Lots of news arriving on AL’s first day back from holiday…here’s a good one about an application that’s been at the heart of legal AI from the start….Kira.
Litera has launched a range of new genAI features for Kira, its popular (see Skills survey data) AI contract review tool. The move follows its roll-out of Lito, an AI legal agent to support workflows – and which also works with Kira.
Starting July 31, the new Kira features (see below) will be available for all new and existing customers of the tool without needing to provide an Azure OpenAI key, the company added.
The new features include:
‘Generative smart fields: Create custom smart fields in any language with a prompt—no coding, no training cycles—faster and easier than ever, unlocking new use cases and accelerating insights across any document type to get answers to any question, even those outside of Kira’s built-in 1,400 smart fields.
Grid-based Workflow: This new tabular layout transforms reviews and gives legal teams an instant overview of risks and trends across all documents in a clean, intuitive layout. By displaying extracted language and answers, the structured and flexible approach allows legal teams to quickly locate language, interact with documents through chat, and create smart fields, including Generative Smart Fields, from content in the chart. This enables faster reviews and accelerates the development of insights and more informed decisions. Cloud customers can now preview and provide feedback on the new Analysis Chart.
Concept Search: Powerful new predictive AI, built on an LLM, enables legal teams to use just a single example to instantly identify any legal concept across project documents.
Project-level GenAI Governance: Legal teams can easily comply with outside counsel guidelines regarding GenAI usage with the flexibility to enable or disable Litera AI+ features for any Kira project.’
Adam Ryan, Chief Product Officer, commented: ‘The re-engineering of Kira with GenAI represents a transformative leap forward for legal teams everywhere, accelerating contract analysis across languages and jurisdictions. By empowering our users with instant, smarter contract analysis and seamless compliance tools, we are redefining what’s possible in legal technology and ensuring our clients are always ahead of the curve.’
As readers know, Kira started life under the leadership of Noah Waisberg more than a decade ago, before it was then bought by Litera, and it has since evolved over the years, with now a whole range of genAI skills added, as seen today. Just shows, good applications just keep on evolving with the times.
You can find more about Kira here.
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