Antti Innanen, the legal AI expert who recently created the agentic experimental firm Lavern, is now launching a real AI-first law firm, Brahe, and is looking for lawyers to join it. (See AL Interview below).
It adds to a growing number of ‘NewMod’ law firms around the world. In this case, it will be based in Finland and focus on the Nordics, handling corporate and commercial work, mostly for mid-size clients.
The firm’s marketing states that: ‘Brahe runs on Claude from day one. Drafting, research, comparison, citation. Everything happens on top of AI. The firm learns from every matter. The next document we review is sharper than the last.’
Innanen added that he is the ‘architect and designer of the firm and its operating system, but I probably won’t be involved in the day-to-day legal work’.
‘The fun part (at least for me) is the operating system plus human lawyers. Firms become code, and the code becomes the firm’.
The firm also stated: ‘Every draft is checked by the lawyer responsible. You get the speed and breadth of AI without the risks. Work that used to take three weeks takes three days.’
And now the interview with Innanen.
What is Brahe? Is this the same as what you made before with your agentic law firm?
Brahe is an AI-native Nordic law firm, based in Helsinki. It is not a legal tech company and it is not an experiment. It is a real law firm designed around AI from day one.
I published some experiments recently, including the agentic system Lavern. We took many of those ideas, tested them, and built an operating system around them.
I designed Brahe’s operating system and overall concept, but the firm itself is built around experienced lawyers. We’ll introduce the founding legal team after the summer.
Will Brahe have real human staff? And what work will you handle? Are you hiring?
Absolutely. Great lawyers are at the centre of everything we do. AI is the operating system, not the lawyer.
We are starting with a carefully selected founding team and will introduce them after the summer. We are already open for business.
Initially, we’ll focus on high-end business law for Nordic companies. Over time, we’ll expand our capabilities as the platform evolves.
And yes, we’re hiring. We’re looking for lawyers who are excited about building the next generation of legal practice, first in Finland and then across the Nordics.
What tech will they use?
We built our own operating system. It orchestrates the entire lifecycle of a legal matter. Underneath, we use the best available foundation models depending on the task, but the models are only one component.
Our view is that foundation models are becoming increasingly interchangeable. The competitive advantage comes from the operating system built around them.
How would a regular piece of work go? What would the workflow look like?
Every matter enters the same operating system. The system identifies the type of work, assembles the relevant workflows, performs research, prepares initial drafts, verifies the output and presents recommendations to the responsible lawyer.
The lawyer remains responsible throughout. AI handles much of the repetitive work.
For me, the difficult part of legal work was never the legal work. It was everything around it: logging hours, writing reference cases, preparing LinkedIn posts, following up on invoices and business development. A surprising amount of legal work is actually non-legal work.
Every lawyer knows how disruptive it is to switch constantly between deep legal thinking and administrative tasks. We’re experimenting with agents that help with those tasks too.
Why do this?
Because we genuinely believe law firms can be designed better. We love lawyers and we love the law. We have no ambition to compete on volume or price. We want to compete on quality and design.
We also wanted to build the kind of law firm we would want to work at ourselves.
Finally, will you take funding?
No. Brahe is a law firm. The technology may become valuable in its own right one day, but for now we want to build deliberately and remain independent.
Technology is a core part of the business, but its purpose is to make us a better law firm.
Thanks Antti, and good luck!
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More here about Brahe.
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