Litera sets new standard for legal AI adoption

Litera announced a record-breaking year for AI adoption among law firms and corporate legal customers worldwide. Litera One, the AI drafting portfolio native to Microsoft 365, its newer agentic assistant Lito, and AI workflow platform Kira saw monthly active users surge tenfold since spring 2025 and thousands of new agentic skills completed, validating the company's experience-based approach to AI agents and industry-first decision to include advanced AI capabilities at no additional cost to existing customers. 

Litera took a contrarian approach when compared to most AI startups in the industry, treating AI as a fundamental enhancement to its core drafting tools rather than a premium add-on. The result has been unprecedented adoption rates that earned the platform three prestigious  awards, including Best in AI for Legal Services & Compliance and Best in Large Language Models at the Global AI Awards. Lito also earned AI Legal Assistant Solution of the Year in 2025 in the LegalTech Breakthrough Awards Program.

By removing cost barriers to AI adoption, Litera has triggered a cascade of usage that reveals pent-up demand for practical AI tools:

• 10x growth in monthly active cloud drafting users since spring 2025 
• 26,000+ AI-powered document summaries generated 
• 10,000+ document chat conversations in November alone 
• 68% of new enterprise customers actively using the platform 
• 2,000+ GenAI skills completed  
• Litera’s Kira product alone saw more than 4 million documents uploaded and processed through the year with GenAI feature usage such as generative smart fields growing over 160% month over month 
   

"We knew we had the ingredients right when we saw adoption take off almost immediately after launch," said Litera CEO Avaneesh Marwaha. "By removing the cost barrier and including Lito as part of our drafting products, we've proven that lawyers are ready for AI—they just needed it integrated into tools they already trust. When you see 10x growth in three months and thousands of agentic workflows being completed daily, it confirms what we believed: this isn't about charging more for innovation; it's about making our 30 years of legal experience exponentially more powerful through AI." 

Litera's decision to include agentic workflows at no extra cost represents a fundamental shift in enterprise AI deployment strategy. While the industry debates subscription tiers and token-based pricing, Litera's approach has created a natural experiment in AI adoption—one that shows professionals will rapidly embrace AI when financial and technical barriers are removed. 

"We're witnessing what happens when you treat AI as a core feature rather than a luxury add-on," added Marwaha. "The triple award wins from Global AI Awards and LegalTech Breakthrough weren't just recognition of our technology—they validated our belief that democratizing access to agentic AI would fundamentally change how legal work gets done." 

The strategy leverages Litera's three decades of domain experience, embedding AI directly into Microsoft 365 workflows where lawyers already spend their time. This native integration, combined with zero additional cost, has eliminated the two biggest obstacles to enterprise AI adoption: budget approval and workflow disruption. 

The Network Effect in Action 

As adoption accelerates, Litera customers are seeing these compound benefits: 

Teams that start with document summaries quickly expand to chat conversations 
Firms report junior associates completing work typically requiring senior review 
Practice groups are standardizing on AI-augmented workflows as competitive advantage 
IT departments appreciate the simplified deployment with no new licensing complexity 
 

Looking Forward: Scaling What Works 

Litera plans to maintain its no-additional-cost model for Lito throughout 2026 while expanding capabilities, adding new agentic workflows, and deepening Microsoft 365 integration. The company views this as an investment in proving that AI's greatest value comes not from premium pricing but from universal adoption.