Who Owns the Legal AI Harness | Baker McKenzie & Legora

Enterprise Aligned AI — Episode 5: Who Owns the Legal AI Harness? Featuring global law firm Baker McKenzie and Legora, the rapidly growing legal startup.

⏱ CHAPTERS00:00 Legal AI: Whose Harness Is It Anyway?

00:33 Meet the Guests: a Global Law Firm and a $5.6B Legal AI Startup

01:45 Why a Law Firm Started Building Its Own AI

03:10 Legora: How This High-Growth AI Startup Was Founded

04:57 Legora's Vision: Making Law More Accessible and Creative

06:57 Baker McKenzie on the New Legal Work AI Enables

09:24 Baker McKenzie: The Three Waves of AI in Law

10:57 Legora's "Legal Engineer": A Lawyer Who Builds AI

12:50 Legora's Real Moat: Deep Enterprise Integration

17:42 What Legora's Legal Harness Does That Claude Code Can't

21:05 Baker McKenzie: When to Own vs Rent Your AI Harness

22:26 Baker McKenzie: Use Human Judgment Upstream to Design the System

25:05 Baker McKenzie: From Billable Hours to Fixed Fees

26:25 Legora: Why It Moved to Consumption-Based Pricing

28:01 How Legora Scaled From $1M to $100M in Under 18 Months

34:03 Baker McKenzie: Same-Day Legal Work in a Cyber Attack

38:15 When a Local Lawyer Beats a Frontier AI Model

39:46 When Using AI Costs the Client More

40:37 Build vs Buy for Legal AI

44:12 How Legora Stands Out in a Crowded Vendor Market

47:10 The Future of Law and Lawyers

👤 GUESTS

Danielle Benecke, Founder and Global Head of Applied AI, Baker McKenzie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniellebenecke/

Max Junestrand, CEO and Co-Founder, Legora: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxjunestrand/🔗

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