Transforming the Legal Experience: Key Updates and Innovations for CIOs
As we kick off 2025, Litera is excited to introduce several significant updates and innovations to transform the legal experience for CIOs, IT teams, and legal professionals. Integrating customer feedback, Litera has introduced key updates to enhance visibility, control, and efficiency in data management, document comparison, and collaboration.
These advancements focus on improving user experience, accessibility, and governance, ensuring that organizations stay ahead in the ever-evolving landscape of legal technology.
Updates for Governance
What's New in FileTrail
- We've released the REST API for FileTrail which allows firms to integrate with FileTrail seamlessly, enhancing retention and provision updates while increasing data accessibility.
What's New in CAM
CAM has introduced several new features to improve user management and analytics.
- Global Level User Management: Users can now manage cloud iManage users at a global level, making changes more efficiently and cost-effectively.
- Exclusion filters have been added to analytics, allowing for more specific and meaningful reports.
- The Control Center module has received significant updates, including additional data in the user interface. Users can now see IDs, versions, parent folder information, and workspace IDs, providing more context and transparency.
- Custom Folder Advanced Options has been released. Users can now add a global prefix or suffix and access more settings to set ownership and security at the point of creation.
What's Coming Soon in CAM
Several exciting releases this year, including setting defaults for iManage workspace moves, enhanced accessibility features, integration with Kira, options for linking workspaces, and support for net documents in the Control Center.
Updates to Drafting
What's New in Litera Create
Litera Create has focused on improving the user experience with several key updates.
- The screen flipping issue when generating new documents has been resolved, and selecting the correct bar number for lawyers with multiple jurisdictions has been simplified.
- Additionally, the Transform feature now allows users to keep the original document, and contact insertion and selection have been enhanced for better performance.
What's New in Litera Numbering
Litera Numbering has been updated with the following:
- Ability to use a dark screen, improving accessibility for users.
- A comprehensive admin guide is now available in the customer center, providing detailed configuration options and parameters.
What's New in Metadact
Metadact has introduced several new features, including:
- A notification feature when sharing content with similar recipient addresses, enhancing data loss prevention capabilities.
- Integrations with Windows account and Open Search with Antra ID have also been added.
- Customization options for binder and PDF conversion of attachments.
What’s New in Litera Check, pdfDocs, and DocXtools
Litera Check, pdfDocs, and DocXtools we have fixed bugs and resolved reported issues, ensuring a more stable and reliable user experience.
What's New for Litera Compare
Litera Compare now offers:
- Refined capitalization logic, allowing users to configure their own file names and improving visibility of document names when selecting from iManage.
Litera AI+: Litera's Approach and Upcoming Innovations
Litera is investing heavily in GenAI to enhance its core engines and integrate drafting, contract review, and firm performance tools. By leveraging secure Litera AI+ capabilities, Litera aims to solve complex legal challenges and further automate routine tasks for lawyers, transforming the legal experience.
One of the most exciting innovations is Litera’s new cloud-based Microsoft add-ins (coming soon!), which will bring powerful GenAI capabilities to Word and Outlook. This unified interface will allow users to access their firm's experience data seamlessly across any device, leading to improved drafting accuracy and efficiency.
Join the waitlist to be the first to see it in action!
A Future-Ready Legal Technology Landscape
These updates reflect Litera’s continued investment in improving user experience, stabilizing systems, and enhancing performance. As we move into 2025, these innovations will help organizations stay competitive and deliver exceptional value to their clients.
By embracing these advancements, CIOs and IT teams can ensure their firms remain at the forefront of legal technology, ready to tackle the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.
To learn more about our Q4 2024 updates for CIOs, watch the full webinar here.
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