Legora’s Jacob Lauritzen explains building legal agents without seeing client data

Legora runs everything on Azure for privacy and security, avoiding open-weight models and ElevenLabs. The company’s Tabular Review tool—a million-cell spreadsheet—has become an industry standard. Legora’s 100 engineers (up from 20) now struggle to keep pace with demand, despite Lauritzen’s early bet that 20 engineers would suffice. The firm also uses its own product for acquisition due diligence and is hiring engineers in New York, Stockholm, and London. Lauritzen speculates that 60% of legal work is already handled well by models, but the remaining 40% requires smarter, more specialized agents.