The Unified AI Advantage: What’s New in Litera’s Q1 CIO Updates
In Q1 2025, Litera delivered a wide-ranging set of updates across its ecosystem—each focused on simplifying the legal technology experience while making firm and legal team data more accessible, actionable, and secure. Whether it's through transformed drafting tools in Microsoft 365, smarter document comparisons, tighter governance controls, or more powerful data insights, every enhancement reflects a common goal: building a connected ecosystem where Litera solutions aid legal professionals in focusing on what they do best.
Together, these updates mark a significant step toward a more intelligent, integrated legal technology platform—one that reduces complexity for IT, boosts efficiency for lawyers, and unlocks long-term value for the firm and legal department.
Litera One: Your Workflows in M365, Powered by AI
At the heart of this quarter’s update is the new Litera One. Powered by Litera AI+, Litera One is a unified Office Add-in interface that sits in Word, Outlook, and Web browsers, automating the full spectrum of legal work: drafting, contract review, knowledge management, and performance. With simplified workflows, access across multiple devices and operating systems, and GenAI insights, Litera One transforms your lawyer’s experience.
- Efficiency and Responsiveness: Empower legal professionals to work from anywhere while maintaining a fast, reliable tech experience
- Intelligence at Every Step: Leverage your unique experience and GenAI insights for enhanced responsiveness and client service
- Maximized Adoption and ROI: Improve technology adoption across legal teams with intuitive and simplified workflows
- Future-Proof Technology: Reduce deployment and maintenance costs and improve start times for Word and Outlook. The result? Lawyers work more efficiently, IT manages less complexity, and firms benefit from a more cohesive experience.
Faster Redlines, Smarter Insights
Within Litera One, lawyers and legal teams can access an enhanced comparison experience that meets lawyers where they work. Litera One leverages the market-leading comparison engine trusted by 75% of the legal industry to enable comparisons in desktop, Word, Outlook, Web browsers, and servers.
What’s new:
- 1:1, 1:many, and bulk comparisons: Great for reviewing one draft or hundreds at once—especially useful in transactions and closings
- GenAI-powered change summaries: Plain-language explanations help users immediately understand what changed and why it matters
- Fast, intuitive UI: Clean and simple, with no learning curve
By combining high-speed comparison with AI insights, legal professionals can make faster, more informed decisions.
Governance That Scales with You
CAM remains the backbone of Litera’s governance ecosystem, and Q1 brought important updates to help firms maintain control, enforce policy, and ensure secure collaboration.
Key updates include:
- Granular access control: More flexible permissions and workspace rules
- Microsoft Teams integration: Create and manage Teams workspaces aligned with your DMS
- Policy-driven provisioning: Automatically enforce naming conventions, lifecycle policies, and security standards
- Enhanced visibility: IT and compliance teams get a clearer view into document and user activity, with audit-ready reporting
CAM helps ensure the right people have access to the right data—without slowing down collaboration or overwhelming IT.
FileTrail: Advancing Records Management and Matter Mobility
FileTrail has introduced a series of updates focused on making records retention and disposition workflows more efficient and scalable. With growing volumes of both physical and electronic content, these enhancements are designed to help firms reduce manual work and act faster on eligible destruction items.
Some key updates:
- Expanded search tools to prepare and review records for disposition
- Enhanced workflow capabilities for both electronic and physical records
- Faster, more responsive processing of destruction requests
- Smarter batch search and update options for disposition review
Looking ahead, FileTrail is continuing to invest in flexibility and integration.
Foundation: Smarter Search and Broader Integration
The Foundation platform is also seeing major strides in usability, search functionality, and security. Designed to help firms surface insights more effectively, the recent release of Narrative Search brings a new way to explore content across matters, clients, and timekeepers—all within a clean, intuitive interface.
Other recent enhancements include the ability to manage trusted IPs directly within Foundation for added security, and the inclusion of packets during hub import, which expands the range of data sources firms can draw from.
What’s coming next builds on this momentum:
- A refreshed user experience across all Litera Firm Intelligence products
- Accessibility improvements for screen readers
- Granular permissions and security refinements, including change history tracking
- Smarter APIs and expanded custom object support for both people and packets
The new Narrative Search feature also deserves a spotlight—it’s independently accessible, allows users to search across any field tied to a narrative, and offers exportable results in a streamlined, user-friendly view.
Built for Today. Ready for What’s Next.
What ties all these updates together is Litera’s vision of a unified platform that reduces complexity while unlocking new value from firm data. By bringing best-in-class tools together in one seamless experience—and layering in GenAI capabilities that simplify and clarify—Litera is helping legal teams work faster, smarter, and more securely.
For CIOs and legal IT teams, this means fewer deployment headaches, stronger governance controls, and a more scalable foundation for innovation.
To learn more about our Q1 updates, you can watch the full on-demand webinar here.
