Small models as paralegals: LexisNexis distills models to build AI assistant
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Summary
Legal research company LexisNexis has leveraged its own AI expertise with an AI tool for lawyers, associates and paralegals to help them craft and proof legal documents.
Named Protégé, the tool seeks to ensure accuracy in legal citations in complaints and briefs and to learn individual firms’ workflows and be more customisable.
The tool uses a multi-model approach from various providers to switch between models for different tasks, as well as using distillation to improve performance and reduce cost.
Tasks are broken down and the best large language model to support each component is identified, with various models from Anthropic, OpenAI and Mistral used to generate the AI platform.
LexisNexis sees the tool as a first step toward personalisation and agentic capabilities for users, with a vision that every legal professional should have their own personal assistant to help with their particular tasks.