At Legora, we have designed our platform to support lawyers, helping them get to the heart of an issue quickly. This frees up more time for high-level advisory work, enabling them to review and research with precision, draft smarter, and collaborate seamlessly. The central role of AI at this stage is to be there for high-performing legal professionals to leverage its capabilities, enabling them to focus on quality and efficiency. 

By integrating Lovdata’s trusted legal data into Legora’s platform, our shared customers benefit from AI-assisted search and interactive document exploration – a step that highlights why artificial intelligence represents a critical turning point, and a major opportunity, for the dissemination of legal information in Norway.

The importance of legal AI for Norway

Norwegian law is built on the principles of openness and verifiability. At the same time, legal professionals are facing increasing amounts of information and pressure to use resources efficiently. AI can help alleviate this pressure by offering support tools that make it easier to navigate large volumes of legal material effectively. For AI solutions to be useful in a Norwegian context, they must be grounded in legal methodology and have access to fresh, structured, high-quality data from trusted sources. 

Ola Stenersen, Marketing Manager at Lovdata commented: “AI technology opens new doors for making legal information more accessible, understandable, and efficient to use, without compromising on professionalism or verifiability. Lovdata offers its users smarter search capabilities, better insights, and more targeted access to legal sources, enabling both professionals and the general public to get better support when facing complex legal questions – which makes it perfect to partner with a legal AI platform like Legora.”

Making data accessible 

Lovdata was founded in 1981 as a private, self-financed foundation by the Ministry of Justice and the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo, with the aim of developing and operating legal information systems. As early as the 1980s, Lovdata offered searchable legal sources, and in 1990 launched Lovdata Online – one of the first legal online services in Europe. In 2001, Norway, through Lovdata, became the first country in Europe to make electronic publication of regulations legally equivalent to official publication. 

Since then, Lovdata has continuously expanded its information bases and developed professional services for lawyers, courts, public administration, academia, and the media. For the past 10 years, has offered up-to-date regulations as an API service, structured and machine-readable, with many clients in both the public and private sectors using APIs from Lovdata.

Lovdata provides access to over 200 information bases, including laws, regulations, preparatory works, court decisions, EEA/EU law, legal articles, collective agreements, various boards, and editorial commentary, among others.

The power of Lovdata and Legora

The foundation of data from Lovdata gives users several benefits: more relevant search results and faster access to relevant legal materials. It reduces the need for manual searching, while contributing to better-informed decisions and more efficient workflows – especially in challenging or time-sensitive situations. With services like Legora, users can combine Lovdata’s content with their own, through an elegant interface, powered by large language models. What customers can research at speed through Legora is as up-to-date as the source itself – Lovdata.

A vision for the future

“Lovdata’s purpose is to contribute to legal certainty and accessibility through the operation and development of legal information systems” added Ola Stenersen. “Lovdata will continue to be a hub of trust and technological innovation in the legal state. This means we will further develop our services in line with new technological opportunities – including AI – while staying true to our core values. Our goal is to remain the hub of legal work and a reliable provider of legal insight in Norway, harnessing technological advancement as an invaluable source for our users.”