Legora is ramping up its legal research capabilities by offering ‘a full ontology of law and an AI-native citator’. The move follows deals with Qura and Wexler. The ontology is currently in limited beta and will be generally available in Q4.

They explained: ‘Legora is building a full ontology of the law and an AI-native citator. Legora does this with proprietary technology from its acquisitions of Qura and Wexler, compressing corpora of thousands to hundreds of millions of documents into structured data that an agent actually can use to provide reliable output.’

Or as they added: ‘Without a mapped structure of how legal authorities rank and relate, AI can’t fully understand every legal proposition and how it fits into the law as a whole.’

But, why not just use curated data from one of the main legal publishing giants?

On which point they noted: ‘Where Legora can partner with publishers, it does. Where a partnership is not on offer, it goes to the source directly, through manual requests, physical scanning, or whatever else the jurisdiction requires.’

Thus, to build its AI-native citator, Legora has ‘assembled a team of attorney-editors who spent decades building publishers’ navigation tools by hand. They define the standard, adjudicate the hard cases, and run ongoing quality control’, they said.…

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