LexisNexis opens a Customer Innovation Lab in New York to co-create AI for legal work with customers and engineers, enabling rapid prototyping and end-user involvement from design to deployment.

The Lab aims to ship prototypes within hours and trusted products within weeks by embedding customers in live development sessions and reducing handoffs between a small lab team and a large engineering organization.

The space is designed for collaborative work with LexisNexis engineers to improve AI products, including hands-on sessions and real-time feedback.

Near-term focus includes drafting tools that adapt to a firm’s style and playbooks, flag risks aligned to client standards, carry context across documents, and integrate analytics from litigation, judicial, and regulatory data.

A core project, Protégé, features a Protégé Vault for advanced multimedia analysis, enabling rapid review of deposits and precise traceability to timestamps and sources.

Prototypes meeting stringent accuracy, security, quality, and legal-domain performance standards can advance to the Protégé platform for scalable skills or agents across Lexis+.

Law firms are increasingly exploring ecosystem models, training in-house models, and mixing vendor models guided by the Lab’s workflow and use-case focus.

Protégé Workrooms provide secure, controlled collaboration with detailed access permissions among internal teams, outside counsel, clients, and experts.

Initial prototypes advancing toward production include the Protégé Vault for multimedia analysis, Protégé Workrooms, and LexisNexis-developed legal AI models tailored to legal tasks.

The Lab has already shipped several solutions derived from customer ideation, including legal AI models and secure collaboration tools, signaling real-world applicability.

Engineers lead lab sessions using private infrastructure and internal validation to assess model outputs, with frequent model releases from providers like Anthropic and OpenAI driving acceleration.

Stakeholders such as law firms, corporate legal departments, judiciary, and academia are engaging with on-site sessions; prototypes can become production-ready within weeks.