In the least surprising news of the day, Litera has acquired a company. Litera’s strategic vision — sometimes more like a mythic quest — involves building the ultimate end-to-end law firm software empire and the company is always on the lookout for providers offering unique technologies that fit into the overall mosaic. Over the years, they’ve steadily added to their growing suite of legal technology solutions, from bringing AI-powered contract analysis into the fold with Kira Systems to expanding their grip on firm management with BigSquare.
The holiday season may be in the rearview mirror, but Litera still has a hankering for some peppermint. Specifically, Litera has now acquired Peppermint Technology, a UK-based Microsoft partner specializing in cloud-based CRM, matter management, and business development tools. With Peppermint, they’re doubling down on deep Microsoft integration — because lawyering in the 2020s is a never-ending cycle of living inside Word, Outlook, and Teams and stepping away from the computer to complain about Word, Outlook, and Teams.
Peppermint’s flagship product, CX365, functions as a bit of a legal Swiss Army knife built on Microsoft technology. The offering combines CRM, enterprise relationship management (ERM), and case & matter management into one system so law firms can track clients, manage relationships, and streamline workflows without toggling between different apps.
For Litera, this acquisition looks to bolster firm-wide connectivity. As Litera CEO Avaneesh Marwaha put it:
The combined offerings from Litera and Peppermint Technology will empower law firms to excel in client engagement and operational efficiency directly in the Microsoft tools they use every day. We are excited to both integrate Peppermint’s innovative solutions into our portfolio and partner with Microsoft, accelerating Litera’s mission to transform top-to-bottom the entire legal experience and give our clients efficiencies they did not imagine possible.
Mike Wilson, Managing Partner at Blake Morgan, already used both products and sees nothing but upside in the tie-up:
“As mutual customers of both Litera and Peppermint, we are excited about the opportunities this acquisition presents for our lawyers, enabling seamless access to some of our most utilised applications within the cloud.”
Steve Jobs once challenged engineers to cut Mac boot times by pointing out that if five million people used Macs, saving just 10 seconds a day turning it on adds up to 100 lifetimes a year. That spirit drives Litera’s seemingly insatiable appetite for other companies, attempting to give lawyers the means to use a single ecosystem where they can manage everything without wasting time switching around.
Or, at the very least, fewer tabs open in Chrome. Sorry… Microsoft Edge.
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