Lexis+ with Protégé combines agentic AI with localised MENA legal content
LexisNexis, a global leader in legal intelligence and AI solutions, has announced the launch of Lexis+ with Protégé in the Middle East-a fully localised, secure and agentic legal AI platform grounded in authoritative regional legal intelligence.
Built for legal professionals across the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region, the platform is designed to bring greater speed, confidence and control to legal research, analysis and drafting.
Sixteen years after bringing its first regional research solution to the legal professionals across the Middle East, LexisNexis is expanding its regional offering with the commercial availability of Lexis+ with Protégé in MENA, starting with the UAE.
Helping lawyers draft
“Lexis+ with Protégé brings content together with AI workflows to support the way lawyers research, analyse and draft,” commented Lara Salem, Head of Content Strategy, LexisNexis Middle
Lexis+ with Protégé is designed for the everyday demands of legal practice across the region Conversational legal research grounded in regional authority: Complex legal questions in natural language are answered with relevant LexisNexis trusted legal sources.
Advantages
Agentic legal workflows: Protégé breaks complex assignments into structured, reviewable steps and supports multi-stage work such as research synthesis, legal comparisons, due diligence, compliance review and checklist preparation.
AI-assisted drafting: Legal professionals can generate and refine contracts, clauses, memoranda, legal correspondence and client communications, drawing on LexisNexis content and, where authorised, their own organisational precedents.
Document upload, analysis and summarisation: Users can securely analyse their own matter documents, extract key issues, generate timelines and compare materials
Regional and bilingual legal support: The platform is grounded in legal content from across MENA with translation and summarisation capabilities for case decisions that help professionals work across Arabic and English source materials while accounting for jurisdiction-specific legal terminology.
“We believe in giving legal professionals across MENA a more trusted way to adopt agentic AI is our contribution to that,” stressed Eric Bonnet-Maes, CEO, LexisNexis.
