LexisNexis has introduced Lexis+ with Protégé to the Canadian market, bringing guided, multi-step artificial intelligence workflows to legal research, drafting and analysis.
In a blog post outlining the rollout, LexisNexis described the move as a shift away from standalone AI tools toward technology embedded throughout everyday legal work.
The platform replaces Lexis+ AI as the company’s flagship legal AI offering. Built around a conversational interface, it gives lawyers access to pre-built workflows for litigation, transactional matters and routine legal tasks.
Rather than requiring users to tackle each assignment through a series of separate prompts, Protégé is designed to guide an entire process. Available workflows can help draft motions and lease agreements, summarize interviews and complete other complex legal work.
Lexis+ with Protégé uses AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI enhanced by LexisNexis. Its responses can draw from the company’s Canadian collection of primary law, secondary sources and Practical Guidance, as well as documents supplied by a user’s organization.
The platform also incorporates citation validation, allowing lawyers to check the status and treatment of authorities within their research and drafting workflow.
“Canadian legal professionals are under real pressure to do more with less,” said Sam Puchala, president and general manager of LexisNexis Canada.
Puchala said the platform was created specifically for legal practice, combining Canadian legal content and verifiable sources within a secure environment.
The Canadian rollout reflects the legal technology sector’s broader move beyond standalone AI tools toward systems embedded across a lawyer’s workflow. The challenge for providers is increasingly not whether AI can produce an answer, but whether it can support legal work consistently from beginning to end.