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RELX Group is planning to acquire Doctrine, strengthening authoritative legal AI workflows in France and across Europe. 

Paris, France / New York, NY – April 28, 2026 – RELX Group, which owns LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, a global leader in information, analytics, and AI-powered legal workflow solutions, today announced it has offered to acquire Doctrine, France-based Legal AI platform recognized for its advanced AI tools in legal search, analysis, drafting and practitioner workflows, including Flow Litigate and Flow Counsel.

This proposed acquisition would accelerate the delivery of enhanced, trusted, intuitive and authoritative legal AI workflow solutions in France and across key European jurisdictions, including Germany, Spain and Italy and should assist customers to improve productivity and achieve better outcomes. 

Sean Fitzpatrick, Chief Executive Officer, Global Legal, LexisNexis Legal & Professional, said:

“We are excited about the prospect of welcoming Doctrine, so that we can serve customers in France, across Europe, and beyond in even greater ways. Doctrine’s customer-centric innovation approach, powerful platform, and expert talent, complement LexisNexis’s global capabilities in authoritative legal AI workflow solutions, and we look forward to delivering even more value to customers.”

Guillaume Carrère, Chief Executive Officer of Doctrine, said:

“From the start, we have been obsessed with one thing: building cutting-edge AI solutions for legal professionals across Europe. Joining RELX is the natural next chapter for that mission. LexisNexis brings unparalleled depth of content, global reach and a shared conviction that AI, applied responsibly, will transform how legal work gets done. For our customers, this means faster access to a richer set of capabilities; for our team, it means joining a company that recognises and will invest behind the technical and product excellence we have built.”

Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Paris, Doctrine combines a comprehensive corpus of case law, legislation and regulatory content for civil law jurisdictions with a suite of AI-powered research, drafting and analytics tools. The platform is used daily by 27,000 legal professionals across France, Italy, Germany and Spain, including law firms ranging from solo practitioners to top-tier Anglo-American firms, multinational corporations and public entities including French ministries, local authorities, and universities.

The proposed acquisition is subject to the completion of applicable information and consultation procedures with the relevant employee representative bodies and customary regulatory consents. The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. The two companies will continue to operate separately in the interim. 

About Doctrine 

Doctrine is a leading legal AI and intelligence platform for civil law jurisdictions in Europe. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Paris, Doctrine combines a comprehensive corpus of case law, legislation and regulatory content with AI-powered research, drafting and analytics tools. The platform is used daily by legal professionals at law firms, corporates and public institutions across France, Italy, Germany and Spain. For more information, visit www.doctrine.fr.

About LexisNexis® Legal & Professional

As part of RELX, 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 serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,900 employees worldwide. It has a long tradition in the French market, grounded in the ownership of JurisClasseur since 1993.

About RELX

RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. RELX serves customers in more than 180 countries and territories and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs more than 37,000 people, around 40% of whom are in North America. The shares of RELX PLC, the parent company, are traded on the London, Amsterdam and New York Stock Exchanges using the following ticker symbols: London: REL; Amsterdam: REN; New York: RELX. The total market capitalization is approximately £47.7bn, €55.1bn, $64.4bn.

Mutual in-house customers can access LexisNexis AI capabilities grounded in leading legal content within Luminance and seamlessly transition to Lexis+® with Protégé for advanced legal workflows

NEW YORK and LONDON, April 21, 2026 – LexisNexis^® Legal & Professional and Luminance today announced a strategic alliance enabling mutual in-house legal customers to leverage LexisNexis legal AI technology powered by LexisNexis^® Protégé, delivering insights grounded in authoritative legal content and Shepard’s^® citations directly within the Luminance platform, with seamless access to Lexis+ with Protégé for more complex, end-to-end legal workflows. The alliance brings trusted citation-backed legal insights from LexisNexis directly into Luminance, helping in-house legal teams make more informed and verifiable contract decisions.

Within the Lumi Legal-Grade AI natural-language assistant, customers can choose to ask Protégé legal questions and receive insights grounded in LexisNexis industry-leading legal content and linked citations. For example, Protégé will enable users to:

• Validate contract language against applicable law in real time using citation-backed answers grounded in case law, statutes, and Shepard’s citations, reducing risk during negotiation.
• Strengthen negotiation strategies with authoritative legal insight, accelerating contract cycles and improving decision confidence.
• Take guided next steps into Lexis+ with Protégé for deeper legal workflows, using suggested actions to expand analysis, review underlying authorities, generate legal drafts and documents, and complete complex legal work.

“We are building the most complete enterprise AI for contract negotiation, and it all starts from the same principle: AI is only as good as the data behind it,” said Eleanor Lightbody, CEO of Luminance. “Our platform is already trained on over 220 million verified legal documents. Now, on top of this commercial intelligence, we’re enabling mutual customers to access LexisNexis Protégé, which is grounded in the world’s most comprehensive library of case law, statutes, and precedent. No other AI workflow comes close to this breadth and depth.” 

“Our priority is to deliver high-quality legal AI workflow solutions and support exceptional and efficient legal work where our customers work,” said Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO Global Legal, LexisNexis. “We’re delighted to collaborate with Luminance to help mutual in-house legal customers benefit from trusted, citation-backed insights within Luminance with seamless access to Lexis+ with Protégé for deeper legal analysis and document drafting.”

Together, LexisNexis and Luminance enable in-house legal teams to make informed contract decisions by combining real-world contract intelligence with authoritative legal AI. Luminance’s AI is trained on more than 220 million legal documents – a private record of how businesses actually negotiate and structure agreements. Lexis+ with Protégé delivers purpose-built legal AI workflows grounded in a repository of 200 billion legal documents – with four million new documents added daily – comprising essential, unique, constantly updated, Shepardized, and linked legal content.

Luminance and LexisNexis will host a joint panel on May 21, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. ET, “From Productivity to Precedent: How Authoritative AI Infrastructure Will Change Enterprise Decision Making,” exploring the growing role of trusted, citation-backed AI in contract workflows, and what this means for the future of legal intelligence. To learn more and register: https://www.luminance.com/lexisnexis-strategic-alliance/.

To learn more about Lexis+ with Protégé: www.lexisnexis.com/ai and Protégé: www.lexisnexis.com/protege.

About Luminance 

Developed by AI experts from the University of Cambridge, Luminance’s Legal-Grade AI redefines enterprise decision-making, turning contracts from an administrative burden into strategic intelligence. Luminance’s multi-agent platform automates entire workflows, from creation and negotiation to risk review and compliance. It understands clauses, evaluates legal and commercial impact, takes action, and learns from every negotiation, becoming increasingly attuned to your business. Trusted by over 1,000 of the world’s largest enterprises across 70+ countries, Luminance helps companies stay ahead of risk, seize opportunity, and outpace competition.

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.

NEW YORK, April 9, 2026 — LexisNexis^® Legal & Professional, a global leader in information, analytics, and AI-powered legal workflow solutions, today announced the launch of Practical Guidance AI & Technology, a new task-based practice area designed to help attorneys address the rapidly evolving legal, regulatory, and commercial challenges associated with artificial intelligence and emerging technologies.

As organizations accelerate AI adoption, legal teams are facing increasing pressure to interpret shifting regulatory frameworks, assess novel liability risks, and structure complex technology-driven transactions. The new practice area provides attorneys with practical, workflow-aligned guidance to support key legal tasks, including drafting agreements, advising business stakeholders, ensuring regulatory compliance, and managing disputes involving AI systems.

Unlike traditional topical resources, Practical Guidance AI & Technology is organized around how legal work is performed in practice—enabling attorneys to move efficiently from issue identification to execution. The experience consolidates AI- and technology-related content into a single destination, supporting the full lifecycle of AI deployment, from governance and compliance to transactions, litigation, and internal policy development.

Carrie Wright, Vice President, Practical Guidance, LexisNexis Legal & Professional, said: “AI is moving fast and legal risk is moving with it. Practical Guidance AI & Technology is built around the real tasks attorneys are tackling every day, delivering clear, actionable guidance and tools that align to how the work actually gets done. It empowers lawyers to cut through complexity, advise with confidence, and stay ahead of what’s next.”

Developed and continuously updated by experienced practitioners and subject-matter experts, the practice area provides actionable resources across a range of high-impact legal workflows, including:

• Drafting and negotiating agreements for SaaS, cloud services, AI development, licensing, outsourcing, and data use
• Assessing compliance with emerging AI-specific regulations and applying existing legal frameworks to new technologies
• Analyzing intellectual property, data rights, and ownership issues in AI-driven environments
• Supporting M&A and investment transactions involving AI-enabled businesses
• Managing AI-related litigation, including claims, discovery, evidentiary issues, and evolving case law
• Addressing the use of AI in legal practice, including ethics, court rules, and internal governance policies

The practice area is designed to evolve alongside the technology landscape, incorporating new legal developments and emerging use cases as they arise.

Content from Practical Guidance AI & Technology is also integrated with Lexis+^® with Protégé, the company’s AI-powered assistant, enabling attorneys to quickly surface relevant guidance within their workflow and accelerate legal research and drafting tasks.

For more information, visit: www.lexisnexis.com/practicalguidance.

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.

Toronto, ON – DECEMBER 11, 2025 – LexisNexis^® Legal & Professional, a global leader in authoritative legal AI workflows, today announced that Protégé General AI is now commercially available in Canada following the successful launch in the U.S. and Australia. Protégé General AI offers private encrypted access to general-purpose AI models within the Lexis+ AI workflow solution, including Claude Sonnet 4 from Anthropic and GPT-5, GPT-4o, and o3 from OpenAI.

Protégé General AI is purpose-built for legal professionals with the highest levels of privacy and flexibility, going beyond what general-purpose AI tools can provide. Key differentiators include:

• Security and Privacy by Design: The fully encrypted Lexis+ AI environment ensures data privacy protections that far exceed what consumer-grade AI tools offer.
• A LexisNexis Citation Agent: The advanced citation agent proactively checks any included legal citations that may merit further examination.
• Flexible Model Choice: Users can choose the AI model that best fits each task or use case, such as drafting legal documents, crafting communications, or brainstorming.
• Integrated General and Legal AI: By securely combining Protégé General AI and Protégé Legal AI in one solution, Lexis+ AI, legal professionals can solve more problems faster.
• User and Org-level Control: Users can easily toggle Protégé General AI on or off, and firms can turn off General AI for users entirely to meet firm or regulatory policies.

To learn more about Protégé: www.lexisnexis.ca/protege and Protégé in Lexis+ AI: www.lexisnexis.ca/ai.

Toronto (Ontario) – 11 DÉCEMBRE 2025 – LexisNexis^® Legal & Professional, un leader mondial des solutions d’IA juridique fiables, annonce aujourd’hui que Protégé IA Générale est maintenant offert commercialement au Canada, à la suite de son lancement réussi aux États-Unis et en Australie. Protégé IA Générale offre un accès privé et chiffré à des modèles d’IA polyvalents au sein de la solution de flux de travail Lexis+ AI, notamment Claude Sonnet 4 d’Anthropic ainsi que GPT-5, GPT-4o et o3 d’OpenAI.

Protégé IA Générale est conçu spécialement pour les professionnels du droit, avec les plus hauts niveaux de protection de la vie privée et de flexibilité, allant au-delà des capacités des outils d’IA grand public. Ses principaux facteurs de différenciation comprennent :

• Sécurité et protection de la vie privée intégrées : L’environnement entièrement chiffré de Lexis+ AI offre des protections de confidentialité qui dépassent largement celles des outils d’IA conçus pour les consommateurs.
• Un agent de vérification des références juridiques LexisNexis : L’agent des références juridiques avancé vérifie de manière proactive toute référence juridique incluse qui pourrait nécessiter un examen plus approfondi.
• Choix flexible de modèles : Les utilisateurs peuvent choisir le modèle d’IA le mieux adapté à chaque tâche ou cas d’utilisation, notamment la rédaction de documents juridiques, la préparation de communications ou la génération d’idées.
• Intégration de l’IA générale et juridique : En combinant de façon sécurisée Protégé IA Générale et Protégé IA Juridique dans une seule solution, Lexis+ AI permet aux professionnels du droit de résoudre plus de problèmes, plus rapidement.
• Contrôle au niveau de l’utilisateur et de l’organisation : Les utilisateurs peuvent activer ou désactiver Protégé IA Générale en un seul clic, et les cabinets peuvent le désactiver complètement pour répondre aux politiques internes ou réglementaires.

Pour en savoir plus sur Protégé : www.lexisnexis.ca/protege et sur Protégé dans Lexis+ AI : www.lexisnexis.ca/ai

Federal damage awards hit record highs, with mixed signals on ‘social inflation’ and a surge in jury verdict values. 

San Jose, CA — July 29, 2025 — Lex Machina®, the LexisNexis® Legal Analytics® platform, today announced the release of its 2025 Damage Awards Litigation Report, providing a comprehensive, data-driven analysis of damage awards in US federal courts from 2015 through 2024. 

This annual report reveals key trends impacting litigation strategy, including notable increases in average jury verdicts and shifting risk profiles across practice areas. The report equips law firms, in-house counsel, insurance professionals, and others with unique, data-driven intelligence critical to risk assessment, claim valuation, settlement negotiations, trial strategy, and more. 

To request a copy of the report, visit LexisNexis.com/LexMachina.   

Key findings from the report include: 

• Record-Setting Awards in 2023 and 2024: Each of the past two years saw average damage awards exceed the previous high (set in 2016) by over $1 million in federal courts. For lawyers and corporations, this underscores the growing stakes of going to trial and the importance of data-backed litigation strategy. 

• Jury Verdicts on the Rise: Average jury-awarded damages have climbed sharply since 2020 — and that trajectory continues to accelerate. This trend reflects greater unpredictability and higher potential liability in front of juries, making it essential for trial teams to benchmark verdict trends and assess regional or judge-specific risk. 
• Inconsistent Judicial Awards: Damage awards from non-jury verdicts have fluctuated without a clear pattern since 2017. This variability introduces complexity in forecasting case outcomes, reinforcing the need for analytics-driven valuation models and tailored settlement strategies. 
• Practice Area Variability: High-value claims in areas like patent infringement and trade secret litigation are surging, while environmental statute cases are shrinking in both frequency and value. This divergence highlights shifting legal risk landscapes — making it critical for firms and in-house teams to realign resources and focus on where exposure is rising. 

“The Damage Awards Report offers a detailed look at how these awards are trending in federal court. This gives lawyers and their clients practical and actionable insights into how liability risks are shifting in the post-COVID landscape,” said Kyle Turner, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives Law Librarian at Vanderbilt Law.  

“Bearing in mind current economic trends, companies and their insurers are uncertain whether litigation is a worthwhile risk to resolve claims made against them. Through powerful litigation data analytics only available in Lex Machina, this report provides invaluable insight into that inquiry,” said Ellen Chen, Legal Data Lead at Lex Machina and editor of the report. “The Damages Report examines various facets of damages trends in recent federal district courts, providing practitioners exhaustive and meaningful analytical damages data that they may utilize to intelligently assess litigation outcomes.” 

The Lex Machina Legal Analytics platform equips litigation professionals to win more cases and attract more business. From precise timing metrics that inform legal budgeting to trend data on top law firms and leading judges, Lex Machina uniquely supplements traditional legal research and experience with customized, data-backed insights. These insights help lawyers identify prospective clients, navigate motion and trial strategies, and negotiate smarter settlements, ultimately giving firms a competitive edge in litigation. 

About LexisNexis Legal & Professional  

LexisNexis® Legal & Professional provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics 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 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.  

About Lex Machina  

Lex Machina fundamentally changes how companies and law firms compete in the business and practice of law. The company provides strategic insights on judges, lawyers, law firms, parties, and other critical information across 22 federal practice areas and a rapidly growing number of state courts. Lex Machina allows law firms and companies to anticipate the behaviors and outcomes that different legal strategies will produce, enabling them to win cases and close business.  

Lex Machina was named one of Forbes’ Best Workplaces in the Bay Area in 2024, Winner of the “Media Excellence Award” for Analytics/Big Data 2024, “Great Places to Work” (2023-2024), one of “Legal Tech’s 

Most Promising Solution Providers” (CIO Review Awards 2022), “Greater Bay Area Top Workplaces 2022” 

(The San Francisco Chronicle Top Workplaces in the Bay Area 2022), “Legal Tech Company of the Year 

2021″ (CIO Review, 2021), “2021 Legal Technology Trailblazer” (National Law Journal Trailblazer Awards, 2021), and Winner of the “Media Excellence” Award for Analytics/Big Data (13th Annual Media Excellence Award, 2021). Based in Silicon Valley, Lex Machina is part of LexisNexis, a leading global provider of legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics. For more information, please visit www.lexmachina.com.  

Media Contact 

Venture PR lexmachina@venturepr.co  

Independent study shows how Lexis+ AI drives 344% ROI in 3 years, provides law firm competitive advantages, and even increases attorney work-life balance

NEW YORK, May 13, 2025 – LexisNexis^® Legal & Professional today released The Total Economic Impact^™ of Lexis+ AI for Large Law Firms, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of LexisNexis. Forrester engaged with Lexis+ AI customers to understand the workflow and business impacts of the legal AI solution. According to the new customer study, by scaling lawyer productivity, work quality, and client impact, the Lexis+ AI generative and agentic AI workflow solution drove up a substantial 344% return on investment (ROI) with $30 million revenue growth in just 3 years for global large law firms, for a composite organization representative of interviewed customers.

“As LexisNexis generative AI and now our autonomous AI agents become more integrated into legal workflows, law firms will unlock even greater economic opportunity,” said Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO of LexisNexis North America, UK, and Ireland. “AI was initially considered to be a cost center. Now, by quantifying how Lexis+ AI enhances legal work, accelerates growth potential and drives client value, AI is proving to be an essential profit center for law firms.”

Lexis+ AI is an integrated workflow solution for legal drafting, research and insights, now featuring the LexisNexis Protégé personalized AI assistant for complex legal tasks.

According to Forrester, over 3 years, the risk-adjusted present value (PV) quantified—and qualitative—benefits of Lexis+ AI include:

Gains in Productivity, Work Quality and Client Satisfaction

• Partners and senior attorneys saved up to 2.5 hours a week on drafting and research, freeing up capacity for higher-value work, worth $1.8m in profit.
• Junior associates recovered up to 35% of hours annually on previously written-off, non-billable hours, worth $6.2m in profit.
• Research staff members saved 225 hours annually on research, worth more than $399k.
• Firms reported better-quality outputs and faster turnaround time with Lexis+ AI, driving up client satisfaction. In many cases, Lexis+ AI helped attorneys uncover insights or case law that might otherwise be missed which directly enhanced the quality and accuracy of work.

Improvements in Firm Economics and Strong AI Investment Returns

• Firm revenue increased by 2%, representing nearly $30m in Year 3.
• Profit per equity partner grew 1.5%, representing $5.7m in additional total profit for the firm in Year 3.
• Total per-attorney profit impact rose by 4% in Year 3.
• An investment in Lexis+ AI pays for itself in under 6 months.

Benefits in Firm Competitive Advantages, Work-Life Balance and World-Class Security

• Firms noted that AI is no longer optional. Clients increasingly expect it, and firms without AI tools risk falling behind competitors both in delivering value to clients and in attracting top talent.
• Lexis+ AI delivered attorney time savings that contribute to a better work/life balance, making the firm a more attractive place to work.
• Recent law school graduates expect leading law firms to deploy the best technology available to serve their clients, like Lexis+ AI, supporting top talent recruitment efforts.
• Interviewees reported that Lexis+ AI meets the strict security and governance standards set forward by their law firm data privacy and security teams, lending confidence in its enterprise-wide deployment. Additionally, the robust training support they receive from LexisNexis is an important differentiator.

Access the full Total Economic Impact^™ of Lexis+ AI for Large Law Firms study on the LexisNexis Legal & Professional website. For more information on Lexis+ AI, visit www.lexisnexis.com/ai.

Total Economic Impact^™ Framework and Methodology
The Total Economic Impact^™ of Lexis+ AI for Large Law Firms is a commissioned Forrester Consulting study on behalf of LexisNexis in May 2025 to examine the potential return on investment large law firms may realize by deploying Lexis+ AI. Forrester constructed a Total Economic Impact^™ framework, aggregating the experiences of large law firm interviewees into a single composite organization: a global law firm operating in North America with $1.5 billion in annual revenue and a staff consisting of 950 attorneys and 15 research staff (e.g., librarians and paralegals).

About LexisNexis Legal & Professional
LexisNexis^® Legal & Professional provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics 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 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.

Media Contact:
Jill Van Nostran
LexisNexis Legal & Professional
jill.vannostran@lexisnexis.com

Average law firm partner rates increased 5.1% in 2024, the second highest level since CounselLink launched its annual Trends Report in 2013; Median partner billing rate in 750+ law firms 61% higher than the next smaller tier

RALEIGH, NC, April 22, 2025 — In 2024, law firm billing rates continued to climb but at a slightly lower rate compared to the prior year. The largest law firms command the highest hourly rates in high-value practice areas, an exclusive new report from LexisNexis^® CounselLink^® has found.

Average partner rates increased 5.1% in 2024, down from the highest-recorded partner rate increase of 5.4% in 2023. In 2024, as in 2023, the median partner in the largest law firms billed at a rate that was 61% higher than the median partner in the next tier of firms, confirming a wide rate gap between the largest 100 firms and the next tier.

Law firms of 750+ lawyers continue to lead share of wallet, particularly in two perceived high-value practice areas that marked exponential increases in median blended average matter rates. Mergers & Acquisitions saw an increase in median partner rates in 2024 of 12.4%, while Regulatory & Compliance boosted median partner rates in 2024 of 8.3%. These two matter categories saw the average blend of timekeeper rates increase more than 5% relative to 2023.

“Economic uncertainty and ongoing technological change put pressure on corporate legal departments,” said Pamela Gelfond, Vice President of LexisNexis CounselLink. “The CounselLink law firm benchmark data provides insights that help navigate this rocky and evolving landscape more clearly.”

The CounselLink trends report draws on the extensive CounselLink Insight Benchmarking Database of more than $67 billion in legal spending across more than 510,000 timekeepers and more than 1.8 million matters. It provides detailed insights on eight key metrics, including law firm partner fees by firm size, hourly rates by practice area, firm size and location, and a snapshot of hourly rates in 18 countries. Significantly, trends report data comes from actual invoices paid to outside counsel by corporate legal.

Other key findings in the report include:

• Billing rates for top-tier timekeepers in high-value practices are exceptionally high, with some partners charging over $2,300 per hour and high-end associates nearing $2,000 per hour in 2024.
• Rate increases are highly correlated with practice area rates. Lawyers in practices charging the highest rates in 2024 are generally the same ones who raised their rates the most on a percentage basis year over year.

  

• Large Law increased market share from 49.0% in 2023 to 49.3% in 2024. Additionally, Large Law increased its share of new matter work in 2024 which may be a leading indicator of a future gain in market share.
• Trends indicate that the adoption of alternative fee arrangements (AFA) within Employment & Labor is growing. In 2024, 28.5% of Employment & Labor matters were billed under an AFA compared to 26.9% in 2023 and 24.7% in 2022. The percentage of Intellectual Property matters billed under an AFA is stable in 2024 compared to 2023.
• The 61% differential for the largest firms vs the next tier of firms is the same as was reported in 2023 but remains the largest gap CounselLink has recorded in the 12 years of tracking the metric. The differential was 46% for 2022 rates relative to 2021.
• 2024 is the first year where the median partner rate in the largest tier of firms exceeds $1,000.

“While select timekeeper rates are climbing at near-record levels, we’re seeing lower increases in overall matter rates across many practice areas,” said Gelfond. “This suggests corporate legal departments are effectively mitigating rate increases through strategic management of their timekeeper mix—carefully selecting which firms, attorney levels and specific timekeepers handle their matters. It’s a powerful demonstration of how data-informed decision-making can help legal departments optimize their spending while maintaining quality representation.”

The LexisNexis CounselLink 2025 Trends Report: Benchmark Metrics to Empower Legal Cost Management, now in its 12th consecutive year, is available here.

About LexisNexis Legal & Professional

LexisNexis^® Legal & Professional provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics 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 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.

About CounselLink

LexisNexis^® CounselLink^® is a leading enterprise legal and contract lifecycle management solution designed to help corporate legal departments gain visibility into their work, matters, contracts, vendors, and financials. CounselLink+ includes AI-powered tools across the cloud-based platform to help control costs, maximize productivity and make better decisions — all supported by powerful analytics and data that demonstrate legal department value across the enterprise. For nearly 30 years, LexisNexis has been providing innovative solutions for corporate legal departments crafted from insights of thought leaders, industry expertise and customer feedback. Contact CounselLink for more information.

LexisNexis Protégé in Lexis+ AI delivers advanced capabilities that help legal professionals work collaboratively with AI, be more productive, and amplify their strategic impact

NEW YORK, March 24, 2025, Legalweek Booth #2101 – LexisNexis^® Legal & Professional is unveiling the legal industry’s first personalized voice AI assistant in LexisNexis Protégé for completing complex legal work. Voice AI assistance and new advanced reasoning capabilities simplify AI use, allowing legal professionals in the U.S. to interact naturally with Protégé using spoken language instead of manually entering prompts to conduct legal work. The new, multi-modal experience provides customers with greater workflow flexibility, making it easier to deliver next-level legal work even faster and making their workday better.  

“We want to make it increasingly effortless for our customers to collaborate with LexisNexis AI solutions to generate outstanding legal work,” said Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO of LexisNexis North America, UK, and Ireland. “With the launch of the legal industry’s first personalized AI voice assistant, we are drawing on our deep technology expertise to make the human-AI exchange more intuitive, productive, and beneficial to each individual customer for achieving better outcomes.”

Built with enterprise-grade security, compliance, and privacy, Protégé is a personalized AI assistant that seamlessly connects across the LexisNexis product ecosystem and can be grounded in customer data. This includes the Lexis+ AI^® legal workflow solution and Lexis^® Create+ for legal AI drafting in Microsoft Word.

Leveraging proprietary agentic and generative AI technology from LexisNexis, Protégé in Lexis+ AI offers customers:

• Voice-Enabled AI Experience for Streamlined Legal Workflows: Users can ask a legal question, initiate a drafting task, and request case law summarization using voice commands, seamlessly integrating speech input into AI-driven legal work.
• Advanced Reasoning for Higher-Quality Legal Answers: New agentic AI capabilities deliver the highest-quality work and enable deeper collaboration between AI and the legal professional. A Planner Agent dynamically breaks down extremely complex legal questions into several steps for more comprehensive responses, while an Interactive Agent will allow the user to modify the agent’s plan and choose the best course of action for highly tailored results. A Self-Reflection Agent self-evaluates and refines its work for superior document drafting.
• Context Expert Witness Analytics for Powerful Litigation Insights: A new pre-trial assessment lets litigators upload an expert witness deposition, and Protégé will deliver an AI-generated summary of the expert’s challenge record, experience and qualifications, litigation and testimony history, and more.
• Legal Prompt Suggestions for Ease of Use: Based on user-controlled customization options, expanded and new prompt suggestions ensure customers quickly get relevant insights without needing deep expertise in AI prompting.
• AI Analysis for Legal Search Results: Users can perform AI tasks on up to the top ten returned legal research case results and/or on individual cases. This offers an integrated, bridged experience by providing AI-powered assistance within Lexis+ search workflows.

All features are either available now or will be available to customers in the coming weeks.

Protégé capabilities are guided by the LexisNexis vision for every legal professional to have an AI assistant that is highly personalized, seamlessly integrated across the product ecosystem, and can be Document Management System (DMS)-enabled for a more customized experience.

The LexisNexis global technology platform seamlessly integrates each wave of AI innovation, including extractive AI, which finds relevant results within data and provides deep insights; generative AI, which excels at creating new content from data based on user-entered prompts; and agentic AI, which can intelligently and independently perform tasks on a user’s behalf.

For more information on LexisNexis Protégé and its capabilities, visit www.lexisnexis.com/protege or join us at Booth 2101 at Legalweek.

About LexisNexis AI Development

LexisNexis customer-driven AI innovation focuses on analytics and decision tools that solve complex problems and enhance value. The company responsibly develops safe AI solutions with human oversight, backed by advanced encryption and privacy technology. Its global technology platform seamlessly integrates extractive, generative, and agentic AI within a scalable, multi-cloud infrastructure to drive rapid innovation and continuously improve answer quality, accuracy, and speed. A proprietary Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) platform grounds large language model (LLM) answers in a comprehensive repository of trusted legal content and metadata, delivering high-quality answers and validated citations. Its multi-model approach selects the best AI model for each use case, and model fine-tuning ensures high performance of domain-specific, personalized LLMs, supported by partners AWS, Anthropic, Mistral, Microsoft, and OpenAI. The company employs over 2,000 technologists, data scientists, and experts to develop, test, and validate solutions in line with RELX Responsible AI Principles.

About LexisNexis Legal & Professional
LexisNexis^® Legal & Professional provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics 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 11,800 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 Legal & Professional
212-448-2163
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