Building Legal Agents When You Can't See the Data — Jacob Lauritzen, CTO of Legora
Latent Space interviews Legora CTO Jacob Lauritzen for 1 hour 7 minutes 21 seconds, covering testing legal agents without access to client data, simulated test environments, citation accuracy changes, Tabular Review, and the split between legal and forward-deployed engineers.
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Introduction of Legora CTO Jacob Lauritzen
Legora resisted adding a model picker for years, then added one
Testing the agent in simulated worlds, including a 10,000-file data room
One release took citation accuracy from 70% to 99%
Data privacy led Legora to run everything on Azure
Tabular Review, projects, and the Word add-in
Why drafting a long contract is a search problem
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