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Ever since generative AI burst into our lives, the race was on to deliver artificial intelligence to lawyers in a way that might not get them sanctioned.
So far, the industry seems as focused on expectation management as anything else. Figuring out what AI actually looks like in the legal workflow sucks up as more energy as playing around with new offerings. Which is why the second generation products are arguably more interesting for showing us a bit of the lessons learned over the past several months.
Lexis+ AI went live back in October, and while it already delivered Above the Law’s favorite application — the ability to write a snarky, derisive cease & desist letter — there was always room to grow.
Today, Lexis announced that a new generation will be available to subscribers in May with a number of critical enhancements:
- Faster Delivery of Results – AI-generated answers will now be delivered word-by-word for a faster, more conversational experience. The AI Assistant returns trusted results backed by verifiable authority two times faster than the nearest competitor.
- Enhanced Multi-Turn Conversation Capability – Contextual prompt conversations with the AI Assistant have been increased from a limit of five interactions to ten, helping users gain deeper insights and refine generative AI answers.
- Conversational Guidance for Drafting – Providing tailored, step-by-step recommendations that anticipate questions and guide users to leverage answers directly in drafting work including emails, letters, arguments, clauses, and memos.
- Added Delivery Options– Expanding Lexis+ AI capabilities with new delivery options for conversations including Email, Download, and Print.
- AI-Generated Statute Summaries – Providing the first legal market generative AI-powered summaries across U.S. federal and state statutes. Also available to the public via the LexisNexis U.S. Voting Laws & Legislation Center as a part of the company’s work to support transparency of law.
- Increased Document Upload Capacity – Enabling users to analyze and summarize larger documents, now up to 400,000 characters per request (approximately 150 pages per document).
- Improved User Experience – Refining the user experience with improved readability, ease-of-use, and aesthetic updates, including support to easily deliver and share Lexis+ AI output.
So what does this all mean?
Some of the improvements represent natural steps along the charted path. BIGGER capacity for document analysis! MORE contextual prompts! FASTER, FASTER, FASTER!
But there’s some new stuff in there. New delivery options take AI to where the users most want it, and that’s the sort of workflow insight that we’re going to figure out as we stroll along this AI journey.
Meanwhile, summarization is a core AI use case. Statute summaries must reflect a need they’re seeing out there among the users. Let’s check the PATRIOT ACT:
OK, maybe a bad example.
But the inclusion of the U.S. Voting Laws & Legislation Center materials just in time for the 2024 election is a fantastic move. We’ve written about the Center in the past, but it’s an invaluable tool for anyone trying to stay on top of their rights and, importantly, challenging voter suppression efforts.
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Joe Patrice is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. Feel free to email any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on Twitter if you’re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search.
