Global law firm Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer is adopting Legora as its firm-wide general-purpose AI platform, marking what it describes as a significant step in the firm’s investment in innovation and technology‑enabled legal services. The news came out last week (12 March), within a day of the announcement that Legora has acquired Walter AI to expand its agentic platform for legal teams.
At HSF Kramer, Legora will act as an “intelligent legal colleague”. It supports smarter drafting and interaction with documents, insights generation, data analysis, summarisation and translation.
As part of the phased rollout, HSF Kramer will also adopt Legora’s client portal to facilitate more direct client engagement through the platform – supporting secure collaboration and file sharing.
The addition of Legora builds on the firm’s wider tech stack, which notably includes Harvey, Relativity, Wexler.ai, and Cicero.
Justin D’Agostino, global CEO of HSF Kramer commented: “The combination of sophisticated technology with highly-trained lawyers will define – and differentiate – the world’s leading global law firms. We are investing in leading legal technology and upskilling our people in using it to the highest standards. This is another milestone in more than 15 years of pioneering and embracing legal tech, including our established global digital legal delivery practice and of course last year’s hire of Ilona Logvinova as our chief AI officer.”
Walter AI, meanwhile, is an agent-native legal AI technology used by top Canadian law firms including Fasken Martineau and McCarthy Tétrault.
“When we saw what the Walter team had built, we immediately recognized a shared philosophy around agent-native design,” said Max Junestrand, CEO and co-founder of Legora. “The Walter team have approached legal AI the same way we have – embedding closely with lawyers and designing agents to handle real, end-to-end workflows. Bringing our teams together allows us to scale that vision faster.”
Leading the Walter team are Ryan Wilson, CEO, who has built and sold five companies across payments, healthcare, cybersecurity, and vertical SaaS, and Greg Bell, principal engineer, who brings deep infrastructure expertise as a former general manager of Amazon S3.
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