Who it's for
The law firm that belongs to its clients, not to a data centre in Virginia.
In the morning, a client call by video, the notes go straight into the file, the time is booked to the case. By evening, the system knows how much of the case is billable, without a separate time-tracking tool and without a manual export.
1 instead of 5
DPAs to manage
DE
Servers for files, chat and time tracking
6 years
Retention on German servers
The daily reality today
What hurts right now.
Many law firms today use four to six different services for video, messaging, document management and time tracking, including providers with servers in the USA. Each of these services requires its own DPA under Art. 28 GDPR, which someone has to review and manage. Client calls over US services are difficult to reconcile with § 203 of the Criminal Code: whoever cannot technically guarantee confidentiality bears the risk. Time tracking data ends up in services with no binding instructions in place.
The products
What you need from it.
Client meetings by video with EU Meet, on servers in Germany, recording only with explicit consent.
Case notes and meeting minutes are created in the same system as the call, with version history and an access log.
Time tracking on the case directly from the call, exportable as CSV or into common law firm software.
Internal communication about cases in closed channels, without messages being indexed on US servers.
Meeting minutes are created automatically, countersigned by the lawyer and filed as a document in the case file. Transcription and summary run at Mistral AI in France; the recordings are stored in Germany.
Deadlines and tasks per case with reminders and ownership, visible to the whole team working on the matter.
In practice
Four workflows from your day.
- 01
Client call and case note
The lawyer opens EU Meet, the client joins via a link, no app, no account. EU Recap takes notes during the call. A draft set of minutes appears straight after the call; the lawyer adds two sentences, and the document lands in EU Notes under the case. Total time for follow-up: under three minutes.
- 02
Deadline tracking across the team
The paralegal creates a task with a deadline in EU Flow and links it to the case. Everyone involved sees the status, and reminders go out 48 hours beforehand. As the deadline approaches, the priority changes automatically, no separate calendar email needed.
- 03
Month-end close: time on cases
At the end of the month, the partner opens EU Track and filters by case. All booked hours are broken down by employee and type of activity. The export goes to the law firm software as a CSV, one step, no tool in between.
- 04
New employee, access control
A new trainee lawyer starts. EU HR creates the profile, and access rights are assigned by case group. The trainee only sees the files they've been given access to. When they leave, all access is deactivated with a single click. The log is retained.




Legal position
Legal framework for law firms
- § 203 of the Criminal Code obliges lawyers to maintain confidentiality over client secrets, including towards cloud providers that cannot guarantee sufficient adherence to instructions.
- The Federal Lawyers' Act (BRAO) and the bar associations' professional rules require that client data be protected against unauthorised access; a DPA under Art. 28 GDPR with a provider based in the EU meets this requirement.
- Case files must be retained for at least six years under § 50(2) BRAO; EU Notes stores documents with version history and a deletion log on German servers.
- The beA (special electronic lawyer's mailbox) mandates secure electronic communication; EU Suite doesn't replace beA, but complements it for internal collaboration.
- Third-country transfers under Art. 44 et seq. GDPR are problematic with US providers that lack standard contractual clauses and a transfer impact assessment. EU Suite content is stored on servers in Germany. Transcription in EU Recap and the AI features in EU Notes run at Mistral AI in France. The subprocessor list names every provider with its country.
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