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Jenny qualified as a Lawyer in 2016 from Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena and started her career in the Thuringian Ministry of Economy, Science and Digital Society, and The Ministry of Migration, Justice, and Consumer Protection, where she started specializing in Data Privacy. Jenny is starting a Masters in Legal Tech at the University of Regensburg this autumn.

Contribution to Legal Tech

She joined the alternative legal service provider Axiom in 2018. She helps inhouse legal departments of international companies to develop or implement digital solutions for their Data Privacy processes. Having worked for multinational companies which specialize in high-end consumer goods, she used legal tech tools to address data protection subject requests of high volume. Making sure to fulfill the request in an accurate and timely manner, and therefore maintaining a high level of customer satisfaction. She helped develop the tool to ensure GDPR compliance.•Moving on to a multinational insurance company, she paved the way for the implementation of similar tools for management of high-volume data protection incidents and subject requests.

Taking part in the Global Legal Hackathon 2020, Jenny is part of the team of finalists, Skillerator. Skillerator, the app, has been created to solve the access to justice problem. Visa applications for skilled workers are a major obstacle for economic growth, despite legislative reform on policies relating to employment and migration.  

Skillerator allows for the processing of visa applications in a simplified and logical manner, resulting in lower costs and much shorter processing time, so workers and employers can have their needs fulfilled.  Skillerator has created a one-stop-shop for the Visa application process, and this one-stop-shop is going to allow skilled workers to stop anywhere they want and where they are needed.  This legal tech tool is further enhanced by the simple fact that it can be used by anyone or any type of organization.

Due to her previous experience, Jenny wants to focus on the Internet of Things and its implications on Contract Law and Data Privacy while studying for her Masters.  In particular, the conflict between Contract Law, Data Privacy Law, and the true capabilities of the Internet of Things.

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Petra is a legal counsel specialized in data and technology law, including data protection, cloud computing and IP protection. She is currently the Head of Legal & Privacy at Tresorit. At Tresorit, she works together with engineers and product managers to ensure the legal compliance of the company and its customers. Before joining Tresorit, Petra worked at a “Magic Circle” law firm for more than five years. Petra is an alumnus of the Law Faculty of ELTE, Budapest and holds an LLM degree in “International Business Law” from the Central European University.

Contribution to Legal Tech

Tresorit is an end-to-end encryption cloud collaboration tool, having more than 20,000 business customers around the globe, and millions of registered users. Tresorit is a Swiss-Hungarian startup, with 120 employees in Switzerland, Germany and Hungary.

Petra joined Tresorit as their first inhouse Data protection and technology in 2018. She managed their projects of GDPR compliance, and later overall compliance of our full product portfolio. She worked closely with the engineering and product teams, as well as other supported teams to improve the shape of Tresorit’s practices and processes.

She participated in in the design phase of their new products and new features. Petra also has experience with documenting dataflows, consulting with architects if changes are required, and creating internal and customer facing policies and contracts. She works in a complex international setup: customers from Brazil, through Germany to Hong-Kong, who have compliance related questions and requests.

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Nina Stoeckel LL.M., is a Lawyer and worked in different positions in Legal & Compliance over the last 20 years, mainly in the Pharmaceutical Industry. She was responsible for building the Compliance Program for Boehringer-Ingelheim in Germany and redesigning the global Compliance Program for the Merck KGaA. At Boehringer-Ingelheim she also worked in the Corporate Strategy & Development team driving the Group Strategy process, supporting global restructuring projects and lead an initiative for the setup of a portfolio management approach. Currently Nina is running the Group Legal & Compliance Operations department with focus on Technology  & Processes, Chief of Staff, Monitoring & Reporting as well as Training & Communication. Nina is co-chairing the BUJ Legal Technology group.

Contribution to Legal Tech

From designing and setting up e-learnings and learning management systems to global transparency spend reporting processes and tools Nina worked on major digitalization projects in the Legal & Compliance area. For example she set up the global Compliance Risk Reporting process combined with a monitoring feature, implementation of eSign for the Legal department, setting up ticketing and support systems for the relevant tools used in Legal and Compliance as well organizing the Legal & Compliance intranet and knowledge management. Currently her key project is to design and implement a global Legal contract and matter management system based on O365.

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“❤️4law+contracts+technology”: That was the reason for Ines Curtius, Contract Manager@Airbus Defence and Space to go to law school in Munich. She is a fully qualified lawyer with twenty years of experience in the Aerospace industry. Her focus areas are international business law, designing and delivering legal training, design thinking, driving, making things happen and the greater good.

Contribution to Legal Tech

Technology has always being part of Ines DNA, since the early beginnings in 1997 as an legal intern implementing a legal database until today, where she seeks to challenging and changing the way law and technology are used and considered. 

Back in 2005 the adventure of leveraging technology in the aerospace industry started for her, eg. supporting the design and implementation of a central contract archive, while holding the role of contract strategy manager for the space business area of Airbus, and since then, kept her curiosity growing on how technology can make law more accessible and better.

Perseverance, hard work and her love for law made her launch an Airbus wide initiative in 2017, “Contract Innovators@Airbus” to explore how digital transformation in all its forms is impacting the way Airbus handles its contractual relationships. 2 years later, in 2019, with a new legal product launched ”NDA simple for Start Ups”, the Contract Innovators represented by Ines, received the award “Innovation and Excellence for Strategic Direction” of the IACCM/WorldCC (international association of commercial & contract management; www.iaccm.com, today www.worldcc.com.)

Today, Ines together with Contract Innovators is working bottom up, on changing the way people see and value contracts at Airbus.

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Raquel started her career in law firms but soon realized the passion for in-house work and direct contact with the business units. Coming from an exciting technological environment at one of the biggest Portuguese telecom companies, Raquel arrived at Farfetch with a great desire to be involved in tech projects. Allying her passion for Privacy and Data Protection with true interest for Tech, Raquel started to get involved with technologic and data-driven projects and initiatives. In the span of a year, Raquel became the main legal contact for most of the software agreements and initiatives for Farfetch global and other group companies.

Contribution to Legal Tech

Raquel helps her team and internal clients in embracing new and exciting technological projects whilst being legally compliant. At Farfetch, Raquel started with Portuguese clients, but within two years, she began managing all of Farfetch’s software agreements and keeping track of legal and business developments. Raquel also works in privacy and is one of the key points of contact. She also assists with other areas such as Customer Service, and trains new members of the team, who are starting their way in the legal field, particularly in tech.

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Kamile is a lawyer and for the past 5 years she has been building her legal tech knowledge, starting with e-signature implementation, a ‘3 levels going paperless’ project into a publicly governed finance institution, and by participating in robotics, blockchain, and AI projects. Since the past 2 years, Kamile has been a part of Telia Company legal practice group.

Contribution to Legal Tech

On a daily basis, Kamile supports the cross-border team for legal sourcing matters, at the same time finding the best AI and contract automation solutions. In addition, Kamile consults start ups and she’s also an executive of W@LawLT community, organizing community meetups and discussions on hot topics. Member of global organisation Women in AI.

She has been organizing various events to gather legal tech enthusiasts as well as introduce the communities to the available tools in the market. Kamile has also participated in multiple conferences and spoken about the advantages of legal tech and the new possibilities it can bring.

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Fatima Hussain, LL.M. is Legal Counsel in the legal department of AUDI AG in Ingolstadt. She also leads legal proceedings in the US, Canada, and Germany. In addition, she is a member of the eDiscovery team at AUDI AG.

Contribution to Legal Tech

Fatima is aiming to bring more tech solutions to the legal department of AUDI AG. Amongst others, she is responsible for legal advice with regard to digitalization projects from a product liability perspective She recently implemented a chatbot and is trying to simplify processes around e-discovery. In addition, she is lecturing together with  on In-House Counsel events, especially on legal tech in general, or how to collaborate with other In-House Counsel. 

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Anne Graue is an Associate General Counsel at TIER Mobility GmbH – which is a hypergrowth start-up in the micro-mobility sector. Her main responsibilities are Commercial, Compliance, and Employment Law. 

She previously worked as a Legal Counsel at AUDI AG where she was responsible for litigation in APAC and advised on e-mobility related topics in the fields of product safety. Her past experience includes working as a criminal judge and Associate at Clifford Chance. Her passion is to find more sustainable ways of working as In-House Counsel including technical solutions in the day-to-day work life.

Contributions to Legal Tech

Anne aims to use existing tech tech-tools at TIER also within the Legal Department. Especially when budget is tight, this approach gives great opportunity to work more efficiently with internal clients: Tech-Tools can easily be converted into Legal Tech tools. She is constantly working towards a better future for in-house counsel. She is writing and teaching about Legal Tech on various in-house counsel events with the goal to awaken more interest within legal departments in tech-solutions to make the daily life of in-house counsel and internal clients easier and therewith to improve quality. This has changed the minds of many in-house counsel who were unsure about Legal Tech and it’s advantages.

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Tara is a partner and head of Ashurst Advance Digital, the technology arm of the firm’s NewLaw division Ashurst Advance. She is also Head of Ashurst’s High Growth & VC team and Co-Head of the firm’s FinTech and Distributed Ledger & Crypto Assets practices. She has written several articles and speaks regularly at international industry events on NewLaw and emerging technologies. Tara is a technology specialist having spent seven years architecting and developing digital solutions for businesses in the new media and technology industries in NYC prior to becoming a lawyer. She was named on Innovate Finance’s Women in FinTech Power List 2017, was shortlisted for Legal Innovator of the Year at the 2019 FT Innovative Lawyers Awards and was named to The Lawyer’s Hot 100 2020. She is also a Techstars All-Star Mentor and a Global Expert for Blockchain Founders Fund.

Contributions to Legal Tech

Tara has played an integral role in spearheading Ashurst’s technology and innovation initiatives. Drawing on her own previous career in technology development and current career advising and mentoring emerging technology companies, Tara has successfully spearheaded the development of Ashurst’s digital offering, Ashurst Advance Digital. In this role, she is responsible for not only designing, developing and delivering innovative technology-based solutions to clients but also helping to catalyse digital transformation within the firm. Her team of technologists, service managers, developers and product architects work together to leverage the firm’s best-in-breed technology toolkit for client matters, develop and acquire new technology tools and productise the firm’s legal advice offerings. Alongside her role as Head of Ashurst Advance Digital, and frankly hardly believable – Tara is still a practising lawyer advising clients and supporting them in adopting legal tech solutions that provide substantial efficiency gains.

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Helga is the Head of Operations at Flightright. Helga has been managing the biggest in-house team at Flightright since 2014. She studied law at the University of Szeged in Hungary and at the University of Salzburg. She also holds a Master of Laws from both the University of Szeged and the University of Potsdam.

Contributions to Legal Tech

As the Head of Operations at Flightright, Helga finds the right balance between data-driven automated processes and keeping personal contact with customers. She identifies the best solutions and adapts them to the real needs of her clients.

She enjoys the dynamics of the ever-changing legal environment and adapting Flightright’s products to new situations like Covid-19. Over the past ten years, Flightright enforced air passenger rights against airlines and successfully claimed € 300,000,000 by improving innovative LegalTech solutions. 
Helga is proud of building a strong international team and establishing remote work culture before it became the new normal. By mentoring her young colleagues she is dedicated to empowering the next generation of Legal Tech Enthusiasts.