Legora: the factory infographic
AI and agents for lawyers: reviewing, researching and drafting legal work.
What the company does
In normal terms
Collaborative AI for lawyers: review, research, drafting and advice.
Legora gives lawyers collaborative AI for review, research, drafting and advice, and is scaling AI agents for professional work.
In lay terms
Legora is an AI helper for lawyers: it reads contracts, finds the law and drafts documents.
The risks it faces, especially from AI agents
In normal terms
- Confidential documents. Legal agents work on privileged, confidential documents; access beyond the matter at hand is a breach of duty.
- Professional liability. Work product goes to clients under a lawyer's name; an agent's error becomes the firm's professional liability.
- From chat to agents. Moving from answering questions to agents that act on work multiplies what each agent can reach and do.
In lay terms
- Confidential documents. The helper can see files from cases it was never asked to work on.
- Professional liability. If the helper gets the law wrong, it is the lawyer who answers for it.
- From chat to agents. A helper that only answered questions now does whole tasks on its own.
How RiskMandate helps
- Reachwhat it can actually access or affectEvery document set, workspace and action an agent can reach.
- Mandatewhat the business authorisedThe matter and task the lawyer gave it.
- Gapthe difference: the riskAccess to other matters, or actions beyond the task.
- Barrierswhat really stands in the wayMatter walls, reviews and approvals, with evidence.
- Provenancewho owns it, who reviewed it, which versionWhich firm and lawyer own the agent, who reviewed it, which version.
In normal terms
Law firms are among the most careful buyers there are. A RiskMandate policy per agent gives each firm a record its risk partner, its clients and its insurer can read, which helps Legora sell agents into firms that need proof before they say yes.
In lay terms
RiskMandate writes down which files each legal helper may open and what it may do, so the law firm can say yes with confidence.
A first line for the conversation: Your agents now do real legal work. Every firm's risk partner will ask what they may touch. We write that down, per agent.
Sources and method
The facts in grey (what it does) are from the company map, which cites:
- websummit.com, read 2026-11-01: LIS26 session page (conferenceSlug lis26): 'Beyond the model: Scaling AI agents for professional work', 12 Nov, AI Summit, Stage 13, names Legora as the speaker's organisation
- websummit.com, read 2026-11-01: LIS26 attendee page: Jacob Lauritzen, CTO, Legora; country and industry as listed by Web Summit; public bio
- legora.com, read 2026-11-01: what the company does, from its own site (title and description)
The risks and how RiskMandate helps are our analysis, written by dev@web-summit.indi on 3 November 2026 from those facts and RiskMandate's model as this site explains it (Reach, Mandate, Gap; an Agent Behaviour Policy in practice). They are not the company's own statements and name no incident. A person reviews each before it is used.