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17 facts from 3 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2020
LexisNexis launched its Lexis Plus product in 2020, which Sean Fitzpatrick says integrated the company's acquired businesses into one ecosystem.
“kind of in in uh 2020, when we launched our Lexis Plus product, uh, we integrated all those things together.”
2023
LexisNexis launched its Lexis Plus AI product in 2023, which Sean Fitzpatrick says made the company an AI-powered provider of information and analytics.
“in 2023, uh, when we launched Lexis Plus AI, that's when we became really the an AI powered”
2023-2025
Sean Fitzpatrick says LexisNexis used to pay about $20 per million AI tokens roughly two years earlier and now pays about ten cents.
“we used to pay $20, like two years ago for a million tokens, and today, you know, we might pay ten cents for a million tokens, right?”
2025
Sean Fitzpatrick says the LexisNexis AI system is grounded in a curated collection of 160 billion documents and records.
“system is backed by 160 billion documents and records, you know, that curated collection”
2025
LexisNexis uses a citator agent that checks cited cases to confirm they were not fabricated by the AI and are still good law, according to Sean Fitzpatrick.
“we call a citator agent, right? So we'll check that case to make sure that it wasn't fabricated by the system, but and that it's actually still good law.”
2025
Sean Fitzpatrick says LexisNexis surveys found that two thirds of attorneys use AI in their work, a figure he believes is now higher.
“two thirds of attorneys are using AI, uh, in their work, according to to our surveys.”
2025
Sean Fitzpatrick estimates that eight to 10,000 tasks performed by attorneys could be automated.
“there's probably eight to 10,000 tasks that could be automated, right?”
2025
LexisNexis's parent company is the publicly traded RELX, which Sean Fitzpatrick says has four divisions.
“Relics is the parent company, uh, and uh, it's, uh, a publicly traded company. It has four divisions.”
2025
Sean Fitzpatrick is the CEO of LexisNexis's North America, UK and Ireland businesses, reporting to Mike Walsh, CEO of the Legal and Professional division.
“my responsibility is I'm the CEO of our North America, UK, and Ireland businesses”
2025
Sean Fitzpatrick says LexisNexis reuses core search-relevance technology across countries, with about eighty percent carrying over before local tuning.
“But we get eighty of the DNA transferred over in that core model.”
2025
Sean Fitzpatrick says a LexisNexis planning agent might use OpenAI's o3 model for deep research tasks.
“So maybe it uses, um, the O three model from OpenAI, because it's really good at deep research.”
2025
Sean Fitzpatrick says LexisNexis might use Anthropic's Claude for the drafting step of a document, as part of a multi-model approach.
“so maybe it uses Claude, uh, three to do that, uh, like the Claude three Opus, which is really good, uh, at drafting.”
2025
Sean Fitzpatrick says LexisNexis has attorneys review its AI outputs and credits this process for improving the relevance of results.
“our outputs are attorney reviewed, and so that's how we keep getting the, uh, more relevant, um, results.”
2025
Sean Fitzpatrick says LexisNexis's AI product is the fastest growing product the company has ever had.
“it's the fastest growing product that we've ever had.”
2025
Sean Fitzpatrick says human oversight is one of the RELX responsible AI principles that LexisNexis follows.
“So we always incorporate human oversight, uh, into the, um, development of our products.”
Undated
Harvey has begun partnering with legal data providers including Lexis and Wolters Kluwer to improve its systems and reduce errors.
“now, as we've gotten bigger, we've started partnering with Lexis, Wolters Kluwer, kind of data providers, working with these law firms to kind of improve these systems to avoid those challenges.”
Undated
Craig Unger says tracking regulatory change used to rely on subscription services such as LexisNexis or Thomson Reuters.
“in the old days, where there had been almost like subscriptions to systems, maybe it'd be like a LexisNexis or, you know, or Thomson Reuters or whomever.”
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