Magdalene Steup is a lawyer and senior associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. She is a member of the Global Associate Innovation Group and currently a member of the London Innovation Team. In one of the firm`s largest and most complex assignments, she designed and developed an intelligent and innovative document automation solution in collaboration with a software provider, the firm`s IT department, and a team of partners and paralegals in five different locations. Magdalene Steup studied law at the University of Passau, LMU Munich and King`s College London and holds an Executive M.B.L. from the University of St. Gallen. She also completed an executive program on artificial intelligence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ms. Lara Sophie Hucklenbroich is a law student at the University of Frankfurt am Main, an active student at TPR legal and a founding member of Legal Tech Labs. The Legal Tech Lab is a student initiative that addresses digitization and related changes in a practice-oriented manner. With a fellow student, she heads the events department of the Legal Tech Lab. In addition, she participated with a team from the Legal Tech Lab in a legal technology hackathon of a business law firm and won an award for the best user interface design for the tool developed. I started compiling a list of Legaltech founders to shed light on who builds what.
I hope this list is the beginning of a larger effort to connect founders, enable collaboration, and come up with new ideas on how we can support each other. Dr. Petra Arends-Paltzer is the founder and organizer of the Davos Digital Forum and Swiss Legal Tech in Zurich. At Swiss Legal Tech, renowned speakers not only talk about the various aspects of digitalization in the legal market, but can also gain their own real-world experience in processing and creating software products. Mr. Arends-Paltzer studied law at the universities of Bonn, Lausanne and Würzburg and obtained his doctorate at the Free University of Berlin. During her career, she has worked as a lawyer, in-house counsel and project manager for various international banks. Ivy is a legal technology entrepreneur, writer, and former practicing lawyer. Her work on technology expertise, ethics and innovation has made her a respected thought leader in the legal technology community. She is a regular speaker on firms` technology and technology expertise – recent events include the 2019 ABA TechShow and the Chicago Legal Hackers Meet Up – and leads a new wave of provider-stakeholder collaborations that will help transform the legal profession. Other accomplishments include creating the American legal style for PerfectIt, being named a rising star in the New York metropolitan area for five consecutive years (2014-2018), and writing more than 40 articles for industry publications.
In addition, she has already published several articles on law and technology. In addition, she has participated in the meetings of the think tank “Legal Tech” in Munich since its foundation. Ms. Christina-Maria Leeb completed an apprenticeship as a specialist lawyer and studied law at the University of Passau As a Latin founder and self-proclaimed data enthusiast, I published the first study this spring (more on this in the ABA Journal) on the lack of diversity among legaltech founders. Wife. Dalia Moniat studies law at the University of Hamburg and has been participating in the Cyber Law Clinic for the past two years, where she organizes conferences and events on the topic of legal tech in addition to her pro bono legal advice. Among other things, she initiated the Legal Tech Vision Days 2018 as an interactive series of events at the University of Hamburg and is co-responsible for a Legal Tech accompanying seminar. In addition, she is intensively involved in legal thinking and visualization techniques, such as graphic recording and sketching. She is also a founding member of the Hamburg chapter of Legal Hackers.
Legal technology guru Bob Ambrogi called 2017 “the Year of Women in Legal Technology.” We can only agree with that. Last year, for the first time, the ABA TECHSHOW faculty roster included more women than men. not to mention the plethora of women-led companies and startups that participated in TECHSHOW EXPO Hall and Startup Alley! Wife. Charlotte Falk studies law at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and founded the Munich Legal Tech Student Association (MLTech) with other students in 2017. At MLTech, she manages social media strategy and organizes the MLTech speaker series, which brings high-profile speakers from the field to university. In addition, Charlotte Falk founded the digital and innovation consultancy SFS with two fellow students, which supports law firms, legal departments and businesses in the use of legal technology. Charlotte Falk already holds a bachelor`s degree in communication sciences and business administration from the University of Mannheim. Michèle Finck is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich and a lecturer in European law at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the relationship between law and technology, in particular blockchain technology, platforms, big data and artificial intelligence. In addition, she is co-founder of the Stanford Journal of Blockchain Law and Policy, guest lecturer at several European universities, author of “Blockchain Regulation and Governance” (Cambridge University Press 2018) and member of the Blockchain Observatory and Forum of the European Union. Michèle Finck studied law at King`s College London, Paris-Sorbonne University, the European University Institute and the University of Oxford. There is a shortage of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
But within the legal tech community, there are many women with thriving careers. Legaltech News presents our current “STEM Cell” profile. Alma Asay recently interviewed Nicole Clark. Ms. Lili Birnbach is a PhD student at Freie Universität Berlin and works as a research assistant and legal engineer at the international law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner in Berlin. In addition to her work in the areas of mergers and acquisitions and real estate, she is responsible for the development of automated contract drafting and supports the firm`s international client technology team in the selection and evaluation of software products. She is also the youngest member of the editorial board of the journal Recht innovativ (Ri). Lili Birnbach studied law at the Free University of Berlin, the École normale supérieure in Paris and Peking University. Ms.
Zoë Andreae is Managing Director of the family-owned Lecare GmbH in Hamburg, which has been producing web-based software solutions for legal services and law firms for more than 30 years. Because of her programming skills, she also regularly participates in legal technology hackathons. Ms. Zoë Andreae studied Business Administration at ESADE Business School, London School of Economics, University of St. Gallen, Harvard Business School and Stanford University Graduate School of Business. She wrote her master`s thesis on “Legal Tech and the Digital Transformation of the German Legal Industry”. We are thrilled to celebrate more women in legal technology this year and are calling on the public for nominations. Do you know or are you a woman who is leading the way in legal technology? If yes, please complete a nomination form here. Self-nominations are accepted. Appointments are open until March 1, 2018. Ms.
Daniella Domokos studied law at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and worked as a student assistant in a chair of computer science at the Technical University of Munich. In addition, she maintains a blog in www.allaboutlegaltech.de to promote lawyers` basic technical understanding and interdisciplinary exchanges. In addition, Daniella Domokos coordinates the groups of participants at the Swiss Legal Tech Hackathon in Zurich.