Building Legal Agents When You Can't See the Data - Jacob Lauritzen, CTO of Legora

In this podcast episode, Legora CTO Jacob Lauritzen discusses how the legal-tech company builds and tests agents whose traces it cannot read because the data belongs to law firm clients, using simulated test environments modeled on customer work. He covers model choices and the addition of a model picker, an estimate that models already do about 60% of legal work well, and a citation fix that took accuracy from 70% to 99% in one release. The conversation also touches on Tabular Review, running everything on Azure, forward-deployed and legal engineers, and the future of law firm partnerships, the billable hour, and junior lawyer roles.