Litera is expanding its legal genAI capabilities with ‘Litera One’ to provide ‘seamlessly integrated’ drafting, accessing of KM resources, and doc review, which in turn is based on what it’s calling Litera AI+, its genAI solution that works across the platform. The multifaceted company, which also owns Kira, has focused much of its recent energy on data and workflows. So, the launch of interlinked genAI-boosted productivity tools is an important step and addresses a ‘missing link’.
So, what’s coming?
First, Litera One. Litera says that this is ‘the legal industry’s first unified, cloud-based solution that seamlessly integrates drafting, contract review, and firm performance tools within Microsoft Word and Outlook’. I.e. it’s bringing together both new and existing capabilities under one roof.
The capability will be available from the middle of April and aims to ‘eliminate fragmentation in legal work by creating continuous genAI-enhanced workflows, allowing lawyers to draft, analyze documents, evaluate market insights, and access client matter data and knowledge management, all within a single ecosystem across any device’.
And what is Litera AI+?
The company explained that ‘at the core of Litera One is Litera AI+, a secure, purpose-built generative AI solution engineered specifically for legal workflows and integrated with Microsoft Azure’s OpenAI services’.
I.e. this is going above and beyond where they were with Kira’s primarily ML/NLP approach – which has been battle-tested over many years and remains a well-used tool among many law firms. Now, they’re slotting in genAI across the board.
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The unified Litera One solution offers:
‘Connected Workflows: Eliminate friction between drafting, review, knowledge management, and firm performance with the only platform that maintains context across all phases of legal work.
Contextual Intelligence: Save valuable time with AI that remembers previous edits, understands firm practices, and applies learnings across the entire legal work lifecycle.
Universal Accessibility: Access the complete Litera toolkit across any device or operating system without interrupting your workflow or forcing context switches.
Collaborative Knowledge: Leverage institutional expertise and Litera AI+ insights directly within native workflows, reducing errors while ensuring consistency with firm standards.
Simplified Technology: Replace multiple standalone applications with a single, intuitive interface that requires minimal training and delivers faster startup times for Word and Outlook.
Rapid ROI: Achieve a timely measurable return on investment through reduced IT overhead, simplified deployment, and immediate productivity gains.’
Avaneesh Marwaha, CEO of Litera, commented: ‘While most legal tech providers offer point solutions and AI that address isolated challenges, Litera One is the first to truly connect firm performance, knowledge management, drafting, and review directly where our customers are already doing their work.
‘With Litera One, we are eliminating the need for lawyers to switch between up to seven different applications when working on a single matter, dramatically improving accuracy and consistency.’
Is this a big deal? For Litera it certainly is, and no doubt for many of its customers who may have been looking to rival platforms for more genAI features. And as mentioned above, in some ways a full genAI roll-out on the productivity-to-data side of things was the ‘missing link’ in Litera’s offering.
Now, they have a platform that can go head to head with other companies that are offering a broad range of genAI skills….but, in Litera’s case they’ve also got Kira, plus a range of data-focused applications that drive, as Marwaha told AL before, ‘the right data, to the right place, at the right time’ within a law firm, covering both legal work product data and operational data from within the business.
More info about Litera here.
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P.S. AL’s founder, Richard Tromans, will be chairing a special off-site panel with Litera during Legal Week in New York.