How legal tech is revolutionising the legal market

As much technology as possible, as much legal expertise as necessary: how companies benefit from standardised legal processes through the industrialisation of the legal market.

Digital technologies are transforming the world of law firms. More and more legal tasks that once required a law degree can now be delegated to software. Experts use the term “legal tech” when tools automate legal processes to increase efficiency. For the first time, this makes it possible to industrialise the legal market. In other words, workflows are divided into individual steps and standardised, much like on an assembly line. Tasks that can be standardised are delegated to software tools, while human expertise continues to be required for everything else.

This is revolutionary because, until now, human expertise has been used at every stage of legal processes. These processes are correspondingly laborious. To save time and costs, more and more companies are considering using legal tech. What makes them hesitate is the question: is the quality right?

The question is justified. However efficient and cost-effective legal tech may be, it cannot be held liable if something goes wrong. Many companies consider that too risky. Fortunately, there is a way out of this apparent dilemma. Innovative law firms such as CLARIUS.LEGAL combine both worlds in a “tech-assisted service”, creating a package of software tools and human service. As much technology as possible, as much legal expertise as necessary. And the quality? It is assured: “We provide legal quality and — unlike software — we accept liability.”

80 per cent of legal tasks can be standardised

Experience shows that companies do not care whether a legal problem is solved by a lawyer or by software. To offer our clients the optimum balance of effort and return, we consistently industrialise legal workflows. The processes are divided into individual steps in much the same way as industrial processes. Many of these individual steps can be standardised. In our experience, more than 80 per cent of the legal challenges companies face can be addressed in a standardised way. Employing lawyers for all of this 80-plus per cent is simply too expensive. Companies understand this logic. They are less concerned with perfection than with efficient workflows that also reduce costs.

The legal tech tools used by CLARIUS.LEGAL are deployed primarily for routine tasks such as creating contracts and other documents. This allows legal departments to focus on their most important tasks. CLARIUS.LEGAL handles the rest.

Legal tech performs well in meeting compliance requirements

Compliance is a major part of this remaining work. Whether the CSRD, the German Whistleblower Protection Act or the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act, the volume of tasks and requirements is constantly growing. Even the best legal department can no longer keep up — at least not without legal tech support. With the help of CLARIUS.LEGAL, companies could implement the legally required reporting office under the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act with both technical and legal certainty, combined with AI-supported risk management. The German Whistleblower Protection Act also requires many companies and organisations to establish an internal reporting office. CLARIUS.LEGAL implements this with the aid of legal tech as well, providing tangible relief for legal departments.

Legal tech also enables medium-sized companies without their own legal department to reduce their legal costs. Instead of engaging a law firm for every task, they can now distinguish precisely: which tasks can be approached and completed in an industrialised — that is, standardised — way? And which remaining tasks still require human expertise? Whether you need legal tech or a lawyer’s expertise, you are in excellent hands with CLARIUS.LEGAL.

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