Yesterday, Jakob Schilling, research assistant at the Bucerius Legal Innovation Hub, attended the Legal Disruption Conference 2025 at the BSP Business & Law School in Berlin.
His three takeaways:
- What happens when contracts ‘think’?
In his keynote speech, Rightmart founder Marco Klock outlined a future in which highly customized contracts are created by the parties using chatbots, property is digitally self-managed, and everyday law becomes virtually free of charge thanks to automation. Knowledge monopolies are breaking down, platforms are taking over rules and processes, and legal work is shifting toward strategy, technology, and system architecture.
- The legal market needs true interdisciplinarity
Whether in law firms, legal tech startups, or the judiciary, the panels showed that lawyers, developers, and designers will have to work much more closely together in the future. Away from knowledge monopolies – toward forums for mutual listening and testing.
Efficiency does not necessarily mean acceptance
A strong message from the international panel: not everything that is fast is accepted. Technology can make the law faster and more efficient – but it also needs the human process that legitimizes decisions.
Inspiring ideas, exciting discussions, and plenty of room for testing things out for yourself. Thank you to Kristina Bodrozic-Brnic and Martin Fries for organizing a great event!
