Litera document drafting, comparison & security utilities
Litera offers tools to streamline and secure legal document handling.
- Litera Metadact cleans metadata and tracks changes, protecting information. Integrated with iManage Work, it keeps the Document Management System (DMS) central.
- Litera pdfDocs simplifies editing, redacting, and collating PDFs, ensuring PDF/A compliance.
- Litera Compare detects changes across devices, highlighting redlines in texts, tables, charts, and images, enhancing collaboration by allowing document comparison directly from the DMS.
Why you should choose Litera tools
Metadata security risks
Unintentional exposure of sensitive information through metadata in shared electronic files can lead to confidentiality breaches and hinder the ability to safeguard sensitive data. Litera Metadact ensures thorough metadata cleaning and tracks changes, mitigating human error and safeguarding confidential data.
Inefficient PDF handling
Legal teams often face challenges with editing, redacting, and collating PDF documents, which can be time-consuming and error-prone. Litera pdfDocs streamlines these processes, saving time and enhancing productivity by creating secure, PDF/A compliant documents and binders.
Difficulty in document comparison
Comparing documents manually is tedious and prone to errors, especially when dealing with large texts, tables, charts, and images. Litera Compare simplifies this task, instantly detecting changes across any device and highlighting redlines, ensuring accuracy and efficiency.
Fragmented document management
Managing documents across multiple platforms can lead to disorganisation and lost time. The integration of Litera tools with iManage Work and Microsoft 365 centralises document management, enhancing collaboration and allowing legal teams to focus on more critical tasks.
Litera's legal document solutions
Enhances document security
Metadact enhances document security by automatically cleaning metadata and tracking changes in email sharing. Integrated with Microsoft Outlook, it allows users to manage attachments seamlessly. Customisable data loss prevention policies and actionable insights ensure efficient, secure workflows, reducing the risk of exposing sensitive information.
Simple PDF management
Litera pdfDocs streamlines PDF management by providing tools for editing, redacting, and organising documents. It enhances productivity with features like PDF/A compliance and secure document creation. Ideal for legal teams, it simplifies complex tasks and integrates smoothly with existing workflows, ensuring efficient and reliable document handling.
Easy document comparison tool
Litera Compare simplifies document comparison by instantly detecting changes and highlighting redlines in text, tables, charts, and images. It integrates seamlessly with iManage Work and Microsoft 365, enhancing collaboration and ensuring accuracy across devices. This tool saves time and improves workflow efficiency for legal teams.
Streamlined collaboration
Litera CAM streamlines the management of client and matter data across multiple systems. It offers centralised control, enhances data accuracy, and ensures compliance. The tool automates tasks such as provisioning and deprovisioning, making processes more efficient. It also supports reporting and analytics for better decision-making.
How to make better legal documents
Discover how to enhance your legal document processes by following the document lifecycle stages. Following the key stages such as creation, checking, collaboration, and publishing, combined with using Litera tools, can improve efficiency, accuracy, and consistency. Streamlining these steps not only saves time but also enhances your firm's reputation for quality.
Works with
Other Litera products
Litera CAM
Litera CAM is a comprehensive platform for managing process configurations, applications, and workspaces. It streamlines IT operations, enhances security, and ensures compliance, offering an intuitive interface for efficient administration and monitoring.
Litera contentCrawler
Litera contentCrawler automates the discovery and conversion of image-based PDFs into searchable and editable formats. It enhances document accessibility and compliance, integrating seamlessly with content management systems to ensure all files are fully searchable.
Litera PowerDesktop
Litera PowerDesktop streamlines document workflows by integrating essential tools for document creation, comparison, cleaning, and metadata management into a single interface. It enhances productivity, ensuring consistency and accuracy across all documents.
Why legal technology products fail
A legal tech implementation may fail due to poor user adoption, inadequate training, and lack of proper integration. Generally, if a legal technology product isn't user-friendly or well-integrated with other tools, or if its benefits aren't clear, users may resist adopting it and continue using familiar, less efficient methods. In this situation it becomes challenging to achieve ROI, or the implementation can fail altogether.
The Ascertus solution
At Ascertus we work collaboratively with our vendors and clients alike. This means we work in partnership to:
- Establish business needs and objectives
- Review appropriate solutions
- Build an implementation strategy
- Develop a bespoke onboarding program
- Train employees to ensure adoption
- Provide ongoing support and advice
Four steps to start your Litera journey
Book a meeting
One of expert consultants will discuss any business pain points and objectives.
Product demo
Based on the initial discovery we will tailor a solution on demo the benefits.
Project scope
Align on timings, budget and project structure, to support the Business Case.
Strategy defined
An in-depth implementation strategy is defined to ensure projects success.
Litera resources
Is there a tool to compare two PDF documents?
Yes, Litera offers tools for comparing PDF documents. Litera Compare is designed specifically for this purpose. It allows users to compare two PDF documents side-by-side, highlighting differences and ensuring accuracy. This tool is particularly useful for legal professionals and others who need to review and verify document changes meticulously.
What are the 4 steps to document creation?
The four steps of document creation are:
Planning: Define the purpose, audience, and structure of the document. Outline key points and gather necessary information.
Drafting: Write the initial version of the document, focusing on getting ideas down without worrying about perfection.
Revising: Review and refine the content for clarity, coherence, and consistency. Address any gaps and reorganise as needed.
Editing and Proofreading: Correct grammatical errors, punctuation, and formatting issues. Ensure the document is polished and error-free.
How do I add metadata to a document?
Adding metadata to a document involves embedding information such as author, title, keywords, and other relevant data. This enhances the document’s searchability, organisation, and management.
Steps to Add Metadata:
Open the Document: Use a word processor or PDF editor.
Access Properties: Go to the document properties or file information section.
Enter Metadata: Fill in fields like title, author, subject, keywords, and more.
Save: Ensure changes are saved.
What our clients have to say
We don't expect you just to take our word for it. Our clients span a wide range of industries and sectors, in lots of different countries. See how Ascertus has helped them.
It’s clear to us that the Ascertus team has sound knowledge of iManage Cloud. They are working with us patiently and systematically to meet our system requirements. Their approach to working is very straightforward and professional – with a lot of emphasis on attention to detail.
Senior Legal Counsel
CARDANO
Ascertus clearly stood out for its professional attitude towards customer communication. Also, unlike many other organisations, the company lays equal emphasis on providing support services and delivering technology implementations. This approach clinched the deal for us.
Chief Technology Officer
LUNDGRENS
Ascertus displayed great eagerness to understand our requirements and suggest approaches that would solve our problems. Executives from the CEO downwards were involved in discussions with us, which gave us a good insight into the company’s cultural attitude towards the delivery of support services.
ICT Director
NAUTADUTILH N.V
Ascertus continue to impress us with their knowledge and professionalism. Their deep understanding of the iManage suite allows them to efficiently resolve the complex issues that we escalate to them allowing us to focus on delivering benefits to our firm.
Applications Manager
SHEPHERD & WEDDERBURN
Implementation of iManage Cloud has been painless. Ascertus and our IT service provider worked collaboratively to deliver the solution to the firm. Our involvement was only in the initial design stages to decide things like policies for file naming and matter workspaces in the application. It could not have gone smoother.
Office Manager
OCWM LAW
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