The $3,500 Invoice That Explains What’s Broken in Legal AI Economics
Summary AI is making lawyers faster, but speed alone is not improving firm profitability. When a ten-hour matter becomes a three-hour matter, the client may receive the same legal value, but the firm can lose thousands in billable revenue unless pricing, matter economics, and growth strategy change. This is the AI efficiency trap: firms adopt AI to improve productivity...
Artificial Intelligence
Legal
Finance
Firm Performance
Rate Season Is Here. Your Precedent Data May Not Be Ready.
For many firms, the final months of the year are rate season. Next year’s standard rates are being finalized, panel agreements are up for renewal, and partners still need budgets for new work. So the pricing team pulls precedent matters, and the historical numbers look solid. The problem is that those numbers describe a different market. Rates are moving faster than they...
Clocktimizer
Finance
What Happens to Client Relationships When a Partner Leaves?
The announcement comes on a Tuesday. A senior partner tells the executive committee she’s leaving for a rival firm, and the room asks the only question that matters: which clients go with her? At most firms, no one can say. Her relationships lived in her inbox, on her calendar, and in her head. It’s a question firm leaders are facing more often. Am Law 200 firms made 2,006...
Artificial Intelligence
Legal
Marketing & Business Development
Which GPT Model Is Best for Legal Work? What Lawyers Found Testing GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6.1 Terra
TL;DR Drafting and quick turnaround: GPT-6.1 Terra for emails, short memos, first-pass clauses, and well-scoped document work where speed matters. It posted the best drafting result of any OpenAI model the team has evaluated in Lito, and it completes tasks markedly faster than GPT-6.1 Sol Summaries and harder reasoning: GPT-6.1 Sol for summarization, extraction, and the...
Artificial Intelligence
Drafting
Mergers And Acquisitions Practice Trends
Technology
Workflow
CIO & IT
Kira
Legal Professionals
Legal Work
Practice Innovation
Product
When Holding On Becomes the Liability: Why Retention Policies Must Become Defensible Action
For years, keeping everything felt like the safest option. Across Asia-Pacific (APAC), privacy obligations now ask whether you can justify still holding personal information, and whether you can prove your retention rules were applied. In this 60-minute recording, Litera records experts explain why over-retention creates exposure, why policy and practice diverge across...
Firm Governance
Litera Brings Document Comparison and Firm AI Search to Microsoft Copilot for Legal
CHICAGO – Nov. 10, 2026 – Litera , a Legal AI platform provider that best unifies the practice and business of law, announced Litera Compare and Firm AI Search are now available inside Microsoft Copilot for legal through plugins, bringing 30 years of deterministic document comparison accuracy and firm intelligence into the environment where lawyers work. Alongside this...
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Litera brings document comparison and Firm AI Search to Microsoft Copilot for legal
The practice and business of law, together in Microsoft Copilot for legal Firms investing in Microsoft Copilot need more than another way to generate content. They need legal-specific capabilities that support reliable client work and make the firm’s knowledge easier to apply. The stakes show up in everyday work. A contract comes back from the counterparty, and the lawyer...
Artificial Intelligence
Legal
Technology
Compare
Because Probable Isn’t Proven: High-Stakes Work in an Age of AI
AI mistakes grow riskier toward the end of a matter because each stage builds on the last. A probable answer that is tolerable in a first draft becomes a liability in a redline, a redaction, or a closing set. A redline misses a changed indemnification clause. A redaction leaves privileged metadata in the file. A closing set goes out built on the wrong executed version...
Artificial Intelligence
Drafting
Turning Relationship Data into Action: From Passive Data to Active Business Development
Learn how firms turn relationship intelligence into coordinated business development action. Watch legal marketing, business development, and firm leaders talk through how peer firms are building relationship intelligence into daily workflow, not keeping it as a report nobody reads.
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The AI Efficiency Trap: From Compressed Hours to Commercial Growth
AI is compressing billable hours across every practice area. Without a growth strategy, that gained efficiency comes at a hidden price. Learn how firms with a deliberate AI strategy turn AI-driven speed into revenue, and how the RoAI framework measures the full value of your AI investment.
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The 34th Annual Chief Marketing & Business Development Officer Forum
We’re thrilled to announce The 34th Annual Chief Marketing & Business Development Officer Forum (formerly Marketing Partner Forum), set against the oceanfront backdrop of The Ritz-Carlton Bacara, Santa Barbara. This is your chance to connect with peers and discover strategies for firm-wide development in a fast-changing market.
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Why Dickson Minto Chose Litera’s Lito to Deliver Faster, Tailored Advice to Clients
Dickson Minto’s starting point when evaluating and selecting AI tools is never software-driven, it’s always client outcome and internal processes-driven, emphasises Michael Robertson, partner at Dickson Minto.
Artificial Intelligence
Drafting
Can ChatGPT Compare Legal Documents? Now It Can, With the Litera Plugin
Yes. As of Nov. 3, 2026, lawyers can compare legal documents in ChatGPT and get a true redline, using the Litera Plugin for ChatGPT. The plugin runs the Litera comparison engine, the redline standard for 67% of the legal market (ILTA 2026 Technology Survey) and 99% of the Am Law 100, so every change is detected, not predicted. That matters because ChatGPT on its own can’t...
Artificial Intelligence
Legal
Technology
From Precedent to Pipeline: Why Knowledge Management Holds the Key to Law Firm Growth
KM teams hold the asset every UK firm needs to win work: proof of what it has done. With the right tools, they can turn precedent into client stories that drive revenue. Your Firm Has the Experience. Can It Prove It When It Counts? It's Thursday afternoon, and a panel submission is due Monday. The client wants comparable matters, named lawyers, sector depth, and proof of...
Artificial Intelligence
Technology
Firm Governance
Firm Performance
Legal Professionals
Legal Work
Marketing & Business Development
Practice Innovation
From Experiment to Infrastructure: What IT Leaders Need From Legal AI in 2027
Your lawyers are already using AI. Agents are starting to reach across your systems of record. And as vendors move to usage-based pricing, next year's AI bill is harder to forecast than ever. When partners, clients, or the board ask what your AI touched, what it cost, and whether its output can be trusted, IT is expected to have the answer.
CIO & IT
Artificial Intelligence