Building AI for Lawyers - Jacob Lauritzen, CTO of Legora ↗

Summary

Jacob Lauritzen, CTO of Legora, discusses building AI agents for law firms in an interview with Latent Space. He details Legora’s growth to $100M+ ARR and an $8.8B valuation, driven by tools like Tabular Review for bulk contract analysis. Key technical insights include evaluating agents without access to confidential client traces by using simulated RL environments and legal engineers. The team classifies failures into 10-20 modes and runs checks on Azure due to firm security requirements. Lauritzen argues that while models handle ~60% of routine work well, complex tasks still need intelligence improvements. He describes a product architecture based on primitives (lists, agents) and the role of forward-deployed engineers in integrating with client systems.