Litera enhances Foundation Platform with AI tools for law firms
The Foundation Platform now offers an expanded range of features, including experience management, deal and case insights, customer relationship management, enterprise relationship management, e-marketing, matter scoping and pricing, and financial analytics for clients, matters and attorneys. The latest update brings together data from Litera's CRM system and insights from its experience management platform to provide law firms with a broad-based overview of operations.
According to the company, Litera One enables access to this intelligence within the Microsoft suite, allowing legal professionals to use these insights without leaving familiar tools such as Outlook and Word. This approach aims to streamline access to critical data and integrate it within daily workflows.
Feature integration
"With the latest wave of innovations across our Foundation Platform and the introduction of Lito, Litera is once again redefining what's possible for legal technology," said Avaneesh Marwaha, CEO of Litera. "By empowering legal professionals with unified, AI-driven tools seamlessly embedded in their daily workflows, we're not only accelerating productivity but also setting a new standard for firm intelligence. These enhancements - launched on the eve of ILTACON - are creating real industry buzz and building unstoppable momentum as firms look to embrace the future of legal work," Marwaha said.
Previously, information on firm experience was often stored in separate systems, limiting access for partners and lawyers. The new integration within Outlook is designed to address this, allowing legal professionals to obtain answers to queries such as "what is our experience with this type of matter?" in seconds, rather than the hours it previously required.
Lito's capabilities
Litera has also introduced Lito, an AI-powered legal agent embedded within Litera One. Lito provides firm experience search in natural language, accessible via both Litera One Outlook and Litera One Web. Users' search histories are synchronized across these interfaces. As part of Litera One for Outlook, Lito can proactively respond to experience-related queries. For example, it can process a client's email requesting information on the firm's M&A experience with gaming assets and promptly provide relevant matters and personnel directly within Outlook. This capability is intended to streamline the process of leveraging firm experience for business development and client service.
Enhancements to Foundation 365
The platform also features new integrations and updates for Foundation 365, including the syncing of client and matter records between CRM and experience management systems. Additional updates include AI-powered market insights delivered within Litera One for Word, language translation of matter descriptions, and the automatic embedding of matter task and time data into the Foundation Matter interface. Further, enhancements support the extraction of key experience data from litigation documents and offer support for custom deal points alongside pre-set options.
The user interface of Foundation Marketing, Foundation Finance, and Foundation Scoping has also been updated with a more modern design.
Availability and future plans
The integration between Foundation and Foundation 365 for syncing client and matter data is set to be generally available in the fourth quarter of 2025.
With these updates, Litera aims to provide a platform that allows legal professionals to access and action firm intelligence directly within their everyday workspace, potentially expediting the process of business growth, client engagement, and service delivery.
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