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Two legal AI platforms that might not be garbage
RICHARD WEINER
Technology for Lawyers
Published: March 21, 2025
Legal AIs affiliated with LexisNexis and Bloomberg Law have just been opened to curious lawyers and, like the headline says, they may not be garbage. No guarantees, of course.
LexisNexis has launched their Protégé AI Assistant to general availability.
According to the company, Protégé comes with capabilities that include autonomous task completion and the ability to review its own work and identify areas where it can improve its own output.
Protégé is intended to replace the current Lexis+ AI that is available on their platform. It will initially be available within the Lexis+ AI workflow solution and Lexis Create+ for legal drafting within Microsoft Word but will eventually be available across all of the LexisNexis platform.
Protégé is designed to be “agentic.”
That is, it can be self-correcting and theoretically work autonomously based on user goals.
According to the company, the goal of more widespread usage is to (of course) accelerate productivity and enhance work quality. And other buzz words.
But LexisNexis probably wouldn’t roll out a garbage product to the public, so there it is.
Bloomberg Law is rolling out two AI-powered legal research tools that are attempting to cure the problem of bad cites and bad quotes and bad logic and just bad everything that currently haunts public-facing AI used inappropriately by lawyers.
They are: Bloomberg Law Answers and Bloomberg Law AI Assistant.
These are the first Generative AI tools that Bloomberg has rolled out to function within its platform.
They aim to streamline legal research workflows by providing direct answers to legal questions and enabling document-specific querying.
Both of these platforms are available for no extra charge for subscribers.
Both of them will also feature extensive footnoting of sources integrated within each answer, which seems pretty unique and very useful to me.
For users, Bloomberg Law Answers will appear at the top of searches after the user opts-in.
The AI Assistant will function as a document-specific tool that appears in a side panel when viewing primary or secondary sources and allows users to generate summaries and ask specific questions about the docs they are viewing.
Check ‘em out.
Thanks to the great Bob Ambrogi for the above. Subscribe to him at lawnext.com.