Litera has announced the launch of an iOS mobile application for Litera One, enhancing its legal workflow software by expanding from desktop and web environments to iPhone and iPad. This new development is set to revolutionize how legal professionals interact with their workflow, offering unprecedented flexibility and accessibility.
Litera One, integrated with Microsoft 365, consolidates drafting, document review, and knowledge management into a cohesive platform. The introduction of the mobile app now extends this functionality to Apple devices, ensuring that work remains synchronized between mobile and desktop environments. Litera emphasized that tasks initiated on the web, Microsoft Word, or Outlook can seamlessly transition to mobile, and vice versa.
Mobile Access: A Necessity for Modern Lawyers
Pasquale Colella, VP of Global SaaS Operations at Litera, highlighted the growing need for mobile access amongst legal professionals. “Lawyers need to stay productive whether they’re traveling, moving between meetings, or preparing to walk into a client conversation,” Colella stated. With Litera One Mobile, continuity is seamless, allowing work to flow effortlessly between web and mobile platforms, ensuring uninterrupted productivity.
Integration of AI: The Role of Lito
A standout feature of Litera One is its integration with an AI agent named Lito. Accessible across the web, Outlook, and now the mobile app, Lito facilitates continuous workflow management across devices. The mobile app supports two-way continuity, enabling lawyers to ask questions, execute workflows, and review outputs while away from their desks. Furthermore, it allows users to compare documents and utilize hands-free dictation for inquiries.
Enhanced Document Management
The mobile application maintains access to firm-specific documents, data, and workflows, which is crucial for secure document management within law firms. This is particularly beneficial considering the common use of secure document sets and internal knowledge bases that accompany Microsoft 365 deployments.
Comprehensive Workflow Capabilities
Litera One encompasses several workflow areas that the iOS app also supports. The app’s conversational AI feature allows users to ask questions and initiate workflows, with inputs accepted as text or through speech-to-text functionality. Document review functions include analysis and structured output generation, with the platform capable of document comparison via Litera Compare. This feature provides summarization and risk analysis, essential tools for legal professionals.
Business Development and Language Support
Beyond document management, Litera One offers tools for business development, capable of producing client-ready summaries, updates, and insights. Users can review extracted terms, risk mitigation insights, key findings, timelines, and playbook outputs, all of which can be prepared in advance of meetings or client interactions.
In conjunction with the iOS launch, Litera has introduced French-Canadian language support for Microsoft Word within Litera One. This update includes interface language and interaction with French-Canadian documents, marking a significant step in the localization efforts of legal technology products. This move aims to provide consistent workflows across various regions and language groups, expanding beyond initial adopter markets.
Strategic Positioning
Litera markets Litera One as a unifying solution for drafting, review, and knowledge management, seamlessly integrating into Microsoft 365, a standard in many law firms and corporate legal departments. The product is positioned as part of a broader suite encompassing legal workflow and drafting, knowledge management, and business development. With a user base exceeding 2 million daily, Litera collaborates with some of the largest law firms globally.
The Litera One mobile app is now available for iOS devices via Apple’s App Store. This marks a significant milestone in providing a more dynamic and flexible working environment for legal professionals, ensuring they remain productive and efficient, no matter where their work takes them.
Note: This article is inspired by content from https://itbrief.com.au/story/litera-brings-ai-powered-litera-one-workflows-to-ios. It has been rephrased for originality. Images are credited to the original source.