AI for your law firm: more time for client work, less admin. We build AI that takes routine work off your secretaries.
Incoming post via beA, deadlines, standard letters, new client enquiries: routine takes up a lot of your secretaries’ time. AI Værk works with you from the first call to a solution in daily use. Client data stays under your control, on a server in your firm if you prefer.
AI Værk is your 360° partner for AI in mid-sized companies.
Together we pin down where AI can take work off your hands, and then we implement it.
We know the day-to-day work in law firms: incoming post with deadlines, standard letters and precedents from earlier matters. We also know what holds things up everywhere: re-keying data from one system into another, or waiting for the one person who knows the answer.
You can start wherever you are: with an early idea, a workflow that takes too long, or a finished plan for us to implement.
Justus August and Elias Arndt
About us-
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Consulting and AI audit
In a free initial call of about 30 minutes, we listen. In the €500 AI audit, we review your workflows, data and software, then agree with you where to start.
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Workshops and training
Your team practises on real tasks from their own day-to-day work and learns to use AI tools safely and check the results.
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AI assistants and chatbots
Your team or your customers ask, your company knowledge answers: with sources, and only with what the person asking is allowed to see.
Internal AI assistants -
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Process automation
Recurring workflows run on their own from intake to result, connected to the software you already use.
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Custom development
We build custom software where off-the-shelf products fall short, for example for a workflow that only exists at your company.
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Operations and maintenance
We host, monitor and maintain the software and extend it when your workflows change.
Operations and monitoring
Where AI saves your firm time
Get incoming post to the case file
The software matches pleadings via beA, client emails and scanned post to the right case file and suggests the deadline. Your team enters it in the diary.
Prepare standard letters
Status enquiries, requests for documents and cover letters are drafted from the case data. The lawyer reads them through and signs.
Find your firm’s know-how faster
Template letters, earlier pleadings and internal guidelines: answers come from your own documents, with a link to the document they came from.
A pleading from the other side, ready for the deadline diary
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The pleading arrives
The other side’s defence comes in via beA: 14 pages plus exhibits.
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The software files it
On your firm’s server, it recognises the case reference and the parties, files the document in the right case file, sums up the key points and suggests the deadline set for a response.
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The lawyer decides
She checks the suggested deadline, your team enters it in the diary, and the summary is already waiting in the case file.
Client data stays where you decide.
You are bound by legal professional secrecy. So you decide where the software runs, and we set it up exactly that way.
- Confidentiality in the contract, in text form and with everything § 43e BRAO and Section 203 of the German Criminal Code (StGB) require of the contract: professional secrecy with a note on the criminal consequences, access only as far as needed, and clear rules for subcontractors.
- A data processing agreement under the GDPR, signed before the software sees real data.
- Your data is never used to train AI models.
- Every access is logged. You see who opened what, and when.
Working safely with AI: training for secretaries and lawyers
Your team practises on post as it reaches the office: what does the software sort, what does the AI see of it, and which question belongs in legal advice? Use the switch to see how client data stays protected.
“Dear Dr Lenz, in my case against Company 118Hausverwaltung Nord, a letter arrived today: the other side wants a reply by 30 November. I would also like to know whether an appeal is worth it. Kind regards, Person 5520Thomas Müller”
- Your server inserts placeholders
- Sent encrypted
- Cloud AI processes it
- Your server puts the names back
Only your server knows which placeholder belongs to which person.
- Message arrives
- The AI on your server works with the full message
Nothing leaves your firm.
Find the case file
Identify the right case file from the client’s name and the opposing party, even when the AI only sees both as placeholders.
Double-check the deadline
Compare the date given with the other side’s letter before it goes into the deadline diary.
Pass the legal question to the lawyer
Recognise the question about an appeal and put it to the lawyer. She answers it in the consultation.
Questions before getting started
Can we use AI with client data?
Yes. § 43e BRAO allows you to share confidential information with service providers, as far as their work requires it and provided they are bound to confidentiality. That is exactly what we set out in the contract, together with the data processing agreement. If a service directly serves a single client matter, you also obtain the client’s consent. If the software and the AI model run on a server in your firm, the data stays on your premises from start to finish.
Does it work with our case management software?
Yes. Where your case management software offers an interface, we create documents, suggested deadlines and drafts directly in the case file. Otherwise your team moves them across from a work list. We check which route suits your firm in the AI audit.
What does getting started cost?
The initial call is free. If the task is already clear, we move straight to a proposal. If a closer assessment is needed, the AI audit costs €500, fully credited towards implementation with AI Værk. Small solutions start at around €2,000. If we find no useful AI application, the audit fee is waived; previously agreed expenses remain payable. Our proposal lists setup, hardware, hosting and support separately.
Can the AI research legal sources?
It works with what is in your own documents. External databases such as beck-online or juris need their own access. Your team always checks citations and conclusions.
Is it worthwhile for a small firm?
Often even more so, because a few people carry a lot of routine work. In the AI audit we do the maths with your own figures. If it does not pay off, we tell you plainly.
Which post takes up most of your secretaries’ time?
In the free initial call, tell us how post and deadlines run in your firm. We will show you where AI helps, what it costs and how it works with your case management software.