LexisNexis and EvenUp have launched an integration that lets personal injury lawyers query Protégé from EvenUp's Companion using case facts.
LexisNexis Protégé is now live inside EvenUp, an AI platform for personal injury lawyers, according to LawNext. EvenUp customers working in its Companion AI assistant can invoke Protégé, ask a legal question and receive an answer grounded in Lexis case law and statutes, informed by facts from documents and case materials already in EvenUp.
The companies announced the forthcoming integration on Sept. 1. Their press release said the capabilities were expected to be available later this year; they went live to customers earlier this month, LawNext reported. Use requires subscriptions to both products.
The integration runs over the Model Context Protocol. Companion treats Protégé as a standalone agent, and a Protégé icon appears in the Companion prompt box. Saam Mashhad, cofounder and chief product officer of EvenUp, said that before the question goes to Lexis, Companion looks at structured data EvenUp has extracted from the case file, decides which facts are relevant and packages them with the prompt.
In a demo, Mashhad used a sample Florida motor vehicle collision case and asked how Florida's permanent injury threshold for noneconomic damages applied. Protégé described the four statutory thresholds, cited several cases and applied the standard to the plaintiff's injuries as pulled from the EvenUp file. Users can carry the conversation into Lexis+ with Protégé, with the EvenUp context included. The reverse direction, in which a lawyer working in Protégé pulls case facts out of EvenUp, is not yet available.
Liz Christman, senior director of product management at LexisNexis, said Protégé already supports connections to a firm's document management system, but the lawyer must still decide which files to upload.
