JUVE article: always ready — how alternative legal service providers are transforming the market

The legal sector is changing rapidly. ALSPs (alternative legal services providers) are gaining importance worldwide — and the topic is also gathering noticeable momentum in Germany. A recent article by JUVE Verlag für juristische Information describes this development.

The Clarius Group is also presented in it as a “German success story”.

“There are now only a few pure legal staffing providers left in Germany. Axiom also withdrew from the German market in 2020. In view of the advance of artificial intelligence in legal advice, the future of a service limited purely to personnel resources is questionable in any case. This is probably also why most alternative providers rely on technical support in their work on matters — sometimes combined with different professions such as project managers and legal engineers. […]

The Hamburg-based Clarius Group is also successful in the alternative legal services market. It now has more than 200 clients — from small and medium-sized enterprises to major international corporations. According to the company, these include Bosch, Samsung, Trivago and Vodafone. The Clarius Group is the umbrella for four specialised companies: Clarius Legal Rechtsanwaltsaktiengesellschaft, Clarius Data & Security GmbH, Clarius Services GmbH and janolaw GmbH, which provides software for small businesses.

Competition for the Big Four?

The Group combines proprietary, AI-driven software solutions with personal advice from legal consultants and other experts. Only a few weeks ago, it expanded its range of services and took over finance operations for a consumer electronics group. To this end, it is establishing the specialised subsidiary Clarius Services. This expansion brings Clarius’s offering closer to those of the Big Four firms.

From 2017 to 2023, Clarius Legal was part of the mid-sized law firm Schalast. Clarius Legal had already grown strongly as a Schalast subsidiary. Revenue tripled to around EUR 4 million, while the number of employees rose from 4 to 30. Today it has more than 100 employees and, according to the company, revenue is in the tens of millions. One reason for the separation was that being controlled by a law firm had proved an obstacle to business development on various levels.”

Quotation from ‘Allzeit bereit – wie alternative Rechtsdienstleister den Markt umkrempeln’, Laura Bartels, JUVE+

We are very pleased that JUVE is highlighting these developments and warmly invite you to read the full article.

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You can find Laura Bartels’s original article on JUVE+ at this link: https://www.juve.de/markt-und-management/allzeit-bereit-wie-alternative-rechtsdienstleister-den-markt-umkrempeln/