Protégé uses AI to immediately turn plain-language questions into strategic business insights grounded in trusted data and transparent reasoning
New York, NY – May 13, 2026 – LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, a leading global provider of AI-powered analytics and decision tools, today announced the launch of Protégé in LexisNexis PatentSight+, a powerful AI assistant that helps professionals quickly analyze data across tens of millions of harmonized and verified patent records to uncover relevant, and actionable business insights within minutes.
LexisNexis Protégé
is purpose-built for patent intelligence. It allows professionals to ask plain language questions, without any complex filters or queries, and receive reliable, decision-ready insights. Integrated with PatentSight+ and based on trusted data, analytics, and industry-established metrics, including LexisNexis® Patent Asset Index methodology, Protégé provides a structured starting point for deeper analysis. It keeps professionals in the driver’s seat by explaining every step of the analysis, displaying the full queries, contextualizing results, and suggesting next steps, with full transparency into how insights are generated so they can be easily understood and validated.
“Protégé fundamentally changes how organizations work with patent data by replacing complicated filters with simple questions, so business leaders can easily get timely, verifiable, and valuable insights to inform their strategic business decisions,” said Andrew Matuch, president for LexisNexis® Intellectual Property Solutions. “Protégé helps experienced patent professionals do their jobs better and get more done in less time, while expanding access to patent data to key players in other parts of the organization.”
Protégé was developed in close collaboration with hundreds of the world’s leading innovators through the LexisNexis® AI Insider program. Feedback from PatentSight+ users with early access to the AI tool helped refine its agentic reasoning, and shape Protégé to reflect the best-practice workflows of highly skilled IP analysts. Users also reported that Protégé reduces manual analysis effort by up to 70 to 90 percent and enables them to deliver up to 3x more output while maintaining trustworthy and transparent results.
“What I find most valuable about Protégé is seeing how it reasons through a problem,” said Christopher Hauke, Head of Strategic IP and Innovation, Schott Pharma AG & Co. KGaA. “It makes the analysis transparent and gives me confidence in the results. By bringing together patent data and business context in one place, it’s much easier to connect what’s happening in the market with what I see in the data. It also gives me a clear starting point, instead of figuring out where to begin, I immediately see the key insights and where to dig deeper.”
Protégé also democratizes access to patent intelligence beyond traditional IP teams, so patent data and analytics can be used by other executives to support high-value business decisions such as competitive positioning, R&D strategy, and M&A, partnership or licensing evaluations.
Protégé presents results through clear, presentation-ready visualizations, including charts and graphics that follow common formats for annual reports, strategy documents, corporate communications, and media coverage, so teams across IP, corporate strategy, competitive intelligence, legal and other functions can communicate insights more effectively to the C-suite or other internal and external stakeholders.
With Protégé in PatentSight+, organizations can:
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- Turn business questions into structured analysis instantly
- Reduce manual effort and accelerate time to insight from hours or days to minutes
- Identify competitive threats and strategic opportunities faster
- Generate clear, executive-ready outputs to support decision-making
- Expand access to patent intelligence beyond technical experts
The launch of Protégé in PatentSight+ reflects growing demand for faster, more transparent ways to turn complex data into actionable business insights. Protégé is available now, both as an add-on for existing customers and as part of the core offering for new subscriptions, enabling organizations to immediately extend their existing workflows with AI-powered patent analytics.
More about Protégé in PatentSight+: https://www.lexisnexisip.com/protege/
About LexisNexis® Legal & Professional
LexisNexis® Legal & Professional provides AI-powered legal, regulatory, business information, analytics, and workflows that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services. LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,900 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.
About LexisNexis® Intellectual Property Solutions
LexisNexis® Intellectual Property Solutions brings clarity to innovation for businesses worldwide. We enable innovators to accomplish more by helping them make informed decisions, be more productive, comply with regulations, and ultimately achieve a competitive advantage for their business. Our broad suite of workflow and analytics solutions, including LexisNexis® PatentSight+ with LexisNexis Protégé, LexisNexis® Classification, LexisNexis® TechDiscovery, LexisNexis® IPlytics, LexisNexis PatentOptimizer®, LexisNexis PatentAdvisor®, and LexisNexis TotalPatent One®, LexisNexis® IP DataDirect, enables companies to be more efficient and effective at bringing meaningful innovations to our world.
By combining trusted, enriched data, industry-proven metrics, and AI-powered capabilities such as Protégé, we help organizations turn complex intellectual property data into clear, actionable insights that support confident strategic decision-making. We are proud to directly support and serve these innovators in their endeavors to better humankind.
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LexisNexis Expands Lexis+ with Protégé by Integrating Anthropic’s Claude Legal Plugin Suite
NEW YORK, MAY 13, 2026 — LexisNexis® Legal & Professional today announced the integration of Anthropic’s Claude legal plugin suite into the Lexis+® with Protégé
platform. In collaboration with Anthropic, this integration extends existing legal skills now available via Lexis+ with Protégé and is part of the company’s process to continuously evaluate and incorporate new technologies or capabilities that help customers achieve better outcomes in trusted LexisNexis solutions.
The integration enables Lexis+ with Protégé users to complete a wide range of legal tasks grounded in LexisNexis’s repository of 200 billion legal documents – with four million new documents added daily – comprising essential, unique, constantly updated, Shepardized, and linked legal content. The Claude legal plugins span legal work and practice areas such as Product Counsel, Employment Counsel, AI Governance Counsel, Litigation Associate, Law Student, as well as tools for legal AI developers. Anthropic’s Claude legal plugin suite operates within the Lexis+ with Protégé private, secure, and trusted technology environment.
“We are pleased to expand our collaboration with Anthropic to bring the Claude legal plugin suite into Lexis+ with Protégé to further enhance our authoritative legal skills and workflows, delivering more value to customers,” said Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO, LexisNexis Global Legal. “Legal professionals want a simple, integrated, and secure environment with the latest cutting-edge AI technology to complete authoritative legal work, grounded in the most comprehensive collection of legal content, and we are delighted to deliver that through Protégé.”
Lexis+ with Protégé combines skills from LexisNexis and technology partners, agentic workflows and drafting, multimodal Vault intelligence, secure collaboration, Shepard’s® Verify Trust Markers, authoritative legal content, and enterprise-grade governance to help legal professionals produce trusted, review-ready legal work at scale.
The 12 Claude legal plugins advance work within Lexis+ with Protégé.
Lexis+ with Protégé will continue to integrate additional skills within the platform’s easy-to-use prompt box.
LexisNexis supports customers in using and adopting skills, workflows, and other capabilities via a white glove service that helps organizations unlock the full value of Lexis+ with Protégé with expert guidance and practical support. Specialized teams help customers build custom skills and workflows, standardize them across organizations, and provide team training and onboarding.
Lexis+ with Protégé brings together an advanced AI infrastructure developed specifically for legal work and the world’s most comprehensive content collection of citable legal authority to help professionals complete higher-quality legal work faster while maintaining the rigor and control required for legal practice.
To learn more about Lexis+ with Protégé: www.lexisnexis.com/ai.
About LexisNexis® Legal & Professional
LexisNexis® Legal & Professional provides AI-powered legal, regulatory, business information, analytics, and workflows that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services. LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,900 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.
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LexisNexis Launches Next Evolution of Lexis+ with Protégé, the Legal AI Platform Built on the Authority Legal Work Demands
NEW YORK, MAY 7, 2026 — LexisNexis® Legal & Professional today announced a major expansion of its legal AI platform Lexis+® with Protégé
, designed to help law firms and corporate legal departments complete complex legal work faster, with greater accuracy, consistency, confidence and control.
The legal AI market is moving quickly. New solutions can generate text, summarize documents and automate isolated tasks. But legal work requires something more demanding: current, authoritative legal content; verification tools; a connection to files; governance for confidentiality and privilege; and workflows that reflect how lawyers practice.
That distinction matters. AI without deep legal authority and built-in verification may accelerate work, but it can also accelerate risk from invented citations and unsupported conclusions to inconsistent drafting, uncontrolled matter data and weak auditability. Lexis+ with Protégé is built to address that reality, combining LexisNexis’s authoritative legal content, Shepard’s® intelligence, customer knowledge and enterprise-grade security in one integrated platform for the full arc of legal work.
“Legal AI must do more than produce plausible answers. It must produce work that lawyers can verify, defend and trust,” said Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO, LexisNexis Global Legal. “Lexis+ with Protégé brings together the content foundation, workflow intelligence, security and model flexibility legal professionals need to use AI at scale without compromising the standards of the profession.”
At the center of the release is Protégé Work, a workflow capability that changes how lawyers use AI to complete complex tasks. Users can select a skill directly or describe a legal goal in natural language. Protégé intelligently routes the request to the appropriate skill or workflow. Instead of generating a single response, Protégé presents a structured plan for the work, giving users visibility and control as it executes tasks and produces review-ready legal work product. Skills support repeatable tasks such as contract comparison, complaint analysis, research synthesis, checklist generation, due diligence, compliance review and playbook-based review. This allows legal teams to reuse proven workflows, apply firm and department standards consistently, and benefit from broader market innovation while keeping work grounded in authoritative LexisNexis content, firm knowledge and trusted workflow safeguards. Lexis+ with Protégé incorporates LexisNexis-developed and Anthropic-powered skills, with additional skills and capabilities planned over time.
Protégé Agentic Drafting helps lawyers and legal teams produce review-ready work product in minutes. Purpose-built drafting agents create contracts, motions, briefs and deal documents grounded in LexisNexis content, firm templates, prior work and matter materials. Drafts can reflect an organization’s preferred style, apply vetted exemplars, preserve formatting and surface risk considerations before work reaches a client, counterparty or court.
Outputs from Protégé Skills can be delivered in the formats legal teams already use every day. This includes Microsoft Word for drafts, Excel for review tables and structured findings, PowerPoint for client-ready summaries, and PDF for polished, ready-to-use work product.
Protégé Workrooms extends legal AI into secure collaboration. Law firms, corporate legal departments and counsel can work together in private, permission-aware spaces where documents, drafts, analysis and AI workflows are shared only as authorized. Dual approvals, least-privilege access, role-based permissions and audit trails help teams collaborate across organizational lines while maintaining control of confidential information.
Shepard’s® Verify Trust Markers bring LexisNexis’s trusted citation authority directly into AI-assisted work. The capability identifies legal citations in AI-generated and attorney-drafted content, checks them against LexisNexis authoritative legal sources, and flags citations that cannot be verified as existing. By confirming that cited authority exists and is retrievable at the point of use, Shepard’s Verify helps legal professionals protect their professional reputation and move from draft to final with greater confidence.
A reimagined Protégé Vault gives legal professionals a secure intelligence layer for large, complex matters. Teams can analyze documents, PDFs, spreadsheets, images, audio, video and other matter materials in one workspace, with support for up to 100,000 documents per Vault. Outputs link back to source material including exact document passages, spreadsheet rows, images or timestamps so legal teams can verify findings and defend the work product that follows.
Protégé BYOK gives enterprise and government customers additional control over sensitive information. With Bring Your Own Key encryption, customers can manage their own encryption keys through their chosen key management service and revoke access when required, supporting the data-control expectations of law firms, regulated industries and public-sector legal teams. With BYOK, LexisNexis integrates directly with a customer’s own Key Management Service (KMS) — including AWS KMS, Azure Key Vault, Google Cloud KMS, and HashiCorp Vault — to encrypt all customer data at rest using keys that only the customer controls. After extensive testing, BYOK has been deployed in AmLaw 100 firms.
For customers, the result is practical and immediate: faster research and drafting cycles, stronger first drafts, more consistent application of firm and client standards, reduced citation and review risk, better handling of large matter files, and more secure collaboration between legal teams and clients. Instead of forcing legal professionals to choose between speed and trust, Lexis+ with Protégé brings both into a single legal AI platform.
“Legal teams do not need another disconnected AI tool,” said Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO, LexisNexis Global Legal. “They need one trusted environment where authoritative content, firm knowledge, advanced models, legal workflows and security controls work together. That is what Lexis+ with Protégé delivers.”
Following its US launch, the new and evolved Lexis+ with Protégé legal AI platform – for automating complex legal work – will be rolled out globally throughout 2026. To learn more about Lexis+ with Protégé: www.lexisnexis.com/ai.
About LexisNexis® Legal & Professional
LexisNexis® Legal & Professional provides AI-powered legal, regulatory, business information, analytics, and workflows that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services. LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,900 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.
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