
Head of Legal, German Attorney at Law (Rechtsanwalt)
I am a Germany-based lawyer and corporate legal executive serving as Head of Legal at Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA in Lübeck. I studied law i.a. in Erlangen, Tübingen, Bonn, Edinburgh (LL.M.) and Erfurt (Dr. iuris). I am a regular writer on commercial and corporate law topics. Combining law and technology is a natural fit as I spent a lot of time programming as a teenager, predominantly on a Commodore Amiga.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦: German laws get changed in an archaic way. They are not restated, but the amendments contain articles that give commands like (translated) "add [something] in Section XYZ para 3 sentence 2 or add a "new para (4) as follows" - no redlines, consolidated versions only sometimes. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 (𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥) 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: My tool LawConsilidAItorGermany (https://lnkd.in/dyQy9frZ) works as follows: • It allows you to upload a new proposed bill (or the final bill). • It identifies which laws will be changed. • It allows you to upload the publicly available XML-file of the law • It creates a markup and • includes a HITL feature that allows you to walk through the changes and regenerate the change if it hallucinated. Finally you can download a Word .docx file with redlines/trackchanges, either the full law or a compact document with the changed laws 𝐇𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 It works reasonably well, minor issues remain that I was not able to fix before the entry deadline. In particular renumbering of paragraphs is far from error free, but the result allows any trained lawyer to see how the law will look like. And sometimes LLM extraction simply messes up.