Litera is a global legal technology company that builds AI-powered software integrated into Microsoft 65 for law firms and corporate legal teams. Its work spans artificial intelligence and natural language processing applied to contract review, document creation and comparison technology, AI agents and automation, and legal practice workflow software. The company was founded in 1995 as Microsystems, with the Litera brand established in 2001, and operates across six continents.
The product portfolio includes Litera Create and Litera Compare, document creation and comparison tools embedded in Microsoft 365; Kira, an AI-powered contract review solution; and Lito, a skilled AI legal agent offered as part of the Litera platform. Engineering and AI work is directed at tasks specific to legal practice: drafting and assembling documents, comparing versions, extracting information from contracts, and automating routine legal operations.
Litera reports serving more than 2.3 million legal professionals worldwide, with more than 2m daily users and 99% penetration of the Am Law 100. The majority of the world's largest law firms are clients. The company's origins lie in the Chicago suburbs, and it describes a 30-year track record of applying expertise to the evolving needs of the legal profession.
