Legora CTO Jacob Lauritzen on Building Legal AI Agents

What happened

In a Latent Space interview, Legora CTO Jacob Lauritzen describes how the legal AI company builds agents for lawyers after raising $550 million at an $8.8 billion valuation. He explains how three engineers and three lawyers build simulated eval environments because customer data is confidential, why Legora runs on Azure, and how legal engineers and forward-deployed engineers split client work.

Read next

• More changes in today’s briefingOpenAI’s updated Model Spec explained through its five core values

2 reports

The story so far

Legora builds and tests legal agents for lawyers without reading their work traces, CTO Jacob Lauritzen said, because those records belong to law firm clients. The company uses simulated evaluation environments modeled on customer work, paraphrased traces, and a process that narrows failures by type. It runs its systems on Azure. Lauritzen estimated that models already perform about 60% of legal work well.