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Jacob Lauritzen
CTO, Legora
Leads engineering at Legora, building legal AI agents for research, contract review and drafting.
LegoraReal Alpha has cut 8 moments of Jacob Lauritzen (CTO, Legora) talking, from an interview on Latent Space published Nov 2, 2026.
What Jacob Lauritzen said
Latent Space · Building Legal Agents When You Can't See the Data — Jacob Lauritzen, CTO of Legora
8 moments · 24 min
- 8:39
Legora tests agents in simulated legal workspaces Pro pick
“It went from like 70% to like 99%. It's just like we did nothing and like, great.”
at 11:36 - 26:13
Client confidentiality forces Legora to infer product failures
“we can't look at any traces basically. We can't look at any data because it's all super confidential.”
at 27:00 - 34:25
Tabular Review lets lawyers test a workflow on ten rows first Pro pick
“You can also just ask the agent to do this. Like if you just drop 10,000 files into the agent and say like do a due diligence on this”
at 35:11 - 14:12
Law firms need incentives to turn expertise into durable assets
“partnerships essentially is a structure where you make the human capital the owners of the company so that they stay.”
at 15:01 - 42:33
Legal engineers configure workflows while FDEs write code
“Legal engineers configure the product as a power user would. They don't write code.”
at 44:38 - 47:22
Legora delayed APIs to avoid locking in a fast-changing product
“we move so quickly in the product that I don't want to be like slowed down by having to maintain old API versions”
at 48:13 - 50:12
Legora grew beyond its plan to stay at 20 engineers
“we're just going to be 20 engineers for the rest of the company's history and like we're going to beat everyone who's much bigger”
at 50:47 - 58:13
Long contracts can lose meaning when split into chunks
“and then each individual chunk is not necessarily relevant to the search term or what they're trying to figure out but together it's extremely relevant”
at 59:59
- 8:39
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