Legora CTO on building legal agents without visibility into the data
What happened
On 3 November 2026, Legora CTO Jacob Lauritzen spoke on the Latent Space podcast about building legal agents without being able to see the agent's traces, because the data belongs to law firm clients. Legora built a test environment simulating client work with three engineers and three lawyers; after one release, citation accuracy rose from 70% to 99%. Its Tabular Review can review 10,000 contracts in a single table, and all services run on Azure. Jacob Lauritzen also appeared in another Latent Space interview published the same day, discussing the skills and experience needed to build AI agents for lawyers.
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- Latent SpaceBuilding AI for Lawyers - Jacob Lauritzen, CTO of Legora
Evals without traces, million-cell tabular reviews, and cracks in the billable hour as a business model
- Latent SpaceBuilding Legal Agents When You Can't See the Data - Jacob Lauritzen, CTO of Legora
Legora can’t read a single trace of what its agent does for a lawyer. The data belongs to the law firm’s clients. How do you build and test an agent when you can’t see its work?
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