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.

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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:

  • Generative Smart Fields: Create custom smart fields in any language with a prompt — no coding, no training cycles — faster and easier than ever, unlocking new use cases and accelerating insights across any document type to get answers to any question, even those outside of Kira’s built-in 1,400 smart fields.
  • Grid-based Workflow: This new tabular layout transforms reviews and gives legal teams an instant overview of risks and trends across all documents in a clean, intuitive layout. By displaying extracted language and answers, the structured and flexible approach allows legal teams to quickly locate language, interact with documents through chat, and create smart fields, including Generative Smart Fields, from content in the chart. This enables faster reviews and accelerates the development of insights and more informed decisions. Cloud customers can now preview and provide feedback on the new Analysis Chart.
  • Concept Search: Predictive AI, built on an LLM, enables legal teams to use just a single example to quickly identify any legal concept across project documents.
  • Project-level Gen AI Governance: Legal teams can easily comply with outside counsel guidelines regarding gen AI usage with the flexibility to enable or disable Litera AI+ features for any Kira project.

“The re-engineering of Kira with gen AI represents a transformative leap forward for legal teams everywhere — accelerating contract analysis across languages and jurisdictions,” 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.

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