Legora has bought Qura, a Stockholm-based legal research startup, as it races to build out its platform and keep pace with a fast-moving rivalry with Harvey.

Legal research is one of the field’s thorniest problems.

Most legal data sits behind proprietary publisher systems or fragmented archives, out of reach for general-purpose AI. And the nightmare scenario for any lawyer is filing a brief that cites a fake case. Just recently, elite US firm Sullivan & Cromwell, whose partners bill north of US$2k an hour, apologised to a federal bankruptcy judge after a major filing contained AI hallucinations, including a misquoted bankruptcy code and fabricated case citations.

So, what’s the fix?

Connecting AI models to a reliable body of legal material, like case law and treatises. It doesn’t eliminate risk, but it makes wholesale fabrication less likely.

Harvey moved fast on this, striking a partnership with LexisNexis last June to pipe the publisher’s legal data into its platform.

Legora CEO Max Junestrand said Legora already had partnerships with Qura, so the Qura deal wasn’t about adding more data sources. It was about the technology built to make sense of them. Qura’s engine scans legal materials, surfaces details buried deep in documents, and produces quick summaries or detailed analyses of legal questions.

Qura, founded in 2023, has about 10 staff and built a search engine that goes beyond standard AI retrieval. Its product is live across 27 jurisdictions and growing revenue 40% month-on-month. Its team joins Legora’s legal research organisation, with the US the primary target.

Qura CEO Arvid Winterfeldt said:

“We’ve built a system that doesn’t just retrieve legal information but understands it in context. Joining Legora allows us to scale that vision globally, faster.”

It’s Legora’s second acquisition in two months, after picking up Canadian platform Walter AI in March.

Source: Legora