LexisNexis has launched Lexis+ with Protégé, its legal AI platform, in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The rollout starts in the UAE.
The platform helps lawyers with research, analysis and drafting. The launch marks 16 years since LexisNexis brought its first legal research product to the region.
Local legal professionals helped build and test the platform.
Users can ask legal questions in plain language and get answers from LexisNexis sources.
For larger tasks such as due diligence, the platform breaks the work into smaller steps. Users can then review each one.
Lawyers can also draft contracts and memos, or upload their own documents to find key issues and build timelines.
The platform can translate and summarise case decisions in Arabic and English. On privacy, the company said customer data is never used to train public AI models.
Its content covers UAE federal law and all seven emirates, along with regulations and case decisions.
This matters, LexisNexis said, because the region mixes federal and emirate laws, free-zone rules, and civil-law and common-law systems.
The company sees trust as a bigger barrier to legal AI in MENA than adoption.
It said general-purpose tools often lack the source transparency and confidentiality that legal work needs.
“For legal teams in MENA, that means answers informed by the relevant jurisdiction, legal hierarchy and terminology. Lexis+® with Protégé™ brings that content together with AI workflows to support the way lawyers research, analyse and draft,”
said Lara Salem, Head of Content Strategy at LexisNexis Middle East.
“MENA is moving decisively from exploring the potential of AI to putting it to work across high-value, professional environments,”
said Eric Bonnet-Maes, CEO of LexisNexis.
LexisNexis is still testing the platform with local legal professionals. It plans to share validated regional performance data as it becomes available.
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