In this video, Yannic Kilcher, PhD, co-founder and CTO at DeepJudge, breaks down the surprisingly seamless way that frontier models like Claude can be wired directly into a firm’s proprietary data. He shows step-by-step how the Model Context Protocol (MCP) allows Claude to call DeepJudge to perform permission-aware searches across a firm’s own prior matters and work product. You’ll learn why generic LLM wrappers are becoming table stakes, and how the real power of legal AI lies in anchoring models to a firm’s institutional knowledge, context, and provenance.

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In trust-heavy domains, “mostly right” isn’t good enough.

Orbital’s CTO @Andrew Thompson sat down with @Sanchit Dhote, Principal at Outward VC, to share what it really takes to build AI workflows in one of the most trust-sensitive domains: real estate due diligence.

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They talk about:
▪️ Andrew’s move into legaltech
▪️ What it truly means to ship early and often in a regulated, trust-heavy market
▪️ The operating principles that keep product, engineering, and commercial reality in lockstep

Following Orbital’s $60M Series B, it was a timely moment to reflect with one of their long-standing investors. Outward has backed Orbital since 2020, and this conversation captures the long-term thinking and domain focus behind how we build product at scale.

Find more: https://outwardvc.com/articles/in-conversation-with-orbital-cto-andrew-thompson/

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NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 24, 2026 — LexisNexis® Legal & Professional today announced the integration of Anthropic’s legal plugin (“Legal Plugin”) into the Lexis+® with Protégé™ platform (“Protégé”). The company has been evaluating the Legal Plugin capabilities since before its market release. This integration enhances hundreds of existing AI and agentic AI legal workflow capabilities available via Protégé and is part of the company’s process to continuously evaluate and incorporate new technologies or capabilities that help customers achieve better outcomes in trusted LexisNexis solutions.

The integration enables Protégé users to automate finished, verifiable legal work product in multiple ready-to-use formats with their work grounded accurately in the company’s vast 200-billion document repository – with four million new documents added daily – of essential, unique, constantly updated, Shepardized, and linked legal content. The integration leverages the Legal Plugin all within the Protégé world-class, private, secure, and trusted technology environment.

The Legal Plugin integration into Protégé has been tested over the last few weeks by a limited group of customers in commercial preview as part of the company’s process to rapidly evaluate and incorporate new technologies and capabilities across multiple models and plugins that add value for legal customers and their daily work.

Commenting on the Legal Plugin integration into Protégé, Nancy Kuhn, partner, Shulman Rogers, said, “I appreciate that Protégé automatically validates the legal citations. That feature is a huge timesaver. The end product, after verification and editing, is also easy to format in Word so that it can be quickly finalized…With so many AI tools out there, it’s helpful that Protégé minimizes the number of choices by integrating these experiences into one solution.”

In a product testing forum last week, an AmLaw 100 third-year associate noted that the new Legal Plugin embedded in Protégé “will take me from prompt to finished work product much faster and better visually than I can do it. It’s like going from driving a horse and buggy to driving a Maserati. I could not have imagined it being this powerful.”

“LexisNexis is delighted to integrate the Legal Plugin into Protégé to further automate authoritative legal workflows and deliver more value to customers,” said Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO Global Legal, LexisNexis Legal & Professional. “We are excited to put this in customers’ hands, enabling new, interactive, and intuitive ways to generate ready-to-use, fully formatted legal work that we believe customers will not want to be without.”

Within Protégé, the integrated Legal Plugin enables legal professionals to:

  • Automatically complete tasks like ‘check a data protection agreement’ against the LexisNexis repository of up-to-date, authoritative compliance regulations; ‘check a contract’ against a LexisNexis checklist; or ‘generate a research-style briefing’ on a specific legal question or topic.
  • Synchronize outputs across multiple documents, presentations, and spreadsheets to create a unified, formatted, and branded set of legal materials. Users can create final, fully formatted Word documents, coupled with high-level client presentations and detailed spreadsheets, which have received very favorable customer feedback.
  • Soon, users will be able to accomplish even more. For example, LexisNexis is developing the ability for a user to enter “I want to generate a 50-state survey” in Protégé’s single conversational prompt box. From this single prompt, legal professionals can automatically generate a coordinated set of deliverables, including a polished Word memo, a client-ready presentation, and a tracking spreadsheet that requires minimal editing and remains consistent across formats.

Protégé will continue to integrate additional Anthropic skills as they are released to the market within the platform’s easy-to-use prompt box.

LexisNexis is providing increasing support for customers in using and adopting Protégé including the Legal Plugin via a white glove service that helps organizations unlock the full value of these products with expert guidance and practical support. Specialized teams help customers build custom workflows, migrate existing workflows, standardize workflows across organizations, and provide team training and onboarding.

Protégé brings together an advanced AI infrastructure developed specifically for legal work and the world’s most comprehensive collection of citable legal authority to help professionals complete higher-quality legal work faster while maintaining the rigor and control required for legal practice. This commercial preview reflects LexisNexis’ continued leadership in authoritative legal AI innovation.

Following the commercial preview, broad availability will be guided by customer feedback and development.

To learn more about Protégé: www.lexisnexis.com/protege and Lexis+ with Protégé: www.lexisnexis.com/ai.

About LexisNexis Legal & Professional

LexisNexis Legal & Professional provides AI-powered legal, regulatory, business information, analytics, and workflows that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services. LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,900 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.

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Media contact:
Anuj Baveja
anuj.baveja@lexisnexis.com

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Knovos is introducing new capabilities at Legalweek 2026 to give legal teams greater flexibility in managing cloud deployment and AI governance. Organizations can now use preferred cloud environments and incorporate approved AI models that align with their internal requirements.

Key highlights include:

  • BYC: Deploy Knovos within your own cloud to support data residency requirements and internal control mandates.
  • BYAIM: Incorporate approved AI models directly into governed workflows for responsible, policy-aligned AI adoption.
  • Governed AI Assistance: Faster fact-finding through secure AI-driven summarization and information comprehension.
  • Hybrid (Vectorized) Search: Combine precision and semantic intelligence to discover responsive content across massive datasets.
  • Enhanced Defensibility: Stronger legal holds, improved reporting, and audit-ready governance across the entire matter lifecycle.

These advancements reinforce Knovos’ commitment to reducing workflow blind spots, accelerating insight discovery, and strengthening compliance, empowering legal teams to work smarter, faster, and with greater confidence.

Read the full press release here:

https://www.knovos.com/news/knovos-showcases-bring-your-cloud-and-bring-your-ai-model-innovations-at-legalweek-2026/

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Redaction and anonymization are often used interchangeably in legal environments. But while they may seem similar on the surface, the difference between them has a significant impact on how legal teams can use their data.

Understanding this distinction is becoming increasingly important as legal workflows evolve and AI adoption accelerates.

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When Redaction Falls Short

Redaction is typically used to remove or obscure sensitive information from documents before sharing or review. While it plays an important role in certain contexts, redaction alone presents clear limitations:

  • It permanently removes information, reducing context and meaning
  • It breaks data consistency across documents
  • It limits the ability to reuse data for analytics or AI
  • It often relies on manual processes, increasing the risk of errors

For legal teams looking to collaborate, analyze data, or enable AI-driven workflows, redaction quickly becomes a bottleneck.

What Anonymization Enables

Nymiz anonymization takes a fundamentally different approach. Instead of simply removing sensitive information, anonymization transforms it in a structured and consistent way, allowing documents and datasets to remain usable.

When applied correctly, anonymization enables legal teams to:

  • Preserve relationships, patterns, and context within documents
  • Reuse data securely across workflows and teams
  • Support analytics and AI initiatives using real data
  • Reduce exposure without destroying data value

At scale, our anonymization offers approximately 85% accuracy in real-world environments, even across large document volumes and multilingual datasets spanning more than 200 languages, something manual redaction cannot realistically achieve.

Why the Difference Matters for Legal AI

AI systems rely on patterns, consistency, and context. Redacted datasets often lack the structure needed to produce reliable results, while properly anonymized data retains the signals that AI depends on.

As a result, legal teams that rely solely on redaction may struggle to scale AI initiatives, while those that adopt anonymization can move forward with greater confidence and accuracy.

Moving Beyond One-Size-Fits-All Approaches

At Nymiz, we help legal teams determine when redaction is appropriate and when anonymization is the better choice, and we automate both where possible.

Our technology:

  • Identifies personal and sensitive data using advanced NLP and AI models
  • Applies context-aware anonymization or redaction based on use case
  • Ensures consistency across large document volumes
  • Preserves legal structure and meaning where it matters most

This allows legal teams to protect data without compromising their ability to work with it.

Let’s Talk About What Your Workflows Really Need

During Legalweek 2026, we’re having conversations with legal and security leaders about how to move beyond basic redaction toward privacy strategies that actually support modern legal work.

If you’re attending and want to explore how anonymization can unlock secure collaboration, analytics, and AI, while still meeting regulatory requirements, we’d love to talk.

Join Us at Legalweek 2026

We’re meeting with legal and security leaders during Legalweek to discuss how privacy-first collaboration can scale without adding friction or risk.

Schedule a meeting with our team before Legalweek to make the most of your time in New York.

And if you’re onsite, you’ll find us at Booth 612.

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DISCO’s all-new all-inclusive solution for litigation, investigations & regulatory responses is designed to put its market-leading eDiscovery and AI tools in one platform at a single, transparent price.

This DISCO offering combines its ediscovery, Cecilia AI, deposition management and timelines capabilities into a powerful platform to give customers one-stop access to some of the most advanced litigation technology available. The platform will also include DISCO’s newly announced, first-of-its-kind agentic AI solution for eDiscovery at no additional charge.

Click for the full announcement.

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Grounded in citable authority, Lexis+ with Protégé delivers the most integrated and intuitive legal AI platform to support complex legal work, custom workflow design, and broader AI tasks

NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 24, 2026 — LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, a global leader in information, analytics, and AI-powered legal workflow solutions, today announced the general availability of Lexis+® with Protégé™, delivering purpose-built, end-to-end legal AI workflows with a new user interface designed to make trusted legal work possible with one prompt. Building on the authoritative agentic AI capabilities available via Lexis+ AI – including conversational research, personalized legal drafting, document upload, summarization, and analysis – legal professionals can now automate their work to an even greater extent using Lexis+ with Protégé, our new, integrated flagship platform that replaces Lexis+ AI. Customers can ask any legal question using a single, conversational prompt box, and seamlessly access pre-built and custom workflow capabilities. As with Lexis+ AI before it, Lexis+ with Protégé is underpinned by Shepard’s® citations and lets users securely work with their own documents, trusted LexisNexis content, and leading general AI models to achieve better legal outcomes in an integrated platform that enables greater ease-of-use and less risk from switching between multiple AI tools.

“Legal professionals are increasingly seeking integrated legal AI work environments,” said Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO Global Legal, LexisNexis Legal & Professional. “Lexis+ with Protégé brings together the most comprehensive legal content, verifiable and citable sources, trusted legal workflows, and access to leading general AI models in a single, secure workspace. With a purpose-built AI infrastructure designed for legal practice, Protégé enables teams to complete their legal work end-to-end with confidence that outputs are validated and consistent wherever they work.”

New workflow capabilities within Lexis+ with Protégé automate drafting, review, analysis, and citation checking into scalable, repeatable legal processes that simplify complex legal work and deliver consistent, high-quality results across teams. At general availability, Lexis+ with Protégé supports a broad range of ready-to-run and customizable legal workflows grounded in world-leading LexisNexis authoritative content and legal knowledge graph – and 200 billion documents with more than 4 million new documents added daily – and citation, trust, and validity signals continuously updated, delivering depth, currency, and connectivity that cannot be replicated. Within the new platform, legal professionals can streamline and automate high-quality work by using:

  • Pre-built, configurable workflows that can be run as-is or adapted to firm and department standards, including litigation workflows, transactional workflows, and everyday legal workflows for broader AI tasks via LexisNexis-enhanced general AI models from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI. Examples include drafting a motion to dismiss; generating full discovery and deposition documents; creating transactional documents or clauses; redlining agreements against internal standards; analyzing key provisions and identifying high-risk clauses; comparing similar arguments or laws; and summarizing interviews.
  • A no-code Custom Workflow Builder that allows law firms and corporate legal departments to design, test, and share multi-step workflows tailored to their own standards and playbooks, turning institutional knowledge into repeatable legal processes that can be used consistently across teams.

Coming soon to Lexis+ with Protégé:

  • Advanced practice-area workflows that extend this foundation with domain-specific workflows for high-value matters such as civil litigation, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, and labor and employment.
  • New agentic and persona workflows, building on the agentic workflows LexisNexis announced in 2024, to further advance how legal professionals interact with artificial intelligence.

Additionally, the company is rolling out a new white glove service that helps organizations unlock the full value of workflows through a high-touch program that combines expert guidance with practical support. Specialized workflow teams help customers build custom workflows, migrate existing workflows, and standardize workflows across organizations, and provide team training and onboarding.

Following US general availability, Lexis+ with Protégé begins rolling out across global markets throughout 2026.

To learn more about Protégé: www.lexisnexis.com/protege and Lexis+ with Protégé: www.lexisnexis.com/ai.

About LexisNexis Legal & Professional  

LexisNexis Legal & Professional provides AI-powered legal, regulatory, business information, analytics, and workflows that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services. LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,900 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.

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How Am Law 100 firm Vinson & Elkins streamlined high-volume real estate work with Orbital, AI purpose-built for real estate law.

https://www.orbital.tech/blog/how-real-estate-ai-reshaped-vinson-elkins-workflow

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AI File Pro for Legal by FabSoft — Smarter Case Files. Faster Answers.

FabSoft’s AI File Pro is the proven AI-powered solution helping small personal injury law firms eliminate document chaos, save 10+ hours per week, and turn case file organization into a billable, revenue-generating service — all without expensive subscriptions or complex enterprise software.

Visit FabSoft at Booth 646 during Legalweek 2026 (March 9–12, New York) to see AI File Pro in action.

The Problem Every Small Law Firm Knows Too Well

Personal injury cases generate thousands of documents — medical records, deposition transcripts, police reports, insurance correspondence, scanned exhibits, emails, and even audio and video files. For firms with 1 to 5 attorneys, manually sorting, renaming, and searching through these files can consume entire workweeks, leaving less time for what matters most: serving clients and winning cases.

What AI File Pro Does

AI File Pro is a lightweight desktop application that uses artificial intelligence to automatically organize, rename, and search legal case files — transforming a disorganized folder of 1,000s of documents into a clean, structured, and fully searchable case archive in hours, not weeks.

Key capabilities include:

  • Automated Document Organization: AI File Pro reads and understands document content, then sorts files into logical folders (e.g., Pleadings, Medical Records, Discovery, Correspondence) and applies consistent, descriptive file names automatically.
  • AI File Search: Attorneys can ask plain-language questions — such as “Which documents reference Dr. Smith’s diagnosis?” or “Find all communications from the defendant’s insurer after March 2024” — and receive instant, source-verified answers. No more manual keyword hunting.
  • Broad File Support: AI File Pro handles PDFs, Word documents, emails, scanned images, audio recordings, and video files — covering the full range of materials found in a modern legal case file.

Built for Small Firms. Priced for Small Firms.

Unlike subscription-based enterprise platforms, AI File Pro operates on a simple pay-as-you-go model at $8–$15 per GB. There are no monthly fees for core features, no forced cloud storage, and no IT infrastructure required. The application runs locally on a Windows desktop, keeping sensitive client data fully under the firm’s control and in compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC 2 requirements.

With over 250,000 licenses worldwide and a 4.9/5 rating on G2, AI File Pro is a trusted, mature solution — not a startup experiment.

Proven Results

  • 95% faster than manual document review
  • 10+ hours saved per attorney per week
  • $50,000+ in potential new firm revenue annually
  • Handles 1,000s of documents per case
  • 1GB free trial — no credit card required

Meet FabSoft at Legalweek 2026 — Booth 646

FabSoft will be exhibiting at Booth 646 at Legalweek 2026, March 9–12 in New York. Stop by for a live demonstration of AI File Pro and AI File Search, and speak directly with the team about how the platform can be deployed at your firm.

To learn more or start a free trial (1GB free, no credit card needed), visit: https://www.fabsoft.com/products/ai-file-pro-law/

About FabSoft: FabSoft is a document automation software company with over 30 years of experience helping businesses capture, process, and manage documents more efficiently. AI File Pro is FabSoft’s purpose-built solution for the legal industry, combining decades of document intelligence expertise with modern AI to deliver practical, affordable tools for solo law firms.

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Announced today, ELMA expands our Enterprise Legal Management platform with adaptive, natural‑language workflow creation and seamless execution across your existing tech stack.

Built for legal teams, ELMA lets you design and deploy automations in minutes, integrate with leading LLMs (including OpenAI and Claude), and tap into a library of out‑of‑the‑box legal workflows created by Elevate experts.

From document processing to data extraction to full‑scale legal operations automation, ELMA gives teams the power to do more — without adding headcount.

Click to learn more, and see ELMA in action at Legalweek 2026.

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