{"id":986122,"date":"2025-01-23T10:05:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T09:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/?p=986122"},"modified":"2025-04-22T13:45:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T12:45:14","slug":"how-leya-is-transforming-the-legal-workspace-using-azure-openai-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/sv-se\/transform-sv-se\/na\/how-leya-is-transforming-the-legal-workspace-using-azure-openai-service\/","title":{"rendered":"How Legora is transforming the legal workspace using Azure OpenAI Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Legora\u00a0 is disrupting the legal space at a breath-taking pace. Combining deep industry knowledge with AI, Legora is showing what\u2019s possible in an AI-powered legal workspace, using Microsoft\u2019s infrastructure and LLM model service.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How Legora is transforming the legal workspace using Azure OpenAI Service\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/DszTPiFiz48?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:%2F%2Fpulse.microsoft.com\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur mission is to give superhuman capabilities to the modern lawyer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Max Junestrand, CEO and co-founder of legal tech company Legora, is describing his organization\u2019s ambitions and how AI is helping to realize them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLegora acts as an AI-powered workspace and has been adapted to better understand the intricacies of legal work \u2013 serving as an intelligent colleague to every legal professional<strong>,<\/strong>\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n<p>As one of the founders of Legora, he remembers starting off with an idea: investing in large language models (LLMs) and leveraging the advancements made in natural language processing. Legal work provided the perfect use case to start with.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, they have assisted thousands of lawyers from some of the best-known firms in the world in tackling specific tasks and the text-intensive work that lawyers handle daily. Starting with jobs such as contract review, due diligence, and legal research, they built a single platform designed to solve and simplify them. All using Microsoft Azure services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy collaborating closely with Microsoft, we\u2019ve built a platform that not only streamlines tedious tasks but also upholds the highest standards of security and compliance that our clients demand,\u201d Junestrand says.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-986345\" src=\"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Leya_Screenshot_6-1820x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1820\" height=\"1024\" data-contrast=\"\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Leya_Screenshot_6-1820x1024.jpg 1820w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Leya_Screenshot_6-300x169.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Leya_Screenshot_6-768x432.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Leya_Screenshot_6-1536x864.jpg 1536w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Leya_Screenshot_6-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1820px) 100vw, 1820px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Integration with Word and Sharepoint<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>For decades, the legal industry has been underserved by digital innovation \u2013 just moving to the cloud was a big part of the evolution of the industry \u2013 and law firms and legal teams now look towards AI for the next efficiency boost. Legora has been the obvious choice, not only for their rich feature set, but also in large part thanks to their strict compliance and security set-up on Microsoft Azure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the first weeks, we used OpenAI\u2019s APIs directly, but quickly it became evident that for our clients \u2014 where security, compliance, data privacy, and confidentiality are paramount \u2013 we needed a more robust long-term solution,\u201d says Junestrand. \u201cWith Azure OpenAI Service, we can offer those secure and compliant AI solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This has allowed Legora to quickly build and scale its solution while also meeting the legal industry\u2019s stringent compliance and confidentiality requirements. Key to its success is the ease with which Legora integrates with Word and SharePoint, meaning thousands of lawyers can now extract information, run reviews, and perform research across legal information and precedents safely, using Legora.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Rethinking legal work<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Leveraging the latest LLMs on Azure has allowed Legora to fundamentally rethink how specific legal tasks get done. What used to take hours of manual labor can now be automated in a few minutes. And by grounding Legora\u2019s responses in the underlying material, verifying the AI\u2019s thinking and output is simpler than ever.<\/p>\n<p>To this end, Legora uses various technologies, such as multi-agentic behavior, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and large-scale parallelization of API calls to the LLMs. This allows them to cover a vast range of use-cases, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Due diligence and document extraction in Tabular Review<\/strong>. Transforming hours of manual work into seconds, Tabular Review fires off tens of thousands of parallel calls to extract terms or answers in documents, enhancing legal-specific tasks such as loan portfolio analyses, lease agreements, share purchase agreement, limited partnership agreements and master services agreements and more.<\/li>\n<li><strong>AI Agents.<\/strong> These intelligent assistants facilitate complex queries and reviews across multiple documents, using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) techniques to provide precise and context-aware insights \u2013 allowing for significantly larger output windows than traditional alternatives.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Microsoft Word Integration:<\/strong> Embedding AI capabilities directly into Microsoft Word allows lawyers to review and annotate documents within their familiar workflow, reducing disruptions and fostering seamless adoption and use-cases such as summarization of redlines, creation of issues lists, and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By always relying on the latest, and multiple AI models, including Azure OpenAI\u2019s GPT-4o and GPT-o1, Legora ensures that legal professionals have access to the most advanced tools available, tailored specifically for legal applications.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-986302\" src=\"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Leya_Screenshot_5-1820x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1820\" height=\"1024\" data-contrast=\"\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Leya_Screenshot_5-1820x1024.jpg 1820w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Leya_Screenshot_5-300x169.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Leya_Screenshot_5-768x432.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Leya_Screenshot_5-1536x864.jpg 1536w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Leya_Screenshot_5-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1820px) 100vw, 1820px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Strategic partnership with Microsoft for global scalability<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Legora\u2019s rapid growth \u2013 from startup to global player serving hundreds of law firms, financial institutions, and multinational corporations across 16 countries \u2013 is significantly bolstered by its strategic partnership with Microsoft. Using Azure\u2019s scalable infrastructure, Legora can deploy AI models regionally, ensuring a critical factor in the legal industry: compliance with local data residency laws.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAzure\u2019s global reach and trusted security framework have been instrumental in our expansion,\u201d notes Legora CTO and co-founder Sigge Labor. \u201cOur clients trust Microsoft, and by extension, they trust us to handle their sensitive data with the utmost care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-986435\" src=\"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Leya_Screenshot_8-1820x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1820\" height=\"1024\" data-contrast=\"\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Leya_Screenshot_8-1820x1024.jpg 1820w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Leya_Screenshot_8-300x169.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Leya_Screenshot_8-768x432.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Leya_Screenshot_8-1536x864.jpg 1536w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Leya_Screenshot_8-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1820px) 100vw, 1820px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Driving tangible impact in legal practice<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Legora\u2019s technology is delivering tangible results for some of the world\u2019s leading law firms. Its extensive client list already includes firms such as Bird &amp; Bird, Sweden\u2019s firm Mannheimer Swartling, and Spain\u2019s P\u00e9rez-Llorca.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe evaluated several alternatives on the market and chose Legora as our trusted AI partner because of their unquestionable focus on security and compliance combined with the ambition and drive to equip our lawyers with the best technology available,\u201d comments H\u00e9lder Santos, Head of Legal Tech and Innovation at Bird&amp;Bird<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Pioneering the future of legal technology<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Looking ahead, Legora will continue to explore deeper integrations within the Microsoft ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal is not just to keep pace with technological advancements but to lead the way in rethinking what it means to perform high-quality legal work,\u201d says Junestrand. \u201cBy staying at the forefront of AI development and integrating seamlessly with tools that lawyers use daily, we\u2019re setting new standards for what legal technology can achieve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By thoughtfully integrating advanced AI within a secure and compliant framework, Legora is also establishing itself as a catalyst for change \u2013 empowering lawyers to navigate the complexities of modern law with unprecedented efficiency and confidence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a world where data is abundant but time is scarce, our mission is to equip lawyers with tools that enhance their capabilities,\u201d concludes Junestrand. \u201cTogether with Microsoft and our trusted partners, we&#8217;re making that mission a reality.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legora\u00a0 is disrupting the legal space at a breath-taking pace. Combining deep industry knowledge with AI, Legora is showing what\u2019s possible in an AI-powered legal workspace, using Microsoft\u2019s infrastructure and LLM model service. \u201cOur mission is to give superhuman capabilities to the modern lawyer.\u201d Max Junestrand, CEO and co-founder of legal tech company Legora, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":889,"featured_media":986117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-986122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","specials-transform-sv-se","stories-how-do-i-make-sure-that-i-dont-lose-my-data-sv-se-business-optimization-sv-se","stories-business-optimization-sv-se","businessPriorities-data-ai-sv-se"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/sv-se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/sv-se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/sv-se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/sv-se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/sv-se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986122"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/sv-se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034826,"href":"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/sv-se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986122\/revisions\/1034826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/sv-se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/986117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/sv-se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulse.microsoft.com\/sv-se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}