Today, Align launches Align Research, a new legal research tool designed to change the way AI works in the legal research process.

Most legal research tools work by trying to answer questions out of case data. Align Research focuses on providing you with the relevant cases only, arguing that the answers are prone to hallucinations, and often take away from a lawyer being able to craft a unique and compelling argument.

Joining us to discuss the launch is Founder and CEO Sam Davidoff.

Read the full press release on LawSites blog.

https://www.lawnext.com/2026/08/watch-align-launches-align-research-lawyers-get-cases-not-hallucinations.html

Chapters:

(00:00) Introduction to Align

(01:09) The gap in existing legal research products

(03:11) Providing the cases, not the answers

(06:09) Priced per project

(08:29) Explaining the workflow of Align Research

(12:27) What is the scope of the Align Research case law coverage?

(13:22) How is the Align Research designed to avoid hallucinations?

AI and the Future of Mediation Practice

https://feature.adr.org/2026-AAA-Suffolk-AI-Conference

In collaboration with Suffolk University Law School, this dynamic conference from the American Arbitration Association will explore how AI is transforming arbitration, mediation, and online dispute resolution. It will unite legal innovators, institutional leaders, and in-house counsel for interactive debates, live demonstrations, and real-world case studies as we explore AI's impact on dispute prevention, process integrity, and resolution outcomes.

Chapters

(00:00) Introduction to AI in Dispute Resolution

(01:56) Overview of the Upcoming Conference

(03:09) The Role of AI in Mediation and Arbitration

(07:20) Innovations in Family Mediation

(10:12) AI Governance and Ethical Considerations

(14:37) Practical Concerns in Family Mediation

(17:02) Adoption of AI Tools in Dispute Resolution

(19:12) Who Should Attend the Conference?

(22:39) Expanding the Conversation on AI in ADR

(24:59) Final Thoughts and Conference Highlights

Kenneth Pechous, Global Head, Business Development & Alliances at Litera, joins Bob Ambrogi to announce the launch of a new integration between Litera Compare and Google Workspace, bringing the power of Litera to your Google Drive.

Chapters:

(00:00) Introduction to Ken and Litera

(00:55) Announcing the Integration

(02:03) What is Litera Compare

(05:55) What parts of Google Workspace integrate with Litera Compare?

(06:48) What functionality does the new integration offer?

(08:49) Is Lido a part of this Integration?

(09:57) How does Gemini compare with Lido?

(12:54) Closing Thoughts

About the Announcement:

Litera announced a global integration of Litera Compare with Google Workspace, making its document comparison and redlining capabilities available to law firms and corporate legal teams using Google Drive. Purpose-built for legal complexity, Litera Compare delivers a 100% accuracy rate for tracking redlines across documents that grow longer, riskier, and more demanding in real legal practice. Corporate in-house counsel and law firms accessing Litera Compare through Google Workspace also have access to Lito, Litera's legal AI agent, included as part of their Litera Compare subscription, giving users AI-powered automation across the practice and business of law where they work.

"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 at 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."

Through a new Litera connector, legal professionals can now point directly to Google Drive to access documents for redlining and comparison within Google Docs. Litera Compare, precision document comparison trusted by over 15,000 firms and legal departments for more than 30 years, is now available via the Google Workspace Marketplace, enabling seamless redlining, eliminating the context-switching that costs lawyers billable time. Legal teams struggle when AI can’t operate directly on documents stored in their systems of record, forcing manual workarounds that slow reviews and increase the risk of errors. Litera can accept documents from Google Drive as inputs for all available skills in the Litera One web platform. This means the full Lito capability set—chat-based comparison and summaries, risk and mitigation cues, multi-document chat, grid reviews, review terms, deal point insights, and prompt skills—works on Google-hosted documents regardless of the document type without requiring download or format conversion.

Compare surfaces changes between two or more documents, uncovering the evolution of text, tables, images, and more, across file types. Similar to Litera Compare's user experience in Word, Outlook and mobile, Compare delivers precisions through Google Workspace and then extends the workflow with Lito's summarization, risk analysis, mitigation suggestions, and clause rewrite suggestions. Together, Compare and Lito move law firms beyond static redlines to proactive, AI-powered legal workflows.

The core Litera project team, including Kenneth Pechous, Global Head, Business Development & Alliances, Joey Benedek, Senior Vice President of Product, and Ivan Martinez, Senior Product Manager, will be available at Google Cloud's booth at Google Cloud Next, April 22–24, 2026, in Las Vegas to discuss the integration and answer questions from legal teams and partners exploring Google Workspace-based legal AI solutions.

Learn more:

https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/litera-brings-trusted-ai-powered-document-comparison-to-google-workspace.html