Litera today (23 July) announced the launch of Lito, an AI Legal agent that’s embedded in Litera One and available in Microsoft Outlook and Word.
Lito can automate complex tasks and surface immediate insights with Foundation and Foundation 365.
Speaking to Legal IT Insider, Litera’s CEO Avaneesh Marwaha said: “You can say, ‘Show me the most profitable matters tied to a specific type of work product.’ So, for example, ‘Show me the most profitable oil rights matters in the last six months.’ That’s a question that you may have to answer, or a very specific use case is an e-mail comes in from a client and the partner asks an associate, ‘Hey, have we done any work in this certain area?’ They have to do the research, but with Lito, we can tell you straight away the matters that the firm has worked on.
“There’s a very famous story, where I’ll change some of the facts, where a partner was asked, ‘Have we done anything in gambling?’ and the partner said no. The matter was worth $3bn and the firm had done a significant amount of work in that sector, but the partner didn’t know that. So Lito can help to uncover those things at your fingertips in Outlook.”
Other uses cases include reviewing documents and Marwaha said: “If you’re negotiating deals and you want to go to a grid format to review documents and analyze quickly the differences between precedent and what’s in front of you, you can do that with Lito.
“Lito is how we see the practice of law engaging with data to make decisions faster; to create work products faster and ultimately get work done with a high degree of accuracy in a very safe and secure way.”
In terms of the extent to which Lito is agentic, Marwaha said: “Say Litera has 10 products and each of those products has a skill on top of it. Based on the question, we can fire those skills in a different order to go figure out what the answer should be. So, for example, you have Foundation Insights, which does deal point extraction and harnessing of your deal points. So that’s one workflow that exists in Litera. You have comparing documents, another workflow that exists in Litera. We can now do deal point comparisons. So, you can say, ‘Hey Lito, looking at this document, how do these deal points compare to precedent?’ That leverages your database of insights and the Compare engine, which has been used for decades to give you a degree of confidence and accuracy of deal point comparisons. So Lito really looks for ways to touch our products in a way that makes sense to give you really high value.”
Available features of Lito in Outlook and Web include (from the press release):
- Chat with Doc Viewer: Lito’s chat bar serves as both the gateway to the Litera skill ecosystem and a document analysis tool—enabling users to interact with content, surface insights, and trigger workflows in real time.
- Analyze in Grid: Lito’s grid enables users to run multiple prompts across multiple documents simultaneously.
- Compare: Litera’s comparison functionality detects changes between any two documents in seconds—across formats including Word, PDF, Excel, and PowerPoint. It supports 1:1, 1:Many, and bulk comparisons
- Search Experience: With Foundation as the data backbone, Lito enables natural language access to connected client, matter, lawyer, and third-party profiles.
- Review Terms: Interact with Word documents and PDFs using Lito’s built-in definition lookup that streamlines contract review.
- Legal Skills: Complete key legal tasks, such as running form checks on regulated documents, generating interim period and post-closing timelines, and creating open items lists.
Lito will be generally available on October 1 with early access starting in late-August.