LexisNexis vs Parachute (2026)

Named connections reach iManage, SharePoint, NetDocuments and other DMS platforms, and Lexis Create+ drafts inside Microsoft 365. Web and news sources feed in, and skill outputs arrive as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files. The connections stop at document systems and Microsoft 365, the DMS link retrieves documents and returns output as files, and no custom tool or action framework reaching into third party systems is described.

SourceLexisNexis, lexisnexis.com/en-us/products/lexis-plus-protege.page and the 7 May 2026 releaseread 2026-09-06

From any chat, Parachute's AI works inside Clio Manage and Smokeball once a firm authorizes each connection.

It searches and creates matters, runs conflict checks across every matter a person or company appears on, creates and updates contacts, logs billable time, adds notes, tasks and calendar events, and saves finished documents to the linked matter, and a meeting's notes and attendance time can be filed the same way.

In InfoTrack, still in beta, it gathers the details for a title, company or insolvency search, asks the user to confirm and places the order on the firm's own account. NetDocuments and OneDrive feed matters, precedents and reviews and take finished work back.

SourceParachute, help.goparachute.ai/integrations/clio and help.goparachute.ai/integrations/infotrackread 2026-10-12

Protégé Work takes a selected skill or a goal in natural language, routes it to the right skill or workflow, presents a structured plan and executes the steps to produce work product ready for review. Agentic Drafting agents build contracts, motions and briefs from LexisNexis content, firm templates and matter materials, and a no code builder lets teams create and share their own workflows.

SourceLexisNexis, 7 May 2026 release and lexisnexis.com/en-us/products/lexis-plus-protege.page; lexisnexis.com/community/pressroom/b/news/posts/lexisnexis-launches-next-evolution-of-lexis-with-protege-the-legal-ai-platform-built-on-the-authority-legal-work-demandsread 2026-09-06

Deep analysis takes a contract through five stages in two to three minutes. It checks the document against standard requirements, extracts every party's obligations, tests it against the firm's knowledge base, rates each risk High, Medium or Low, and runs any custom stages the firm adds.

Tabular review runs each column's question across every document in parallel, the AI makes large edits across a document in one pass or produces several documents from one precedent in a single request, and in chat it chains steps such as finding a Clio matter, asking which one is right and linking it. A firm cannot build multistep workflows of its own.

SourceParachute, help.goparachute.ai/features/document-review and goparachute.ai/release-notes/smarter-document-editsread 2026-10-12

Work reaches Protégé when a user asks in the workspace or a Workroom, in Lexis Create+ in Microsoft 365, or through the API, and Protégé suggests tasks from documents added to a Vault. Content alerts on the REST APIs notify on new material without starting agent work, and no schedule or event trigger for skills or workflows is described.

SourceLexisNexis, lexisnexis.com/en-us/products/lexis-plus-protege.page and lexisnexis.com/en-us/products/lexis-api.pageread 2026-09-06

Work reaches Parachute without anyone opening the app. A notetaker booked ahead of a Teams, Meet or Zoom call joins on schedule, and when the meeting ends Parachute writes the file note and transcript into a new thread.

An email forwarded from a firm address to a user's own Parachute inbox becomes a thread with up to 10 attachments, and the Today briefing, built when a lawyer first opens it each day, keeps adding new email that needs a reply. Lawyers also reach it from the web app, the Word add in, the desktop app and a Slack bot that answers when mentioned. Drafting and actions in practice systems still wait for a lawyer to ask.

SourceParachute, help.goparachute.ai/features/meeting-notetaker and help.goparachute.ai/features/email-to-threadread 2026-10-12

Responses are grounded in LexisNexis primary law, exclusive secondary sources and Practical Guidance, with Shepard's citation validation. The customer's own documents come in through DMS connections to iManage, SharePoint and NetDocuments, and Vaults hold up to 100,000 matter documents, kept until the customer deletes them.

SourceLexisNexis, lexisnexis.com/en-us/products/lexis-plus-protege.page and the 7 May 2026 releaseread 2026-09-06

Every thread draws on two knowledge bases, the organization's own, with policies, playbooks, prior advice, contracts and structured company information uploaded as PDF, DOCX, TXT or URLs, and a global one of regulations and frameworks that Parachute curates, with the firm's content taking priority.

A structured library of Acts and Regulations across all nine Australian jurisdictions opens section by section, and admins choose which Acts the AI may cite and whether it searches the web, with overrides per thread. Answers carry clickable citations back to the document, the section of the Act or the web page, and conflict detection checks new drafts against the firm's existing policies.

SourceParachute, help.goparachute.ai/features/knowledge-base and help.goparachute.ai/features/legislation-search; help.goparachute.ai/features/search-configurationread 2026-10-12

Protégé personalizes for each user, adapting to the user's preferences over time, and what one user shares never informs performance for another. Users can review and manage personalization settings at any time, adjusting the level or opting out entirely. Vaults and Workrooms hold matter documents, not memory.

SourceLexisNexis, lexisnexis.com/en-us/products/lexis-plus-protege.pageread 2026-09-06

Personal memory keeps each user's working preferences, such as a sign off, paragraph length or how advice is set apart, and applies them in chat, email drafting and documents.

Parachute saves a preference when a user states one in chat and shows a notice with a link, and users can add memories, rewrite them with AI, delete them, or switch saving and applying off. Tone of voice settings hold up to three email tones and a document voice, and each matter carries standing instructions for every draft on it. Memory never holds client or matter facts, and each chat starts fresh, so earlier conversations are not recalled.

SourceParachute, help.goparachute.ai/features/memory and help.goparachute.ai/features/tone-of-voiceread 2026-10-12

Protégé Work presents its plan before executing, so the user sees and controls the steps, and output arrives as work product ready for review, not as a final action. Workrooms enforce dual approvals on shared work, and Shepard's Verify flags citations in AI drafted content that cannot be verified, for a person to review.

SourceLexisNexis, 7 May 2026 release and lexisnexis.com/en-us/products/lexis-plus-protege.page; lexisnexis.com/community/pressroom/b/news/posts/lexisnexis-launches-next-evolution-of-lexis-with-protege-the-legal-ai-platform-built-on-the-authority-legal-work-demandsread 2026-09-06

Any document can go to expert verification, legal or cybersecurity, priced per request. It routes to the business's connected law firm, whose lawyers claim it from a queue and review it in the editor with comments and suggestions the client sees live, or to a pool of verified professionals, and the client rates each review. AI suggestions in the editor land as tracked changes a person accepts or rejects one at a time, InfoTrack orders and Clio matter links wait for the user to confirm, and Today drafts replies that the lawyer sends from Outlook.

SourceParachute, help.goparachute.ai/features/expert-verification and help.goparachute.ai/for-law-firms/verification-workflowread 2026-10-12

The trust center publishes a SOC 2 Type 2 report covering Lexis+ with Protégé, alongside ISO/IEC 27001, SOC 3, SOC 1 Type 2 and HIPAA attestations. Access controls include role based permissions, least privilege access and dual approvals in Workrooms, plus BYOK encryption against the customer's own KMS, and the Protégé API adds OAuth 2.0 and role based access.

SourceLexisNexis, trust.lexisnexis.com and the 7 May 2026 releaseread 2026-09-06

Compass Assurance Services certifies Parachute to ISO/IEC 27001:2022 under certificate 8818-4353-01, covering the SaaS platform for legal research, drafting and review, and security practices follow SOC 2 controls with no SOC 2 report. Members see their own threads, Admins manage people, settings and billing and can open all work, and an Expert role handles verification at law firms.

Matters are private by default and shared per person as viewer or editor, removed members lose access at once, and the Enterprise plan adds SSO and SAML, while the Word add in signs in with Microsoft 365. Each organization's data is logically isolated and encrypted in transit and at rest.

SourceParachute, goparachute.ai/security and help.goparachute.ai/account/team-managementread 2026-10-12

Workrooms keep audit trails and activity history of AI work, documents and discussions, and Vault outputs link back to the exact passage, spreadsheet row, image or timestamp they came from. Protégé Work shows its plan and steps, product audit logging and access log management are in place, and the Protégé API logs its calls for audit.

SourceLexisNexis, 7 May 2026 release and trust.lexisnexis.com; lexisnexis.com/community/pressroom/b/news/posts/lexisnexis-launches-next-evolution-of-lexis-with-protege-the-legal-ai-platform-built-on-the-authority-legal-work-demandsread 2026-09-06

Every change the AI makes to a document lands in a trace a user can scroll, and clicking an entry jumps to the block it changed. Each tabular review cell shows the reasoning behind its answer and a citation that opens the source with the quote highlighted, AI redlines carry Parachute's name as tracked changes, and documents keep every version. Admins can open every thread and document in the organization and see credit use broken down by mode. Firms get no workspace audit log of user and AI activity to review or export.

SourceParachute, goparachute.ai/release-notes/smarter-document-edits and help.goparachute.ai/features/tabular-reviewread 2026-10-12

Lexis+ with Protégé is hosted on AWS in eight countries, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, South Africa, the UK and the USA, and on Microsoft in six, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Sweden and the USA, with processing in the region of the market edition the customer buys, and BYOK against the customer's own KMS is supported. AI functionality is processed by Anthropic and OpenAI in the USA, with OpenAI also in the EEA and Switzerland, and by Google globally, whatever the hosting region. There is no customer cloud or on premises option.

SourceLexisNexis, lexisnexis.com/global/privacy/en/subprocessor.page and the 7 May 2026 releaseread 2026-09-06

Customer data is stored in Sydney, and storage in other regions is on the roadmap, so a firm in the UK, US or Canada keeps its data in Australia for now. AI inference runs in the United States by default. Firms that need inference to stay in Australia can have their instance switched to Australian region infrastructure on Amazon Bedrock and Google Vertex AI in Sydney, at some cost in speed or model choice, and knowledge base embeddings already run in Sydney on Azure OpenAI. Parachute runs only as its own hosted service.

SourceParachute, goparachute.ai/privacy-policy and goparachute.ai/release-notes/onshore-airead 2026-10-12

A browsable library of agent skills comes from LexisNexis and Anthropic, with prebuilt skills for contract comparison, complaint analysis, research synthesis, checklist generation, due diligence, compliance review and playbook based review, plus prebuilt drafting workflows. Each skill is complete on its own, and a customer selects among them.

SourceLexisNexis, lexisnexis.com/en-us/products/lexis-plus-protege.page and the 7 May 2026 releaseread 2026-09-06

Drafting can start from more than 100 prebuilt templates whose conditional logic adapts the document to the organization's industry, size and jurisdictions, and a tabular review can start from a prebuilt column pack such as a standard contract review. Firms add their own Word templates and precedents beside them, keep saved prompts in a library that is private to one user or shared across the workspace, and choose built in or firm file note formats for meeting notes. Workstreams come preset as Business, Regulatory, HR and Corporate Affairs.

SourceParachute, goparachute.ai/platform and help.goparachute.ai/features/tabular-reviewread 2026-10-12

Protégé General AI gives access to large language models from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic, each with different reasoning strengths, so the user picks the model for the task. Protégé Legal AI blends multiple LLMs under routing LexisNexis controls, and the AI providers for Lexis+ with Protégé are Anthropic, OpenAI and Google, as well as Microsoft and Mistral.

SourceLexisNexis, lexisnexis.com/en-us/products/lexis-plus-protege.page and lexisnexis.com/global/privacy/en/subprocessor.pageread 2026-09-06

Parachute runs on large language models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google and decides which model handles each request. Users choose a depth instead, Paralegal at 1 credit for quick questions and light drafting, Lawyer at 3 for detailed review and research, or Senior Associate at 15 for complex analysis, or let Auto pick the mode, and the Enterprise plan adds priority model access at busy times. Users and admins choose depth, never the model, and cannot bring their own provider account.

SourceParachute, goparachute.ai/privacy-policy and help.goparachute.ai/features/ai-modesread 2026-10-12

The Protégé API exposes the assistant's Ask and Summarize functions as secure endpoints for embedding in firm intranets, client portals and practice tools, secured with OAuth 2.0 and role based access, and throttled and logged for audit, alongside REST content APIs. A developer portal with documentation, SDKs and a sandbox is opened on request. The no code workflow builder is a tool inside the product, not an interface for outside callers.

SourceLexisNexis, lexisnexis.com/en-us/products/lexis-api.pageread 2026-09-06

Parachute is used through its web app, the Word add in on Windows, Mac and the web, which admins can roll out across a Microsoft 365 tenant, the Windows and macOS desktop app, a Slack bot and a per user email inbox. Every connection comes from Parachute's own integration catalog, which grows on customer request, and developers have no public API, SDK or MCP server for building on Parachute or calling it from other tools.

SourceParachute, help.goparachute.ai and goparachute.ai/integrationsread 2026-10-12

Shepard's Verify checks each output's citations, which gates outputs but does not test changes, and the AI System Development and Evaluation Policy and the 2,000 experts who validate the models are LexisNexis's own release practice. Customers get no test harness, test cases or release gate for the skills and workflows they build.

SourceLexisNexis, lexisnexis.com/en-us/products/lexis-plus-protege.page and trust.lexisnexis.comread 2026-09-06

Expert verification and deep analysis check the documents Parachute produces, a tabular review cell or a whole column can be run again when an answer looks wrong, and clients rate each expert review so the network keeps its quality. Firms cannot run their own test questions against the AI before changing a template, the knowledge base or a mode.

SourceParachute, help.goparachute.ai/features/document-review and help.goparachute.ai/features/expert-verificationread 2026-10-12

Protégé works in the Lexis+ web application, in Microsoft 365 through Lexis Create+ and through the API, and pulls web and news sources as content. No browser, desktop or computer control is described.

SourceLexisNexis, lexisnexis.com/en-us/products/lexis-plus-protege.pageread 2026-09-06

The notetaker joins Teams, Meet and Zoom calls as a bot under the firm's own name and logo, or records on the lawyer's computer without joining, and the Windows and macOS desktop app also captures in person meetings through the microphone with a live transcript. For a jurisdiction outside the five it supports, Parachute can search the web. The AI does not operate websites or other applications for the user.

SourceParachute, goparachute.ai/notetaker and help.goparachute.ai/features/meeting-notetakerread 2026-10-12