Hanseatische Rechtsanwaltskammer Hamburg v. Wolters Kluwer Deutschland GmbH (smartlaw)

Bundesgerichtshof · I ZR 113/20 · filed 2021-09-09 · Germany · Unauthorized practice / consumer

judgmentWolters Kluwer smartlaw

Where it stands (2026-09-07): BGH judgment issued September 9, 2021 affirmed dismissal of the bar chamber’s challenge and held the smartlaw document generator was not an RDG legal service.

The German Federal Court of Justice ruled that smartlaw’s rule-based contract document generator does not provide an unauthorized legal service under the Rechtsdienstleistungsgesetz. The row is marked legal-AI-adjacent because the product is rule-based rather than generative AI.

Milestones

2021-09-09BGH held smartlaw-style digital contract generation is not a legal service under RDG § 2(1). · document

Docket / decision: bundesgerichtshof.de
Read: 2026-09-07 · primary document read
Found via: user brief, BGH official site
Notes: Rule-based document generator, included because the brief requested it with qualifier upl-consumer.

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