Junestrand: AI is moving from augmenting legal work to executing end-to-end tasks
Max Junestrand · The Trillion-Dollar Industries AI Is Disrupting: Voice, Law & the End of the Billable Hour · Jul 14, 2026 · at 46:51
Max Junestrand, CEO of Legora, explains how advanced AI models are transitioning legal technology from simple assistance to autonomous task management.
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“What's really interesting about, especially the agents following the release of Opus. 4.5 and 4.6 is they can now start to do really intelligent case strategy, and they can actually start to combine the witness statements, the cases, and they can really do end to end work Which is, I think, moving us from a world where AI is just augmenting to AI is actually really doing things, and your job becomes to orchestrate and to manage those agents, as we're seeing in coding.”
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