensive and trustworthy legal analysis, and save additional time so legal professionals can focus on higher-value work.

6 Key Enhancements

The new features rolled out this summer once again elevate the customer experience on Lexis+ AI by putting users in the driver’s seat and giving them greater control over their prompts, jurisdictions and search history.

Here are six key new Lexis+ AI enhancements that will deliver superior answer quality and improve legal research and drafting for professionals:

1. Lexis+ AI Headnotes

This new feature is a potential game-changer in legal research because approximately 80% of cases have not been editorially analyzed by human researchers. Lexis+ AI now generates headnotes for every case, enabling users to better understand the points of law for each decision and to easily locate similar cases by related points of law. Our team of expert attorney-editors will continue to create high-quality headnotes for key cases — and they will personally oversee the AI-generated headnotes that are created — but unlocking the power of AI provides an important supplement to that human editorial work.

2. Shepardize Documents

Users can run a Shepard’s analysis on citation references within their uploaded documents by using the Lexis+ AI assistant, then link to LexisNexis Brief Analysis for a full report that identifies weaknesses in opposing counsel’s arguments and opportunities to strengthen their own arguments.

3. Integration with Law360 Legal News

Direct access to premium Law360 legal news content integrated into the AI assistant, complementing existing legal research capabilities for comprehensive legal analysis in one solution. Users can ask direct questions and request news results related to specific legal topics, complementing the existing content library built into the Lexis+ AI platform.

4. Shepard’s Citation Graph

Legal researchers using Lexis+ AI need to be able to surface answers that contain the highest and best legal authority. The new citation graph checks candidate authorities for responses to provide a deeper understanding of the grounding cases, ensuring users have access to the most authoritative and up-to-date legal sources.

5. Treatment Summaries

Lexis+ AI now provides a way to view an at-a-glance summary of the Shepard’s citation analysis within the AI conversation. This enables users to quickly determine if there is a case of interest to them and, if so, to seamlessly access the full Shepard’s report.

6. Side-by-Side Document Comparisons

A new grid view enables easy comparisons of multiple user-uploaded documents on one screen. This streamlines the research process by enabling side-by-side review and analysis for clear evaluation and efficient insights.

Other customer-driven enhancements now built into Lexis+ AI include: Default Jurisdiction, which allows users to set one jurisdiction as their default option so it appears as pre-selected each time they open the jurisdiction panel; History, which shows previous conversations with the Lexis+ AI assistant so users can easily find, review and/or re-run past queries; and the ability to Deliver the list of documents (and the underlying documents themselves) found in the “View More Materials” section of Lexis+ AI by either download, email or print functions.

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If you want to learn more about how Lexis+ AI can help legal professionals achieve better outcomes, or to sign up for the Lexis+ AI Insider program that provides the latest in Legal AI educational content, please visit www.lexisnexis.com/ai.

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