The four reasons in numbers
- 58.3%lack of familiarity
- 38.9%data protection
- 38.9%cost
Liability questions are named by 30.6%. The answers come from smaller firms in Germany that do not use AI. The overall rate of use there is 63.3%.
Source: Wolters Kluwer, Benchmark Report 2026 on innovation and growth in smaller law firms, section on Germany; 99 of the 633 respondents are based in Germany. Reported by Haufe on 30 January 2026 (in German).
Four questions to ask before the first step
- Familiarity: Which single task costs the most time today? A pilot starts there, not everywhere at once.
- Data protection: Which agreements are in place before the first document is processed?
- Cost: Is the price fixed, and does the pilot end on a date?
- Liability: Who checks and signs off every result? The answer has to be: the lawyer.
How Metatron Qube Legal handles this
The pilot has six steps, the agreements come first, and we see no client data before a contract is signed. Every result goes to a person in your firm, who decides.