Max Junestrand
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CEO & Co-founder @ Legora
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We have raised a $550M Series E at an $8.8B valuation, led by Atreides. Every major existing investor is back in, and we’re welcoming Baron Capital, Capital Group, Fidelity, Glade Brook and J.P. Morgan. We picked investors who think in decades. Several of them work with law firms and legal teams every day, so they can see where the work is heading. Lawyers are moving from AI assistants to agents that do multi-step work. The money goes there. We’re growing our teams across North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia-Pacific, and going deeper on the Legora aOS. Thank you to the 1,000+ people at Legora, and to the 140,000 legal professionals who use what we build. I say this a lot because I believe it: it’s the best time in history to be a lawyer. We're thankful to be a part of it. Full story:
Max Junestrand159,107 görüntüleme • 25 gün önce
Today were launching Skills. Ask a lawyer why they rewrote an AI draft and you'll hear the same thing: It's not wrong. It's just not how we do it here. That's fair feedback. Every team and professional has their own way of working. How a review is structured. Which positions you'll give up, and in what order. How an email to a client should sound. Until now, the Agent didn't know any of that. A Skill teaches the Legora Agent how your team wants something done. You write it in plain language, the way you'd brief a new team member on their first day. After that, the Agent applies it whenever the work calls for it, dynamically. No more time wasted looking for the right workflow. Every firm and in-house team will leverage AI. The ones that pull ahead will be the ones whose AI works to their standards and can be used immediately. Legora's Skill system scales with versioning, permissions and the auditability required for the scale of the largest legal organizations globally. We're also launching the Skills Library with 250+ Skills built and tested by our legal engineers from leading law firms and organizations all over the world. They cover commercial contracts, privacy, M&A, litigation, employment, bank and finance, IP and more. Live today for every Legora customer:
Max Junestrand112,963 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
Today we're announcing the Legora aOS™. It's something we've been building toward for three years, and I think it's the most important thing we've ever shipped. The legal industry has had AI that assists with individual tasks. What it hasn't had is AI that drives entire work products from start to finish. The Legora aOS changes that. It's a single connected system – matter intake, research, drafting, review, service delivery – orchestrated by the new Legora Agent, running continuously, grounded in your organization’s own knowledge. The legal teams who use it won't just be faster. They'll operate at a scale that simply wasn't possible before. We've spent three years being told the legal industry moves too slowly to change. We've also spent three years watching it change faster than almost anyone predicted. The best time in history to be a lawyer starts today. Legora is built to be the partner that makes it possible. Read the full announcement:
Max Junestrand239,032 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce
There is no best model. There's a lot of noise about models right now. Who is training them, who owns them, where legal intelligence should live. One question actually matters: what produces the best outcome for the legal task in front of you? That's how we decide things at Legora. We optimize for the end-to-end outcome on a legal task. The model is one layer of that system, not the system. Models are uneven and the frontier changes almost weekly. One model plans a long job well, another runs deep analysis across thousands of documents. Some have to be told exactly what to do, and some are fine with a vague brief. They all break in different ways. So our lawyers write evals and we test them with the Legora BAR, our benchmark for agentic reasoning. Every model takes every test, and the model that wins gets the work. We post-train when we know it buys our customers better performance on a specialized task. Training is a tool we reach for when it helps, nothing more than that. The intelligence that compounds sits in the orchestration layer. Precedents, review standards, client requirements. That knowledge has to stay editable, auditable and portable. In our system, a changed review standard is an edit that takes effect the same day, with no new model training required. No lawyer should have to worry about which model did the work, any more than they think about which chip is in their laptop. They should only care about the quality of the work. That's what we are focused on. If you want the engineering version of this argument rather than the CEO version, our CPO, Bryan Tsao, and CTO, Jacob Lauritzen, take it apart in the video below.
Max Junestrand49,595 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
Law just got more attractive. Jude Law as the face of Legora in our new brand campaign. Yes. Seriously. The name is almost too good. But the reason we did this isn't the wordplay. We believe this is the most exciting time in history to be a lawyer. Never before have this many brilliant people been working on tools designed to improve and delight lawyers' lives. This campaign is us saying so. With a little more flair than the usual go-to-market.
Max Junestrand131,521 görüntüleme • 7 ay önce
I was in the Bloomberg studio in London this morning. Q3 was the most hectic quarter in Legora's history. We added 800 new customers in three months and now work with more than 2,300 across 80+ countries. We also added more ARR this quarter than our total ARR at the end of 2025. I was asked the jobs question, and my answer hasn't changed: our customers are hiring more lawyers. Legal is supply constrained. If you could review every contract, you would. If you could run full diligence on every asset before it goes to investment committee, you would. Better tools mean more of that work gets done, and a lawyer still owns the judgment. We talked about junior lawyers wondering whether they need to learn to code. With large language models, the programming language is English. I'm not especially good with words. Lawyers are, and they turn out to be some of the best drivers of our product. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I think this is the best time in history to be a lawyer. Thanks Tom Mackenzie for having me on The Opening Trade. Full interview below.
Max Junestrand13,053 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
One of the biggest lessons for me this year: product velocity compounds. Each release makes the next one faster. Learning improves, the process tightens, and the product gets easier to ship – so the pace improves, not just the outcomes. I'm proud of what we built this year!
Max Junestrand54,554 görüntüleme • 10 ay önce
Had a great conversation with John Coogan and Jordi Hays on TBPN last week about how we think about models at Legora. If you break down legal work, there are many different skills you need to be good at: drafting, reviewing, fact checking, legal research, and so on. Different models are good at different things, and the frontier moves almost every week. So what’s interesting to us is where you apply which model, and when, to get the best outcome for our customers. That's the IP we've spent years getting good at. Post-training a model makes sense when we know it gives our customers better performance on a specialized task. Post-training for general intelligence, to get a small performance bump that won't last, doesn't. As a vertical AI company, you need to be positioned to benefit from all the R&D money being spent across the market. Thanks for having me on the show!
Max Junestrand11,421 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
Bryan Tsao is joining Legora as our Chief Product Officer. He was CPO at Jasper. Before that he ran Product, Growth and Data at Dropbox, led EPD at Namely from Series C through Series E, and helped scale Kabam from 16 to 800 people through a $1 billion exit. Across all four, the same thing showed up: a data-driven rigour and an execution obsession that lands directly in product quality. He's stepping into a product team that already knows what agentic legal work demands. The work has to be precise, fast, and verifiably correct, no exceptions. Legal work doesn't forgive sloppiness, and as Legora becomes the standard platform for global legal work, product has to keep up with both our ambition and what the profession expects of us. Legora now has more than 100,000 lawyers and 1,500+ organisations across 50 markets. Bryan is joining at exactly the point where that scale needs someone who can build and grow it with discipline. Welcome, Bryan!
Max Junestrand13,779 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce
What actually changes when legal runs on Legora? We didn't want to guess, so we asked. Independent industry analyst AriKaplan ran 30 interviews with in-house leaders across nine countries, mostly at companies over $1B in revenue. Here's what came back. 97% respond to stakeholders faster. 90% ramp up on new work faster. 71% feel more confident in the work they put out. 66% call the impact on issue-spotting and risk reduction large or transformational. That's legal doing better work. So we asked the harder question: if Legora disappeared tomorrow, how disruptive would that be? 87% said disruptive or very disruptive. One person said: "I previously managed without Legora, but if Legora is available, I will not live without it." Two key numbers: 87% of teams now spend more time on higher-value work. And 77% say leadership views the legal department more positively because of it. That second number is interesting. Legal has always done more than the business gave it credit for. AI doesn't just make the work faster and better, it makes the work visible. And once the business can see it, everything else follows. That's what we're building for. Full report:
Max Junestrand12,860 görüntüleme • 4 ay önce
Yesterday I joined CNBC Squawk Box Europe to talk about what's really happening in the legal industry right now. This isn't disruption in the traditional sense. It's expansion. With our technology, more legal services are being done, not fewer. But the way they're delivered is changing fundamentally. We're seeing our clients hire more lawyers. Organizations are rethinking how they price themselves, how they staff matters, and what it means to do great legal work. Legora exists at the center of that shift. Our EMEA expansion across Madrid, Paris and Italy reflects this growth in demand, and our conviction that the teams moving now are the ones that will define what the furure of legal work looks like. Thanks to CNBC for having me.
Max Junestrand11,300 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce
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