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Legal AI requires custom domain-specific prompting beyond raw LLM output
“Typical AI scribing is Hard to do. And you need to embed a lot of like custom prompts and ways to get it right so that it uses the right medical language, which is very similar to law. Like you needed to write clauses in a way that a lawyer would write a claus…”
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Legora operates with intense hours outside of traditional Swedish workplace culture
“We're also very upfront with candidates that this is not a nine to five and we're not the traditional Swedish working environment. We have the good stuff. We have the Fika, but we have. A lot more hunger and, you know, frankly, a lot higher expectations.”
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EU legal AI requires zero retention and human-review cloud exemptions
“Especially building for Europe. You've got to go through a lot of hassle to kind of conform with all the data processing requirements. So, you know, all data hosted within Europe, nothing for training, no retention. Exemption from human review when you look at…”
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Junestrand: Legora deployed to Mannheimer Swartling, the largest Nordic law firm
“Yes, I think the first time was when we deployed Legora into the biggest law or largest law firm in the Nordics, Mannheimer & Svortling.”
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Legora leans heavily into Model Context Protocol for AI agent tool usage
“MCP and the way that you can scale the tool usage of these agents is something that I'm super, you know, keen on and that we're leaning very heavily into because a lot of firms have different needs in terms of how they want to adopt the tools to solve for thei…”
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Building AI Microsoft Word add-ins is like designing a mobile app
“Now the difference is you can't fork word and you can't take up all the real estate you want. You're basically conformed to this sort of right hand column. And then you got to get really creative. It's basically like designing a mobile app almost because that'…”
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Legora expanded from legal to compliance, risk, and sales at Nordic bank
“We just started working with this very large bank in the Nordics, and it's very quickly moved from, you know, the legal team to compliance, to risk, and now to sales, because everybody can leverage the system.”
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Junestrand interviewed 100 lawyers by offering to pay their hourly rate
“The first thing I did was I interviewed a hundred lawyers. I had this good hack on LinkedIn. I texted them asking if we could have lunch. And I would pay their hourly rate. And I could, you know, definitely not afford it. And none of them would, you know, impo…”
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Junestrand: Legora scaled from 10 to 100 employees in one year
“Because when we came out of YC, we were roughly 10 people, and now we're a hundred, and that means we've onboarded, on average, like two people a week.”
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Legora hot-swaps Claude, Gemini, GPT, and Mistral models interchangeably on AWS
“So we use AWS and Claude and Gemini and GPT and Mistral kind of interchangeably. The biggest thing there has been, how do we build everything in such a way where we can hot swap the models whenever we want, and also build it in such a way that the models becom…”
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Legora entered 15 international markets before expanding into the United States
“And at that point, we had always, you know, we had already done 15 new market entries. The algorithm or the method was already kind of established.”
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Every Legora sales rep negotiates NDAs using AI before legal review
“At Legora, every sales rep is using Legora to negotiate NDAs before sending it to our legal team.”
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Legora sends top Stockholm staff to establish every new international hub
“When we've now scaled the hubs we always send a person from Stockholm with them. It's the best people from the Stockholm office that then travels and setups the new hubs.”
Max Junestrand