According to the online database of CodeX — The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics currently more than 700 startups are attempting to disrupt the legal industry worldwide, some of them in Germany.
The number of venture capital funded legal tech startups in 2016 compared to 2011 increased by a factor of 10 and is steadily increasing. Big legal tech hubs have been formed in the Silicon Valley, New York, Toronto and London, which are now being joined by additional tech-heavy clusters in places like Australia, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Estonia and Asia.
Across those legal tech hotspots, the developments and patterns of technology and business models differ. Even though there is an increasingly active legal entrepreneurship scene in Germany, there are still far fewer legal tech startups and lower adoption rates among law firms and corporate legal departments than in the United States.