"Today, I'm talking with Sean Fitzpatrick, the CEO of LexisNexis, one of the most important companies in the entire legal system. For years - including when I was in law school - LexisNexis was basically the library. It's where you went to look up case law, do legal research, and find the laws and precedents you would need to be an effective lawyer for your clients."
"There is a consistent drumbeat of stories about lawyers getting caught and sanctioned for relying on AI tools that cite hallucinated case law that doesn't exist, and there have even been two court rulings retracted because the judges appeared to use AI tools that hallucinated the names of the plaintiffs and cited facts and and quoted cases that didn't exist."
LexisNexis historically served as the foundational legal research library relied upon by virtually every lawyer. The company has shifted focus to AI, branding its tool Protégé to assist not only with research but with drafting court filings. LexisNexis emphasizes strict accuracy to avoid AI hallucinations that have led to sanctions and even retracted rulings. The company has staffed significant legal-review teams to vet AI outputs and leverages proprietary legal databases to ground responses in real law. The stated goal is to make AI outputs trustworthy enough for courtroom filings while minimizing risk to attorneys' licenses and court integrity.
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