The lab has operated for approximately 1.5 months before its formal announcement. Some prototypes are already advancing to product work, including a customer-managed Protégé Vault for multimedia materials. The company plans to expand the lab globally and hold sessions at ILTACON and customer sites, though specific timelines and locations remain undisclosed.
The announcement signals a strategic shift in how LexisNexis develops legal AI—moving from traditional product cycles to customer-driven iteration. For attorneys evaluating legal tech vendors, the lab demonstrates one approach to addressing the market pressure for secure, practical AI in high-stakes workflows. Practitioners using LexisNexis products should monitor the Protégé platform for new capabilities emerging from the lab, particularly around document management and multimedia handling.