Legora launches AI-native legal research
Legora is launching a new legal research infrastructure built around comprehensive legal data, a full ontology of law and an AI-native citator.
The new technology is designed to help lawyers and AI agents identify relevant legal authorities, understand how they relate to one another and determine whether a legal proposition remains current and binding.
“Legal research is a critical part” of the operating system Legora is building for legal organisations, said Max Junestrand, CEO and co-founder of Legora. “It is also the hardest thing in legal AI.”
A new approach to legal research
Legora is bringing together legal data from more than 100 countries, working with publishers where possible and obtaining data directly in jurisdictions where partnerships are not available.
The company is also developing a full ontology of law to map relationships between legal sources, the hierarchy of authority and the temporal validity of legal propositions.
Its AI-native citator incorporates technology from the acquisitions of Qura and Wexler. According to Arvid Winterfeldt, who leads Legal Research at Legora, the company has identified more than 50 ways in which AI can fail in legal research, including overlooking amendments or treating non-binding decisions as authoritative.
Legora has also assembled a team of attorney-editors with experience developing traditional legal research tools to define standards and oversee quality control.
Focus on the Spanish market
The launch comes as Legora continues to expand in Spain. The company already works with Tirant as an editorial partner for Spanish-language legal content and opened its Madrid office in June.
