LLI Member Section
An overview of selected members
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Stefan Neuenhahn
Lawyer, Mediator and Business Angel for Green und Clean Tech & Sustainable Businesses As founding partner of SOLEOS I advise among others in the areas of corporate law, equity financing and M&A, and represent our clients in extrajudicial and judicial proceedings. In addition, as business angel I support green tech, clean tech and other start-ups with sustainable business models. Since 2022, I have been a member of the board of the EUCON European Institute for Conflict Management.
Rahul J. Prasad
Head of Data, Technology & Process (Legal Operations) - Boehringer Ingelheim Certified project manager with 15 years in the pharmaceutical industry, including international experience in North and South America, Europe and Asia. Experience in IT architecture, data analytics, agile methodologies as well as internal strategy & consulting.
Jim Chiang
CEO, My Legal Einstein Jim most recently led the AI engineering team at Apttus/Conga and Icertis, the two market leaders in the CLM (Contract Lifecycle Management) enterprise space. Jim has served multiple executive roles leading engineering and product teams. Jim has over 20 years of experience in big data management and AI algorithm development. Jim holds a Bachelors in Engineering from MIT.
Daniel Lafrentz
Sales in Legal Trust me, I'm a Salesman (not a Lawyer). My passion since 2017 is to help law firms, legal service providers and legal tech vendors with their go-to-market adventure in Germany, built on 15+ years of experience in marketing, sales and product management leadership roles.
Charlotte Kufus
Legal OS Co-Founder and Managing Director of Legal OS. MSc in Social and Organisational Psychology at LSE. Main research focus: collective intelligence and decentralised networks. Legal OS’s goal is to build an engine that turns law into code and helps create a brand-new infrastructure for the 21st century.
Richard Huber
Technischer Informatiker (Dipl.-Ing.)Scientific researcher at Fraunhofer FOKUS, former CIO at Europa-University, several project-management engagements in IT-/IT-Security projects in earlier years. 25 years of professional experience in Cybersecurity, IT-Compliance, GDPR, IT-Architecture, ELSI-Standards
Danielle Okay
Kalexius/Senior Legal Counsel/ JD/CIPPUS I am a legal project manager and senior counsel at Kalexius. I have been active in the legal operations space since 2020 and have extensive experience working on large scale legal and compliance projects for clients. I am a Colorado licensed attorney and based in Denver.
Yuan Pischel
Lead Counsel, Siemens AG
Giuseppe Marletta
Managing Director Europe, Association of Corporate Counsel Giuseppe is responsible for leading operations and membership initiatives in Europe by building strategic relationships; supporting programming; identifying opportunities to develop stronger value for the European in-house community. Giuseppe works constantly with volunteers and Association of Corporate Counsel members to ensure relevance and impact of ACC.
Maria Govis
Legal Transformation Advisor at smartvokat Maria is a Legal Transformation Advisor at smartvokat. She advises smartvokat clients on the optimisation of legal & compliance processes, and supports legal departments and law firms on their digital transformation journey. Maria has a legal and translation background, she speaks English, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian.
Hui Zhang
Legal OS
Magnus Baumhauer
Canada Life Assurance Europe plc / Authorised Representative, Director Legal, Syndikusrechtsanwalt / law, tax 26 years in 3 industries (audit and tax advisory; chemical industry; life insurance); law and tax with a clear international focus; degree in German literature and a bit of theology (ups); baby boomer, family man, boredom-hater; crazy about new and creative ideas, things, and approaches; travel, literature, photography
Roger Strathausen
Dr. Strathausen Consultancy Roger Strahausen is a consultant, author, and lecturer. He previously was an executive at Accenture and an employee at SAP. He is co-editor of the two „Liquid Legal“ compendiums and author of "Leading When You Are Not the Boss“. Roger earned his PhD from Stanford University while on Fulbright and Stanford Dissertation Fellowships.
Thomas Wegerich
Lawyer, Publisher, legal market 360 Thomas has long held various management positions in leading legal publishing houses. He is founder of the publishing house German Law Publishers, which operates numerous top-class journalistic projects, networks and event formats as part of a joint venture with F.A.Z.-Fachverlag. In addition, Thomas is co-founder and member of the Board of Directors of the Bundesverband der Wirtschaftskanzleien in Deutschland (BWD). He also serves as member of the Legal Committee of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Frankfurt.
Dr. Jo Aschenbrenner, LL.M.
MOJO CoachingMental Health Coach and lawyer 20+ years of experience in the legal profession: Freshfields, Bucerius Law School, Bucerius Center on the Legal Profession / I passed the degree in "Life is the curriculum" and transformed my burnout into personal and family wellbeing / Obsessed with supporting professionals in regaining their balance and living a joyful life / Transformation from within
Michael Vetter
Senior Legal Counsel Compliance, Antitrust and State Aid @ E.ON SE Michael has 10+ years experience in the fields of compliance, antitrust and state aid as a lawyer. He set up the state aid consultancy at E.ON SE in 2022 and is responsible for antitrust compliance group-wide. Michael is aiming to establish a knowledge database and to create solutions that make the work in the Legal Team more efficient.
Alice Armitage
Professor & Director of Applied Innovation, University of California Hastings Law School Professor Armitage is Professor & Director of Applied Innovation at UC Hastings College of the Law, which includes overseeing innovative hubs, LexLab and the Startup Legal Garage. She began her career as an international tax attorney at Arnold & Porter in Washington DC, moving from there to a position in the Office of the International Chief Counsel at the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to develop tax policy for complex cross-border financial transactions. A graduate of Yale Law School and Brown University, Professor Armitage has also founded two startups.
Emma Ziercke
Legal Profession at the Bucerius Law School Emma is a former Linklaters Managing Associate (Corporate) from the UK. After moving to Hamburg, Germany, she completed an Executive MBA focussing on law firm management, organisational behaviour and diversity. As a Senior Research Associate at the Bucerius Center on the Legal Profession, she continues to research on these topics.
Matthias Bosbach
Lawyer & Tax Consultant at Ebner StolzGeneralist focused on international cases, helping companies navigate cross-border legal and tax issues. Deeply involved in the digital transformation of this field, enabling companies and consultants to build solutions and processes that combine both human and tech modules. Always looking for common ground between different people and fields, passionate about building crosslinks and bridges.
Diane Manz
Business Coach, brandung |coaching & consulting I am a qualified psychologist and systemic business coach with 17 years of experience in human resources, including 13 years as HR Manager in an international law firm. 2017 I started my own consulting company brandung | coaching & consulting offering coaching & workshops with a focus on leadership, career development and stressmanagement.
Lilian Mateu Ruano
Selectius, founder. Business Agility for Legal consultant. Lawyer and legal business consultant with more than 25 years of experience, now focused on training and coaching Kanban Method for lawyers and legal sector professionals. I help legal firms and in-house departments to reduce overburdening, increase legal operations efficiency and improve legal services outcomes.
John Joyce
Business Executive I am the Vice President of Alliances at legal operations software company, Brightflag. I have more than 25 years of experience building strategic alliances with leading companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Intuit. I'm interested in working with legal operations professionals to drive digital transformations for their business and the legal industry in general.
Yao Treier
Legal IP Innovation PMO Lead
Stefan Weber
Head of Citizen Development & Low Code at ISD FENIQS I enable and assist Law Firms and Legal Departments building first-class case and documents centric digital solutions leveraging Low-Code/No-Code application platforms and tools. Overall, I'm a digital craftsman and maker using proven technology and a benefit-oriented and streamlined process from ideation, over development, to smooth transition into regular operation. For companies that want to involve non-IT employees in the development of digital solutions, I provide extensive guidance in setting up a Citizen Development Program and Framework.
Henrik Wehrs
Allen & Overy LLP Henrik is responsible for legal digitisation projects at Allen & Overy LLP in Continental Europe. He has extensive experience in IT and legaltech, having previously advised many law firms and legal departments on digital projects. With his company, streamlaw, he was part of a global law firm’s innovation hub. He has also established numerous technology and consumer goods companies as co-founder and Chief Technology Officer.
YoonHyun (Drake) Cho
Conflict Analytics Lab and Mouthpiece Law Founder of Mouthpiece Law, YoonHyun, is responsible for the AI and the Future of Health Systems at the Conflict Analytics Lab (a research-based consortium interested in applying AI and data analytics to conflict resolution and negotiation based @Queen's Law and Smith.) JD Candidate 2021 and BCom: Finance & Economics at the University of Toronto, Graduate with High Distinction (Top 5%).
Dr. Florian Koemm
General Counsel & Vice President Dr. Florian Koemm is the General Counsel for Siemens Energy in the Middle East, based out of Dubai. After graduating in Law from the Universities of Passau and Bonn (Germany) and post-graduate studies, Dr. Koemm started his career advising Siemens’ Financial Services business in Munich in 2009. He then moved on following different opportunities with the Mobility business in Erlangen and New York. Since 2017, Dr. Koemm is based out of Dubai and supporting Siemens Energy’s business in all legal matters across the Middle East. In addition to German, Dr. Koemm is fluent in English, Portuguese and Spanish.
René Beulen
Rene Beulen BV / Transform Data International I'm active as a consultant on the intersection of business and IT. I focus on advising companies on how to best use information technology (IT) to achieve their business goals. This business (IT) consulting includes both consultancy and implementation services, but does not focus on transactional IT activities. Mainly law firms, professional services organizations and corporate legal departments use my services so "LegalTech"is important to me.
Maurus Schreyvogel
Novartis As Chief Legal Innovation Officer, Maurus Schreyvogel drives peak in-house legal department performance and accelerates functional innovation. He focuses on corporate legal department best practices and future needs, and application of technologies to increase value to the business while driving down cost and fostering a globally connected culture.
Björn Frommer
Lawyer and Managing Partner of FROMMER LEGAL & CEO of JUNE Björn Frommer is a lawyer and Managing Partner of FROMMER LEGAL. As a lawyer, he has worked on the digitalisation of legal and operational processes for close to 20 years. Together with his partners, he created JUNE, a modular cloud platform designed for the handling of mass legal proceedings and large-scale projects. Today, JUNE is used in law firms and legal departments to manage high-volume processes from a single source in a resource-efficient manner.
Pierre Daniel Wittmann
Lawyer
Dr. Yana Heussen
Co-Founder of the Mindful Leadership Circle / Consultant, Coach & Trainer for Conscious Leadership / Neuropsychology Dr. Yana Heussen is the founder of the Wise Impact Lab – a global firm for organizational and leadership development passionate about creating a more human world of work. With her 10+ years experience she is a trusted consultant, coach and trainer for companies such as eBay, Axel Springer or Deloitte.
Mark A. Cohen
CEO, Legal Mosaic & Executive Chairman, Digital Legal Exchange Mark is CEO of Legal Mosaic, a legal business consultancy that provides strategic advice to corporate legal departments, law firms, legal service providers, legal networks, entrepreneurs, and law schools. He is a co-Founder and Executive Chairman of The Digital Legal Exchange, a unique, global, not-for-profit organization created to teach, apply, and scale digital principles to the legal function. He has been a regular contributor to Forbes for five years, writing on the global legal marketplace. Mark has also written frequently for Bloomberg Law, The ABA Journal, The American Lawyer, Legal Business World, and The Canadian Bar Journal.
Tomas van der Heijden
Entrepreneur in Residence at Merantix
Dr. Anita Lamprecht
International Lawyer | Future Law | Metaverse Enthusiast I am an expat lawyer for 2 decades. Gathering international experience in highly diverse and multicultural places such as Geneva, Dubai, Zug, London and Vienna. I am driven by the respect for other cultures, the necessity of access to justice and the amazing opportunities digital technology can offer. Law and technology are the ideal partners to me. Why am I a future law and metaverse enthusiast ? Because our (digital) future is «vague, but exciting».
Carolin Kothe
Lawyer at KPMG Law (Legal Technology and Operations) Educated lawyer and data protection officer, who draws on the experience of her private software/hardware projects as well as professional experience, particularly in the business and healthcare sectors, including companies such as Pfizer, Charité, Sparkasse, to make legal work more effective, less expensive, and less error-prone.
Nikolai Wessendorf
Deloitte Legal Counsel at Deloitte Legal for digital law, legal tech enthusiast and enabler. Working with great and driven companies in several sectors, market leaders in InsurTech as well as international corporations. Living the start-up spirit to push digital transformation wherever it helps us to responsibly grow - as humans and in our business life.
Stefan C. Schicker LL.M.
Lawyer // Legal Innovation Enthusiast I am a lawyer in Germany focused on international aspects of digital, tech and IP law. I am enthusiastic about new technologies and a view on how legal service can be developed and optimized. I am a frequent speaker presenting legal and legaltech topics on various private and public events.
Tatiana Caldas-Löttiger
International business lawyer with 12+ years of experience working in the intersection between law, technology, and regulatory affairs within the telecom/IT law/Cloud industry, including Data Privacy & Security. Tatiana has extensive international working experience and a solid understanding of the regulatory environments in the EU, USA, and LATAM from working with political bodies, policymakers, and academia on technology policy issues. Tatiana is LLI Ambassador for Northern Europe.
Dr. Martin Biehaule
Legal Tech Enthusiast - Senior Manager Projects - Organisational Change Manager - GSK STOCKMANNDr. Martin Biehaule is an expert in Legal Tech and the challanges of digitalization change management projects. With a special focus on the complexity of the human factor as a critical element for sustainable success in digital change. Profit will be created at the intersection of cutting edge technology, deployed in interconnected application landscapes, used by users in a positiv motivational framework and organisational surrounding.
Henriete Fejes
Lawyer | Intellectual Property | Media Law | Technology Extensive practice in Brazil with over 18 years of experience in implementing governance programs, corporate contracts, complex negotiations, intellectual property, media law, technology, and innovation. Henriete contributes with creativity and assertiveness in the client's business strategy and decision-making processes to make things happen. Exercise judgment on risk and opportunity, harmonizing legal insight with business acumen to help guide the clients through the big decisions. Believe that there is always something to learn and ways to grow, so appreciate the team’s and client’s opinions.
Valentin De Negri Fischer
Legal OS Inspired by the Free Software movement Valentin came into Legal Tech investigating the implications of new forms of digital property on factual legal relations. Since 2018 he works as a Legal Engineer for Legal OS, where he develops - together with his coworkers- new methods and processes for the legal profession.
Vasile Tiple
UiPath Head of Legal Automation and the architect of the UiPath's Legal team and Legal Automation Program. Vasile was UiPath's General Counsel and has been at the forefront of designing and implementing the company’s legal automation vision. In his current role, he is in charge of driving industry wide automation adoption by developing new licensing models, designing UiPath's go-to-market strategy for legal automation solutions, and identifying opportunities to improve legal and compliance processes.
Astrid Kohlmeier
Legal Designer | Lawyer I counsel law firms and legal departments on innovation and, in particular, legal design. As a member and lecturer of the Executive Faculty at the Bucerius Center on the Legal Profession, I see the different needs of the various stakeholders in the legal market as one of the greatest challenges to mastering a user-centric and problem-solving digital transformation.
Philipp Glock
Lawyer; Partner; Head of Legal Corporate Services; Head of IT & Innovation; Co-Head of Legal Process and Technology My focus is on digitalization, technology and process consulting for legal departments as well as corporate and commercial law. As Co-Head of the Legal Process & Technology Solution, I am familiar with the latest digital solutions for companies of all sizes and help with the selection & introduction of the appropriate tools and the implementation or revision of processes in the legal function.
Stefano Diemmi
Founder and Inventor - AHCS DAO - The InterTwined Being Visionary creator of The InterTwined Being and a staunch advocate for AI-human collaboration. He is deeply passionate about crypto, blockchain, NFTs, and the transformative potential of Web3 communities in shaping a new customer experience. As an accomplished director with extensive global experience in start-up management, product development, and leading teams across multi-channel businesses, Stefano excels in driving performance and managing change. His expertise spans a wide range of responsibilities, from overseeing full P&L to handling corporate affairs and technical/product management. Stefano's cross-cultural proficiency and dedication to innovation make him a driving force in the rapidly evolving world of AI and blockchain technology.
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Zoë Andreae
LECARE Zoë is the CEO of LECARE, one of the leading German legal software companies providing solutions for legal, compliance, data security and other specialist departments in more than 500 companies, at local authorities, associations, legal firms and other organisations that manage contracts, trademarks and compliance. In 2018, Zoë was named Woman of Legal Tech 2018, for her pioneering Master Thesis on Legal Tech Startups and their role in the Digital Transformation of the German Legal Industry and her efforts in advancing the legal tech scene in Europe. Zoë studied Disruptive Strategy at the Harvard Business School and Corporate Innovation at Stanford Graduate School of Business. She is a founding member of the Hamburg chapter of Legal Hackers and is a member of the supervisory board of the Liquid Legal Institute e.V.
Georg Drespe
BMW Group
Dr. Stephan Morsch
Partner at SKW Schwarz Rechtsanwälte Dr. Stephan Morsch advises German and international companies and financial investors in M&A, private equity / venture capital investments, joint ventures, as well as corporate law. His clients include, in particular, companies in the media, technology, automotive, energy, healthcare, and investment goods sectors, as well as funds and family offices. He studied law in Regensburg, Paris and Munich. Before joining SKW Schwarz in 2014, he worked from 1999 through 2014 as associate and partner in an international law firm in Munich.
Jagruti Kumar
Legal Operations | Legal Tech | Innovation Jagruti made a conscious decision to change career tracks to contribute to improving legal processes rather than suffer from its pitfalls. Currently, work as a Legal Engineer at the Innovation Lab of SKW Schwarz Rechtsanwälte wherein she contributes to the strategy and development of tools and procedures to ensure that legal processes are efficient and effective.
Marcel Ritter
General Counsel Telefónica I have been General Counsel at Telefónica Germany since 2014. Prior to that, I held various management and senior legal counsel positions with different focuses. Digitisation and law have a lot in common - and the challenge is to bring them together while knowing the differences.
Christian Hübscher
Partnernetwork 3DC, Kugler Maag Cie GmbH Since more than 23 years I am passionate about developing organizational processes that are both sustainable and in line with employees’ capabilities, thus ensuring innovation and effectiveness. My expertise ranges from Agile and Digital Transformation to Automotive SPICE/CMMI based business improvement.
Michael Burkhart
Legal Executive & Innovation Manager I Creating business value through Legal Operations | Shaping the Legal User Experience LUX I am a lawyer, designer and doer. Developing ideas for the Legal User Experience (LUX) of the future motivates me on a daily basis. The interfaces of people, data, technologies and processes, of legal and business topics are essential for the Legal of tomorrow.
Dr. Valérie M. Saintot
Lawyer, Lecturer, Mindfulness teacher Valérie has worked 10 years as legal counsel (legal advice, litigation, law-making, legal operations); and 10 years in general management functions (OD, HR, financial controlling, communications, and Statistics). Mindfulness, visual and design thinking, knowledge and performance management as well as technology are topics high on her agenda.
Marc-Aurel Reif
Consultant Change & Adoption, Coach I support people in organizations in digital communication and collaboration, with a focus on accessibility as well as fears of and change. In doing so, I combine technological with psychological knowledge (engineer meets neuro-systemic coach). One of my favorite topics is complexity reduction.
Saju George
Senior Manager - Legal Technology I am Senior Manager - Legal Technology and Data Protection. I deal with various jurisdictions and am involved in global data protection projects. I am the implementation manager for Legal technology and automation. We are dealing with various AI tools and implementing technology in legal teams. My profile also involves dealing with data protection-related queries, incidents, issues and analytics.
Karla Schlaepfer
Independent cert. Systemic Coach, Author, Agilist and Design Thinker Karla has over 20 years of experience in interdisciplinary teaching and communication training. She is the co-author of a non-fiction book on innovating cultural change and another on Design Thinking. As a professional coach and cert. scrum master, she conducts agile workshops for the legal sector, DAX enterprises and universities.
Stefan Schmittner
Seit Juli 2020 >PD - Berater der öffentlichen Hand GmbH< Manager ; Seit 2017 >Digitalisierung im Notariat< Autoren- und Vortragstätigkeit; 2011 bis Juni 2020 >Westernacher Solutions GmbH< Fachberater Justiz- und Notariats-Software; 2003 bis 2011 >assistance partner GmbH & Co. KG< Prokurist, Leiter Interne Organisation, Unternehmensübergreifende Leistungs-, Abrechnungs- und Zahlungsprozesse
Lukas Wollenschlaeger
Lawyer
Katherine E. Lewis
Partner, Meister Seelig & Fein LLP Katherine concentrates her practice in InfoTech and U.S. Data Privacy & Security Compliance. She counsels a variety of U.S.-based and international enterprise, midlevel, and startup clients across a multitude of industries, advising on IT, data privacy & security, and intellectual property matters with a special emphasis on software and technology development, monetization and licensing, collection and use of data and personally identifiable information, and cross-border data transfers in compliance with an ever-changing legal landscape.
Dr. rer. nat. Jobst Wibbelmann
Chemistry (Dipl.chem.,Dr.rer.nat.), Patent attorney (German and European patent attorney), MBA (EMBA -WHU/Kellogg), Having spent almost 35 years (including 28 years as the partner of a renowned law firm) in the legal profession. I am looking forward to embrace my newly acquired skills in a different environment.
Silvio Kupsch
PWC Germany Experienced Litigator. Deputy head of litigation at PwC Germany's Office of General Counsel and co-head of the department's working group on legal tech & digitalisation. Lecturer at the University of Gießen in the field of law and digitalisation + legal tech. Author and conference speaker on topics relating to litigation, digitalisation and innovation.
Robert Dilworth
Managing Director & Assoc. General Counsel, Bank of America / BofA Securities (ex-Merrill Lynch) I have 30 yrs experience as in-house counsel in global financial institutions (BofA and Deutsche Bank) and prior to that, 6 yrs as associate at Cleary Gottlieb. My practice areas (derivatives, securities, banking) have often been in areas well ahead of the development of the law, so I'm comfortable with (and challenged by) uncertainty. I hope to bring this background and my energies to further LII goals. A confirmed Atlanticist, I split life between New York City and Hamburg, and aim to be a bridge between liked-minded innovators on both continents.
Pascal Strauß
PwC Legal | Legal Operations Manager Focus on Legal Tech and Legal Operations. My daily work includes the implementation and administration of legal tech tools, software and data care platforms to gain structure and efficiency. This includes many years of experience with the administration of entity management systems, contract lifecycle systems as well as data management & sharing platforms. In addition, there is also a private interest in digitalisation paired with affinity of tech.
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