"FRANKFURT. The legal industry cannot ignore the trend of generative artificial intelligence (AI). Both sides can benefit from a partnership. Lawyers in law firms, legal departments of companies, and associations can now complete many work steps – from document management and research to drafting documents – more efficiently with the help of AI tools. The providers, in turn, need more and more data to train their large language models and chatbots and must pay particular attention to language diversification. "Learning" with German legal language and German judgments is therefore essential for language models that have previously been trained primarily with other jurisdictions in order to reduce error susceptibility and increase quality.
For this reason, more and more legal AI platforms are expanding from their home market to other countries. This week, Doctrine, which claims to be one of the leading legal AI platforms in Europe, announced its market entry in Germany. The French legal tech company has chosen a well-known name among lawyers in Germany for its strategic investment.
The Mannheim-based online platform dejure.org has been active in the market with legal databases for 25 years and records around ten million user visits per month.
How much Doctrine is investing in the acquisition is unknown. Since its founding in 2016, the French company has grown to 180 employees in the domestic legal market, working with major international law firms and companies such as Société Générale and the Axa Group. However, it reserves the right to complete a full acquisition at a later date. As recently in Italy, the initial focus will be on mutual integration and then local adaptation of the legal AI. "The combination of Doctrine's legal AI with dejure.org's impressive legal database will offer lawyers in Germany an unprecedented service," says Doctrine CEO Guillaume Carrère, who describes the partner from the Rhine-Neckar region as a long-established player in the German legal tech market. "After all the advance praise for AI, lawyers now expect practical solutions that fit perfectly into their workflows," Oliver García, Managing Director of dejure.org, is quoted as saying. Based on its experience and sophisticated products, he believes Doctrine will quickly establish itself in the German market. This will be supported by bringing not only the databases but also the knowledge of legal publishing and legal tech in this country into the partnership, García said.
Meanwhile, the Berlin-based AI startup Noxtua (formerly Xayn) is taking a different approach. The Berlin-based company opened its first international office in Paris in mid-May, and this expansion also involves using French language, legal data, and decisions for the language model. In the medium term, Noxtua, which recently attracted participation from major law firms CMS and Dentons, as well as C.H. Beck Publishing, as part of a financing round, aims to establish itself as a European alternative to the US market leaders.” [1]
1. KI-Anbieter haben Hunger auf Daten: Französisches Legaltech Doctrine kommt nach Deutschland / Auch Noxtua wächst. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung; Frankfurt. 07 June 2025: 24.
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