Legora’s Innovative Approach to Legal Work
Legora, founded in Stockholm in 2023, is creating an “agentic operating system” for legal work that integrates OpenAI models and coding agents into everyday legal workflows. The platform aims to enable legal teams to complete routine tasks more efficiently and expand the scope of analysis that lawyers can perform.
AI-Native Development and Operations
OpenAI technology has been integral to Legora’s development from the beginning. The release of GPT-3.5 allowed the team to explore various legal use cases effectively. Legora also utilizes ChatGPT Work, Codex, and dots internally, adapting to new OpenAI model capabilities as they emerge. Jacob Lauritzen, CTO, highlights that coding agents facilitate rapid prototyping of multiple solutions and significantly reduce time-to-fix when issues arise. These agents can search through millions of lines of logs and investigate numerous hypotheses simultaneously, enabling a transition from bug report to working fix in approximately five minutes.
Impact on In-House and Client Legal Teams
Emma Kadri Bergström, General Counsel at Legora, notes that the company’s legal team has reduced time spent on NDA reviews from around 20% of their capacity to under 1% by implementing an automated playbook, representing a 95%+ reduction. Similar operational efficiencies have been reported for clients. Alex Fortescue-Webb, Global Head of Legal Engineering, cites the Tabular Review workflow as a key feature that can analyze thousands of contracts across multiple questions in minutes, allowing teams to identify risks that might be overlooked in manual reviews. One Fortune 100 client reported a 90% reduction in contract turnaround time, over $20 million saved on external litigation and diligence, and an average of 9.5 hours returned per lawyer each week for higher-value work.
Future Roadmap and Scaling Work
Legora’s roadmap is continuously influenced by advancements in model capabilities, prompting regular reassessments of priorities. Lauritzen mentions that improvements in models lead to biweekly evaluations of the company’s focus areas. The company plans to enhance agent autonomy to manage longer-running tasks and facilitate more real-time collaboration between lawyers and AI. Additionally, Legora offers a plugin for ChatGPT, allowing teams to leverage the platform’s capabilities within their ChatGPT conversations.
Original source: OpenAI News