Legora, the legal tech company that builds AI tools for law firms, announced it’s opening new offices in Paris, Milan, and Madrid, plus a dedicated engineering hub in London. The Stockholm-based startup wants to more than double its EMEA headcount to 700 people within the next year.
The expansion is a bet that European law firms are finally ready to adopt AI in a meaningful way. Legora’s platform handles things like contract review and legal research — the kind of grunt work that junior associates used to bill hundreds of hours for. The company says demand has been growing fast, and they need local boots on the ground to serve clients in different markets.
Doubling the workforce in 12 months is aggressive, even for a startup with funding. Legal tech has historically been a tough sell in Europe, where conservative firm cultures and data privacy concerns slow adoption. But if Legora pulls it off, they’d be one of the bigger legal tech employers on the continent — and a serious challenger to incumbents like Thomson Reuters and Wolters Kluwer.
