Sponsors
We are very grateful for the support of our sponsor, who make it possible for us to offer you this first major event about the future of the legal profession. We, at the Swiss LegalTech Association, are strongly committed to modernizing the legal industry. As with all such undertakings, it will take time, dedication and many efforts. The support shown by our sponsors allows us to raise awareness, conduct research and share information about the best practices, the available technology and how to reorganize for the digital era. It then allows us to compile this research and share it with the community. If you would also like to become a sponsor and support the Swiss LegalTech Association’s effort to bring the legal community together, conduct research and help actors of the legal market successfully transition to the digital era, please contact us.
Our Sponsors 2024:
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Stage 1
Wednesday
22 May 2024
08:00-09:00
Conference Registration Desk Open
Introduction and official welcome of our new Co-Presidents of the SLTA.
The LegalInnovation Conference is unique in its form in the LegalTech sphere. The focus is not on technology, but on the opportunities that arise from it. Especially when it comes to improving access to justice. And the best way to do this is to bring together all players of the legal market. On one day and in one place.
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10:35-11:05
Vendor booths & catering
Eine Paneldiskussion über alle drei Instanzen mit Martin Langmeier, Präsident des Obergerichts des Kantons Zürich und Präsident der Verwaltungskommission, Andrea Waldner-Vontobel, Vizepräsidentin des Bezirksgerichts Hinwil und Daniel Brugger, Gerichtsschreiber am Bundesgericht. Die Diskussion wird moderiert durch Tim Richard, Obergericht des Kantons Zürich.
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Barbara Müry Erni is the Co-Founder and CEO of Herlock. Since her interdisciplinary studies of Science and Law Barbara has engaged with digitalization in various organizations in the banking and consulting sectors and took the leap into entrepreneurship in September 2022. Since then, she has been developing Herlock with her team in close cooperation with law firms. Herlock is a legaltech startup providing lawyers with an AI-powered SaaS that reads, organizes and understands case data to provide a comprehensive and dynamic knowledge map. Herlock.ai is a spin-off from D ONE, a leading Swiss consulting company for data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, and was developed to handle one of the largest economic crime cases in Swiss history.
Fatih Aslantas, Anwaltskanzlei Aslantas
Fatih Aslantas is an attorney and owner of the law firm Aslantas with offices in Frauenfeld and Zurich, specialising in criminal law and white collar crime. After studying in Zurich and Singapore, he also qualified as a solicitor in England & Wales. He is furthermore a Certified Specialist SBA (Swiss Bar Association) in criminal law. He is head of the criminal law section of the Thurgau Bar Association.
Andreas Blattmann, Partner Quadra Rechtsanwälte
Dr. Andreas Blattmann is attorney and partner at Quadra, a law firm in Zurich specializing in complex civil and white-collar criminal proceedings. After studying law in Zurich and Singapore, he worked for around six years in various positions in the Zurich judiciary. In addition to his work as a lawyer, Andreas regularly acts as a part-time substitute judge at Zurich district courts.
Katja Böttcher, Partner Beyond Legal
Katja Böttcher specializes in organizational and strategic consulting and provides project management services for legal and compliance departments. She has two decades of leadership experience, during which time she has built a deep knowledge of legal process analysis, digitization, and implementing new technologies to effectively manage legal & compliance topics. She has successfully managed large-scale international legal projects across various industries.
12:30-13:30
Catering
Please take lunch in your own time.
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15:45 - 16:05
Vendor booths & catering
Aku Sorainen is the founder and senior partner of SORAINEN. Aku is of Finnish origin, but has worked as a lawyer in the Baltic States since 1993. He has significant experience in advising local and foreign corporations and investors in the Baltic States and Belarus. He has worked primarily in the fields of mergers & acquisitions (M&A) and real estate.
Aku is a recommended practitioner in many publications, including:
PLC Which lawyer? for corporate and M&A practice;
Chambers Global in corporate and commercial practices: "he frequently counsels domestic and foreign clients on high-profile transactions”;
The Legal 500 acknowledges him for corporate and M&A practice;
Chambers Europe in corporate and commercial law says: "Founder Aku Sorainen is well versed in the field of M&A. He frequently counsels domestic and foreign clients on acquisitions";
Best Lawyers for corporate and M&A, private equity practices;
European Legal Experts for corporate and finance practices in Estonia.
Aku wrote one of the first analyses of Baltic business law acts in English in the early 1990s as his master thesis, which the Association of Finnish Lawyers published in 1993 with the heading „A Foreign Investor in the Baltics: a legal study about the possibilities of a foreign investor to begin business activity and obtain real estate in the Baltics". Aku first established a law firm under his name in 1995 in Estonia. In 1997 this expanded to Latvia, in 1999 to Lithuania and in 2008 to Belarus.
Michele DeStefano is a highly innovative and accomplished legal professional with a passion for creative problem-solving, collaboration, culture change, and innovation in law. As a Professor of Law at the University of Miami, visiting faculty member at Harvard Law School, and a Faculty Chair in Harvard Law School's Executive Education Program, Michele is an internationally recognized thought leader who has been named a Legal Rebel by the ABA and one of the top 20 most innovative lawyers in North America by the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers.
Michele is the founder of LawWithoutWalls, a community of over 2,000 lawyers, business professionals, entrepreneurs, and students who collaborate to create innovations in the business of law and develop new mindsets and skillsets. She is also the co-creator of the Digital Legal Exchange, a non-profit that aims to inspire general counsel and their teams to become digital leaders in their businesses to drive commercial value.
With her extensive research and writing on topics such as client-centricity, collaboration, and innovation in law, Michele has authored multiple books, including Legal Upheaval: A Guide to Creativity, Collaboration, and Innovation in Law, New Suits: Appetite for Disruption. She has two new books: Leader Upheaval: A Guide to Culture Creation, Client Centricity, and Collaboration, and the accompanying handbook: The Leader Upheaval Handbook: Lead Teams on a Innovation & Collaboration Journey with The 3-4-5 Method(™). Her latest articles include Chicken or Egg: Diversity and Innovation in the Corporate Legal Marketplace, 91 Fordham Law Review 1209 (2023) and Don't Let the Digital Tail Wag the Transformation Dog: A Digital Transformation Roadmap for Corporate Counsel, 17 Journal of Business and Technology Law, Volume, 183 (2022).
Michele earned her Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from Dartmouth College and her Juris Doctorate degree magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. Michele is a visionary who is dedicated to leading the way in transforming the professional services industry. She frequently speaks and runs workshops on creative problem solving, collaboration, Client-centricity, communication, personal branding, and innovation. For more information visit movelaw.com or micheledestefano.com.
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Stage 2
Artificial intelligence is currently experiencing an iPhone moment. It is available to everyone, and at the same time has made leaps and bounds in the last 18 months that we have not seen in the last 70 years. This has undoubtedly also had and will continue to have an impact on the legal sector. There is no legal department or big law firm that is not looking into legal AI and examining the opportunities and risks. Our experts will explain what is in it, where realistic gains can be expected, and what the actual challenges are. And they will provide a glimpse into the future of Legal AI.
Our panelists are:
Yannic Kilcher, CTO & founder of DeepJudge.ai
Colin Carter, Legal Engineer at Coop Rechtsschutz
Tiphanie Bent, Strategic Projects at SIX Group
Barbara Müry, CEO & Co-Founder of Herlock.ai
The panel moderator: Paula Reichenberg, CEO Neur.on
12:30-13:30
Advocat360 – The legal-compliant Cloud Infrastructure
We provide services from the Microsoft Cloud with all legally compliant agreements. Be it file storage with SharePoint, collaboration through Microsoft Teams or secure email and calendar using Outlook, all within the secure Swiss Microsoft Cloud. Seamless integration of your legal software is just one part of our comprehensive services. You can work from anywhere, anytime, while we take care of your infrastructure and provide IT support through our Servicedesk.
Sind Sie bereit für digitale Gerichtseingaben?
Erleben Sie eine Einführung in die Beweismittelverwaltung mit Octoiur:
- Beilagen aus Ihrem DMS «document driven» erstellen.
- Beweismittel in einem übersichtlichen Cockpit verwalten und in Ihren Worddokumenten verwenden
- Beweismittelverzeichnisse erstellen
- Gerichtseingaben digital stempeln und ausliefern
Octoiur - ein Add-In für Word - wurde von der Firma Octobit GmbH speziell für Anwaltskanzleien und Notariate entwickelt. Kümmern Sie sich im Schriftverkehr um den eigentlichen Inhalt, und lösen Sie lästige Formatierungen und Word-Routineaufgaben elegant programmiert.
Octoiur ist eine stabile, leistungsstarke und skalierbare Lösung. Sie wird von vielen Anwendern täglich geschätzt; dies von ganz unterschiedlichen Kanzleien – der Einsatz von Octoiur ist von einem bis zu hunderten von Arbeitsplätzen und von kurzen Eingaben bis zu Eingaben mit hunderten von Beilagen sinnvoll.
14:30-14:45
Pitch easydivorce.ch
Stage 3
JuriCite
Find highly relevant citations and references for your legal drafts without leaving Word! Powered by LLM technology, JuriCite proposes suitable passages from published (BGE) and unpublished decisions (BGer) of the Swiss Federal Court to bolster your legal arguments.
As a versatile Word add-in, JuriCite not only checks your existing references but also identifies conflicting judgements (refutals) and may be extended to include other court decisions and legal literature in the future.
JuriCite accelerates your legal research and saves you precious time.
Flipping the Script on Legal Services: Top 3 focus areas for legal leaders in 2024
As the legal industry undergoes rapid transformation, General Counsels (GCs) must innovate to meet operational and budgetary demands. Axiom's research report, View from the Top: GCs' 2024 Outlook on Legal Budgets, Talent, and Innovation, explores the evolving landscape of legal departments and offers guidance for legal leaders.
SpeechLive mit KI-Spracherkennung für den Schweizer Rechtsmarkt
Nehmen Sie am offiziellen Start von SpeechLive mit KI-basierter Dragon-Spracherkennung teil, maßgeschneidert für den Schweizer Rechtsmarkt. Während unserer Präsentation zeigen wir, wie diese hochmoderne integrierte Workflow- und Spracherkennungslösung:
- alle Ihre Anforderungen an effiziente Dokumentation abdeckt,
- sprachbasierte moderne Arbeitsumgebungen ermöglicht und
- vollständig den Datenschutz- und Sicherheitsstandards entspricht.
Verpassen Sie nicht die Gelegenheit, Ihren Arbeitsablauf mit neuester Sprachtechnologie zu revolutionieren!
Keynote Speakers
Locations
Technopark Main Venue
LegalInnovation takes place at Technopark. A well-known location in Zurich West for future-oriented conferences. Accessible by car as well as by public transport.
Technoparkstrasse 1, 8005 Zürich
Aubrey | Flying Dinner
After the conference, a networking flying dinner will take place at the Aubrey, which can be booked for CHF 99 additionally during the booking process. Seats are limited.
Schiffbaustrasse 10, 8005 Zürich
Venice Bar | Cocktails
In the evening before the conference, SLTA invites interested persons to networking and cocktails startig at 6pm at the Vernice Bar in Zurich. The bar is located close to the venue.
Schiffbauplatz, 8005 Zurich (you have to enter the Schiffbau building)
25hours | where to stay
We recommend an overnight stay at the modern and refreshingly designed 25hours Hotel in Zurich West, which is within walking distance of the event location.
Pfingstweidstrasse 102, 8005 Zürich