Doctrine, the Paris-based legal AI powerhouse, has officially acquired the Spanish legal co-pilot Maite, marking a significant step in its quest to dominate the European legal technology landscape. This move represents Doctrine’s fifth acquisition in just three years, solidifying a massive user base of over 27,000 legal professionals across major EU markets including France, Germany, Italy, and Spain.

Maite, which only launched in 2024, has quickly proven its technical mettle by achieving a staggering 99% success rate on the Spanish judiciary access exam. The platform provides specialized Spanish-language AI assistance for drafting, reviewing, and Q&A workflows. By integrating these regional capabilities, Doctrine aims to combine its vast library of case law and statutes with sophisticated workflows powered by Large Language Models (LLMs).

CEO Guillaume Carrère emphasized that Doctrine’s strategy hinges on technological sovereignty, ensuring that their AI tools remain fully compliant with European GDPR regulations. The company’s approach pairs advanced search techniques—specifically Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), which allows the AI to reference specific legal documents to ensure accuracy—with generative skills to surface information from complex legal records.

The acquisition underscores a broader trend of consolidation within the legal tech sector, as local champions join forces to build cross-border platforms capable of competing on a global scale. Maite will retain its brand and team in Spain while benefiting from Doctrine’s decade of industry expertise and substantial data infrastructure.

A big company from Paris called Doctrine, which makes smart computer programs for lawyers (legal AI powerhouse), just bought a Spanish digital assistant named Maite (Spanish legal co-pilot). This is the fifth time in three years that Doctrine has bought another company to become the leader in Europe. Now, more than 27,000 lawyers and judges (legal professionals) in countries like France, Germany, Italy, and Spain use their tools to do their jobs.

Maite only started in 2024, but it is already a genius! It got almost every question right (99% success rate) on a super difficult test for people who want to be judges in Spain (Spanish judiciary access exam). Maite helps people write legal papers, check rules, and answer tricky questions in the Spanish language. By joining forces, Doctrine will mix its huge library of law books and rules (case law and statutes) with Maite’s smart way of talking and writing (Large Language Models or LLMs).

The boss of Doctrine, Guillaume Carrère, said they want to make sure their AI follows Europe’s strict privacy rules (GDPR) so everyone's information stays safe (technological sovereignty). They use a special trick where the AI looks at real documents first to make sure it is telling the truth (Retrieval-Augmented Generation or RAG), instead of just guessing. Even though Doctrine bought them, Maite’s team will stay in Spain and keep their name while using Doctrine’s powerful computer systems (data infrastructure).