Liquid Legal

Kai Jacob is a lawyer by education, joined SAP in 2008 and heads the Global Contract Management Services team since 2011. In 2015, he was promoted to Global VP, assuming additional responsibility for Legal Information Management, aiming to support the digital transformation of the legal function. Kai joined the IACCM (International Association of Contract and Commercial Management) in 2004, became a member of its Board of Directors in 2012, and from January 2018 until October 2018 serving as Chairman of the Board. Kai is a regular speaker at conferences and engaged in various round-tables, boards and initiatives in support of his vision of LIQUID LEGAL. Dierk Schindler is founding partner of a law firm in Munich before he joined NetApp Inc., in 2005, to build NetApp's EMEA Legal Team and the Deal Management function. Today, Dierk is the Head of Legal EMEA, as well as the Head of Global Legal Shared Services. Dierk served as the Vice Chair Europe & Officer on the Board of Directors of IACCM (International Association of Commercial & Contract Management) until October 2018. He is the co-editor of the book "LIQUID LEGAL" (Springer) that covers the profound transformation in the Legal industry. Dierk regularly presents at business & peer groups, as well as at universities across Europe, on privacy, digitization & innovation. Roger Strathausen is a global business expert with experience in organizational design, process modeling, corporate universities, talent strategy, coaching and functional team building. Dr. Strathausen previously was an executive at Accenture and an employee at SAP. He is co-editor of the "Liquid Legal" compendium (Springer 2017), author of "Leading When You Are Not the Boss" (Apress 2015), and a speaker on topics of leadership and learning. Strathausen earned his PhD from Stanford University while on Fulbright and Stanford Dissertation Fellowships, and his MA from the University of Tubingen.

Roger Strathausen, Kai Jacob and Dierk Schindler, Introduction: Designing Tomorrow's Legal - The Common Legal Platform.- Barbara Chomicka, "Let me have men about me that are fat."  Using a Common Legal Platform to Expand the Legal Services Providers' Pie.- Tobias Broda, What Digital Legal can learn from Industrie 4.0 collaboration.- Micha-Manuel Bues and Michael Grupp, Lex Automata: is it finally time?.- Thomas Barton, Artificial Intelligence and Probability: Designing a Legal System to Prevent and Resolve Legal Problems.- Bruno Mascello, Products and Platform as Next Challenges to Legal Service Providers - How Trusted Relationships May Help.- Andreas Lenk, Navigating the Future of Inhouse-Legal.- Astrid Kohlmeier and Joaquin Santuber, Is the Common Legal Platform a Wicked Problem? A Legal Design Approach and Case Study.- Stephan Breidenbach, The New School of Law.- Martina Seidl, Digital Leadership.- Dierk Schindler, The New Legal is Agile - And It Has a NewDNA.- Zoë Andreae, The Common Legal Platform Revolution.- Ines Maria Curtius, Legal and Contract Innovation in a Corporate Environment: Contract Innovators @ Airbus.- Rainer Markfort and Patrycjusz Zamorski, AI + EI = Future.- Fritjof Nelting, Health Compass for Lawyers.- Uwe Bandey and Silvio Kupsch, A Common Legal Platform in the Age of Constant Acceleration.- Sven von Alemann, How SMEs Can Compete in a Data-driven Economy Through Collaboration.- Roger Strathausen and Ingrid Nikkels, Contract Is Code - How to Make Contracting Smart.- Thomas Northoff and Klaus Gresbrand, Writing It Up Right - Which Documentation Automation Tool. Is Right for Me?.- Sebastian Schüssler, Harmonia Est Discordia Concors - a little war story about LegalTech implementation and collaboration.- Thomas Berger, Patrick Jouvenal, Nina Endres and Justus Wilke, A Field Report: Practical Insights from establishing an innovative Legal Spend Management System at Deutsche Bahn.- Christian Bosse and Jan Schulz, Legal Department 4.0 - Operating Model of the Future.- Jan Phillip Rektorschek and Tobias Baus, Protectability and Enforceability of AI-Generated Inventions.- Axel Freiherr von dem Bussche, Data Protection 4.0 for Industry 4.0.- Bernhard Fiedler and Tino Duttiné, DAC6 - Development of a Common Notification Platform.- Emma Ziercke, Dirk Hartung and Klaus-Stefan Hohenstatt, What does the Digital Revolution mean for Legal Education?.- Kai Jacob, Commoning and Tribes of Competence.- Philipp Glock and Alexander Weiß, Legal Service Platforms - Balancing Commercial and Common Interests.- Baltasar Cevc, Open Source User Foundation - Blueprint for the Common Legal Platform?.