Why Lischer Zemp & Partner chose Pandektes in Switzerland

Lischer Zemp & Partner becomes one of Switzerland’s legal tech pioneers through its collaboration with Pandektes

Lischer Zemp & Partner is a Lucerne-based law firm offering a broad range of legal and notarial services. In addition to working as generalists, the firm’s lawyers have different areas of specialisation, allowing them to advise their clients on a wide variety of legal matters.

Accordingly, quick access to reliable legal information is an important part of their day-to-day work. With Pandektes, the firm has found a solution that significantly accelerates legal research while also allowing its own documents and existing firm knowledge to be incorporated into its work with AI.

Legal research in minutes

One of the key use cases for Lischer Zemp & Partner is accelerating traditional legal research.

Instead of manually searching for and analysing relevant legislation and case law across different sources, legal questions can be asked directly in Pandektes. The platform searches the underlying legal sources and, within a short period of time, produces a structured answer with the corresponding references, which can then be verified.

For the firm, the combination of speed and precision is particularly important. Pandektes is not intended to replace the legal assessment carried out by the lawyers, but rather to provide them more quickly with a reliable foundation for their further work.

“When it comes to legal research, two things are particularly important to us: we need to reach a result quickly while at the same time being able to rely on the accuracy of the sources used. This combination of speed and precision is exactly what we value about Pandektes.”

Nadine Berchtold-Suter, Lischer Zemp & Partner

From the legal database to the firm’s own documents

For Lischer Zemp & Partner, however, the use of Pandektes goes beyond research alone.

In addition to the extensive legal database, the firm’s own documents can also be incorporated into its work. This makes it possible, for example, to analyse extensive sets of documents, combine information from different documents, or ask specific questions about the available materials.

Particularly relevant is the ability to connect both worlds: the firm’s own data on the one hand and external legal sources on the other.

For example, a legal question can first be assessed based on the firm’s own documents and then compared against relevant legislation and case law. Instead of switching between different applications, documents and research platforms, a larger part of this process can take place within a single workflow.

“For us, a major added value is that Pandektes does not stop at research. We can also work with our own documents and connect them with the legal database. As a result, the platform is becoming relevant for more and more parts of our daily work.”

Luca Severin Sommerer, Lischer Zemp & Partner

More time for the actual legal work

For the firm, the use of AI itself is not the main priority. What matters is whether technology creates tangible value in day-to-day work.

By enabling faster research and making it possible to work more efficiently with large amounts of the firm’s own information, Pandektes reduces the time required for preparatory work. This allows the lawyers to focus more strongly on legal assessment, advising their clients and developing the right arguments.

At the same time, traceability is maintained: statements resulting from legal research can be checked against the underlying sources and independently assessed by the lawyers.

A first milestone in the Swiss market

For us, the collaboration with Lischer Zemp & Partner also represents the broader development of Pandektes in Switzerland.

Over the past few months, more and more Swiss law firms have started using and testing Pandektes in their daily work. By expanding our Swiss legal data, continuing to develop the functionality of our platform and growing our team, we want to significantly accelerate this development over the coming years.

Our ambition is clear: we do not simply want to be another AI solution in the Swiss legal market. We want to change the way lawyers access and work with legal knowledge: faster, more precisely and more comprehensively than ever before.

For us, Lischer Zemp & Partner is a strong example of what this transformation can already look like today.

“Being able to publish our first Swiss Customer Story with Lischer Zemp & Partner is a special milestone for us. Our ambition is to change the Swiss market for legal research. Fast and precise research is the foundation for this. We are proud to present Lischer Zemp & Partner as our first Swiss partner in this regard!”

Casper Laursen, Co-Founder & CEO of Pandektes