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Generative AI Tools and Resources for Law Faculty

Below are prominent legal databases that have rolled out generative AI tools. Currently, law school faculty and students have access to generative AI features within Lexis, Westlaw, Practical Law and Bloomberg Law. 

Legal Databases with Generative AI

Lexis+ AI is a conversational generative AI tool that Lexis launched in 2023, designed to assist with tasks such as answering legal questions, generating drafts, summarizing cases, and uploading documents for analysis. 

Protégé is a personalized generative and agentic AI assistant within Lexis+ AI, introduced in a commercial preview in August 2024 and made available to law school faculty and students in early 2025. Protégé offers enhanced features, including the ability to draft full complaints, motions, and agreements. It also includes a "draft mode" for editing forms and documents directly within the AI interface. The updated upload function allows users to create interrogatories, deposition outlines, and timelines. Additionally, Protégé provides a secure "Vault" for users to upload and store documents for easy access.

In late March 2025, Lexis announced several new features for Protege, including voice-enabled chat and advanced agentic AI capabilities. These include a Planner Agent that breaks down complex legal questions into steps, an Interactive Agent that allows user modifications for tailored results, and a Self-Reflection Agent that refines its work for superior document drafting. These features will become available in the coming weeks.

Visit the Faculty Lexis+ AI page for additional information such as guidance for effective prompting and sample exercises. On-demand AI-related webinars, including recent demonstrations of Protégé's new enhancements, are available on the Faculty Training site (Lexis login required).

On November 15, 2023, Thomson Reuters announced a new AI offering called AI-Assisted Research within Westlaw Precision. This feature leverages Casetext's legal AI technology, CoCounsel, which Thomson Reuters acquired in August 2023. Law schools gained access to CoCounsel's features in January 2025. Westlaw Precision now includes a range of CoCounsel capabilities such as AI-Assisted Research, AI Jurisdictional Surveys, Claims Explorer, and more, enhancing legal research, litigation, transactional, and compliance tasks. Additional features will be coming soon to further expand its capabilities.

On-demand lessons and webinars are available on the GenAI Resources webpage (Westlaw login required). 

Thomson Reuters launched its AI feature for Practical Law, now called Search & Summarize Practical Law (formerly Ask Practical Law AI), on January 24, 2024. This feature leverages Casetext's legal AI technology, CoCounsel, which Thomson Reuters acquired in August 2023. Practical Law is accessible through Westlaw, and UC Davis Law affiliates can find the AI tool in the upper-right corner of the Practical Law screen after signing in. A brief training video and handout are also available.

Bloomberg Law is a legal platform that covers primary and secondary legal content, as well as chart builders and legal news for various practice areas, including litigation, corporate, and tax, to name a few. In recent years, Bloomberg has introduced AI-powered features, such as analytics for litigation and corporate deals. Below are some of the generative AI tools released by Bloomberg Law in 2024-2025, which are available to UC Davis law students and faculty.

  • Bloomberg Law AI Assistant is a chat-based tool designed to summarize and answer questions about documents being viewed, including court opinions, court rules, U.S. Code and CFR sections, state statutes, regulations, session laws, constitutions, and select secondary sources. Currently in beta, AI Assistant will be refined and updated with additional research skills in the coming months.
  • Bloomberg Law Answers, announced on July 15, 2024, is a feature that provides instant responses to legal queries directly within the Bloomberg Law platform. This feature leverages generative AI technology alongside Bloomberg Law’s comprehensive repository of sources, including court opinions, practical guidance documents, and secondary materials. Each answer includes citations and links to the supporting Bloomberg Law authorities and source documents used to generate it. Bloomberg Law Answers is also currently in beta and will be subject to ongoing refinement based on customer feedback.
  • Clause Adviser was released on June 5, 2024, as a new generative AI-powered enhancement to the Draft Analyzer tool. The feature assists in drafting complex M&A agreements by providing plain English explanations of complex contract language and indicating whether it favors one side of a transaction. An easy-to-use slider allows users to modify contract language to be more buyer- or seller-friendly, resulting in redline comparisons between the original and suggested language. 
  • Complaint Summaries, announced in April 2024, is an AI enhancement to Bloomberg Law Dockets. This feature generates summaries of the facts and allegations in a complaint. Currently, this feature appears in the docket entry for the complaint and is limited to certain federal district courts and select cases from the Delaware Court of Chancery. 

VitalLaw is an online database by Wolters Kluwer that includes treatises, cases, statutes, regulations, and chart builders on topics such as Corporate Governance, Cyberlaw, Securities, and other business law areas. In September 2024, the vendor released a GenAI-enhanced virtual assistant called VitalLaw AI, which helps answer legal questions and generate summaries and first drafts of compliance checklists, client letters, and more. Currently, this AI feature is only available to commercial clients such as law firms. Visit the Using VitalLaw AI page to learn more about its features, including use cases and prompting strategies.