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LexisNexis Opens NYC Customer Innovation Lab for Fast Legal AI Prototyping

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LexisNexis Legal & Professional has opened a Customer Innovation Lab in New York City where law firm lawyers, corporate counsel, judges, academics, and company engineers collaborate to build and test legal AI features in real time. The lab operates with AI partners including OpenAI and Amazon Web Services. According to LexisNexis, prototypes can move from working model to production-ready capability within hours or days, with fully approved products shipping within weeks. The company applies secure infrastructure, authoritative content, and validation standards before advancing any model output. Successful prototypes are expected to feed into LexisNexis's Lexis+ with Protégé platform.

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.

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