Legora CTO Jacob Lauritzen on Building Legal Agents Without Seeing Client Data
Building Legal Agents When You Can't See the Data - Jacob Lauritzen, CTO of Legora
What happened
In a Latent Space interview, Legora CTO Jacob Lauritzen described how the legal tech company builds and tests agents when it cannot read traces of what they do for lawyers, because the data belongs to law firm clients. Legora uses simulated test environments modeled on customer work, paraphrased traces and failure-type narrowing, and runs everything on Azure. Lauritzen estimated models already do about 60% of legal work well.
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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.
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