Lawyer Monthly - October 2021 Edition

hat problems do mass proceedings entail and how can legal tech provide support? The number of mass actions is increasing sharply – not just in Germany, but also throughout Europe. Yet most law firms are unable to cope with these complex challenges using their current digital tools. This is due, on the one hand, to the fact that many legal tools are tailored to individual rather than mass proceedings, especially the typical legal software. And on the other hand, there are now numerous specific tools that can help with a wide range of issues. However, these do not usually work hand in hand. On the contrary, interface problems often arise and identical work steps have to be repeated multiple times in different environments, in addition to other issues. You cannot afford to go through all that in mass proceedings. After all, a four-digit number of claims alone require tens of thousands of steps, and therefore thousands and thousands of precisely produced individual documents. For law firms and legal w Half Lawyer, Half Machine: The Digitalisation of Major Legal Projects Among the challenges that face the modern legal sector, two of the more significant are an ever-increasing rate of mass legal actions being launched and the need for law firms to adopt more specialized technology. Björn Frommer, at FROMMER LEGAL, combines the two in this discussion of legal tech and his modular cloud platform, JUNE. departments, this represents a massive drain on human resources and, most importantly, time. The logical consequence of this is that, in addition to a lack of business efficiency, there is also an enormous cost pressure. Competitiveness is lost if one does not simplify and bundle operational processes in mass proceedings in an intelligent way. What sounds obvious and simple is, however, a difficult problem to solve in legal implementation, especially if you have not already been able to gather a “mass” of experience ahead of time in order to translate it technologically. Therefore, for me, the term "legal tech" has a deeper meaning than it appears to have in general legal jargon. I do not see legal tech as the mere digital handling of legal files. . Legal tech has to be much more, namely intelligent and, most importantly, economical. Does this mean that you strive to be “intelligent & economical”? Yes, but it is easier said than done. We launched the modular For me, legal tech is not merely the digital handling of legal files Björn Frommer is a lawyer and managing partner of FROMMER LEGAL and the CEO of JUNE GmbH. Developed using FROMMER LEGAL's expertise, JUNE is a modular cloud platform that supports law firms and legal departments in defending mass claims. Björn Frommer CEO, JUNE Goethestraße 49a, 80336 München, Germany Tel: +49 89 6931354 www.june.tech WWW.LAWYER-MONTHLY.COM | OCT 2021 52 EXPERT INSIGHT