Weblaw

What Weblaw does

Weblaw AG is a Swiss legal technology and specialist legal publishing company, founded in 1999 in Bern and led by founder and CEO Franz Kummer. It operates as a privately held Aktiengesellschaft with a subsidiary in Germany, serving primarily the Swiss legal market (with ancillary reach into Germany, Austria, and Liechtenstein). Its core offering, the Lawsearch platform, provides access to over 735,000 court judgments, 35,000+ legislative texts, and 40,000+ Weblaw publications; complementary products include Lawsearch Enterprise (internal search with iManage, SharePoint, and M-Files DMS integrations), the Lawsearch AI research assistant (semantic search with citable answers on Azure OpenAI), LawDocs (a Microsoft Word Add-in with DeepL translation), LawDesk (practice management), DocEngine (document automation), Push-Service (jurisprudence alerts over 650,000+ decisions), Lawjobs (the leading Swiss legal job board with 85,000+ monthly visits), Weblaw Academy (including the CAS LegalTech program), Escrow (software escrow), and NetzBeweis (digital evidence preservation).

The business model is hybrid: recurring subscriptions (individual and group/organizational access to legal journals and databases, plus Lawsearch AI at CHF 100/user/month), enterprise contracts (custom-priced Lawsearch Enterprise and in-house training), a tiered job-posting marketplace on Lawjobs (Standard, Gold, Platin plus volume bundles), advertising across journals and email editions, transactional shop sales (including CHF 20 individual article purchases), and professional education revenue from the Academy and annual Weblaw Forum LegalTech. Go-to-market mixes self-serve (trial signups, online subscriptions, e-commerce) with direct enterprise sales supported via phone, email, and calendar-booked demos, with the annual Forum serving as a flagship brand-and-demand channel. Weblaw targets law firms (including VISCHER, Wenger Plattner, Burckhardt, CMS Zürich, Homburger, Walderwyss, BAER & KARRER, LALIVE, Nater Dallafior), courts (Federal Administrative Court, Federal Criminal Court, Swiss Federal Court, cantonal courts), in-house legal departments at insurance and corporate clients (Bâloise, Orion Assurance), public administration, universities (via free campus licenses), and individual legal professionals and students across the DACH region. Weblaw claims the largest legal professional reach in Switzerland, with 135,000+ monthly legal professional reach, 40,000+ journal subscribers, 100,000+ monthly Weblaw.ch visits, and 24,000+ weekly Jusletter email readers.

Name

Weblaw

Legal name

Weblaw AG

Website

https://weblaw.ch

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Weblaw AG is a Swiss LegalTech company providing legal research (Lawsearch/Lawsearch AI on Azure OpenAI), document automation (DocEngine, LawDocs), the Lawjobs job board, and legal publishing (Jusletter) to law firms, courts, in-house counsel, and universities across Switzerland.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Legal Technology Software

NAICS

All Other Legal Services (541199), Other Legal Services (54119)

SIC

Services-Legal Services (8111), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Legal Practice Management & Case Management (BPAEAPAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Legal & Regulatory Publishing (Case Law, Statutes, Treatises) (MPAJACAA), Legal Reference (Statutes, Case Law, Practice Guides) (EDAGAGAB), Law & Legal Studies Scholarly Publishing (EDAGAFAG), Legal & Compliance (CLE, Paralegal CE) (EDAAALAB)

Keywords

• Legal research platform
• Legal technology software
• Document automation
• Legal publishing
• Legal job board

Headquarters

HQ city

Berne

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Legal Publishing Subscriptions: Annual or multi-year online subscriptions to legal journals (Jusletter, Jusletter IT, Richterzeitung, ASA, dRSK, LeGes, eBVR, BlSchK), databases (Push-Service, BFonline), and Lawsearch. Individual and group/organizational subscriptions available. Auto-renewal with annual billing.
2. Lawjobs Job Board: Job posting packages (Standard, Gold, Platin) with 31-day publication and optional 31-day extensions. Employer pages, job letters, and social media promotion (Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Instagram) included in premium tiers. Volume discounts for job posting bundles available.
3. Advertising: Digital advertising across Weblaw's online journals and web properties. Ad Space on homepage, visual ads in Jusletter (DE/FR), Jusletter IT, Richterzeitung, ASA, and Datenschutz Rundmail. Community News article placements and Agenda event listings. Pricing varies by placement and publication.
4. Book and E-Book Sales: Physical books and e-books sold via Weblaw Shop. Individual journal article purchases available for CHF 20.00 per article. Podcasts and videos also sold through the shop.
5. Professional Education & Training: Academy offerings including CAS LegalTech (AI for legal practice), online courses, webinars, in-house training, exam preparation (Anwaltsakademie), and coaching. Weblaw Forum LegalTech annual conference with paid recordings. Fee-based seminars and workshops.
6. Agenda Event Listings: Event calendar entries published on Weblaw.ch and distributed through online journals and email editions. Pricing starting at CHF 200 per entry. Free inclusion with advertising inserts.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels9 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

Weblaw AG operates Switzerland's leading integrated LegalTech platform, providing AI-powered legal research (Lawsearch, Lawsearch AI, Lawsearch Enterprise), document automation (LawDocs Word Add-in, DocEngine), law firm management (LawDesk), digital evidence preservation (NetzBeweis), software escrow services, a legal job board (Lawjobs), subscription-based legal journals (Jusletter, Jusletter IT, Richterzeitung, ASA, LeGes, eBVR, BlSchK, dRSK), and continuing professional education (Weblaw Academy, CAS LegalTech, Weblaw Forum LegalTech). The platform serves Swiss law firms, courts, in-house legal departments, insurance companies, public administration, and universities.

Product overview

Weblaw is a Swiss legal technology company operating a platform-plus-products architecture. The core platform consists of Lawsearch, the primary legal research tool accessing over 735,000 court decisions, 35,000 legislative texts, and 40,000+ publications. AI-enhanced versions (Lawsearch AI, Lawsearch Enterprise) add semantic search and generative AI capabilities. Supporting products include LawDesk (practice management), DocEngine (document automation), LawDocs (Word Add-in with upcoming AI integration), Push-Service (case law alerts), Escrow (source code escrow), and NetzBeweis (digital evidence). Lawjobs is the legal job board subsidiary. The company also operates Weblaw Academy (CAS LegalTech programs, webinars, podcasts) and hosts the annual Weblaw Forum LegalTech event. All solutions are designed specifically for Swiss legal professionals and hosted in Switzerland.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• LawDesk: All-in-one solution for law firms integrating legal tools and IT services for mobile and secure work.
• DocEngine
• Lawsearch
• Lawsearch Enterprise
• LawDocs
• LawDocs AI
• Lawjobs
• Lawsearch AI
• Jusletter
• Jusletter IT
• Richterzeitung
• ASA
• Escrow
• NetzBeweis
• Weblaw Academy
• Weblaw Forum LegalTech
• Push-Service

Products and services

• Lawsearch

Quantifiable outcome

• 90% of job postings on Lawjobs are filled within 31 days
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers20 records

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

AI capability5 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• Lawbility SAminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerWeblaw Academy (Anwaltsakademie) leverages Lawbility SA, the law school founded by Jean-Luc Delli, for coaching services. Lawbility SA continues to provide learning coaching for law students. Weblaw offers free exam impulse seminars and refers candidates to Lawbility for structured coaching.
• Lucid MotorsminorOthersPlatinum Partner and Premium Automotive Partner of the 12th Weblaw Forum LegalTech 2026. Lucid provides electric vehicle experiences including test drives at the forum event.
• EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerProf. Martin Jaggi from EPFL (Steering Committee of Swiss AI Initiative, Co-Leader Apertus LLM Project) participated in Weblaw Forum 2026, presenting the Swiss Justice Base Model project for a national language model for Swiss judiciary. EPFL collaboration on AI in legal practice.
• Swiss AI InitiativeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerWeblaw participates in the Swiss AI Initiative ecosystem. Prof. Martin Jaggi from EPFL (member of Steering Committee) collaborated on AI research presentations at Weblaw Forum 2026. Related to national AI strategy for Switzerland.

Scale indicators14 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• Spellbook: AI-powered legal drafting and review tool for lawyers, integrated into Microsoft Word. Comparable to Weblaw's LawDocs/LawDocs AI Word Add-in in addressing AI-augmented legal document creation, though focused on drafting rather than research.
• Harvey AI: AI-native legal research and drafting platform serving Am Law 100 firms and large enterprises. Closest AI-first competitor to Lawsearch AI, with similar semantic search and citable-answer functionality. Operates globally with rapid enterprise adoption, representing a potential threat to Weblaw's Swiss AI legal research positioning.
• vLex: AI-powered legal research platform with broad multi-jurisdictional coverage (now including Vincent AI). Direct competitor to Lawsearch AI in the AI legal research category and a notable threat to traditional legal publishers like Weblaw, particularly for cross-border Swiss matters.

Regional players

• Stämpfli Verlag: Long-established Swiss legal publisher and digital services provider based in Bern, offering legal books, journals, and online tools for Swiss legal professionals. Direct Swiss regional peer to Weblaw's publishing business with comparable customer base in Swiss law firms and courts.
• Schulthess Verlag: Swiss legal and tax publisher with academic roots in Zurich, offering legal commentaries, journals, and online legal databases. Comparable to Weblaw's publishing and reference offering in the Swiss market, particularly for tax and academic legal content.

Broad incumbents

• Wolters Kluwer: Global information services company operating LexisNexis and a suite of legal, tax, and compliance software including legal research platforms. Comparable to Weblaw in legal publishing, legal research tools, and professional software for legal professionals, but at a vastly larger scale and broader geographic footprint.
• RELX (LexisNexis): Parent of LexisNexis, a global legal research and publishing powerhouse with Lexis+ AI. Direct overlap with Weblaw in legal publishing subscriptions, case law databases, and AI legal research, but LexisNexis operates globally whereas Weblaw focuses on Switzerland.
• Thomson Reuters (Westlaw): Operates Westlaw, CoCounsel, and Practical Law — the dominant English-language legal research platforms, now expanded with generative AI. Comparable to Weblaw as a LegalTech + legal publishing incumbent investing heavily in AI legal research, though focused on US/UK/Canada and adjacent markets rather than Switzerland.

Direct peers

• SwissLex (Thomson Reuters): Swiss legal research platform operated under the Thomson Reuters umbrella, providing access to Swiss federal and cantonal legislation and jurisprudence. Closest direct competitor to Lawsearch in the Swiss legal research market, sharing the same underlying jurisdiction and target customer base.
• JusConsult AG: Swiss legal technology consultancy and software provider offering knowledge management and document automation solutions for Swiss law firms. Direct competitor in the Swiss legal practice management and document automation space where Weblaw's LawDesk and DocEngine operate.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/weblaw
• Xx.com/Weblaw
• Facebookfacebook.com/weblaw.ch

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Frequently asked questions about Weblaw