New integration with Midpage embeds trusted legal research sources within AI legal agent Lito; internal benchmark findings shared at Legalweek reveal why purpose-built legal AI remains essential for high-stakes document work

NEW YORK – Legalweek 2026 – Mar. 9, 2026 – Litera, a global leader in legal AI technology solutions, announced an integration with Midpage, an AI-powered legal research platform trusted by 200+ law firms, to bring U.S. case law and statutes directly into Lito, Litera’s award-winning AI legal agent. The integration makes Lito the first legal AI assistant to combine advanced generative AI capabilities, deterministic rules-based engines, proprietary firm intelligence, and now Midpage’s industry-leading legal research — all within the Microsoft 365 environment where lawyers already work. In conjunction with the announcement, Litera is sharing new internal benchmark research at Legalweek examining how general-purpose large language models perform on complex legal redlining tasks compared to purpose-built legal comparison technology. 

“Every legal AI tool has access to the same foundation models,” said Adam Ryan, Chief Product Officer at Litera. “The difference is what surrounds them. Lito combines the best large language models with our rules-based engines, cutting edge firm intelligence data, and now deep legal research — all integrated where lawyers already work.” 

The Midpage integration will deliver U.S. statutes and case law to Lito, adding to this powerful legal drafting environment and further expanding Litera’s ecosystem of more than 60 integrations, including NetDocuments, iManage, Courtroom Insight, and UniCourt. By embedding trusted legal research sources within Lito, Litera continues to deepen the intelligence available directly inside everyday workflows. 

Through the Lito chat experience, users can select U.S. statutes or case law as sources to query against a document or a specific legal question. Practical use cases include checking whether an agreement complies with a particular statute, uploading a document alongside relevant legal authority for contextual analysis, or generating a case summary to share with clients — all without leaving Word or Outlook. Lito users on Litera One cloud packages will have access to legal research capabilities through this integration, with options to expand usage through a Midpage subscription. 

“Navigating case law has historically been so complex that it was really only done for complex litigation,” said Otto von Zastrow, CEO of Midpage. “AI agents give every attorney the power of a big legal research team. The agent reads hundreds of cases and finds on-point precedents with quotes and hyperlinks. We’re glad to bring this to tools like Lito that already have access to your documents and important context.” 

Internal Research Examines AI Performance in Legal Redlining 

Alongside this announcement, Litera is sharing findings from internal Quality Engineering research evaluating how different AI approaches perform on complex legal redlining tasks — data that underscores why the architecture behind a legal AI tool matters as much as its capabilities. 

The research compared Litera Compare with leading general-purpose large language models —including Gemini 3, Claude Opus 4.5, and ChatGPT 5.2 — across long-form legal documents containing tables, images, embedded objects, headers and footers, and other structural elements. The results illustrate a clear distinction: while large language models excel at research and drafting assistance, generating structured, defensible legal artifacts requires technology purpose-built for legal formatting standards and professional exchange.

Key findings include:

  • Structural limitations: General-purpose LLMs were unable to generate usable redlines for non-text elements such as tables, images, embedded objects, headers/footers, and footnotes.
  • Accuracy declines with length: Even in short documents, general LLMs topped out at roughly 90% accuracy — a threshold that remains too low for legal work where a single missed change can carry significant consequence. In a 200-page document test, one model’s text accuracy dropped to roughly 40%, with others declining to approximately 70%.
  • Description vs. redline: General-purpose LLMs can describe what changed in a document but cannot produce an actual redline or track changes file suitable for exchange with counterparties. Describing a change and delivering the legal artifact that lawyers need are fundamentally different outcomes.
  • Completeness over speed: While some models processed comparisons quickly, output reliability and coverage varied significantly across longer, more complex documents.

Litera Compare powers redlining capabilities within Lito, enabling lawyers to produce accurate, industry-standard outputs while remaining embedded in their drafting environment. Together, the Midpage integration and Compare capabilities reflect Litera’s broader approach: combining the intelligence of large language models with the precision of purpose-built legal engines, so lawyers get the best of both where it matters most. 

Litera will discuss both the Midpage integration and the research findings at Legalweek, March 9–12, 2026, in New York, NY, as part of broader conversations about how legal AI is evolving beyond experimentation toward measurable, reliable performance. 

Access the benchmark study:
https://info.litera.com/compare-benchmark-report.html 

Meet with Litera at Legalweek:
Avaneesh Marwaha, CEO of Litera, will outline his vision for how legal AI is evolving beyond early hype, how Litera is helping shape the next era of legal performance, and what it means for law firms and legal teams, “Accurate. Embedded. Fast. Raising the Bar for Legal Performance,” Wednesday, March 11, 9:00 – 10:00 a.m., 4th Floor, Room 405.1 – Save your spot. 

About Midpage
Midpage is an AI-powered legal research platform trusted by 200+ law firms, from boutiques to BigLaw. Its AI research agent combines comprehensive coverage of U.S. federal and state case law with the ability to formulate searches, analyze results, and deliver synthesized, cited answers directly within the drafting environment — enabling lawyers to move from research to work product without switching tools. Try it out on midpage.ai. 

About Litera   
Litera is a leader of the legal AI revolution, on a mission to Raise The Bar™ for the legal profession by delivering transformational, globally-trusted solutions to law firms and corporate legal teams worldwide. The company’s comprehensive suite of Generative and Agentic AI driven tools powers and unifies workflows across three key pillars: Legal Workflow & Drafting, Firm Intelligence & Knowledge Management, and Business Development with next-generation Proactive Relationship Management (PRM) capabilities. Integrated directly into where lawyers work in Microsoft 365 and across devices, Litera enables legal professionals to effortlessly create exceptional work, win more business, and streamline operations. This is all accomplished with seamless governance and data security through AI, dramatically reducing context-switching. With more than 30 years of legal tech innovation, a majority of the world’s largest law firms as clients, and 2M+ daily users, Litera is the proven, trusted platform that takes modern legal practices to the next level. For more information, visit litera.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

Litera Press Contacts:   
Jared Albert   
PR & Communications Strategist   
jared.albert@litera.com 

Tracy Wemett   
BroadPR, Inc. for Litera   
twemett@broadpr.com   
+1-617-939-3631  

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KLapper Add-In for iManage Work Web

Native AI Intelligence, Right Inside iManage Work Web

What attorneys can do?

  • Ask natural-language questions and get intelligent answers
  • Interact with AI directly inside the document preview window
  • Create and save new documents inside iManage
  • Eliminate manual searching

For more detail, Visit Booth# 343 at ALM Legalweek 2026

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Inovitech LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based legal technology and consulting company, has announced the release of IS-A-TASK 12.0, the latest evolution of its enterprise legal operations management platform.

Since its founding in 2011, Inovitech has focused on minimizing risk, improving quality, and delivering defensibility across complex eDiscovery projects. With its 12.0 release, IS-A-TASK presents a cloud-native, enterprise-grade platform powered by a secure, stateless AWS cloud architecture. Designed with an API-first framework, it delivers elastic scalability, high availability, and seamless integration with critical enterprise systems, including Microsoft 365, allowing legal teams to operate with greater speed, control, and defensibility.

The result is a unified command center that helps legal teams manage eDiscovery projects that connects custodial sources, collection sizes, downstream processing statistics, budgets, billing and reporting into one centralized, defensible system across all vendor and processing application activity.

Request a demo: https://inovitech.com/request-a-demo

Click for the full announcement.

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If your firm feels behind on AI, consider a different interpretation: you may be early to what actually matters in the long run.

The legal technology market right now is full of drafting tools, research copilots, contract analyzers, and email assistants. Each promises efficiency. Most deliver something narrower:  a faster way to work inside the same fragmented systems that existed before.

AI layered onto fragmented operations doesn’t transform them. It accelerates the chaos already present. Without structured context, AI is sophisticated autocomplete. Useful, occasionally impressive, but not strategic.

The firms gaining a sustainable competitive advantage aren’t the ones who adopted the most AI tools first. They’re the ones building the foundation those tools require to actually work.

The shift is from tools to infrastructure.

A real platform – one where the matter lives, where data is structured as work happens, where the team collaborates, and where documents, deadlines, and deal history all sit in one connected ecosystem – changes what AI can do. Inside that environment, AI outputs are grounded in the firm’s own data, precedent, and institutional knowledge. The results stop being generic and start being actionable.

This is the Platform Era. And it is earlier than most people think.

The technology cycle follows a familiar pattern: explosion, proliferation, fatigue, then consolidation. AI tools are proliferating right now, and the consolidation phase is coming. When it arrives, the firms that spent this period building unified infrastructure rather than stacking point solutions will be in a categorically different position than those who didn’t.

Project Fortress was built on exactly this premise. As a matter management platform built on Salesforce by practicing lawyers, Fortress provides the structured foundation that makes AI useful at the practice level: embedded in live matters, connected to firm precedent, and integrated with the document management and collaboration tools attorneys already use.

The first Am Law firm to adopt Project Fortress has seen what that foundation produces: 80%+ faster diligence analysis, significant reductions in manual contract review, and AI that operates as a practical extension of attorney workflows rather than a separate tool requiring a separate login.

The question for legal teams at Legalweek this year isn’t whether to adopt AI. It’s whether the systems underneath it are built to support it.

Project Fortress will be at Booth 410. If you’re thinking about what legal infrastructure should look like in the Platform Era, we’d welcome the conversation.

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Level Legal doesn’t sell an AI platform. We engineer matter-specific, defensible workflows that use AI when it helps and avoid it when it doesn’t.

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Showcasing New AI Solutions; Finalist for Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Awards

Epiq announced its participation at Legalweek 2026, taking place from March 9 to 12 at the North Javits Center in New York City. At this year’s conference, Epiq showcases how legal teams can achieve more through Epiq AI™ agentic solutions, Epiq Advisory™, and Epiq Services.

Epiq has been named a finalist for the Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Awards in the Best Use of AI in eDiscovery and Litigation. The recognition reflects the impact of Epiq AI for Review (formerly Epiq AI Discovery Assistant™), which enables legal teams to increase review speed, accuracy, and cost efficiency.

The company’s presence at Legalweek builds on two recent company announcements on agentic AI.

Epiq announced the expansion of Epiq AI, enhancing decision-making, reducing risk, and increasing productivity across legal and compliance use cases. The offerings, built on the Epiq AI Laer™ platform and available through the Epiq Service Cloud, include agentic AI solutions for eDiscovery, privilege review, antitrust, compliance, investigations, and more.

Epiq also recently announced expanded AI capabilities within Epiq Discover™, a leading eDiscovery platform. These enhancements enable legal professionals to conduct fact research up to 45 times faster and automate over 80% of review.

“We’re embedding AI directly into the workflows legal teams rely on, so they can surface facts faster, with confidence, and make better decisions while reducing complexity and risk,” said Roger Pilc, President and General Manager, Legal Solutions at Epiq. “Legalweek is an opportunity to show how leading legal technology, expertise, and services come together to deliver value.”

On the Legalweek Agenda: Monday Educational Track

Epiq is hosting three sessions on Monday, March 9, designed to provide legal professionals with the tools and practical knowledge to apply AI and technology strategies that drive impact.

Measuring TCO in AI-Driven Legal Operations

9 – 10 a.m.

A practical discussion on evaluating the total cost of ownership (TCO), accounting for hidden costs, ROI, and strategic value to make smarter technology investment decisions.

Speakers:

  • Sandra Metallo-Barragan, eDiscovery Counsel, Proskauer
  • Clinton Sanko, Shareholder, Baker Donelson
  • Amy Sellars, Of Counsel, Gunster
  • Jon Lavinder, Senior Director, Product Management, Epiq

Strategic Legal Leadership in the Age of Agentic AI 

10:15 – 11:15 a.m.

Legal leaders share how they are integrating agentic AI into legal operations, identifying high‑impact use cases, and managing organizational change as AI agents transform legal workflows.

Speakers:

  • Jessica Escalera, Managing Director, Head of Legal Operations — Americas, HSBC
  • Nicole Langston, Director, Head of eDiscovery, Counsel, Barclays
  • Lydia Petrakis, Assistant General Counsel, Digital Strategist, Microsoft
  • John Zhu, Senior Director and Product Owner, Global Legal and Compliance Technology, GSK
  • Jon Kessler, Vice President and General Manager, Information Governance, Epiq

From Blank Screen to a Legal Copilot Agent in Two Hours

11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

A hands‑on workshop focused on how to build and deploy a functional Copilot agent and gain the foundational skills to create additional AI agents tailored to organizational needs.

Speakers:

  • David Robbins, Principal Product Manager, Microsoft
  • Simon Bayangos, Senior Director, Information Governance, Epiq
  • Paul Renehan, Vice President, Advisory, Epiq
  • Rich Robinson, Director of Client Success, Epiq

Learn more about the Epiq-sponsored sessions. Speak with Epiq experts and see live demos all week at Epiq room 401 on the fourth floor of the North Javits Center.

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Empowering Law Firms with AI-Driven Financial Management

Law firms today operate in a rapidly evolving environment where client expectations are rising, markets are moving faster, and regulatory requirements continue to grow more complex. To stay competitive, firms need more than traditional accounting tools—they need a modern financial management platform designed specifically for the legal sector.

Efimis Financial Management Software delivers exactly that. Built for the business of law, Efimis provides a powerful, browser-based platform that combines deep accounting functionality, AI-driven insights, and seamless integrations to give firms complete visibility and control over their financial operations.

Unlike legacy systems that fragment data and rely on outdated reporting methods, Efimis creates a single, real-time source of financial truth across the entire firm. By bringing together financial data, operational workflows, and reporting into one unified system, Efimis enables law firms to make faster, more informed decisions while maintaining the highest levels of compliance and security.

At the core of the platform is Eve, Efimis’ embedded AI finance assistant. Eve transforms complex financial data into clear, actionable insight within seconds. Legal teams can ask questions in plain language—such as identifying top billers or reviewing financial performance—and receive immediate answers without the need for manual data gathering or spreadsheet analysis.

Efimis also delivers a comprehensive suite of financial management capabilities tailored specifically for law firms, including:

  • Real-time dashboards and financial reporting

  • Automated cost centers and general ledger management

  • Accounts payable and expense management

  • Flexible billing tools for complex fee structures

  • Requisitions and approval workflows

  • Client and matter directories for intelligent search and visibility

  • IOLTA and trust accounting for regulatory compliance

  • Real-time banking and reconciliation

  • Integrated tax management and reporting

Through its open API framework and developer portal, Efimis allows firms to seamlessly integrate the tools they already rely on, creating a connected technology ecosystem that evolves alongside their business. With ready-to-deploy integrations and flexible architecture, firms can shape processes, reporting, and controls around their own workflows—rather than adapting to rigid software limitations.

As law firms continue to navigate increasing complexity across financial operations, technology integration, and compliance obligations, solutions like Efimis provide the clarity and control required to thrive in the modern legal landscape.

By combining intelligent automation, AI-driven analysis, and scalable infrastructure, Efimis empowers firms to operate more efficiently, unlock deeper financial insight, and confidently adapt to the demands of the future.

To learn more or see the platform in action, visit https://efimis.com or book a demo today.

Click here for the downloadable brochure.

For further information, contact:
discovery@efimis.com 

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Vice President of Digital Forensics Honored for Legal Excellence and Leadership Spanning More than Three Decades

DALLAS – March 3, 2026—Level Legal, the Dallas-based concierge forensics, eDiscovery, managed review, and consulting company, today announced that David Greetham, Vice President of Digital Forensics at Level Legal, has won the 2026 Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Tech Lifetime Achievement Award. The awards ceremony will take place on March 9, 2026, at Chelsea Piers in New York City during Legalweek.

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HYCU supports a large number of SaaS applications, including mainstream services like Microsoft 365, Salesforce, and Google Workspace, as well as niche DevOps, productivity, and industry-specific and legal tools such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, iManage Cloud, Terraform, CircleCI, Notion, Asana, DocuSign, and Miro.​

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The American Arbitration Association announced its Resolution Simulator, powered by the AI Arbitrator. This new tool generates a non-binding simulated decision based on the user’s submissions and feedback, with explainable, informational insights grounded in the AI Arbitrator’s structured reasoning.

Built for single party, documents-only commercial and construction disputes, the Resolution Simulator provides insights and analysis to help legal teams assess potential exposure, think through dispute-resolution strategy before formal proceedings, and see how an arbitrator might analyze and resolve a dispute.

Read the full press release: https://www.adr.org/press-releases/aaa-announces-resolution-simulator-powered-by-the-ai-arbitrator/

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