Summary
Alex Fortescue-Webb, who leads the legal engineering function at Legora, explains how AI is changing contract review and legal analysis. Legal engineers act as a bridge between the platform and the lawyers using it, helping reduce friction in adoption and speed up time to value.
The conversation stresses why legal work demands more than a raw frontier model. As one tax partner put it, a tool that is 90% correct is 100% wrong, so Legora adds layers around accuracy, citations, and traceability to source documents. Users get a direct link to the underlying document with the relevant paragraph highlighted, so they can verify outputs themselves.
Fortescue-Webb gives a sense of scale: running ten queries across 10,000 contracts could take a couple of minutes, versus roughly 100,000 manual outputs at five to ten minutes each. That changes practice, since firms that once reviewed only the most valuable 10% of contracts can now scan the remaining 90% almost instantly and surface buried risks. He also argues AI brings consistency that tired humans cannot guarantee at 2 a.m. The video offers a concise look at how AI-native legal tools are being built and adopted.
📺 Source: OpenAI · Published October 28, 2026
🏷️ Format: Interview
