The legal technology company Litera said today that is has acquired Office & Dragons, a London-based company that develops document automation software for law firms and legal professionals. Office & Dragons specializes in software that allows editing, generation and review of multiple documents in a single process, to help law firms save time on repetitive […]
The legal technology company Litera said today that is has acquired Office & Dragons, a London-based company that develops document automation software for law firms and legal professionals.
Office & Dragons specializes in software that allows editing, generation and review of multiple documents in a single process, to help law firms save time on repetitive work that would otherwise be tedious and error-prone. It can be used to edit an entire suite of documents with a single action, generate suites of documents, redline batches of documents, and collaboratively review the work of colleagues.
“We are thrilled to join forces with Litera,” said Samuel Smolkin, founder and CEO of Office & Dragons. “The entire O&D team will be coming on board, and we’re excited about the opportunities to grow our platform with Litera’s extensive resources and complementary products.
“With integrations spanning Compare, Kira, Transact, and beyond, we aim to make Office & Dragons an essential part of every lawyer’s toolkit—helping them save hours of repetitive work, focus on higher-value tasks, and improve their quality of life.”
Litera said that the combination of Office & Dragons with its other products will allow firms to generate, edit and redline documents more quickly and accurately and streamline workflows for attorneys.
“I’ve been so impressed by Sam’s understanding of the market, involvement in the industry, and passion for building strong solutions for the legal tech community,” said Avaneesh Marwaha, who last month returned to his former role as Litera’s CEO. “This acquisition is a prime example of Litera’s ongoing commitment to expand our portfolio with mission-critical tools that integrate with native attorney workflows.”
Founded in 2019, Office & Dragons primarily serves large law firms in the U.S. and U.K. Before starting the company, founder Smolkin was an associate at Kirkland & Ellis in London.
As for how the company got its unusual name, Smolkin said in a 2021 Lawtomated interview that the original program used command line wizards to drive the process forward. He liked the fantasy aspect of the word, but did not want to use wizard as a name, so he began to instead call it a dragon. That, together with the fact that his law firm office sometimes felt like a dungeon, got him thinking of Dungeons & Dragons, and the rest, as they say, is history.
(Office & Dragons was a contestant in the 2023 ABA TECHSHOW Startup Alley, which I oversee.)
