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Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:08:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/litera-helps-cvent-legal-team-review-360-contracts-in-minutes-during-high-stakes-acquisition.html Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:08:28 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53531 Litera publishes case study on how Kira delivered the contract intelligence Cvent needed to navigate one of its most significant deals on a compressed timeline   CHICAGO – June 22, 2026 – Litera, the legal AI platform provider that best unifies the practice and business of law, published a new case study showing how Cvent, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/litera-expands-kiras-ai-capabilities-with-hybrid-gen-ai-proprietary-approach-to-contract-review.html Tue, 27 Jan 2026 13:00:11 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52263 Litera is significantly enhancing Kira, its AI-powered contract review platform, with new capabilities designed to address the growing demands for speed, accuracy and trusted generative AI in contract review work, the company announced today. The enhanced version of Kira combines gen AI with proprietary AI models trained on over one million legal contracts to deliver […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/10/litera-democratizes-ai-for-legal-professionals-in-its-core-products-giving-millions-of-lawyers-no-cost-access-to-advanced-agentic-ai-lito.html Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:15:18 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=51526 Lito easily connects with AI drafting tools, contract review platform Kira, and NetDocuments, the #1 trusted cloud-based content management and productivity platform that helps legal professionals do their best work CHICAGO and LONDON Oct. 27, 2025 – Litera, a global leader in legal AI technology solutions, announced a major move to democratize artificial intelligence for the legal industry. Starting today, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/kira-spin-off-zuva-unveils-new-contract-review-ai-for-in-house-legal-teams-zuva-analyze.html Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:27:34 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47675 Zuva, the company that spun off from AI contract review pioneer Kira when it was acquired by Litera in 2021, today released its own AI contract review tool, Zuva Analyze, which it says will enable in-house legal teams to review contracts 2-3 times faster than reviewing them manually. Developed by the same team that originally […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2023/10/zuva-and-litera-jointly-develop-classification-taxonomy-for-legal-documents-and-make-it-open-source-through-the-sali-alliance.html Tue, 03 Oct 2023 13:02:04 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=44671 Two legal companies that are leaders in document and contracts technology, Zuva and Litera, revealed today that they have developed a multi-level document classification taxonomy for use by legal professionals and companies, and that they have contributed the taxonomy to the SALI Alliance, a group working to standardize legal data, to make it available on […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2023/08/kira-literas-contract-review-software-gets-smart-summaries-feature-driven-by-generative-ai.html Tue, 15 Aug 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=44304 When it was founded in 2011, Kira pioneered the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning for contract review and analysis. Now Kira, which was acquired in 2021 by Litera, is employing the newest wave of generative AI to help legal professionals accelerate the process of due diligence and other forms of contract reviews. Litera […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2021/11/hg-doubles-down-on-its-investment-in-litera-to-drive-further-growth.html Fri, 05 Nov 2021 13:00:12 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=38326 Hg, a global private equity investor, is leading a further majority investment in legal technology company Litera, which it acquired in 2018 from the investment firm K1 Investment Management. The terms of this new investment are not being disclosed. In the two years since Hg acquired Litera, Litera has been on a trajectory of aggressive […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2021/09/fueled-by-20m-raise-kira-spin-off-zuva-reveals-its-first-product.html Wed, 29 Sep 2021 14:00:44 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=37789 Seven weeks ago, as Litera announced its acquisition of Kira Systems, the pioneering AI contract analysis company, Kira announced the spin off of a new company, Zuva, to continue developing machine learning technology for business documents. Now, Zuva is off to a running start, announcing today that it has secured Series A funding of $20 […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2021/08/litera-makes-another-acquisition-of-uk-relationship-marketing-company-concep.html Thu, 19 Aug 2021 12:07:22 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=37361 Barely a week after acquiring AI pioneer Kira Systems, and building on its acquisition earlier this year of Foundation Software, the legal technology company Litera is today announcing another acquisition, of U.K. company Concep, a provider of B2B relationship marketing technology for law firms, corporations, and professional and financial services. Concep will become part of […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2021/08/litera-to-acquire-legal-ai-pioneer-kira-systems-enhancing-its-transaction-management-offering.html Tue, 10 Aug 2021 17:28:43 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=37254 Kira Systems, a 10-year-old Toronto company that pioneered the use of artificial intelligence in contract analysis, is to be acquired by the global legal technology company Litera, its 12th acquisition over the span of two years. Kira’s CEO, Noah Waisberg, a former corporate lawyer with Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York, and its CTO, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2021/07/lexfusion-adds-casetext-to-the-collective-of-companies-it-represents.html Tue, 13 Jul 2021 12:32:02 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=37019 LexFusion, the company that launched last October as a go-to-market collective of legal technology companies, has added legal research company Casetext to the roster of companies it represents. LexFusion is seeking to change the paradigm for how law firms and legal departments purchase technology by serving as the go-to-market representative of companies that it has thoroughly […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2021/07/fastcase-names-its-11th-annual-class-of-fastcase-50-honorees.html Mon, 12 Jul 2021 14:00:29 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=37012 If you are wondering where the innovators are in law, look no farther than the Fastcase 50, the annual award doled out by the legal intelligence company Fastcase that honors 50 of the law’s “smartest, most courageous, innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders.” Fastcase today announced its 11th annual Fastcase 50 honorees, which adds up to […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2021/06/cle-tomorrow-legal-tech-and-where-its-going.html https://www.lawnext.com/2021/06/cle-tomorrow-legal-tech-and-where-its-going.html#respond Wed, 02 Jun 2021 20:53:41 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=36707 A panel tomorrow will feature a line-up of legal tech experts to survey what’s happening in the field now and what to expect in the years to come. Presented by the Massachusetts Bar Association, Legal Tech and Where It’s Going will address what legal technology is available now to help lawyers in their practices and […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2021/06/cle-tomorrow-legal-tech-and-where-its-going.html/feed 0 https://www.lawnext.com/2021/04/lexfusion-adds-three-companies-to-its-go-to-market-legal-tech-collective.html https://www.lawnext.com/2021/04/lexfusion-adds-three-companies-to-its-go-to-market-legal-tech-collective.html#respond Tue, 20 Apr 2021 12:01:14 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=36219 LexFusion, the company that launched last October as a go-to-market collective of seven legal technology companies, has now added another three members to the roster of companies it represents. LexFusion aims to change the paradigm for how law firms and legal departments purchase technology by serving as the go-to-market representative of companies that it has […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2021/04/lexfusion-adds-three-companies-to-its-go-to-market-legal-tech-collective.html/feed 0 https://www.lawnext.com/2021/04/10-most-popular-lawnext-episodes-of-march-2021.html https://www.lawnext.com/2021/04/10-most-popular-lawnext-episodes-of-march-2021.html#respond Fri, 02 Apr 2021 14:43:39 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=35992 Here are the episodes of my LawNext podcast that got the most listens during March. This reflects only downloads of episodes during the month of November, not for all time. (In the all-time tally, the most listened-to episode is my April interview with legal futurist Richard Susskind.) 1. Evisort CEO Jerry Ting on the Future of CLM and […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2021/04/10-most-popular-lawnext-episodes-of-march-2021.html/feed 0 https://www.lawnext.com/2021/02/on-lawnext-kiras-cofounders-on-10-years-in-business-and-their-new-book-on-ai-in-law.html https://www.lawnext.com/2021/02/on-lawnext-kiras-cofounders-on-10-years-in-business-and-their-new-book-on-ai-in-law.html#respond Mon, 01 Feb 2021 22:02:12 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=35424 This year marks the 10th anniversary of Kira Systems, the first company to develop AI-powered contract analysis, technology that is now becoming commonplace in the legal profession. To mark the anniversary, Kira’s cofounders are releasing a book, AI For Lawyers: How Artificial Intelligence is Adding Value, Amplifying Expertise, and Transforming Careers. When CEO Noah Waisberg, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2021/02/on-lawnext-kiras-cofounders-on-10-years-in-business-and-their-new-book-on-ai-in-law.html/feed 0 https://www.lawnext.com/2020/11/in-first-for-contracts-ai-kira-creates-algorithm-to-protect-inferential-confidentiality-of-training-data.html https://www.lawnext.com/2020/11/in-first-for-contracts-ai-kira-creates-algorithm-to-protect-inferential-confidentiality-of-training-data.html#respond Mon, 23 Nov 2020 14:00:11 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=34769 In what it says is a first for artificial intelligence contract-analysis platforms in the legal industry, Kira has developed a differential privacy algorithm that protects the confidentiality of text in model training data when a user shares a machine-learning model with other firms or organizations. The differential privacy algorithm prevents an attacker from potentially being […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2020/11/in-first-for-contracts-ai-kira-creates-algorithm-to-protect-inferential-confidentiality-of-training-data.html/feed 0 https://www.lawnext.com/2020/09/post-iltaon-round-up-tons-of-legal-tech-news-acquisitions-launches-updates-and-more.html https://www.lawnext.com/2020/09/post-iltaon-round-up-tons-of-legal-tech-news-acquisitions-launches-updates-and-more.html#respond Fri, 04 Sep 2020 16:11:08 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=33889 Last week may have been the first-ever virtual annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, but just like past years’ face-to-face ILTACONs, this year’s ILTA>ON was the occasion for a flood of major news announcements from legal technology companies. And given my own perfect storm last week of spending three hours a day hosting […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2020/09/post-iltaon-round-up-tons-of-legal-tech-news-acquisitions-launches-updates-and-more.html/feed 0 https://www.lawnext.com/2020/08/how-kiras-ai-is-being-used-to-support-police-accountability-reform.html https://www.lawnext.com/2020/08/how-kiras-ai-is-being-used-to-support-police-accountability-reform.html#respond Mon, 17 Aug 2020 16:43:57 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=33713 Kira Systems is known in the legal profession for its machine learning software that identifies, extracts and analyzes text in commercial contracts, often used in M&A due diligence reviews. But in a unique public policy partnership, Kira’s software is being deployed as part of a police-reform initiative aimed at reducing police violence. The reform initiative, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2020/08/how-kiras-ai-is-being-used-to-support-police-accountability-reform.html/feed 0 https://www.lawnext.com/2020/04/longtime-thomson-reuters-legal-analyst-david-curle-joins-kira-systems.html https://www.lawnext.com/2020/04/longtime-thomson-reuters-legal-analyst-david-curle-joins-kira-systems.html#respond Mon, 27 Apr 2020 15:58:55 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=32547 David Curle, a lawyer who is well known for his writing and analysis on legal technology, has joined the machine-learning contract-analysis company Kira Systems as legal content and research lead. Since 2013, Curle has been director, enterprise content, technology and innovation, at Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute, where he has provided research and thought leadership […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2020/04/longtime-thomson-reuters-legal-analyst-david-curle-joins-kira-systems.html/feed 0 https://www.lawnext.com/2018/09/ai-company-kira-systems-gets-50-million-series-investment.html https://www.lawnext.com/2018/09/ai-company-kira-systems-gets-50-million-series-investment.html#respond Wed, 05 Sep 2018 11:29:51 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=27985 Kira Systems, a Toronto-based developer of machine-learning software for contract review and analysis, today announced a $50 million Series A minority investment from Insight Venture Partners in New York City. This is the first outside investment taken by the company, which was founded in 2011 by Noah Waisberg, a former corporate lawyer at Weil, Gotshal & […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2018/09/ai-company-kira-systems-gets-50-million-series-investment.html/feed 0