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Even though ILTACON ended more than a week ago now, I am still digging out from the deluge of briefings and meetings I attended there. One of particular note was a media briefing with LexisNexis executives in which they provided further information on the company’s AI strategy.
Just ahead of ILTACON, LexisNexis had announced the launch of Protégé General AI, as I reported at the time. This launch expanded its Protégé artificial intelligence platform to include secure access to multiple general-purpose AI models alongside its existing legal-specific AI tools.
At the ILTACON media briefing, LexisNexis executives detailed new features of its Protégé AI platform, provided more details on the rollout of the new General AI tool, and discussed the company’s broader vision of delivering what it calls “courtroom-grade AI” to the legal profession.
Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO of LexisNexis North America, UK and Ireland, opened the session by describing the moment as unprecedented in terms of both technological change and financial investment.
“The amount of investment that’s going into these foundational models is hundreds of billions of dollars, and we’ve never seen anything like this,” Fitzpatrick said. “This is the biggest technology spending cycle in the history of business.”
With costs for large language models dropping by more than 99% since 2022, he added, the economics now make it possible to operate these systems at scale.
To that end, Fitzpatrick described his company’s vision of making AI assistants widely available.
“Our vision is that every lawyer is going to have their own digital AI assistant, and it’s going to be personalized to them,” he said. “It’s going to understand their practice area, it’s going to understand their jurisdiction, it’s going to understand their style, their preferences, it’s going to have access to our authoritative legal materials, and it’s going to have access to their own internal work product.”
and more at
https://www.lawnext.com/2025/08/lexisnexis-every-lawyer-will-have-a-personalized-ai-assistant.html
