Litera Compare lands in Google Workspace for lawyers

Litera has integrated Litera Compare with Google Workspace, making the document comparison tool available to legal teams working in Google Drive and Google Docs.

The integration gives law firms and in-house legal departments a way to compare and redline documents inside Google Workspace through a new Litera connector. Users can point directly to files stored in Google Drive and run comparisons within Google Docs instead of moving documents into a separate system.

The service is launching globally through the Google Workspace Marketplace. Legal teams using the product through Google Workspace will also get access to Lito, Litera's AI legal agent, as part of a Litera Compare subscription.

As a result, Google-hosted documents can be used as inputs for the full set of skills available in Litera One, the company's web platform. Litera says those tools include chat-based comparison and summaries, risk and mitigation cues, multi-document chat, grid reviews, review terms, deal point insights and prompt-based functions, without requiring documents to be downloaded or converted into another format.

Legal workflow

Document comparison remains a routine but high-stakes task for legal teams, especially when reviewing multiple drafts of contracts, transaction papers and internal advice. Changes in text, tables and images can alter meaning or introduce risk, and lawyers often rely on redlining tools to track those shifts before documents are finalised.

Litera says its comparison software has been used by more than 15,000 firms and legal departments over more than 30 years. The tool is designed for the demands of legal practice and tracks redlines across increasingly complex legal documents.

The Google Workspace integration expands Litera's reach beyond Microsoft-focused legal workflows, where document comparison and review software has long been concentrated. It also reflects the growing use of cloud-based productivity suites by corporate legal departments and some law firms seeking to standardise collaboration across wider business teams.

Litera argues that legal teams run into problems when AI tools cannot work directly on documents held in their existing systems of record. In those cases, lawyers may need to rely on manual workarounds, slowing review processes and increasing the risk of mistakes.

"Legal teams shouldn't have to switch between the tools they use every day and the AI capabilities they need - and now, with our Google Workspace integration, they don't have to," said Kenneth Pechous, Global Head, Business Development & Alliances, Litera. "Corporate legal departments and law firms can now draft with the power of Litera's industry-leading legal expertise and institutional knowledge right where they already work. That means less time hunting for the right language, fewer costly errors, and no disruption to the way their teams already collaborate. We're proud to be working with Google Cloud to make that possible."

Google tie-Up

Google Workspace has been pushing further into specialist business use cases as it competes with Microsoft 365 in regulated and document-heavy sectors. Legal work has been one of the more difficult areas for broad office software providers because lawyers often need precise document handling, version control and review functions tailored to legal drafting.

By linking Litera Compare into Google Docs and Google Drive, the two companies aim to make legal review tasks easier to carry out inside a familiar workspace. Litera says the user experience is similar to its existing Compare product in Word, Outlook and mobile environments, while adding AI-driven summarisation, risk analysis, mitigation suggestions and clause rewrite suggestions.

Pat McCarthy, Vice President, Workspace Sales, Google Workspace, said the integration is intended to reduce friction for legal professionals working across multiple applications. "Legal professionals require precision and speed without the friction of switching between applications. By bringing Litera's AI-powered comparison directly into Google Workspace, we are enabling legal teams to harness the intelligence of Lito right where they already collaborate," said McCarthy. "This integration allows users to focus on high-value legal work while leveraging a unified Workspace experience to drive greater efficiency and accuracy."

Litera says it serves more than 15,000 customers globally and 2.3 million daily users, including 99% of the AmLaw 100. The company has built its business around software for legal drafting, document comparison, contract review, knowledge management and business development, and has been expanding its use of AI across those areas.

The addition of Google Workspace support gives legal teams another way to adopt AI-assisted review tools without changing their main collaboration environment. It also underlines how legal software suppliers are trying to embed AI functions directly into day-to-day document workflows rather than requiring lawyers to work in separate applications.

According to Litera, Compare surfaces changes between two or more documents across file types, including text, tables and images.