Bio

Verónica Pedrón, specialized in Technological Law and Legaltech consultancy. She is a Partner at Legaltechies, a consulting firm specializing in Legaltech and Digital Transformation services for law firms, legal departments and law schools. She’s also a partner in Terms and Conditions, a legal boutique specialized in Digital Law. She is the Lastly, Veronic is also co-author of the legal book entitled “Legal Guide for a Startup”.

Contributions to Legal Tech

Verónica is the co-creator of the Legaltech Spain, Chile and Ecuador map. She is also CMO and head of the new technologies section at the Portal and Legal Magazine “A definitivas”.

Additionally, she is a lecturer, speaker, collaborator in different legal and communication media (both in radio, digital magazines, newspapers and TV) and teacher in various business schools in matters related to new technologies and digital transformation.

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Sabrina acts as a pioneer in the German organization with regard to Legal Tech topics. She works closely with the London and German innovation teams at Simmons & Simmons in order to encourage lawyers to embrace legal tech. For her own team, Sabrina developed the fund due diligence platform Parzival. 

Contributions to Legal Tech

Parzival started as a database and within two years was developed in a tool by which due diligence reports can be created by an automatization tool. Parzival was launched internationally within the firm and gained support from the headquarter in London as well as the senior management. Sabrina and a team of junior lawyers and the innovation team are currently working towards adding a data intelligence tool to the platform which will collect data from all private funds teams of the firm globally.

In addition, Sabrina is currently creating a tool with BRYTER by which junior lawyers and the business departments of clients will be able to perform a red flag due diligence on the eligibility of target funds for German regulated investors via a decision tree tool in order to speed up negotiations with potential asset managers. 

Furthermore, Sabrina and the German innovation team successfully created an internal event series named “Legal Tech Insight” during which external legal tech service provider and service provider Simmons is already collaborating with, present their tools and solutions in order to encourage the German legal teams to use legal tech and create their own tools.

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Charlotte is a lawyer (Solicitor of England, Wales & Ireland) and registered at the Paris Bar (98/5/EC), and was previously a registered Company Lawyer in Belgium. She recently obtained a Masters from Uppsala University in Intellectual property Law, with a distinction in her thesis. She founded her law firm Gerrish Legal less than 5 years ago in Paris and specializes in assisting international start-up businesses with commercial and data privacy matters. Charlotte also tutors on an international commercial law master’s in a Scottish University while also running her law firm. 

Contributions to Legal Tech

In 2019, Charlotte published a White Paper examining legal tech which builds template contracts, and the factors to be aware of as a client using such service. She provided this white paper free of charge online, and also offered a special offer for a template contract for any stakeholders concerned.

Charlotte has recently been published in the Legal Tech Textbook, considering how the law can be adapted in order to keep up with legal tech advances, and encouraging stakeholders to use legal tech to their advantage. She offers free and accessible content and advice online to third party websites considering the uses AI can have in the law and engaging in discussions with other parties. 

Charlotte is passionate about providing innovative legal tech that not only benefits law firms, but all stakeholders. Charlotte advises clients on legal issues whilst helping them develop their technology so that they can innovate whilst remaining legally compliant. Further, she publishes free legal tech guidance, which helps clients discover cost effective solutions and remain transparent about pricing – a major concern for many clients. 

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Anna-Katharina Horn is an Attorney-at-law. She built up and heads the department Legal Services & E-Discovery at reThinkLegal. She cooperates and advises various eDiscovery providers in product development, market strategies, and entering new business fields.

Contributions to Legal Tech

With her teams, she supports legal departments and law firms in international projects with all leading eDiscovery platforms. Her expertise lies in Internal Investigations and international Managed Document and Technology Assisted Reviews.  

At the beginning of 2021, her own developed Legal Project Management tool will be released. Building a bridge between legal services and technologies is her daily work, while communication in times of remote legal work as well as large data volumes are a passionate task of hers.

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Catherine Bamford is CEO and Founder of BamLegal, specializing in Legal Engineering. She is famous and respected in the industry for developing and establishing high performing Legal Engineering individuals and teams in major international law firms. She has over 10 years’ of experience working in the legal technology sector, specializes in automation, was named as one of the FT’s Top Ten Legal Technologists, and her clients have included Latham & Watkins, DLA Piper, Linklaters, Deloitte Legal, DWF, Pinsent Masons, Reed Smith and many more. 

Contributions to Legal Tech

In addition to her professional work, Catherine shares her deep industry knowledge freely with many others, from legal professionals to students to legal tech startups. She acts as a connector to many in the market, improving collaboration between them, supports, and inspires the next generation of legal professionals through her work with students and others she mentors. Catherine is also an advocate for greater diversity in law and fundraises for various Access to Justice charities. She is an advisor to legal technology start-ups, as well as a non-executive director and an investor. Many say about Catherine that the main skills she brings to the table are not just around her knowledge of the technology and the law, so much as her ability to inspire change amongst the lawyers and law firm leaders to ensure the technology and transformation projects are embraced, successful and make real impact.

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Even during her studies, Franziska was fascinated by energy and environmental law. After her first position as a lawyer in this area, she decided to do a doctorate in energy law. The subject of power-to-gas required in-depth training in technical and economic conditions. Through the project work for the Clausthal University of Technology – regularly in collaboration with engineers, natural, economic, and social scientists – her special enthusiasm for interdisciplinary work and technology law has developed.

Contribution to Legal Tech

As executive director of the RGC Manager GmbH & Co. KG, she deals with the conception and design of digital legal service products – today regularly referred to under the keyword Legal Tech – in the area of ​​legal compliance. Today, one of the main areas of expertise in the law firm RITTER GENT COLLEGEN, which specializes in an energy-intensive industry, is the legal framework for electromobility. Other areas of her work are legal content management and content strategy as well as marketing in the broader sense, e.g. with digital tools developed by her company, such as content portals and apps.

Franziska has taken legal compliance to a new level in the areas of energy, environment and safety. The combination of automated individual flow of information to the customer via web-based compliance software, which includes a duty management, with individual legal advice from lawyers, where automation and artificial intelligence do not (yet) lead to the goal, is unique in this form.

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Pilvi is the CEO of Legal Design Summit, a lawyer at Google and a strong voice on the legal tech scene in Finland.

Contribution to Legal Tech

She founded and lead the Legal Design Summit – by which contributors to the field got a platform to share their ideas and vision, and teach others about the importance of legal design. 

Besides being a brilliant lawyer, with a strong sense of privacy among other things. Pilvi pushes for a healthier and more inclusive legal field in all aspects, and in this regard, she leads by example every day. She leads and enables others to innovate and create change in the legal field all while always supporting, cheering, and 
removing obstacles.

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Lena is a legal tech enthusiast, litigation lawyer and part of the NRF transform ambassador team. NRF Transform, is the firm’s global change and innovation program. Lena and her team developed a legal tech tool, the NRF Litigation Manager.

Contribution to Legal Tech

As a Transform Ambassador, she plays a vital role in bringing Transform techniques to NRF’s local teams and has a leading role in their Associate Development Camp, being the only Associate lecturer amongst Partners. Further, Lena independently developed the NRF Litigation Manager.

The NRF Litigation Manager is an organization and visualization tool for handling high volumes of litigation cases with automated legal reporting to clients. Through a fully automated case creation and status determination based on defined KPIs, an individually configured status report can be sent to the clients. The visualization tool visually prepares the status of proceedings and transmits them in user-friendly dashboards.