Is the road to ILTACON paved with gold? Global legal technology company Litera may be hoping so, as it rolls out a “Road to ILTACON” series of product launches and enhancements, all leading up to the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, which starts Aug. 10 in National Harbor, outside Washington, D.C. Last […]
Is the road to ILTACON paved with gold? Global legal technology company Litera may be hoping so, as it rolls out a “Road to ILTACON” series of product launches and enhancements, all leading up to the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, which starts Aug. 10 in National Harbor, outside Washington, D.C.
Last week, Litera unveiled the first of these announcements, as it introduced Lito, an AI legal agent designed to function as a virtual team member integrated into the company’s Litera One interface.
Related: On LawNext: Litera’s Avaneesh Marwaha: The CEO Who Left Before AI and Returned to Lead Through It.
Then today, Litera announced the integration of generative AI capabilities into Kira, its due diligence and contract review platform, designed to support greater efficiency and more-informed decision making for legal professionals.
More announcements are slated for the coming weeks.
Lito AI Agent
The Lito AI agent combines large language model technology with Litera’s existing rules-based engines built over three decades.
Lito operates within Microsoft Outlook and web interfaces, offering several core features:
- Chat with Doc Viewer: A chat interface for document analysis and for triggering a library of AI workflow skills developed by Litera.
- Analyze in Grid: A matrix interface for running multiple prompts across multiple documents simultaneously.
- Compare: Document comparison across Word, PDF, Excel and PowerPoint formats with AI-powered change analysis. It supports one-to-one, one-to-many, and bulk comparisons.
- Search Experience: Natural language access to client, matter, lawyer, and third-party data through the Foundation platform.
- Review Terms: Built-in definition lookup for contract review.
- Legal Skills: Automated tasks including form checks and timeline generation.
“Combining the unique scope, data, and intelligence built over the span of 30 years into Litera’s technology with the Lito agentic engine on top, we have solved a major challenge 86% of lawyers complain about: their disparate and complex tools, and inability to sort through tremendous amounts of data and answer questions needed to quickly win over their clients,” said Litera CEO Avaneesh Marwaha.
Lito will be generally available Oct. 1, with early access beginning in late August.
Kira Contract Review Enhancements
Following Lito’s launch, Litera today announced the integration of generative AI capabilities into Kira, its due diligence and contract review platform.
The enhancements, powered by what the company calls Litera AI+, will be included starting July 31 in all new and existing Kira subscriptions without requiring users to provide their own Azure OpenAI key.
“By helping streamline workflows, highlight potential risks and trends, and reduce time spent on document review, this enhancement aims to assist legal teams in aligning with compliance guidelines and uncovering valuable insights across a range of document types,” the company said in an announcement.
New Kira features include:
- GenAI-powered smart fields: Custom field creation in any language using prompts rather than coding.
- xGrid-based Workflow: Expands Kira’s current analysis charts to show the actual document language rather than just occurrence counts, enabling legal teams to create smart fields, including Generative Smart Fields, from content in the chart.
- Revamped Analysis Chart: The new grid layout displays extracted language and answers, giving legal teams greater visibility into risks and trends, across documents in a clean, intuitive layout. (Analysis Chart is available to all cloud customers to preview and provide feedback on by toggling on the “New Look!” button.)
- Concept Search: AI-powered search that identifies clauses using single examples.
- Project-level GenAI Governance: Controls for enabling or disabling AI features per project, in order to comply with outside counsel guidelines on AI use.
“The integration of GenAI within Kira represents a transformative leap forward for legal teams everywhere,” said Adam Ryan, chief product officer at Litera. “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.”
At ILTACON, Litera CEO Marwaha and Microsoft’s Gbenga Ige are scheduled to present on Aug. 11 at 4 p.m. The company will maintain booths #711 and #815 at the conference.
