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Jacob Lauritzen

CTO, Legora.

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CTO of Legora; joined as head of engineering, per the Latent Space episode notes.

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I think it's a power distribution. So, like, there's probably, like, 60% of the work … We can do really well right now, and you know, from now on, it's like a cost and latency thing. But then there's the rest of the the thing where, especially for, like, very complex analysis, we we still need more intelligence.

Jacob LauritzenCTO · Executive, Legora

Podcast: Building AI for Lawyers - Jacob Lauritzen, CTO of Legora, Latent Space, November 2, 2026, at transcript, around 7:30.

60% share of legal work done well, 'probably' 60%, speaker's estimate

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we had one problem where, like, it wouldn't cite properly, and so it would be difficult to follow, and it was like, next model release solved, it went from, 70% to, like, 99. It's just like, we did nothing and, like, great.

Jacob LauritzenCTO · Executive, Legora

Podcast: Building AI for Lawyers - Jacob Lauritzen, CTO of Legora, Latent Space, November 2, 2026, at transcript, around 10:30.

99% citation accuracy after model release, after the next model release, per the speaker; earlier 70%

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All of our infrastructure is on Azure. … Primarily for this reason, because, like, when we started, law firms were like, AWS? No. … Basically, we had to host everything on Microsoft because they already have three sixty five.

Jacob LauritzenCTO · Executive, Legora

Podcast: Building AI for Lawyers - Jacob Lauritzen, CTO of Legora, Latent Space, November 2, 2026, at transcript, around 28:30.

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So, yes, it's a mix. We have engineers, and then we have lawyers, and there's one team. So there's, like, three engineers and, like, three lawyers right now, and then we have a pool of what we call legal engineers, which is people that have worked in big law for like three or four years. Typically, maybe they have a CS degree and like they're very tech forward

Jacob LauritzenCTO · Executive, Legora

Podcast: Building AI for Lawyers - Jacob Lauritzen, CTO of Legora, Latent Space, November 2, 2026, at transcript, around 9:00.

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we can't look at any traces basically. We can't look at any data because it's all super confidential. And that's, like, extremely frustrating to work with because you you basically don't know what people are doing.

Jacob LauritzenCTO · Executive, Legora

Podcast: Building AI for Lawyers - Jacob Lauritzen, CTO of Legora, Latent Space, November 2, 2026, at transcript, around 25:30.

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So we have different, basically, like, worlds, like RL environments, essentially, which is like, here's a… Because because lawyers work in projects always, more or less, so it's like, here's 10,000 file data room, you're doing your due diligence

Jacob LauritzenCTO · Executive, Legora

Podcast: Building AI for Lawyers - Jacob Lauritzen, CTO of Legora, Latent Space, November 2, 2026, at transcript, around 9:00.

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