Litera unveils Lito AI agent to transform legal workflows
Litera has announced the launch of Lito, an artificial intelligence-powered legal agent built into Litera One, designed to assist legal professionals in streamlining workflows and accessing firm resources efficiently.
Lito offers a set of AI legal skills and is integrated into legal professionals' existing tools through a single interface. According to the company, the agent will enable lawyers to perform thousands of tasks, quickly locate relevant information, and deliver answers for clients, with performance improving over time as the AI learns from usage.
AI functionality
Lito functions as a virtual team member, supporting a wide range of legal and business operations. It draws on both Litera's previous technology developments and a new agentic architecture. The agent is designed to interpret user intent, aligning its capabilities to deliver outcomes based on access to structured data provided by the firm.
"We built Lito to give our customers a massive edge, giving every lawyer a virtual 'team' behind them who can execute thousands of workflows, find the right information and deliver answers immediately for their clients," said Litera CEO Avaneesh Marwaha. "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."
Lito is designed to automate complex tasks and generate immediate insights using Foundation and Foundation 365. The agent connects only to permissioned, structured firm data, with controls in place to maintain data governance and privacy standards. Litera states that Lito's infrastructure is based on enterprise security principles to ensure confidentiality and compliance for legal professionals.
Integrated features
Lito's features are accessible through Outlook and web interfaces, and include several core tools for document analysis and legal workflow management. The chat function offers a gateway to the Litera skill ecosystem and can analyse documents in real time. The 'Analyse in Grid' feature allows users to submit multiple prompts across multiple documents at once, supporting side-by-side comparison and validation of extracted data.
A comparison tool enables users to detect changes between documents in various formats, including Word, PDF, Excel and PowerPoint. The tool supports comparison between individual documents, multiple documents, or large sets, and can provide AI-driven summaries, risk analysis, and recommendations for rewriting clauses.
Lito also offers a natural language search experience, leveraging the Foundation data backbone to provide instant access to client, matter, lawyer, and third-party profiles stored by the firm. This is intended to help users retrieve relevant precedent matters and data points efficiently, supporting decision making without leaving their workflow.
Further, Lito includes tools for contract review with built-in definition lookups, and various AI legal skills tailored to key legal processes. These include running form checks on regulated documents, generating interim and post-closing timelines, and compiling open item lists.
Availability and approach
The company has stated that Lito will be available for general release in October, with early access provided to select users from late August. Lito is part of a series of updates and enhancements under the company's product roadmap for legal technology and AI solution development.
Litera's aim is for Lito to help address the workflow complexity and information management challenges encountered by lawyers. The integration with Litera One and focus on security and data permissions are positioned to support compliance requirements in legal practice.
Key product features, ongoing announcements and further details about Lito's functionality will be provided by the company in the coming months as part of its product strategy.