On the heels of five new product announcements this summer, Litera is poised to make a major splash at ILTACON 2025.
To learn about these exciting developments at the event, attendees can say hello to Adam Ryan, the company’s Chief Product Officer, or book a demo with the on-site Litera team in advance.
In the runup to the conference, we sat down with Adam, who shared his thoughts on the direction of legal technology and detailed the latest updates from Litera. (The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.)
ATL: I understand that Litera’s been very busy. To start, can you give us a quick overview of what you’ve been rolling out in advance of ILTACON?
AR: The first release that we’re unveiling is our game-changing new AI legal agent, a virtual team member spanning both the practice and business of law. We’re calling it “Lito.” The name “Lito” is short for “Litera One.”
Designed for the legal industry, Lito is integrated into the unified, AI-powered Litera One interface. It is built to support legal workflows by aligning relevant capabilities with user intent, helping deliver informed outcomes through timely access to the right data in the right context.
It has all of the LLM architecture associated with it, but we’ve paired it with our legal, rules-based engines that we’ve been developing over the last 30 years to deliver tangible value for our customers.
It is designed to help lawyers reduce context-switching, improve turnaround time, and make smarter decisions. It can do things like compare how commercial deal points have changed from one version of a contract to another, and identify the risk of the changes while suggesting mitigation strategies.
We’re also incorporating Lito with all of our capabilities in the business of law side, and, for example, it can automate complex tasks and surface immediate insights with Foundation and Foundation 365.
The second announcement is in relation to Kira, the legal industry’s trusted, proven, and future-ready choice for due diligence and contract review. We’re re-engineering Kira with GenAI services powered by Litera AI+ to support greater productivity and more informed decision-making for legal professionals.
So if you think of Lito for ad hoc contract reviews, what you’re able to do with Kira is take that same kind of technology but apply it to large document sets, which require collaboration and structured workflows.
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.
By helping streamline workflows, highlight potential risks and trends, and reduce time spent on document review, these enhancements assist legal teams in aligning with client requirements and uncovering valuable insights across a range of document types. These features will be available for all new and existing Kira customers without needing to provide an Azure OpenAI key.
The third big update is a whole series of enhancements to what we’re doing for the drafting workflow, predominantly in Litera One Word and Outlook. This includes things like uniting the cloud version of Litera Create-Content and Foundation Insights in Litera One for Word. With these new workflows, Knowledge Management teams and lawyers leverage context-aware AI to discover better precedent language and relevant deal point insights to strengthen document quality, and lead negotiations with data-driven authority.
We’re also introducing what we’re calling Precedent, which enables legal professionals to efficiently search for and retrieve relevant precedent language directly from a curated content library in Microsoft Word. Additionally, lawyers can now access matter, client, and contact insights directly within their inbox, turning Outlook into a true legal productivity hub. The new deep integrations with Litera Foundation and Peppermint CRM improve responsiveness and client service by removing toggling and context-switching.
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.
Our next announcement unveils massive updates and enhancements to our Foundation Platform firm intelligence suite, which now enables partners, lawyers, and business services professionals to access consolidated client, matter, contact, firm people, relationship, and experience data through a new Outlook interface. With this latest update, Litera has combined both critical client information from its CRM with unparalleled matter insights from its experience management platform to deliver a 365-degree firm view, right where legal professionals work today. Litera One allows firms to leverage this critical firm intelligence throughout the Microsoft stack, in a truly integrated manner.
Previously siloed in standalone systems and often out of reach from partners and lawyers, Foundation’s powerful new feature in Outlook unlocks how firms can better leverage firm experience to grow their business and deliver exceptional client service. On average, knowing how to answer the question “what is our experience with this type of matter?” could take multiple hours and a team of people. Today, that answer is available in seconds at the lawyer’s fingertips in Outlook.
Finally, our last announcement before ILTACON is a strategic investment in Postilize to accelerate innovation in business development with the launch of Foundation Proactive, Powered by Postilize. This partnership marks a significant step toward delivering a next-generation, integrated “growth-tech” stack within Litera One that transforms legal work by placing the right data in the right place at the right time — combining relationship intelligence, marketing automation, and AI-powered personalization. This transformative technology enables lawyers to engage clients at precisely the right moment with highly relevant, personalized communications — what we call Proactive Relationship Management. By leveraging our integrated Litera One platform, firms can identify and capitalize on new business opportunities that would otherwise remain hidden.
Those are the five main headlines, but we have a slew of other enhancements at our company update at ILTACON (Monday, August 11 at 4 p.m. in Cherry Blossom). It’s our biggest ILTA ever in terms of new products and feature delivery!
ATL: That’s certainly a lot. It seems like the pace of new features is accelerating, certainly at Litera, but also generally in legal technology. Do you see that as a trend in the industry? What’s driving this if so?
AR: Yes, seeing that across the board is truly exciting. I think there is an increased demand coming from our buyer base that is driving innovation.
Customers are hungry for new workflows and capabilities — a lot of them brought about by large language models and generative AI capabilities. They’re keen to get the benefits of this for their own practice.
I think that’s driving an exciting pace of innovation from legal tech vendors to push the boundaries of what we can do and how far we can take this innovation.
I’ve been in the legal industry a long time. I am a practicing lawyer. I was the former Chief Legal Innovation Officer at Freshfields, and now I’m the Head of Product at Litera.
I haven’t seen this rate of change in adoption in the legal tech industry in all my career.
What we are hearing from our customers, though, is that they want connecting experiences, and that’s why we’re really excited with what we’re doing with Litera One.
Lito is part of Litera One because it’s connecting all of those capabilities and experiences across that end-to-end workflow, meeting lawyers where they work today, which is in Microsoft Word and Outlook.
ATL: That’s a good segue into what I was going to ask about next, although you’ve touched on it already. Can you provide a little more detail on these developments from the end-user perspective?
AR: Yes, absolutely! One overall pain point for the legal industry is around the massive inefficiencies in routine, time-consuming tasks that lawyers spend countless hours on.
And that’s really the key problem that we’re looking to solve with the advancements that we’re bringing to ILTA this year.
So how do we kind of attack those bottlenecks around things like contract analysis, research, synthesis, first draft creation? We’re looking to turn high-volume and low-value hours into near-instant outputs, all while reducing risk and cost.
That’s the overall value proposition that we’re really looking to drive, and the kind of response that we’re seeing in the market has been incredible.
ATL: At the company update at Legalweek this year, Litera CEO Avaneesh Marwaha talked about a shift in focus from legal technology streamlining the work typically performed by junior associates to helping the rainmakers and partners. How are Litera’s new releases at ILTA related to that idea?
AR: That’s part of the key innovation driven by what we’re calling our growth tech platform.
Partners are looking for areas to cross-sell and at areas where they can grow their business, and that’s where being able to access this data — which was previously siloed in individual systems that they don’t have access to — comes in.
Now they’re able to leverage that data for the power of going out and finding that new business and serving their clients and identifying areas of cross-selling.
So, yes, 100%.
Avaneesh mentioned at that company update, though, that what we’re really focusing on is getting people the right data, at the right time, and in the right place.
So when we talk about data, sometimes you need that kind of information around billings or clients or contracts or matter experience. We have access to all of that information.
Sometimes you need firm precedent data, sometimes you need clauses, sometimes you need proofreading results, sometimes you need comparisons.
The proactive skills in Lito are key to being able to get that right data at the right time.
For example, Lito recognizes when you need a document comparison, and we’re automatically giving you that. Lito recognizes when you’re getting a question about firm experience, and we’re automatically providing that to you as well.
So we’re delivering that data when they need it, in the interface that they’re already working with.
That’s where I’m most excited around the kind of potential for us to help those rainmakers grow and develop the business further.
ATL: So ILTACON is around the corner. What do you hope attendees take away from Litera’s offerings there this year?
AR: What I really would like them to take away is seeing what we’re able to provide across the whole product portfolio that we have.
One of the things that I constantly hear from our customers is: How are you investing in the core solutions that they use and love today? How are you integrating those solutions together? And how are you investing in what you are trying to achieve going forward?
I really want them to take away those three things — to be able to see how we’re investing in the solutions that they’ve been customers for, and bringing really cutting-edge advancements to each of those kind of product lines, along with how we’re integrating that product portfolio together and how Litera One is able to bring those workflows into end-to-end solutions.
There are a number of things that we’re releasing, which, if I had them when I was a practicing lawyer, it would’ve made me very happy.
Being able to see that come to life is really the best part of my job.
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On the heels of five new product announcements this summer, Litera is poised to make a major splash at ILTACON 2025.
To learn about these exciting developments at the event, attendees can say hello to Adam Ryan, the company’s Chief Product Officer, or book a demo with the on-site Litera team in advance.
In the runup to the conference, we sat down with Adam, who shared his thoughts on the direction of legal technology and detailed the latest updates from Litera. (The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.)
ATL: I understand that Litera’s been very busy. To start, can you give us a quick overview of what you’ve been rolling out in advance of ILTACON?
AR: The first release that we’re unveiling is our game-changing new AI legal agent, a virtual team member spanning both the practice and business of law. We’re calling it “Lito.” The name “Lito” is short for “Litera One.”
Designed for the legal industry, Lito is integrated into the unified, AI-powered Litera One interface. It is built to support legal workflows by aligning relevant capabilities with user intent, helping deliver informed outcomes through timely access to the right data in the right context.
It has all of the LLM architecture associated with it, but we’ve paired it with our legal, rules-based engines that we’ve been developing over the last 30 years to deliver tangible value for our customers.
It is designed to help lawyers reduce context-switching, improve turnaround time, and make smarter decisions. It can do things like compare how commercial deal points have changed from one version of a contract to another, and identify the risk of the changes while suggesting mitigation strategies.
We’re also incorporating Lito with all of our capabilities in the business of law side, and, for example, it can automate complex tasks and surface immediate insights with Foundation and Foundation 365.
The second announcement is in relation to Kira, the legal industry’s trusted, proven, and future-ready choice for due diligence and contract review. We’re re-engineering Kira with GenAI services powered by Litera AI+ to support greater productivity and more informed decision-making for legal professionals.
So if you think of Lito for ad hoc contract reviews, what you’re able to do with Kira is take that same kind of technology but apply it to large document sets, which require collaboration and structured workflows.
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.
By helping streamline workflows, highlight potential risks and trends, and reduce time spent on document review, these enhancements assist legal teams in aligning with client requirements and uncovering valuable insights across a range of document types. These features will be available for all new and existing Kira customers without needing to provide an Azure OpenAI key.
The third big updateis a whole series of enhancements to what we’re doing for the drafting workflow, predominantly in Litera One Word and Outlook. This includes things like uniting the cloud version of Litera Create-Content and Foundation Insights in Litera One for Word. With these new workflows, Knowledge Management teams and lawyers leverage context-aware AI to discover better precedent language and relevant deal point insights to strengthen document quality, and lead negotiations with data-driven authority.
We’re also introducing what we’re calling Precedent, which enables legal professionals to efficiently search for and retrieve relevant precedent language directly from a curated content library in Microsoft Word. Additionally, lawyers can now access matter, client, and contact insights directly within their inbox, turning Outlook into a true legal productivity hub. The new deep integrations with Litera Foundation and Peppermint CRM improve responsiveness and client service by removing toggling and context-switching.
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.
Our next announcement unveils massive updates and enhancements to our Foundation Platform firm intelligence suite, which now enables partners, lawyers, and business services professionals to access consolidated client, matter, contact, firm people, relationship, and experience data through a new Outlook interface. With this latest update, Litera has combined both critical client information from its CRM with unparalleled matter insights from its experience management platform to deliver a 365-degree firm view, right where legal professionals work today. Litera One allows firms to leverage this critical firm intelligence throughout the Microsoft stack, in a truly integrated manner.
Previously siloed in standalone systems and often out of reach from partners and lawyers, Foundation’s powerful new feature in Outlook unlocks how firms can better leverage firm experience to grow their business and deliver exceptional client service. On average, knowing how to answer the question “what is our experience with this type of matter?” could take multiple hours and a team of people. Today, that answer is available in seconds at the lawyer’s fingertips in Outlook.
Finally, our last announcement before ILTACON is a strategic investment in Postilize to accelerate innovation in business development with the launch of Foundation Proactive, Powered by Postilize. This partnership marks a significant step toward delivering a next-generation, integrated “growth-tech” stack within Litera One that transforms legal work by placing the right data in the right place at the right time — combining relationship intelligence, marketing automation, and AI-powered personalization. This transformative technology enables lawyers to engage clients at precisely the right moment with highly relevant, personalized communications — what we call Proactive Relationship Management. By leveraging our integrated Litera One platform, firms can identify and capitalize on new business opportunities that would otherwise remain hidden.
Those are the five main headlines, but we have a slew of other enhancements at our company update at ILTACON (Monday, August 11 at 4 p.m. in Cherry Blossom). It’s our biggest ILTA ever in terms of new products and feature delivery!
ATL: That’s certainly a lot. It seems like the pace of new features is accelerating, certainly at Litera, but also generally in legal technology. Do you see that as a trend in the industry? What’s driving this if so?
AR: Yes, seeing that across the board is truly exciting. I think there is an increased demand coming from our buyer base that is driving innovation.
Customers are hungry for new workflows and capabilities — a lot of them brought about by large language models and generative AI capabilities. They’re keen to get the benefits of this for their own practice.
I think that’s driving an exciting pace of innovation from legal tech vendors to push the boundaries of what we can do and how far we can take this innovation.
I’ve been in the legal industry a long time. I am a practicing lawyer. I was the former Chief Legal Innovation Officer at Freshfields, and now I’m the Head of Product at Litera.
I haven’t seen this rate of change in adoption in the legal tech industry in all my career.
What we are hearing from our customers, though, is that they want connecting experiences, and that’s why we’re really excited with what we’re doing with Litera One.
Lito is part of Litera One because it’s connecting all of those capabilities and experiences across that end-to-end workflow, meeting lawyers where they work today, which is in Microsoft Word and Outlook.
ATL: That’s a good segue into what I was going to ask about next, although you’ve touched on it already. Can you provide a little more detail on these developments from the end-user perspective?
AR: Yes, absolutely! One overall pain point for the legal industry is around the massive inefficiencies in routine, time-consuming tasks that lawyers spend countless hours on.
And that’s really the key problem that we’re looking to solve with the advancements that we’re bringing to ILTA this year.
So how do we kind of attack those bottlenecks around things like contract analysis, research, synthesis, first draft creation? We’re looking to turn high-volume and low-value hours into near-instant outputs, all while reducing risk and cost.
That’s the overall value proposition that we’re really looking to drive, and the kind of response that we’re seeing in the market has been incredible.
ATL: At the company update at Legalweek this year, Litera CEO Avaneesh Marwaha talked about a shift in focus from legal technology streamlining the work typically performed by junior associates to helping the rainmakers and partners. How are Litera’s new releases at ILTA related to that idea?
AR: That’s part of the key innovation driven by what we’re calling our growth tech platform.
Partners are looking for areas to cross-sell and at areas where they can grow their business, and that’s where being able to access this data — which was previously siloed in individual systems that they don’t have access to — comes in.
Now they’re able to leverage that data for the power of going out and finding that new business and serving their clients and identifying areas of cross-selling.
So, yes, 100%.
Avaneesh mentioned at that company update, though, that what we’re really focusing on is getting people the right data, at the right time, and in the right place.
So when we talk about data, sometimes you need that kind of information around billings or clients or contracts or matter experience. We have access to all of that information.
Sometimes you need firm precedent data, sometimes you need clauses, sometimes you need proofreading results, sometimes you need comparisons.
The proactive skills in Lito are key to being able to get that right data at the right time.
For example, Lito recognizes when you need a document comparison, and we’re automatically giving you that. Lito recognizes when you’re getting a question about firm experience, and we’re automatically providing that to you as well.
So we’re delivering that data when they need it, in the interface that they’re already working with.
That’s where I’m most excited around the kind of potential for us to help those rainmakers grow and develop the business further.
ATL: So ILTACON is around the corner. What do you hope attendees take away from Litera’s offerings there this year?
AR: What I really would like them to take away is seeing what we’re able to provide across the whole product portfolio that we have.
One of the things that I constantly hear from our customers is: How are you investing in the core solutions that they use and love today? How are you integrating those solutions together? And how are you investing in what you are trying to achieve going forward?
I really want them to take away those three things — to be able to see how we’re investing in the solutions that they’ve been customers for, and bringing really cutting-edge advancements to each of those kind of product lines, along with how we’re integrating that product portfolio together and how Litera One is able to bring those workflows into end-to-end solutions.
There are a number of things that we’re releasing, which, if I had them when I was a practicing lawyer, it would’ve made me very happy.
Being able to see that come to life is really the best part of my job.
