Protégé in Lex Machina provides a next-level AI-powered user experience that delivers instant, data-driven legal insights
SAN JOSE, Calif., April 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Lex Machina®, a LexisNexis® company, today announced the incorporation of Protégé™, an AI-powered assistant, into its renowned Legal Analytics® platform. This new user experience is set to transform legal work by delivering real-time, data-driven insights with ease, speed, and increased accuracy.
LexisNexis Protégé™ is a personalized AI assistant designed to boost productivity, augment superior work quality and enable legal and business professionals to unlock new economic value with case insights from Lex Machina’s trusted database of civil litigation in Federal District Court practice areas, the U.S. Court of Appeals, and state courts.
Protégé in Lex Machina empowers users to input questions, statements, or prompts and receive instant analytics to address common pain points in legal research, such as time-consuming manual searches and difficulty navigating complex data. Now, users of all experience levels can effortlessly type a query and get immediate, high-quality analytics, simplifying legal research and decision-making.
For example, the user may input any of the following and receive corresponding analytics:
- Trial Damages from Contract Cases in Los Angeles County Superior Court: Provides damages analytics to set realistic client expectations and advise on litigation or settlement, enhancing client value.
- How Long Does It Take to Get to Class Certification in Arizona?: Offers timing analytics to inform settlement strategies, aligning with client goals and optimizing resources.
- How Often is Summary Judgment Granted in Delaware Court of Chancery?: Delivers motion analytics to refine case strategy, increasing the likelihood of favorable outcomes.
- Attorneys with the Most Experience in Antitrust Cases in the Last 3 Years: Provides attorney analytics to help companies select the best legal representation, ensuring expertise and better case results.
- Cases in SDNY Involving Companies Headquartered in Canada: Offers party analytics to assess risk and guide forum selection, leading to strategic decisions and efficient resource use.
“Protégé in Lex Machina marks a significant milestone in Legal Analytics, enabling attorneys to harness legal insights with ease,” said Carla Rydholm, GM and Head of Product at Lex Machina. “Protégé simplifies how legal professionals interact with data and allows every user to get a jumpstart on access, which eliminates research bottlenecks and supports precision in legal strategy.”
“Unlike generic AI tools, Protégé in Lex Machina is built on a solid foundation of structured Legal Analytics, ensuring insights are accurate, relevant, and actionable. This layered approach — where AI enhances an already robust data infrastructure — ensures Protégé in Lex Machina is not just another off-the-shelf AI-powered tool, but a true evolution in legal intelligence. By eliminating the learning curve of navigating complex legal databases, users can simply type a query and receive immediate, high-quality analytics, making legal research faster, smarter, and more intuitive.”
As the legal industry increasingly embraces AI for legal research and decision-making, Protégé in Lex Machina offers customers:
- Increased efficiency: Users can streamline data analysis by simply entering a prompt or question and receive precise analytics, saving valuable research time.
- Uncover hidden data patterns and trends: The combination of Gen AI and high-quality structured data provides actionable intelligence in an intuitive format that enables smart decision-making.
- A competitive edge for a range of users: New or intermittent users will find it faster and easier to get data-driven insights, and super-users will find more options for tailoring their output to their precise needs.
To experience the future of streamlined, AI-enhanced Legal Analytics, visit https://www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/products/lex-machina.page.
