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 isn’t a lawyer today who hasn’t used it — it’s fundamental infrastructure for the legal profession, just like email or a word processor.

But enterprise companies with huge databases of proprietary information in 2025 can’t resist the siren call of AI, and LexisNexis is no different. You’ll hear it: when I asked Sean to describe LexisNexis to me, the first word he said wasn’t “law” or “data,” it was “AI.” The goal is for t

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