Irwin Mitchell selects Lexis+ AI to support legal research and drafting

Irwin Mitchell, one of the largest general practice law firms in the UK, is pursuing a digital transformation strategy to offer a market-leading client experience. Eleanor Windsor, Partner and Director of Knowledge Management, said the firm wanted to partner with an organisation it knew and trusted, and an AI solution that would allow its lawyers to "add more value to our clients through an efficient and frictionless client experience."

LexisNexis announced on May 24, 2024 that Irwin Mitchell has selected Lexis+ AI to support its lawyers with legal research and drafting. Irwin Mitchell is a long-term customer of LexisNexis's practical guidance and legal research content, and the announcement says introducing Lexis+ AI to its legal tech stack will give its lawyers four capabilities: conversational search with cited and linked answers; case law summarisation; first-draft contract clauses and client communications; and secure upload of firm documents to ask questions, analyse and summarise.

At the time of the announcement Irwin Mitchell had selected the tool and reported no results of its own. The announcement cites a November 2023 survey of early users of Lexis+ AI in the USA, in which 74% estimated that they would save 7 hours a week on legal research and 80% estimated a saving of 6 hours a week on legal drafting. Windsor said Lexis+ AI "will enable us to maximise the value of the legal intelligence we already access from LexisNexis."

• Irwin Mitchell chose a vendor whose content it already used; Windsor said the firm wanted to partner with an organisation it knew and trusted.
• The announced product returns cited and linked answers to legal questions.
• The time-saving figures in the announcement are estimates from a November 2023 survey of early US users, not results from Irwin Mitchell.