CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 10, 2026--
Litera, a Legal AI platform provider that best unifies the practice and business of law, announced Litera Compare and Firm AI Search are now available inside Microsoft Copilot for legal through plugins, bringing 30 years of deterministic document comparison accuracy and firm intelligence into the environment where lawyers work. Alongside this integration, Litera has adopted Microsoft 365 E7, the Frontier Suite, gaining access to the most advanced tier of Microsoft's enterprise AI stack to accelerate how new capabilities reach firms and in-house teams.
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“Law firms and corporate legal departments are increasingly making Copilot their productivity standard,” said Joey Benedek, Senior Vice President of Product Management, Litera. “This integration brings legal intelligence into that same environment. Compare delivers the deterministic accuracy that high-stakes legal work demands, and Firm AI Search turns disconnected firm knowledge into cited, permissions-aware answers at the moment they matter most. Together, they bring the practice and business of law into a single experience. And with our adoption of the E7 Frontier Suite, we are accelerating how quickly new capabilities reach the firms and in-house teams that depend on us."
General-purpose LLMs were never built for the precision that legal document comparison demands. Litera Compare is powered by a proprietary algorithm that is more accurate than general-purpose LLMs, delivering deterministic results that catch every change across Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, and more. Because the redline is deterministic, any AI layered on top of it is working from a verified output rather than a probabilistic guess. Lawyers can use Copilot to summarize the redline, identify risk, craft mitigation strategies, and more, with the confidence that the underlying comparison is accurate.
Most firm knowledge lives across disconnected systems: matter databases, CRM platforms, expertise profiles, and experience records. When a lawyer needs to find the right colleague or relevant experience for a pitch, they are left searching multiple tools or relying on who they happen to know. Firm AI Search connects that data into a single conversational interface with cited answers that respect ethical walls and access permissions.
With the plugin, lawyers can interact with both capabilities in plain language directly inside Copilot. A lawyer reviewing a contract can ask, “Compare this draft against the version the counterparty sent back,” and Copilot calls on Litera’s comparison engine to generate a legal-grade redline. Preparing for a pitch, that same lawyer can ask, “Who in our firm has handled cross-border M&A work for pharmaceutical companies in Germany?” and Firm AI Search queries across Litera Foundation, matter systems, and expertise databases.
“Microsoft Copilot is designed to be the AI layer where legal professionals work, and that means bringing the best domain-specific intelligence into the experience,” said Carina Negreanu, Partner Director, Science & Verticals at Microsoft. “Litera’s integration of Compare and Firm AI Search through plugins is a strong example of how partners with deep industry expertise can extend Copilot’s value for legal professionals.”
For more information, visit: https://www.litera.com/blog/litera-compare-firm-ai-search-copilot-for-legal
Litera brings its trusted document comparison and Firm AI Search capabilities directly into Microsoft Copilot for legal, giving legal professionals access to specialized intelligence within their existing workflows.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth dug in for a fight Tuesday against his potential impeachment in Congress, telling reporters that a rogue lawmaker is targeting him over “policy disagreements” and not the high crimes or offenses the nation’s founders intended.
The embattled Pentagon chief spoke at his first press briefing from the five-sided building in six months, launching a counteroffensive against outgoing Rep. Thomas Massie’s effort to impeach him over his handling of the unpopular war against Iran and other actions.
“In the 250 years of our American republic, no Secretary of War or Secretary of Defense has ever been impeached for carrying out lawful military operations,” Hegseth told reporters.
The briefing was Hegseth’s first since May even as the U.S. military has kept up intermittent operations against Iran as well as fatal strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats in Latin America.
Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican who lost his primary to a Trump-backed opponent, filed the impeachment resolution in the House on Monday. It sets the stage for a dramatic vote on whether to remove a prominent Trump administration figure following sweeping losses for Republicans in last week's midterm elections that many at least partly blamed on the Iran conflict and its economic impact.
The resolution largely focuses on the war in Iran but also includes references to Hegseth’s role in military actions in Yemen against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels and Venezuela. Massie said Hegseth’s actions amount to “high crimes and misdemeanors” and his leadership at the Pentagon “warrants impeachment.”
A vote in the House could come by midweek, putting pressure on Republicans — many of whom blamed their election wipeout on the Iran war — but next steps are highly uncertain.
Trump has backed Hegseth, pointing to the raid to capture then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January as well as military operations against Iran that he asserts have “obliterated” its navy and air force.
Iran, however, has been able to keep striking U.S. military bases in the Middle East and has disrupted shipping in the Strait of Hormuz during the course of the more than 8-month-old conflict, driving up global oil prices. Trump told reporters Monday that the Iran war “militarily is effectively over" and repeated his often-made claim that Iran “would love to make a deal.”
Hegseth also has been defending his stewardship of the U.S. military.
“There’s a lot of politically motivated people who may have substantial policy disagreements, but their disagreements are with success,” he told reporters Monday after a speech at the Naval War College in Rhode Island. He added that “if we want to litigate” the military actions that the Trump administration has taken, “I’m happy to do it all day long.”
He also released a video on social media last week that argued impeachment would be “all about the politics of personal destruction” and that “won’t work with me. You can rest assured of that.”
Afterward, scores of Pentagon political appointees posted images of Hegseth emblazoned with the words, “Stand. Fight. Defend the Republic.”
Sean Parnell, the Pentagon’s top spokesman, released a statement saying that “despite threats of sham witch hunts from Democrats,” Hegseth is “100% committed to leading the Department until the end of President Trump’s term in office.”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a press conference at the Pentagon in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)
FILE - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks at an event for Anduril Industries, Inc., at Sparrows Point Shipyard, Oct. 6, 2026, in Sparrows Point, Md. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
FILE - Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth waits to welcome Britain's Defense Secretary Wes Streeting to the Pentagon during an arrival ceremony, Thursday, Oct 15, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
