SCOREalytics emerged from a growing need for a scalable, AI-driven legal risk management solution. Initially developed within Baker McKenzie, it quickly became essential for tracking regulations and anticipating litigation.
What motivated you to spin off SCORE into an independent company, and what role does Baker McKenzie continue to play in this journey?
SCOREalytics emerged from a clear market need for a scalable, AI-powered legal risk management solution. While initially developed within Baker McKenzie to address complex supply chain risks, its applications quickly expanded to broader legal challenges, particularly in ESG, sustainability, and regulatory compliance. Clients wanted a tool that could provide real-time insights into fast-evolving legal landscapes, tracking regulations, enforcement actions, and litigation risks.
Baker McKenzie recognized SCORE’s potential beyond the firm’s footprint. “By spinning it off as an independent company, we unlocked the freedom to collaborate with multiple law firms, consulting firms, and corporate legal teams. Baker McKenzie retains a strategic role with an equity stake and a board seat but allows SCORE to operate flexibly, maximizing its market reach.”
“By spinning it off as an independent company, we unlocked the freedom to collaborate with multiple law firms.”
Can you share a concrete example of how SCORE helps companies manage legal risks more effectively?
One of the biggest challenges for multinational corporations is navigating ESG-related litigation and regulatory enforcement, particularly greenwashing claims. Companies often struggle to assess whether their sustainability disclosures align with emerging legal standards.
With SCORE, legal and compliance teams can receive timely updates on regulatory changes, litigation trends, and enforcement actions for jurisdictions worldwide, ensuring comprehensive risk visibility across all key markets. For example, a Fortune 500 company could use SCORE’s AI-powered legal risk scanning to assess its sustainability disclosures against global litigation and enforcement trends. The platform would flag potential risks of litigation and financial impact, allowing the company to adjust the language, gather further supporting data, and improve compliance. This also helps improve the audit and review process as risks are flagged using AI and require less manual intervention.
How does SCORE’s AI-powered platform stand out from other legal risk management solutions on the market?
Unlike traditional legal research tools that rely on static databases, SCORE continuously tracks and analyzes legal risks in real time. Our AI-driven platform integrates five key pillars:
- Litigation & Enforcement Trackers – Identifying emerging ESG lawsuits, regulatory actions, and penalties before they escalate into major risks.
- Regulatory & Disclosure Tracking – Mapping global ESG regulations and disclosure mandates to keep companies ahead of compliance requirements.
- Live ESG News & Trend Monitoring – Detecting shifts in policy, public sentiment, and industry best practices.
- Country Risk Mapping – Assessing and ranking key ESG legal risks across jurisdictions, such as greenwashing, forced labor or any other human rights violations. This feature helps companies evaluate extraterritorial risks, prioritize compliance efforts, and mitigate exposure throughout their global supply chains.
- Legal Risk Scoring & Automation – Seamlessly integrating with corporate sustainability reporting software to analyze disclosures for compliance risks.
By leveraging AI, SCORE enables companies to proactively manage legal risk rather than reacting after violations occur, empowering legal and compliance teams with real-time, data-driven insights at a global scale.
What were the biggest challenges you faced while developing SCORE, and how did you overcome them?
The biggest challenge was defining a legal AI solution that could balance precision, scalability, and adaptability. Laws and regulations are dynamic, and AI must be trained to understand nuanced legal language without generating false positives.
To overcome this, we focused on high-quality legal data and built AI models in collaboration with legal experts, AI and machine learning specialists, and a team of dozen data analysts. Our approach combines structured legal datasets, natural language processing-driven risk assessment, and human validation, ensuring both accuracy and reliability.
Another challenge was gaining market adoption, convincing corporations to shift from traditional legal risk management to an AI-driven approach. We addressed this by offering early access to Fortune 500 companies, allowing them to test SCORE’s effectiveness. Their feedback refined our model and demonstrated measurable impact, helping us scale.
“Our ultimate goal is to become the go-to legal AI solution for proactive risk management.”
What are your medium- and long-term goals for SCOREalytics, and do you envision expanding beyond the U.S. market?
In the short term, our priority is launching our ESG Litigation and Enforcement Trackers and Live ESG News & Trend Monitoring by early April, providing corporate legal teams with premium access to test and refine the platform.
We are also integrating with sustainability reporting software through APIs and Apps, helping companies to proactively and automatically assess legal risks in ESG disclosures.
Looking ahead, we plan to broaden SCORE’s scope beyond ESG to other legal areas, such as trade and sanctions compliance, data privacy and cybersecurity risks, and intellectual property disputes. Given the cross-border nature of legal risks, our platform is designed to serve multinational corporations worldwide, including those headquartered in Luxembourg and across Europe.
Our ultimate goal is to become the go-to legal AI solution for proactive risk management, ensuring that corporations across the U.S., Europe, and beyond can effectively anticipate and mitigate legal risks in an evolving global regulatory landscape.
This article was published in the 5th edition of Forbes Luxembourg magazine.
