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Using both, his personal experience as a Lawyer, Contract Manager and Intrapreneur, and empirical data gathered in interviews, panels and private conversations, the author, together with his team, developed a framework concerning Legal Information Management (LIM). The article will describe LIM as a continuum, moving us from the pre-digital phase to a state of full information-enablement. In doing so, the article aims to de-mystify the digital revolution. The reader will be faced with practical examples of digitalization and should feel motivated to reflect his own situation. LIM does not require in depth knowledge of information technology (IT), but curiosity and openness to change—qualities best exemplified by Faust, the main character in Goethe’s play, and his quest for wisdom:
So that I may perceive whatever holds
The world together in its inmost folds (Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s play “FAUST”)
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Topic of the Bucerius Law School conference “Mensch vs. Machines” or the Robot Lawyer on www.donotpay.co.uk
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Are Hackers the Future Lawyers? http://www.newsbtc.com/2016/06/26/hackers-future-lawyers-maybe/
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Friedman (2005).
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Global Contract Management Services team reporting into the General Counsel Field.
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Ismail (2014).
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Christensen (1997).
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Marvin Lee Minsky, quote taken from the PhD Thesis of Samuel Hiard, 2012.
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Ismail, S., Malone, M. S., & van Geest, Y. (2014). Exponential organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than yours (and what to do about it). New York: Diversion Books.
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Jacob, K. (2017). Legal Information Management (LIM) Strategy: How to Transform a Legal Department. In: Jacob, K., Schindler, D., Strathausen, R. (eds) Liquid Legal. Management for Professionals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45868-7_20
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