Jusletter IT

Digitization is extremely fashionable and revolutionizes entire industries. Do lawyers have to dread a business model à la Uber? Or may LegalTech even offer new opportunities for lawyers? Will the future lie in fully digitalized law firms or merely in online legal services? With the foundation of his law firm Jusonline AG in the beginning of 2016, the author has taken the first step into the digital legal world. He now reports on his first experiences, on the technical possibilities that are very far from being exhausted and on the limits of digitization in the legal profession. (ah)

On 30 March 2017, the Bern Bar Association – as the very first bar association in Switzerland – has organized a webinar. The issues at stake were questions around the usage of information technology in law firms. The webinar has been initiated and moderated by Simone Kaiser and Fritz Rothenbühler, president of the Bern Bar Association. In the article, important subjects from the discussion with Wolfgang Straub are reviewed in written form and complemented with further bibliographic references. However, the style of interview has been maintained. Additionally, a checklist for cloud contracts in law firms is attached. (ah)

Digitization will not stop at law firms’ gates and will fundamentally shape the nature of legal counselling as well as client relationship.

The author offers a short introduction to the speech that will be hold at the Weblaw Forum LegalTech on 29 June 2017 in Zurich. She deals with innovative business models and demonstrates how lawyers can engage the opportunities of digitization for their own purposes. (ah)

The author offers a short introduction to the speech that will be hold at the Weblaw Forum LegalTech on 29 June 2017 in Zurich. He deals with the changes in professional life coming along with LegalTech and asks, how artificial intelligence and self-learning algorithms will shape the occupational routine. (ah)

Not only large consulting firms can benefit from the legal market’s digitization. The digitalization particularly offers opportunities for small and medium-sized law firms, tax consultancy and trustee's offices by automating routine processes and distinguishing themselves with real expert knowledge, personality and customer proximity. The lawyer & tax expert 4.0 is not a machine equipped with artificial intelligence, but a modern consultant who understands to use the interplay of digitization and personification in a targeted and profitable manner. (ah)