Litera news and product updates

Kira's latest release adds three generative smart field types (Yes or No, Multiple Choice, and Extraction, which returns verbatim excerpts), and users can preview them on documents before applying them to a worksheet. Grid Chat now draws on a project's smart fields, folders, document types, tags and review status, with cited documents opening in the viewer. A new Lito skill drafts a first red flags report from a Kira or Lito grid export.

Buyer relevance. Due diligence teams can define review questions in plain language and test them before running them across a data set. The red flags report targets the most time consuming deliverable in a deal review, so the first draft is where the time saving shows.

The Litera Platform now supports Okta as an identity provider alongside Microsoft Entra ID. Lawyers start at the usual Microsoft sign in page and are redirected to Okta, where the firm's sign in policies apply across the platform and its add ins, and Okta provisions users and groups through SCIM. This first release is for new tenants only, still requires Microsoft 365 with Entra ID, and the identity provider cannot be changed after setup.

Buyer relevance. Firms that standardize on Okta can now control who reaches Litera's AI tools from their own directory, which closes offboarding gaps without a security exception. Existing Entra ID tenants cannot switch yet, so current customers should ask about timing.

Litera released a ChatGPT plugin for Foundation AI Search. Foundation Cloud users can ask questions about the firm's experience, relationships and people from inside ChatGPT.

Buyer relevance. Experience data is what business development teams pitch from, and it usually sits in a system few lawyers ever open. Putting it in ChatGPT makes it reachable. The check is whether the plugin applies the same confidentiality flags on client names that Foundation applies today.