Former Cabinet minister Lucy Frazer KC expands Legora role to strengthen government partnerships
Lucy Frazer KC, the former Cabinet minister and twice Solicitor General, is taking on an expanded role at Legora, the agentic operating system for legal professionals. She will lead the company’s work with the public sector to build partnerships with governments and public agencies globally. That means helping government legal teams, regulators, local authorities and the courts use AI they can trust at scale, and making sure what they need continues to shape how the platform is built.
Public bodies around the world are stretched. They need new ways to manage the workload, but must be able to account for every decision they make. In England and Wales, for example, the Crown Court backlog reached a record 80,829 cases at the end of June 2026, more than double pre-pandemic levels.¹ General AI tools are adding to the strain in tribunals globally as they make it easier for applicants to bring claims.
The judiciary in England and Wales has set a clear standard for its own use of AI: it should support judicial decision-making but never replace it, and every output must be reviewed.² Legora is built for work held to that standard. Every output links back to its source and every step is recorded, with the decision maker accountable for the result, so the technology adds capacity without taking decisions away from the people responsible for them.
Users already include a national government legal office in the Nordics, which selected Legora through a public tender, and an Australian access-to-justice charity that uses it in its pro bono work.
Frazer, who has advised Legora since July 2026, served as a minister in six government departments. She held ministerial roles across the justice system, covering courts, prisons, probation, legal services and criminal law, as well as serving as Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.
“In government, I worked alongside lawyers, judges and officials under huge pressure and experiencing increasing workloads. I realised that we need to reach for new answers to solve old problems and that can come from technology. The public sector needs to be confident about the AI they adopt: that it is built to the standards public work requires, that it is accurate, auditable and secure,” said Lucy Frazer KC. “And once adopted civil servants need to be sure that the companies that supply them remain engaged to enable them to implement it and use it to best effect. That is what I want to help bring to the public sector, starting here in the UK and EMEA.”
Max Junestrand, CEO and co-founder, added: “Legal has always had more work than lawyers to do it, and nowhere is that clearer than in the public sector. Every decision there has to stand up to scrutiny, so the technology has to as well: every answer can be checked, and a lawyer signs off on the result. That’s how we built Legora. Lucy has seen these pressures from inside government, and I’m glad she’s helping us bring Legora to the places it can make such a big difference.”
