Last week’s ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, brought what may have been the busiest news cycle I can remember for this conference, with a torrent of product announcements dominated by two themes: agentic AI and the Model Context Protocol.

I have already covered the conference and several of the week’s biggest stories – including LexisNexis’s Legal Intelligence Engine, Thomson Reuters’ launch of its Thomson LLM, and Clio’s hiring of Pablo Arredondo to lead a new judiciary initiative. Now, as I dig out from a hectic week, I am rounding up here other notable announcements from the conference.

I’ll do this in four parts:

This is part 4, the business of law.

Note: I used Claude to assist in creating the summaries.

Litera Announces Firm AI Search and Business Development Intelligence

Litera, fresh off its July relaunch around a single AI agent, which I covered at the time, announced Firm AI Search and business development Intelligence, which it says turn siloed firm data into new revenue opportunities by giving lawyers natural language access to firm knowledge.

Firm AI Search is accessed through Lito, Litera’s legal AI agent, letting lawyers query their firm’s matter, client and expertise data directly in the tools they already use.

Firm AI Search connects the data that already lives across Foundation, matter systems and expertise databases into a single conversational interface, the company says. With Lito Lookups, a simple @mention surfaces matter, client and people records without leaving the chat.

Litera also announced new growth intelligence capabilities that surface proactive business development signals with monetary value directly inside Foundation 365.

Separately, Litera announced a memorandum of understanding to work towards a collaboration with Hotshot, the video-based legal training company, under which lawyers and firms will be able to access Hotshot subscriptions and its training library through Litera CE Manager, the company’s learning management and CLE compliance platform.

Lawyers will be able to discover and take Hotshot courses, as well as track their completion and eligible credits, all within CE Manager.

The integration is expected to be available by the fourth quarter of this year.

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Oddr Rolls Out a Trio of Announcements: MCP Server, Agentic Collections, Cash Flow Forecasting

Invoice-to-cash platform Oddr made three announcements across the week.

First, it announced AI-powered collections capabilities, including AI-drafted, context-aware collections emails with tone controls, and automated follow-up sequences.

Coming soon is the Oddr Collections Agent, an agentic capability that will continuously monitor a firm’s AR portfolio, surface the accounts with the greatest impact on cash flow, and prepare the recommended action — a drafted email, a call brief, or a note to the attorney — while finance teams retain control of every decision.

The agent launches in early access ahead of general availability later this year.

Second, it announced early access to Cash Flow Forecasting, moving the platform from reactive reporting to predictive intelligence.

Third, it launched its MCP Server, which lets managing partners and finance leaders ask plain-language questions — current DSO, past-due clients, 90-day cash flow — through any compatible AI platform and get answers drawn from Oddr’s live billing, collections, payments, and forecasting data.

Intapp is among the first integration partners. Through a formal partnership, Oddr now connects with Intapp Time and Billstream with Celeste, which the companies describe as creating the first end-to-end invoice-to-cash solution for law firms.

“Law firm finance leaders have been asking for a smarter way to understand their revenue cycle without having to dig through multiple systems,” said Milan Bobde, cofounder and CEO. “The Oddr MCP Server changes that. Ask a question, get an answer, take action. It is that simple.”

TRĒ AI Launches TRĒ-D Signals for Business Development

TRĒ AI launched TRĒ-D Signals, which it describes as the first business development signal engine built to prove new-matter ROI within a firm’s own financial systems.

“Combining precision BD intelligence and automated AI activation, TRĒ-D Signals delivers targeted opportunities to individual attorneys, enabling them to launch high-potential BD actions with only one click,” the company said in its announcement. “AI agents automatically interact with the opportunity to translate it into new matters with minimal effort from the attorney.”

According to the company, the product delivers:

  • High-precision, attorney-specific BD signal alerts drawn from TRĒ AI’s relationship intelligence engine.
  • One-click opportunity actions that require no manual data entry or CRM maintenance from attorneys.
  • AI agents that automatically handle outreach, follow-up, and scheduling on behalf of attorneys.
  • ROI reporting designed to connect signal actions to resulting matters in the firm’s financial management system.

“TRĒ-D Signals brings relevant opportunities to attorneys, drafts communications, and automatically handles the resulting interaction, follow-up, and scheduling with one click,” said CEO Todd Miller. “TRĒ-D Signals is designed to generate more matters and revenue with a fraction of the time and effort required by CRM and coaching.”

Aderant Moves Agent Center Into Early Access

Aderant used a press conference at ILTACON to announce early access availability of its Agent Center, the framework for deploying AI agents across law firm financial and operational workflows that it first unveiled at its Momentum Global conference in May.

The Agent Center, built on the company’s Stridyn platform and powered by its MADDI AI layer, has expanded to include seven task-specific agents:

  • Appeals Agent. Identifies and prioritizes high-value appeal opportunities and drafting supporting rationale for review.
  • Collections Agent. Helps accelerate cash collection by prioritizing accounts, surfacing aging trends and payment risk, and recommending next-best actions and outreach.
  • Talent Agent. Gives managers a complete, evidence-based view of associate performance.
  • Time Agent. Helps timekeepers create clearer, more compliant time entries by improving narratives, flagging billing risk, and recommending codes.
  • Compliance Agent. Helps firms interpret and operationalize outside counsel guidelines.
  • General Ledger Forecasting Agent. Anticipates future performance by combining forward-looking GL forecasts with recent actuals, confidence ranges, and variance analysis across accounts, offices, and departments.
  • Rates Agent. Shows firms which billing rates apply, why they apply, and how they have changed.

“Agent Center reflects a shift we’re seeing across the industry, from isolated automation to intelligent systems that coordinate work across the business,” said Lisa Erickson, SVP of product management and AI at Aderant. “These agents are purpose-built for legal operations, not general-purpose AI bolted onto a firm’s workflows.”

Intapp and Legora Announce Strategic Partnership

Intapp and Legora announced a strategic partnership to deliver governed, AI-native workflows for law firms, spanning three areas.

Legora will integrate with Intapp Walls for AI so that AI-powered work in Legora respects a firm’s ethical walls, confidentiality obligations, and regulatory requirements.

A time-capture integration will automatically capture structured usage data from work done in Legora and generate entries in Intapp Time.

And the companies will co-innovate on agentic workflows combining the Legora Agent with Celeste, Intapp’s AI coworker for the business of the firm, with an initial version letting mutual customers trigger Celeste capabilities within Legora and vice versa.

Legora co-founder and CEO Max Junestrand said firms want to deploy AI broadly without compromising the controls their clients rely on.

Intapp chairman and CEO John Hall said the partnership pairs Legora’s practice-of-law capabilities with Celeste’s business-of-law solutions. The integrations will be delivered in phases.

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Bob is a lawyer, veteran legal journalist, and award-winning blogger and podcaster. In 2011, he was named to the inaugural Fastcase 50, honoring “the law’s smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries and leaders.” Earlier in his career, he was editor-in-chief of several legal publications, including The National Law Journal, and editorial director of ALM’s Litigation Services Division.