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The founder and long-time director of the company, attorney Dr. Georg Berger (54), again takes over the majority of CLARIUS.LEGAL Rechtsanwaltsaktiengesellschaft. Following a merger with an acquisition company, Berger, together with attorney Dr. Johannes von Bismarck (56) and attorney Nils Oberschelp (53), will in future hold approximately 90% of the shares in the company.

Nils Oberschelp will be appointed to the Executive Board of CLARIUS.LEGAL Rechtsanwaltsaktiengesellschaft as of October 1, 2023. In his role as Co-CEO, alongside founder and CEO Dr. Ernst Georg Berger, he will be primarily responsible for legal tech, as well as sales, marketing, IT and finance.

The Hamburg-based legal service provider CLARIUS.LEGAL Rechtsanwaltsaktiengesellschaft and the Viennese law firm Laback Law will be going their separate ways in the future. As part of a strategic alliance, the two law firms will work together and start their cooperation in the area of legal tech with a whistleblower system.

The use of artificial intelligence in companies can significantly and sustainably improve production performance – but it also poses serious risks.

Whistleblower systems process personal data and should therefore be subjected to a comprehensive data protection review before they are introduced. A data privacy audit consists of various steps.

On July 10, 2023, the new adequacy decision between the European Union and the United States, known as the Data Privacy Framework (DPF), entered into force. The official list of DPF-certified companies has now been published. This has a direct impact on your company.

In contrast to the EU Directive, German law does not require companies to set up anonymous reporting channels. Nevertheless, we have decided to allow anonymous tips in our solution, which nevertheless allow us to enter into a dialog with the whistleblower. Why? Not only whistleblowers, but also companies benefit from anonymous reporting channels

The European Commission adopted an adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. data protection framework on 10/07/2023 in the third attempt.

For many people, they are now part of everyday business life: video conferencing. A practical feature here is the recording function. As with everything to do with the processing of personal data and metadata, however, some regulations of the GDPR must be observed.

Iris Duch, MLE, Attorney & Chief Privacy Officer, and Attorney Dr. Andreas Pagiela have worked a lot with the GDPR over the years. On the occasion of the GDPR anniversary, they give us a personal review of their experiences and the development of the GDPR.

Numerous delivery services now allow customers to specify a drop-off location where the supplier will deposit ordered goods, rather than having to accept goods themselves. If everything works well, this is a practical solution for both the delivery service and the customer, but it gets tricky when the supplier says the package will be left at the drop-off location, but the customer can’t find it there.

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Federal government assumes costs of € 109,000,000 for the implementation for companies. CLARIUS.LEGAL wins Best of Legal in the Compliance category with a legal tech platform that cuts costs.