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Legora & Sirion join forces on legal tech integration

Legora & Sirion join forces on legal tech integration

Thu, 29th Oct 2026 (Today)
Shadda Lie Catugal
SHADDA LIE CATUGAL Editor

Legora and Sirion have partnered to integrate their legal technology platforms, linking legal research with contract management for shared customers.

The integration is designed for in-house legal teams that need to work across both systems without manually moving information between them. Legora users will be able to bring contracts, precedents and negotiated terms stored in Sirion into their legal work, while Sirion users will be able to access Legora's legal research during drafting, review and negotiation.

The arrangement is intended to connect two areas of legal work that have often sat in separate software environments. In practice, legal teams will be able to use contract data held in Sirion to inform summaries, drafting and analysis in Legora, while also checking contracts in Sirion against case law, legislation and regulations available through Legora.

Sirion will remain the system of record for draft and executed contracts. Access controls set in Sirion will also carry through to Legora, so users will only be able to see and act on contracts they are already permitted to access.

Closing a gap

The move comes as corporate legal departments face higher contract volumes and greater pressure to respond quickly to regulatory change. Those pressures have led legal teams to seek software that reduces repeated data entry and limits the need to switch between separate systems for research and contract execution.

Legora said its platform is used by more than 130,000 legal professionals at more than 2,000 law firms and in-house legal teams across more than 80 markets. Sirion said it supports more than seven million contracts in more than 100 languages.

Under the integration, Legora will return research-backed answers with citations linking to the source passage, according to the companies. Sirion users working on contract documents will also be able to receive suggested amendments based on issues surfaced through that legal research.

Ajay Agrawal, chief executive officer of Sirion, said the partnership combines legal research with the commercial context contained in contracts and precedents. "Strong contracting depends on two things: the full commercial picture and a clear view of the law. With this partnership, Sirion users get Legora's legal research at every stage of contracting, and Legora users get the complete contract context that lives in Sirion. That's how enterprise legal teams deliver superior outcomes," Agrawal said.

For Legora, the agreement adds Sirion to a broader set of integrations across legal software used by law firms and corporate legal departments. The aim is to place contract repositories inside the environment where legal work is carried out while maintaining existing governance settings.

"By connecting Legora and Sirion, we're bringing our customers' contract repositories directly into the agentic operating system where legal work gets done, and helping them keep those contracts aligned with prevailing law," said Max Junestrand, chief executive officer of Legora.

He added: "This is what enterprise-ready looks like: Legora meets legal teams inside the stack they already run, respects the permissions they've set, and takes them from a question about the law to action on a contract without switching platforms."

Roll-out plan

The integration will be introduced in phases, beginning with a group of beta customers. Wider availability is expected later, with additional functions to be added over time for customers that use both platforms.

Industry analysts say the arrangement reflects a wider shift in legal operations, with companies wanting artificial intelligence tools to operate on reliable internal information rather than generic external data alone. That is particularly relevant in contract work, where legal interpretation often needs to be assessed alongside the exact commercial terms an organisation has already agreed.

Patrick Reymann, research director, procurement applications and agents at IDC, said the value of legal AI depends on the data it can access and the controls surrounding that access. "Enterprises are moving quickly to put agentic AI to work in legal, but the value of those agents depends on the context they act on," Reymann said.

He added: "Legal AI platforms bring the reasoning. Enterprise contract intelligence platforms hold the negotiated commitments. Connecting the two in both directions, with governance carried through, gives legal teams something neither could offer alone: answers grounded in both the law and the business's own agreements, so they can move faster, reduce risk and protect the value their contracts were negotiated to deliver."