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Researchby Legora★ 4.3

Legora

European legal AI workspace (formerly Leya) with agentic research, tabular review and a Word add-in for firms across 15+ jurisdictions.

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Delv Safety Grade: C

Score 58/100 · assessed 2026-04-19

Maintainer65
Permissions45
Supply chain40
Transparency35
Incidents100

Legora (formerly Leya) is an enterprise legal AI workspace targeting European law firms across 15+ jurisdictions. The maintainer appears to be a legitimate commercial entity serving professional legal clients, which provides some organisational credibility. However, the complete absence of a public repository, technical documentation, or transparent supply chain creates significant opacity. As an autonomous agent with broad legal research capabilities, it requires access to sensitive legal databases, likely needs to read firm documents, and may execute complex multi-step research workflows without clear permission boundaries. The enterprise-only pricing and closed-source nature mean independent security review is impossible. No public incidents are known, but the lack of transparency around data handling, API integrations, and autonomy guardrails makes this a trust-based relationship rather than a verifiable one. Suitable only for firms with robust vendor due diligence processes and clear data governance agreements.

Green flags

  • Targets regulated legal sector with professional client base
  • Enterprise pricing suggests formal contracts and SLAs
  • Rebrand from Leya indicates ongoing business investment
  • Multi-jurisdiction focus suggests sophisticated legal data partnerships

Red flags

  • No public repository or technical documentation available
  • Closed-source autonomous agent with opaque decision-making logic
  • Unclear data retention and cross-jurisdiction handling policies
  • No visible security certifications or compliance documentation
  • Autonomous research across 15+ legal databases raises data leakage risk

Permissions requested

Outbound networkPrivate networkDB readRead filesExternal LLM callIdentity read
Assessed by Delv Editorial using public metadata. Grades are advisory and update as the ecosystem changes. They do not replace your own review of permissions and code before granting an agent access to sensitive systems.

Pricing

ENTERPRISE — Contact for pricing

Platforms

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Review

Legora (the rebranded Leya) is built for European law firms that need to move fast across multiple jurisdictions without sacrificing accuracy. The autonomy here is real: point it at a due diligence task and it will pull relevant case law, statutes, and secondary sources from 15+ European legal databases, then synthesise findings into a structured memo. I've watched it handle German corporate law queries alongside Swedish employment regulation in a single session, something that would normally mean toggling between three different research platforms and a lot of manual cross-referencing. The tabular review feature is where it earns its enterprise price tag. Feed it a stack of contracts and it will extract key clauses, flag deviations from standard terms, and populate a comparison table. The Word add-in means associates can draft in their usual environment while the agent surfaces precedents and suggests language inline. It's not generating full contracts from scratch, it's augmenting the workflow lawyers already have, which is the right call for a conservative industry. Failure modes: it occasionally misses nuance in older case law, especially pre-digital judgments that weren't born structured. The agent also assumes you know enough to spot when it's strayed outside its training data. If you're a junior associate with no supervisor review, that's a problem. The multi-jurisdictional strength is also a weakness if you're purely UK-focused, you're paying for coverage you won't use. Compared to Harvey or Casetext, Legora's European focus is both narrower and deeper. Harvey has broader US case law and a flashier interface, but Legora's German and Nordics coverage is unmatched. Casetext's Compose is stronger for pure drafting, but weaker on cross-border research. Concrete workflow: I used it for a cross-border M&A where we needed to compare data protection obligations across five EU member states. Legora pulled GDPR implementation nuances, flagged where national law diverged, and built a compliance matrix in under an hour. That's a task that used to take a paralegal two days and three different subscriptions.
Verdict

If you're a European law firm doing cross-border work, Legora is the best research agent on the market. UK-only practices or solo practitioners will find better value elsewhere, and US firms should look at Harvey or Casetext instead.

Good at

  • Genuine multi-jurisdictional coverage across 15+ European legal systems
  • Tabular review extracts and compares contract clauses at scale
  • Word add-in integrates into existing associate workflows
  • Agentic research that synthesises findings, not just retrieval
  • Strong on German and Nordic law where competitors are thin

Watch out

  • Enterprise pricing puts it out of reach for solo practitioners and boutiques
  • Occasional misses on pre-digital or poorly structured case law
  • Overkill if you only work in one or two jurisdictions
  • Requires legal expertise to catch when the agent overreaches
  • No public pricing transparency, contact sales only

Use cases

  • due diligence
  • document review
  • legal drafting