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Litera enhances AI platform with new features & deeper CRM links
Litera has announced the addition of four new features and a range of enhancements to Litera One, its AI-powered platform integrated with Microsoft 365 for the legal sector.
The latest set of updates brings together the cloud version of Litera Create-Content, Foundation Insights, and a newly launched workflow called Precedent, which is currently in beta, for use within Litera One for Word. These additions are intended to enable law firms and in-house legal teams to turn organisational knowledge into accessible and actionable content during drafting, facilitating greater confidence and consistency for lawyers.
According to Litera, the new workflows harness context-aware artificial intelligence to help legal professionals discover improved precedent language and relevant deal point insights. This aims to strengthen document quality and support negotiations using data-driven information. The platform's enhanced document comparison, proofing, and catch-up functions are designed to provide a faster and more accurate drafting process, incorporated within standard lawyer workflows.
Productivity and integration
Recent enhancements now allow lawyers to access matter, client, and contact insights directly from their inbox, transforming Outlook into a productivity hub tailored to legal professionals. Deep integrations between Litera Foundation and Peppermint CRM have been introduced to enhance responsiveness and client service, minimising the need to switch between applications.
The Clean workflow, previously known as Metadact, is now available in the cloud and directly accessible from the most recent version of Outlook. This offers one-click cleaning of metadata from attachments to protect sensitive information, and is now supported on Mac computers as well as other devices. "Lawyers will no longer have the frustration of waiting or searching for hours and days for critical answers to questions relating to their clients, matters, or other insights," said Adam Ryan, Chief Product Officer at Litera. "With Litera One now delivering Foundation and Peppermint data at their fingertips, lawyers have the information they need in seconds to better serve their clients. Furthermore, with competition for new client business more intense than ever, the fastest partner to reply with the most relevant information can mean the difference between winning and losing business."
Other recent updates to the Draft Platform include the "Clean Up Formatting" function in Litera One Word, enhanced multi-document analysis, and forthcoming support for NetDocuments integration scheduled to arrive this August. There is also now French Canadian language support in the Create Desktop Application.
Adoption and workflow efficiencies
Since its initial launch, Litera One has seen increased uptake across the legal sector. More than 2,500 law firms and in-house teams are now using the platform to make drafting, knowledge management, and client service processes more efficient, with the assistance of secure, legal-industry specific generative AI capabilities. Litera reports that with law firms typically using over 340 applications daily, implementation of Litera One has led to reduced workflow fragmentation, consolidating multiple disparate tasks into a unified experience and saving users between two and ten hours a week.
AI-powered legal assistant
Litera has also introduced Lito, an artificial intelligence legal agent integrated into Litera One that acts as a virtual team member. Lito is intended to work in tandem with Litera's Draft solutions as part of a complete workflow and leverages Agentic AI to convert insights into immediate actions within Outlook and on the web.
The role of Lito is to interpret the requirements of lawyers, coordinate the use of relevant tools, and complete tasks such as drafting, reviewing, and responding, without requiring extensive user input or switching between different programs. This approach aims to increase efficiency and streamline legal work processes for teams.
The availability of Clean (Metadact) and Deal Point Insights (Foundation Insights) workflows within Litera One has now been extended to all users. Additional features, such as Litera Create-Content for Knowledge Management, AI-based language search and markup suggestions, and Foundation and Peppermint CRM integration, are scheduled to be incorporated in the coming weeks.
