The AI Productivity Inflection
Part 1: The Case for Change R&D performance, Q1 FY2025 through Q2 FY2026 By Greg Ingino, Chief Technology Officer, Litera Eighteen months ago, I walked out of an Hg conference in Silicon Valley knowing that how we built software was about to change completely. We had just seen a demo of Cognition's Devin, the AI coding agent, and what followed has been one of the most...
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AI Is Reducing the Routine Work That Trained Associates. Now What?
The efficiency gains are real, but so is the unintended consequence. When the work that built professional judgment disappears, how do we set emerging lawyers up for success? For decades, junior lawyers built judgment the same way: through years of repetitive, high-volume work under supervision. Document review, redlining, contract analysis.
One Missed Change Can Rewrite What a Contract Means
Litera's Comparison Engine vs. the Claude Legal Agent: what a head-to-head document comparison test reveals about accuracy, speed, and the real return on Legal AI. On high-stakes work, a fast review isn’t the same as a right one. A wrong date, a number that quietly changed, or a deleted comment can shift what a contract means.
What General Counsel Should Ask About AI in Legal Vendor RFPs
AI Summary AI in legal RFPs creates exposure that most technology sections weren't drafted to find. General counsel updating outside counsel AI guidelines should expand the RFP technology section to cover three exposures beyond data security. The first is AI hallucination risk under ABA Model Rules 1.1, 1.6, 3.3, and 5.3. The second is privilege and confidentiality loss...
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How In-House Teams Choose Legal AI Tools Lawyers Trust Enough to Use
AI Summary Legal AI adoption inside corporate legal departments has surged past 78%, but actual daily use lags far behind. Most Legal AI tools for in-house teams sit idle within months of purchase. A single hallucinated citation or misread clause is often enough to kill lawyer confidence across the team, and nobody opens the tool again. This guide covers why Legal AI fails...
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In-House M&A Teams: Your Due Diligence Is Only as Good as Your Contract Review
AI Summary This post is for GCs and senior M&A counsel at Fortune 500 and private equity firms evaluating their due diligence process. Generalist AI tools create material accuracy risk in high-value contract review, and these risks rarely surface until after a deal closes. Readers walk away knowing where that risk sits in their diligence workflow and what to ask outside...
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How to Deploy Legal AI Across Your Organization Without Adding Risk
AI Summary This guide walks CIOs, IT administrators, and legal ops leaders through safe legal AI deployment across a legal organization. It covers what to look for in a Legal AI platform for law firms and legal departments, why deterministic AI carries less risk on high-stakes legal work than probabilistic models, and how legal AI governance works in practice. It also...
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Can You Trust AI to Redline a Contract? What Every Lawyer Should Know
AI Summary Can you trust AI to redline a contract? The answer depends on which kind of AI you're using. This page explains the difference between deterministic and probabilistic AI, why that distinction determines legal AI accuracy on high-stakes work, and how partners, associates, and general counsel can evaluate any AI contract redlining tool before relying on it for...
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Defensible AI for High-Stakes Deals
Complex transactional work has always needed specialized capability. The fine details of a deal, the checklists, document updates, and the closing, aren't something a general AI tool handles well. And here's the hard part: probabilistic AI gives you a probable answer, so the more complex the matter becomes, the less that accuracy holds. On high-stakes work, a probable...
The Last Mile of the Deal: Why Execution Decides Profitability
Legal AI has reshaped research, diligence, and drafting. But the phase that actually determines whether a deal closes profitably? The last mile of a transaction, where one agreed change has to cascade accurately across every document, every ancillary, and every schedule under a tightening deadline, is where hours disappear, errors multiply, and realisation quietly erodes...
The Last Mile of the Deal: Why Execution Decides Profitability
Legal AI has reshaped research, diligence, and drafting. But the phase that actually determines whether a deal closes profitably? The last mile of a transaction, where one agreed change has to cascade accurately across every document, every ancillary, and every schedule under a tightening deadline, is where hours disappear, errors multiply, and realization quietly erodes...
The Engagement Gap: Why Strong Client Relationships Don’t Always Drive Growth
Law firms have always understood the value of strong client relationships. Yet even firms with exceptional lawyers and longstanding clients often struggle to deliver consistent, proactive engagement across the institution.
Introducing Litera Kira Grid Chat: Cross-Document Q&A for Contract Review
AI Summary Litera's Kira Grid Chat is a cross-document Q&A feature inside Litera's Kira Analysis Grid. It answers natural-language questions across every contract in a worksheet by reasoning over Kira's validated extraction data and linking back to specific extracted data points. General-purpose AI chat tools generate answers directly from document text, which is harder to...
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Legal Metadata Cleaning: The Complete Guide for Law Firms
Summary Every time a lawyer hits send, hidden metadata in legal documents can travel with that file, carrying tracked changes, internal comments, and author details the sender never meant to share. Legal metadata cleaning removes hidden data from documents before a firm shares them, protecting privileged information and client confidence. Because this exposure is invisible...
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Which AI Models Are Best for Legal Work? Claude Sonnet 5, Claude Fable 5, and GPT-5.6 Are Now Live in Lito
AI Summary Which AI models are best for legal work? The newest frontier models from Anthropic and OpenAI, including Claude Sonnet 5, Claude Fable 5, and GPT-5.6 Sol and Terra, are now generally available in Lito, Litera's award-winning Legal AI agent, for chat and custom skills. This post covers what each model does best, when to use flexible Generative AI (GenAI) versus...
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Litera Relaunches to Unite the Practice and Business of Law on a Single AI Agent
CHICAGO – July 15, 2026 – Litera, the Legal AI platform provider that best unifies the practice and business of law, unveiled a company relaunch and unified platform vision, positioning itself as the Legal AI provider best built to run across the practice and business of law on one agent and one dataset. Building on Lito's first year in market, the relaunch sets the stage...