Best Practice in the Age of AI – Legal with Legora

📅 Jul 23, 2026 Light Streaming 15 MIN 1116 VIEWS 4 SEGMENTS · 2 SPEAKERS

Legora founder and CEO Max Junestrand on building the general-purpose legal AI platform that meets lawyers where they work, from Light's "Best Practice in the Age of AI" event in Stockholm. Book a demo: https://light.inc/book-a-demo?utm_sou... A session from Light's "Best Practice in the Age of AI" event at Berns in Stockholm. Max Junestrand, founder and CEO of Legora, walks through how legal teams put AI to work, from drafting and due-diligence reports you can export in your own firm's styling, to reusable playbooks and M&A work. His framing: the goal is not just an "iron man suit" for ever...

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Max Junestrand, CEO and co-founder of Legora, discussed the company's growth and AI applications in legal work. He noted that Legora, formerly Leia, was founded two and a half years ago and has scaled to over 700 enterprises, raised over 230 million euros, and employs over 300 professionals across seven offices. Junestrand emphasized that Legora serves both human and agent users, integrating into tools like Word and Outlook. He demonstrated features including automated drafting of share purchase agreements, tabular review for due diligence, and playbooks for NDAs. He highlighted the importance of accuracy in legal AI, citing risks like submitting wrong cases. Junestrand also mentioned that Legora enables law firms to productize their knowledge and that clients are pressuring firms to adopt AI. He concluded by describing Legora as a 'swarm of agents' that lawyers instruct.

Key takeaways

Legora has scaled to over 700 enterprises and raised over 230 million euros since founding two and a half years ago.
Legora serves both human and agent users, with tools like tabular review usable by both.
Legora can automate drafting of share purchase agreements, making 42 edits to align with a term sheet.
Legora's playbooks allow sales teams to handle NDAs without legal review, with rules like five-year confidentiality.
Legora enables law firms to productize their knowledge and expose it to enterprises.

Numbers and commitments

Figure	What it refers to	Type	At
700	enterprises where Legora is deployed	metric	0:25
230 million euros	total funding raised	metric	0:25
300	professionals on the team	metric	0:25
42	edits and suggestions made by Legora in the SPA	metric	0:25

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So, I'd like to welcome on stage first up Max Junestrand, founder and CEO of Legora.

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Key Quotes (2)

“When MCP was announced, I think in November 2024, we were quick to say from now on, Legora has two types of users. Not two types of lawyers but two types of users, humans and agents. And this means that every time we build out a tool like our tabular review, for instance, this can be used both by humans and by agents leveraging our system. We are also very excited about a change that we're bringin”

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“One thing that we've learned serving lawyers is that you have to be very, very detail oriented. Legora spitting out something wrong and them, you know, maybe passing that on in a deal is really, really risky. I don't know if you saw these publications about submitting wrong cases for instance to the judge. That's enough to get discarded from the bar. So the stakes are really high here. We don't ca”

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Mentioned in this interview

ChatGPT: Released three and a half years ago, first application outside coding was law.

Cursor: Compared to Legora, which is like Cursor but for lawyers.

Microsoft Word: Legora is embedded into Word for drafting and review.

Outlook: Legora is in Outlook where partners spend their days.

MCP: Announced in November 2024, led to Legora having two types of users: humans and agents.

Earlier, on the same topics

“Well, look, it's, you know, end of quarter one in 2026 and the models are where they are. I think they made a real sort of step change in their capability and intelligence over Christmas with the Opus 4.5 and 4.6. And what Legora and where we live in the stack is really sort of the central workplace”

agents · Apr 01, 2026 at 4:04 →

“The interesting thing with the models getting better, that's one piece, but what we're getting the most leverage out of is actually all these surrounding frameworks like function calling, tool calling, MCP and the legal software space has been incredibly fragmented. That was like one of the early th”

May 27, 2025 at 2:53 →

“The founding idea for what became Legora comes from several years back. Back in college, one of the co-founders roommates, he was a lawyer. And he was doing these big internships, working in big law, working in a court. And what ended up happening is he spent four months over an entire summer just s”

Apr 04, 2025 at 2:13 →

“Let's talk about law firms. I think the exciting thing that distinguishes the law firm market is that if a firm down the street starts operating with Legora, they're able to offer faster and better services and so every firm has to adopt it. The equilibrium breaks and that's why we've seen an astron”

Mar 10, 2026 at 2:02:55 →

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About Max Junestrand

Max Junestrand, CEO and co-founder of Legora, has been active in public appearances discussing the company's growth and strategy. He reported that Legora reached over $200 million in annual recurring revenue, having grown from $1 million to $100 million in 18 months and then to $200 million in less than six months. He attributed this growth to a focus on product quality and a non-traditional go-to-market approach, noting that the company signed Cleary Gottlieb and Goodwin Procter as early U.S. clients before expanding. Junestrand also mentioned that Legora made five acquisitions in 2025 and that the U.S. became its largest market by revenue. In interviews and conference talks, Junestrand discussed Legora's model-agnostic strategy, stating that the company builds its own router to optimize costs across different AI models. He described legal AI as a competitive field where many startups fail due to go-to-market challenges rather than technology issues. He also spoke about the importance of hiring, performance feedback, and maintaining a culture that values learning and velocity. Junestrand emphasized that AI should make legal services cheaper and more accessible while not replacing lawyer judgment, and he noted that over 3% of the world's lawyers are active users of Legora.

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