By Steve Conley | Academy of Life Planning / Get SAFE
“Knowing the law will be one thing — but AI will also know the law. The question is, what do you bring on top of that?”
— Max Junestrand, CEO, Legora
The legal world is being shaken to its foundations. Not by a new statute or a landmark judgment, but by artificial intelligence.
In just two years, Legora — a legal tech start-up founded in 2023 — has rocketed from a $50 million valuation to $1.8 billion. Its AI platform now drafts, reviews, and researches legal documents for firms like Linklaters, Mishcon de Reya, Deloitte, and Carlsberg. The firm has even created a new profession: “legal engineers” — former solicitors who now build AI-powered legal workflows.
The message is clear: AI doesn’t just support lawyers anymore — it competes with them.
A Legal Revolution — and a Democratic Opening
For centuries, the law was guarded by gatekeepers — Latin phrases, complex procedures, and high costs kept ordinary citizens at a distance. But if AI now knows the law, that monopoly is crumbling.
This shift is seismic for Citizen Investigators — people who’ve been let down by institutions and have had to learn to self-advocate. For the first time in history, the tools that understand law, regulation, and precedent are becoming accessible to everyone, not just those with law degrees or corporate funding.
Platforms like Legora are the visible tip of a much larger iceberg: AI-enabled justice. These tools are turning the law from an ivory tower into a public utility, one query at a time. The next generation of citizen advocates won’t need permission to understand — or challenge — a legal argument. They’ll have AI as their co-counsel.
Why This Matters for Get SAFE
At Get SAFE, we support survivors of financial exploitation — people defrauded by schemes, mis-sold investments, or abandoned by regulators. Until now, many have faced an impossible dilemma:
hire an expensive solicitor, or face the legal system alone.
AI changes that.
Our Citizen Investigator’s Playbook already uses AI to organise evidence, analyse correspondence, and generate professional legal letters. Tools like Legora show how rapidly this field is evolving. Within a few years, survivors will be able to feed in case documents, trace fiduciary breaches, and model claims — with AI mapping out the relevant law in real time.
The power dynamic shifts dramatically:
- No longer “victim versus institution.”
- Instead: citizen plus AI versus institutional wrongdoing.
That’s structural trust restored through technology with conscience — the very ethos that drives Get SAFE.
From Legal Engineer to Citizen Engineer
Legora’s rise also signals a cultural redefinition of what it means to “work in law.”
The new elite isn’t defined by who knows the law, but who can build with it — combining legal literacy, data ethics, and systems thinking.
Citizen Investigators are on that same path. They are, in essence, grassroots legal engineers — constructing justice from the bottom up. The same hybrid skills that make Legora’s engineers valuable to Linklaters — curiosity, tech-fluency, and moral clarity — are what make our citizen network unstoppable.
A Warning to the Old Guard
As Legora’s CEO warns, firms that ignore AI are “at biggest risk.” The same applies to public bodies and regulators. If the FCA, FOS, or TPR refuse to engage with AI transparency, they will fall behind citizen-led investigations that can already:
- Trace beneficial ownership across borders.
- Map conflicts of interest.
- Identify breaches of fiduciary duty.
- Benchmark institutional behaviour against published codes.
The days of regulators marking their own homework are numbered.
AI doesn’t get tired, forget, or flinch at hierarchy. It just follows the evidence.
A New Era of Empowered Justice
The question is no longer whether AI can practise law — it’s whether we, as a society, will ensure it practises justice.
At Get SAFE, we believe that every victim of financial harm should have access to the same analytical power as the institutions they challenge. AI is levelling the playing field — not by replacing lawyers, but by returning the law to the people.
We are witnessing the dawn of the AI Citizen Jurisprudence — and it’s only just beginning.
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About Get SAFE
Get SAFE (Support After Financial Exploitation) is a citizen-led initiative that empowers victims of financial harm to investigate, document, and pursue redress.
Through AI-enabled training, structured playbooks, and collaborative fellowship, Get SAFE transforms victims into advocates — ensuring that truth and justice are not luxuries, but rights.
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Every year, thousands across the UK lose their savings, pensions, and peace of mind to corporate financial exploitation — and are left to face the aftermath alone.
Get SAFE (Support After Financial Exploitation) exists to change that.
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steve.conley@aolp.co.uk | +44 (0)7850 102070
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