INNOVATION. PASSION. PURPOSE.

Nikolai Vokuhl, General Counsel von HUGOBOSS, berichtet über die Herausforderungen bei der Einführung von Legal Tech im Konzern. Lawyers on Fire besprechen woran die (schnelle) praktische Umsetzung scheitert, wovon Nikolai Vokuhl sich bei Legal Tech mehr erwartet hätte und was er sich vom Einsatz von Künstlicher Intelligenz im juristischen Bereich verspricht.

Joanna Goodman is a journalist, keynote speaker, writer and author. She is the IT columnist for the Law Society Gazette and writes regular features for The Guardian about cutting-edge technology, brands, and media. Joanna wrote Robots in Law back in 2016 and is working on a second book on artificial intelligence and law. In this year’s Christmas episode, Lawyers on Fire speak with Joanna about BI, AI, robots, impact on the legal profession, COVID, lockdowns – looking back on 2020 and ahead...

Inwiefern sind Deutschland und Europa Freilichtmuseum der USA und China? Warum steht es 4:1 zur Halbzeit? Wieso verkennt die SPD beim Thema Künstliche Intelligenz die Interessen derjenigen, die sie eigentlich vertreten will?Fabian J. G. Westerheide spricht mit Lawyers on Fire über künstliche Intelligenz, Asgard.VC und den Riseof.AI Summit am 17. und 18. November.Fabian ist nicht nur CEO von AI for Humans, sondern als internationaler Experte für Strategien der Künstlichen...

Diesmal sprechen Lawyers on Fire miteinander: Carsten unterhält sich mit Jochen über die Innovationsförderung, die sein Unternehmen Privacy Solutions für die Datenschutzsoftware Privacy Suite erhalten hat. In den nächsten zwei Jahren wird das Projekt dazu beitragen, Datenschutzrisiken mit Hilfe von künstlicher Intelligenz besser zu erkennen und zu bewerten. Hören Sie zu für eine neue Perspektive auf den Datenschutz - und warum richtig verstandener Datenschutz für den langfristigen Erfolg von...

In dieser Folge der vierten Staffel zu Automatisierung & KI sprechen Lawyers on Fire mit Martin Ebers, Professor für IT-Recht an der Universität Tartu (Estland) und als Privatdozent Mitglied der Juristischen Fakultät der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Er ist Mitgründer und Vorstandsvorsitzender der RAILS – Robotics & AI Law Society. Professor Ebers beleuchtet zentrale Themen der Regulierung von KI und Robotik und gibt einen Ausblick auf seine in Kürze erscheinenden Bücher Algorithms & Law...

Lawyers on Fire are happy to start its fourth season which will focus on Automation & AI!Big innovation is happening in Australia. Our second guest from there is Tom Dreyfus who is the CEO and co-founder of Josef, a legal automation platform that makes bot-building, workflow and document automation accessible to every legal professional. We asked Tom why his legal tech company is called Josef and what journey they are on. Before Josef, Tom was a corporate litigator, a lecturer and a clerk at...

Lawyers-on-Fire complete their Estonian legal tech talks with Mariana Hagström who is the Founder & CEO at Avokaado, a contract workflow automation platform. As an attorney-at-law and a managing partner of a law firm, she launched Avokaado as a spin-off in 2016. Today she is fully dedicated to helping legal teams with operational efficiency and establishing new business models. Mariana has helped hundreds of legal teams in the Baltics and Nordics to cut down their contract-related costs and...

Today’s episode is the last of three interviews we did during our tour to Estonia at the end of last year. This now seems like another world with free air travel and moving around easily.We are very grateful to Risto Hübner, founder of Nordx Legal, who met with us and shared his inside knowledge about the Estonian legal tech scene and also allowed us to share his start-up map with our listeners. Risto is a business-minded technology, data privacy & IP attorney with more than 15 years of...

In the second part of our interview with Kaspar he shares some behind-the-scenes insights and learnings from his journey of e-Residency, which may well be one of the most important government experiments in the 21st century. The program started nearly 20 years ago after Estonia decided to become a fully digital society and to issue a digital identity to every resident. From there, it went on to welcome foreign citizens to Estonia’s digital global village.Kaspar Korjus was the Managing...

Lawyers on Fire spoke with Kaspar Korjus in Tallinn/Estonia, a truly inspiring and thriving startup hub. Inspiring indeed was the discussion with Kaspar as well which is why we split it into two parts. Kaspar has been the most cited Estonian by global press in 2017 and 2018. He is listed by Forbes Estonia `30 under 30´ people as #1 in Technology and Finance and was elected by US CTO Megan Smith as one of the 20 global digital leaders. In 2019 Kaspar was nominated as JCI 10 Most...

Lawyers on Fire spoke with Terri Motterhead, the Executive Director for the Centre of Legal Innovation (Australia, New Zealand and Asia) at The College of Law in Brisbane, Australia. Terri has been a thought leader in people centred legal practice innovation for more than 25 years. She works internationally with leaders and managers of law firms, legaltech entrepreneurs, law schools, business schools, business professionals and lawyers. These are the key topics we discussed:1.  You made a...

Michele DeStefano is a professor of law at the University of Miami, Guest Faculty in Harvard Law School, Executive Education, and the founder of LawWithoutWalls, an international think-tank aimed at honing new skillsets and mindsets and creating innovations at the intersection of law, business, and technology. As a professor of law, DeStefano researches and writes about the growing intersections between law, business, and legal innovation. Her book Legal Upheaval: A Guide to Creativity,...

Ralf Winter is Chief Legal Officer - Europe of Toshiba and one of the challengers at the design.legal conference. He brings a real-life topic to the event to challenge the participants to come with a solution within the two days available in sunny Munich.Lawyers of Fire spoke with Ralf right before the conference started to find out what he expects from it.

Kai Ebert is the president of Munich Legal Tech or MLTech in short. The association was founded just last year and its participants are attending design.legal.Lawyers on Fire talked to him to find out how law student can create together with other disciplines.

Manfred Schick is General Counsel of ING-Diba in Germany. He is one of the GCs challenging the teams at design.legal.We've asked him what he expects from the conference and what he hopes to take back.

“Together we shape the experience. Together we determine the outcome. Together we create!”That's what Sascha Theissen, co-host of design.legal says about the conference - and the future of the legal profession. Sascha is a repeat guest at Lawyers on Fire with multiple interests: He has a doctorate degree in computer engineering from KIT, an MBA in International Management from ESB Business School, is a fully qualified lawyer and a specialist IP lawyer.Not surprisingly, Sascha aims high when...

The first conference of its kind, design.legal is being held on 21-22 June at allynet Work Loft in Munich. Design.legal radically breaks with the traditional conference line-up of talking heads that are supposed to inspire otherwise passive attendees. Instead, design.legal will gather a mix of lawyers, coders and designers to offer them a uniquely creative and collaborative experience.Lawyers on Fire chat with co-organizer Carsten Reimann minutes before the event starts.

Professor Dr. Ralph Alexander Lorz, LL.M. (Harvard) is Minister in Hesse, now holding the portfolio of public schools and church-state relations for the State Government formed by the Christian Democratic Union and the Green Party. He is also professor of  German and Foreign Public Law, European Law and Public International Law at Heinrich Heine University of Duesseldorf. Professor Lorz delivered the keynote “Who Owns the Legal Future?” at the legal ® evolution conference in Frankfurt....

Dr. Jochen Brandhoff ist Rechtsanwalt und Veranstalter der LEGAL ®EVOLUTION Expo & Congress, die zum ersten Mal im Oktober 2017 in Frankfurt stattfand. Lawyers-on-Fire waren dort und sprachen mit ihm über sein Fazit nach dem ersten Veranstaltungstag.

Lawyers on Fire have spoken with MAX BLOCK, CEO and Founder of Advocado (advocado.de). Advocado lowers the threshold for clients to interact with lawyers and at the same time makes the work for the lawyer more efficient.Max talked to us as part of our German Legal Tech Talk Series (in Northern German) and this is an English summary of our discussion.

Lawyers on Fire chat with Marianne Saarikko Janson who has been the founder of Fondia Oyi, the first publicly listed law firm of the Nordics. And Fonida is not just another law firm but has rather disrupted the legal market in Finland. Lawyers on Fire explore the story of Fondia and what Marianne has in store for the future.

Advocado ist eine Online-Plattform aus Deutschland, die Verbrauchern Rechtsberatung zum Festpreis anbietet. Lawyers on Fire sprachen mit Gründer Maximilian Block über die bisherigen Erfahrungen und weiteren Pläne von Advocado.

Mitchell Kowalski is a Visiting Professor in Legal Innovation at the University of Calgary, the legal innovation columnist for the National Post, a Global Legal Innovator and the author of Avoiding Extinction: Reimagining Legal Services for the 21st Century. He was formerly a partner at one of the world’s largest law firms and has also served as in-house legal counsel. Lawyers on Fire spoke with him about his new book The Great Legal Reformation which he published in late 2017, 500 years...

Sebastiaan Bos is one of the key artificial intelligence experts in Legal Tech. His expertise extends beyond his role as Director of Solutions EMEA at HighQ. Lawyers on Fire had a chance to speak with Sebastiaan on his view of the legal tech market and what he thinks law firms and young lawyers should do now.

Carsten Reimann von Lawyers on Fire hat mit seinem Unternehmen Xenion in den letzten Wochen die "Legal Design Challenge" durchgeführt. Mit Jochen Deister spricht er über den Hintergrund des Wettbewerbs, die Teilnehmer und deren Beiträge und natürlich die Gewinner. Darüber hinaus geben Lawyers on Fire einen Ausblick auf die Veranstaltungen in den nächsten Wochen.

Dr. Jochen Brandhoff is a German legal tech pioneer and founder of LEGAL®EVOLUTION – The European LegalTech Expo & Congress. Lawyers on Fire spoke with him about his motivation and goals for the new event.

Was macht ein typischer Jurastudent in seinen letzten Semestern? – Richtig, er geht ins Rep. So auch Dr. Jochen Brandhoff, der erste Gast unserer German Legal Tech Talks Reihe. Allerdings ist er aus einem anderen Grund ins Rep gegangen – er hat es mit einem Partner gekauft, um die Inhalte onlinefähig zu machen. Jus2Click hieß das vermutlich erste rein webbasierte juristische Repetitorium. Das war aber nicht die letzte Berührung des heutigen Gesprächspartners mit Disruption und...

Carsten speaks with Stefania Passera who is a designer, consultant and researcher specializing in legal design, in particular transforming contracts into user-friendly tools for business. On Friday 18th August, Stefanie successfully defended her PhD thesis “Beyond the wall of contract text – visualizing contracts to foster understanding and collaboration within and across organizations”. Discover more:Abstract of Stefania's dissertation: https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/handle/123456789/27292Video...

Carsten and Jochen talk about the interviews they conducted in 2016 and share their most interesting moments and findings. They then go on to take a look at what is ahead in 2017.

Dr Zev J. Eigen is a data scientist focused on cutting edge applications in HR, labor and employment law, and legal services. A former professor at Northwestern, and visiting professor at Yale and NYU, Dr Eigen was honored as one of "40 Under 40 Rising Legal Stars" by the National Law Journal, and is frequently quoted in the media as an expert on big data and predictive analytics. He is a nationally recognized expert in these fields appearing in the media frequently (Wall Street...

Leila Banijamali is a tech licensing lawyer, entrepreneur, and investor based in San Francisco, California. She has founded businesses in the legal-tech and fine arts industries and acts as outside general legal counsel to emerging growth companies. Lawyers on Fire met Leila at the Legal Tech Show in San Francisco where she was a speaker.If you are interested in more background on this founder's story, you might also want to read this interview in Womenalia.

Michael Callier is an attorney with 13 years of experience in private and in-house practice. His time directing operations and providing legal counsel to a process improvement firm in China led to his experience in process improvement, project management, and change management. Michael works with internal and external clients to design and improve legal processes and to lead deployments of attorneys, process and technology for strategic initiatives. With a focus on systems, innovation...

Dr. Cornelia Nett ist General Counsel für GE Capital in Deutschland. Seit ihrem Start bei GE in 2006 hatte sie verschiedene Positionen in der Rechtsabteilung inne und verantwortet nun den gesamten Bereich Legal von GE Capital Deutschland. Vor GE war sie sechs Jahre lang für die Kanzlei Shearman & Sterling LLP in Frankfurt tätig, spezialisiert auf Leveraged Finance Transaktionen. Neben Ihrer Arbeit als General Counsel hat Frau Nett einen Verein gegründet – „X²:  Power of Two”...

US-based Ron Friedmann has spent over two decades improving law practice and legal business operations with technology, knowledge management, and alternative resourcing. Today he is one of the world’s leading experts and bloggers on legal tech. Meeting Carsten in Nürnberg, Ron shares his views on the legal marketplace, current trends and opportunities for the next generation of lawyers.

Dr. Sascha Theißen ist seit 2013 Senior Vice President Legal/ General Counsel einer führenden internationalen Verlagsgruppe. Er begann seine Karriere als Anwalt und war zunächst sechs Jahre für zahlreiche Unternehmensmandanten tätig. Dabei spezialisierte er sich aufs IT Recht und wurde Fachanwalt für Gewerblichen Rechtsschutz (IP). Zugleich erwarb er einen Dr.-Ing. in Informatik. Als GC hat Herr Theißen erfolgreich Kanban und agile Managementmethoden eingeführt und die strategische und...

US-based Ron Friedmann has spent over two decades improving law practice and legal business operations with technology, knowledge management, and alternative resourcing. Today he is one of the world’s leading experts and bloggers on legal tech. Meeting Carsten in Nürnberg, Ron shares his views on the legal marketplace, current trends and opportunities for the next generation of lawyers.