LexisNexis expands generative AI offerings with Lexis snapshot and Lexis create integration
In addition to its new complaint summarization tool and generative AI integrations, LexisNexis is planning to expand its Commercial Preview Program and its partnerships with law school faculty.
On Tuesday, LexisNexis announced the launch of Lexis Snapshot, a complaint summarization service, and the integration of its drafting tool Lexis Create with its generative artificial intelligence platform Lexis+ AI.
On a virtual press call, Jeff Pfeifer, chief product officer for LexisNexis North America and UK, explained that Lexis Snapshot leverages Lexis+ AI to “summarize complaint documents in our CourtLink document alerting solution.” Essentially, after users set up an alert to track specific types of complaints, Lexis Snapshot will generate and send complaint summaries to them via email when those types of complaints are filed. The new service is immediately available to LexisNexis users.
Pfeifer said that the summaries, which cover key information of a complaint including parties involved, alleged harm and requested remedies, allow “individuals to have an idea of whether [complaints] should be reviewed in more detail.”
Currently, Lexis Snapshot can only summarize civil complaints in federal courts but, going forward, Pfeifer said the company “plans to expand the service to state court complaints, additional document types and additional products like Lex Machina within the LexisNexis generative AI-enabled legal product ecosystem.” He added, “With client feedback, we’ll also explore additional filing types and documents that might be of interest for AI-generated summaries.”
In addition to Lexis Snapshot, Pfeifer also announced that Lexis Create, a drafting solution built into Microsoft Office 365 that was officially released in the U.S. in August 2023, will be integrated with Lexis+ AI, the company’s generative AI platform. The integration will be immediately available to subscribers of both Lexis Create and Lexis+ AI.
Lexis+ AI was publicly launched in late October 2023 and looks to automate tasks including legal research and drafting, among others.
Pfeifer explained that connecting Lexis Create with Lexis+ AI enables users to conduct legal research via asking “[a] legal question without leaving [their] drafting workflow” and without leaving Microsoft Word.
He added that LexisNexis is also actively exploring a number of updates to Lexis Create, including “smart redlining, [which is] the ability to examine updates or changes to a document over time, where a generative AI service will be able to allow the user to see how a document has changed.”
In addition, the company is looking at adding “clause benchmarking” to Lexis Create, which would leverage “tools like our practical guidance content, and more specifically, our market standard solution, [to] allow a user to look at a clause or suggested clause and benchmark it to market,” Pfeifer said.
In a nod to how client feedback is driving the company’s new offerings, Pfeifer also announced that LexisNexis plans to expand its Commercial Preview Program, through which legal clients test and provide feedback on updates or tool development, to several new countries. “We’ll expand our commercial preview program to legal professionals in Canada, the UK, France and Australia in 2024,” he said.
What’s more, LexisNexis will also allow a larger group of law school professionals, including law librarians, to test out the Lexis+ AI platform in their field. “Following our commercial launch, a group of select faculty have been testing Lexis+ AI for law school application. And based on these results, we’re announcing access for a larger group of law school faculty,” Pfeifer said.
