The Handelsblatt Research Institute surveyed more than 1,250 lawyers from 152 law firms as part of the ranking. Individual lawyers have named the most prestigious law firms and lawyers in their field of law. Following the survey, a jury of experts reviewed and analysed the applications before finally selecting 23 law firms with 27 lawyers recommended for data protection. The WirtschaftsWoche Best of Legal Awards recognise the most innovative law firms in the German legal sector. Winners will be selected by a high-calibre jury of corporate lawyers, media representatives and other industry experts. The annual awards, organised by WirtschaftsWochenmagazin and supported by the Handelsblatt Research Institute, recognise innovations in the German legal industry. It`s a difficult balancing act: among the 100 or so legal-tech start-ups that currently exist in Germany, many also offer software that helps law firms do their jobs faster and cheaper. Algorithms therefore relieve labour lawyers. In the future, however, they will make many of them superfluous. You can see what that future looks like in Berlin`s E-Werk.

In the brick rooms near the federal Ministry of Finance was one of the most famous techno clubs in the world. Now the MyHammer craft gate and the Jobbörrse stage stone have their headquarters here. And a much less known start-up, but technologically one of the most advanced companies in Germany: Leverton. Teacher. Michael Arnold, Co-Managing Partner at Gleiss Lutz, said: “Both awards underscore not only that we are seen as leading advisors on complex ESG legal challenges, but also the central role ESG plays for us internally as a law firm.” Gleiss Lutz received two awards at the Best of Legal Awards 2022 of WirtschaftsWoche. At the award ceremony on 29 November 2022, Gleiss Lutz won first place in the category of sustainability projects for his Digital Guide for Refugees from Ukraine. The company`s ESG team took second place in the Team of the Year category. His clients are billionaire companies like Jones Lang LaSalle, which manage tens of thousands of properties and also rely on Matthaei: with another click, he opens a map of the world.

For each city, it can view the property manager`s local portfolio and filter properties by size or value. Another click invokes the corresponding contract for each property. It doesn`t matter if it was written in English or Japanese. The software now speaks 20 languages. â We prepare information, which is stored in different languages, in one language.â Congratulations also to our name partners, Dr. Tobias Pusch and Thomas Wahlig, to our partner Katrin Scheicht and to Of Counsel Prof. Dr. Georg Annuß for this special recognition! The winners and full reports can be found here. The supplier uses scalable strategies to design sculptures from customer specifications, which are then produced by a 3D printer. Attention to the use of Google Fonts: wave of warning letters on data protection Norton Rose Fulbright has been awarded “Best of Legal 2021 – Technology and data management” at the WirtschaftsWoche Best of Legal Awards 2021.

The web platform sells automatically composed songs. The client defines the genre, tempo and mood. 27.04.21 – Under the name “Best of Legal 2021”, WirtschaftsWoche, supported by the Handelsblatt Research Institute, awards the most innovative law firms of the year in four areas. Each of the individual areas is divided into several categories in which candidates are reviewed and evaluated. The top three in each category were then rewarded. The list of the best law firms and lawyers is based on a survey conducted by the Handelsblatt Research Institute (HRI) for WirtschaftsWoche. A jury of experts selected highly recommended lawyers based on the results of the survey. Meanwhile, large companies such as Deutsche Bank or the fund provider Union Investment are among the clients of the Berlin start-up as well as large law firms such as Freshfields or Clifford Chance. For the latter, reading and evaluating contracts is a big part of the work, explains Micha-Manuel Bues. Until recently, he worked for the Munich law firm Gleiss Lutz. Last year, he joined Leverton as head of Germany.

“There`s a lot of stupid activity in law firms that you don`t need highly qualified lawyers for,” Bues says. Good software can browse documents even better than humans. And lawyers then have a clear head for really complicated cases. Germany`s leading business publication WirtschaftsWoche has ranked WilmerHale among the “best law firms” in data protection in 2022. Partner Dr. Martin Braun is named “Top Lawyer” 2022 for data protection in Germany. Founder Emilio Matthaei demonstrates what his algorithms have learned since their founding five years ago: Matthaei boots the software on his laptop. An English rental agreement will appear in the middle of the screen. In addition, all relevant data, such as address, execution and revenue, which are automatically read by Leverton`s text recognition software, at a glance. A click on the corresponding value invokes the corresponding position in the contract. The Digital Guide for Refugees from Ukraine is now available in five languages and offers refugees arriving in Germany basic advice, help in dealing with the authorities and an overview of available tools such as healthcare, internet access, housing, jobs, travel and much more. The project was implemented in just 48 hours, shortly after the outbreak of war, by an interdisciplinary team of employees from the fields of Legal Tech, Legal Operations, Business Development, Marketing and Communications as well as a large number of Gleiss Lutz lawyers.

The app also recently won a PMN Management Award. Marc Geiger, Director Legal Operations & Business Technologies at Gleiss Lutz and initiator of the project, said: “We are delighted to receive this recognition for a project that is very close to the firm`s heart. More than 5,200 lawyers from 288 law firms were invited to nominate their most renowned colleagues in labour and corporate law. 69 labour law firms, including PWWL, and 123 lawyers won. The idea was given to him once by his brother, who, as a lawyer, had to analyze hundreds of lease agreements and was looking for a way to do it with less effort. Matthaei, who was working in a bank in London at the time, saw the huge opportunities. He teamed up with specialists from the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and developed a prototype. Watson, IBM`s supercomputer, invents cooking recipes: the user specifies ingredients and styles such as Asian or vegan – the machine invents a dish. This award highlights the strength of WilmerHale`s lawyers in the field of data protection law and highlights the outstanding work of the data protection team in Germany.