Vendor

LexisNexis

Headquarters: United States
Website: lexisnexis.com
Stories: 10

ResearchDraftingLlm platform

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N.Y.Litigation

Class action accuses Jones Day of pulling plaintiff's credit and driving records through LexisNexis

Filing (New York Law Journal) →Oct. 28

U.S. FEDCourt order

Fourth Circuit strikes down West Virginia Daniel's Law in suits against Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis

The Fourth Circuit affirmed a ruling that West Virginia's Daniel's Law, which restricts publishing the home addresses and phone numbers of judicial and law enforcement officials, violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments. A former state law enforcement officer had sued Thomson Reuters America, LexisNexis Risk Solutions and other people-search providers under the law. The court said the statute's lack of a notice requirement, which similar laws include, was fatal.

Order (Bloomberg Law) → · National Law Journal, Law360Oct. 28

U.S. FEDProduct launches

LexisNexis expands Lexis+ with Protégé with Lex Machina data and Custom Skills Builder

LexisNexis on October 27, 2026, expanded Lexis+ with Protégé so the AI platform can draw on Lex Machina analytics, Intelligize disclosures, CourtLink dockets and Law360 reporting alongside firm documents. The update adds a no-code Custom Skills Builder, 100 new legal skills, a larger Vault and broader Shepard's Verify citation checks. It is rolling out to U.S. customers this month, with global availability to follow.

Announcement (LexisNexis via GlobeNewswire) → · Law.comOct. 27

INDIACourt order

Allahabad High Court dismisses challenge to 18% GST on online legal databases

The Allahabad High Court on October 26, 2026, dismissed a public interest petition challenging the 18% goods and services tax on online legal research databases such as SCC Online and Manupatra. Chief Justice Arun Bhansali and Justice Kshitij Shailendra rejected the plea at the admission stage on grounds of delay, noting the rate has applied since 2017, and did not rule on the tax classification.

Order (Bar & Bench) → · LiveLawOct. 27

U.S. FEDProduct launches

LexisNexis Protégé goes live inside EvenUp for personal injury lawyers

Announcement (LawSites) →Oct. 22

U.S. FEDResearch

Lex Machina: federal consumer protection filings hit a 10-year high of 20,353 in 2025

Paper (The Global Legal Post) →Oct. 21

U.S. FEDProduct launches

Harvey adds Midpage connector for U.S. case law and statute research inside Harvey Assistant

Legal AI platform Harvey on October 19, 2026, added a connector to Midpage, an AI legal research service covering U.S. case law, statutes, regulations and agency materials. Built on the Model Context Protocol, it lets joint customers run Midpage searches from Harvey Assistant threads and receive cited sources in the final output. The connector is in Harvey's Connector Library and requires a Midpage subscription.

Announcement (LawSites) → · Artificial LawyerOct. 19

GA.Court order

Georgia Supreme Court disbars injury lawyer over felony plea in stolen accident report scheme and unreported conviction

The Supreme Court of Georgia on October 14, 2026 disbarred personal injury lawyer William Taylor Payne for violating Rule 8.4(a)(2), by entering an Alford guilty plea to one felony count under the Georgia RICO Act, and Rule 9.1(a)(2), by failing to notify the State Bar of the conviction. The count alleged Payne and three others used stolen Georgia Electronic Accident Reporting System data to obtain personal injury clients and money. The ABA Journal reported more than 30,000 accesses.

Order (Supreme Court of Georgia) → · ABA JournalOct. 15

U.S. FEDProduct launches

Harvey and LexisNexis launch co-developed agentic motion-to-dismiss workflow

Harvey has released a Motion to Dismiss drafting workflow co-developed with LexisNexis that plans dismissal grounds, researches U.S. primary law through LexisNexis and Shepard's Citations, and drafts a fully cited motion after lawyer approval of the strategy. Harvey says the work commonly takes associates 40 to 50 or more hours; a Motion for Summary Judgment workflow is planned next.

Announcement (Harvey) → · Artificial LawyerOct. 9

FRANCEFunding

RELX completes LexisNexis acquisition of French legal AI platform Doctrine

RELX completed its acquisition of French legal AI platform Doctrine on September 3, 2026, placing Doctrine inside LexisNexis Continental Europe, Middle East and Africa. LexisNexis said Doctrine serves about 27,000 legal professionals across France, Italy, Germany, Spain and Luxembourg and that the deal was announced on April 28, 2026. Terms remain undisclosed; EU Startups separately reported combined France figures LexisNexis did not.

Announcement (LexisNexis) → · EU Startups News, Le Monde du DroitSept. 5

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