Before founding the consulting company LAWCONSULT, the founder of the company together with Dipl. Volksw. Fritz Neske (editor-in-chief) designed the COMPUTERREPORT of the NJW, which was newly founded in 1988. In a series of tests, the results for the various functional areas are examined and evaluated on the basis of a 1,000-point catalog and published in 15 product tests.

Law firms are advised by the individual company "Lawconsult". The focus of the consulting is on the structural and procedural organization, including the new possibilities of information technology.

Presentation of Syndikus version 1.0 for law firms at the DAT-Fachausstellung (a trade fair at the Deutscher Anwaltstag) in Stuttgart.

Kick-off of the legal department version. The then Mercedes-Benz AG (today Daimler AG) chooses Syndikus as the system for its legal department at the group headquarters in Stuttgart. Lawconsult has already equipped a three-digit number of law firms with Syndikus.

First steps to converting to a new developer platform.

Syndikus 4.0 "Platinum" is delivered.

The connection to MS-Outlook and Lotus Notes is created.

Market launch of the DOCUVISTO document management system with innovative functions. Lawconsult redefines the term DMS.

Numerous other legal departments choose products from LAWCONSULT.

A new module for product management creates the possibility to link processes concerning product defects, product liability, recalls and much more directly to the product database.

A new module for real estate management allows customers to cover their asset management as well. Construction projects can be linked to complete property data, including land registry data and extracts. Properties can also be linked to each other.

With One Click Billing®, large law firms have the option of billing for all services over a month with a single click, and this can also be done in several languages, depending on the client's wishes.

Right at the beginning of 2010 LAWCONSULT delivers a completely revised and extended brand management module.

Reassuring for our customers: Syndikus becomes test winner in a comparative test of law firm systems right at the beginning of the year. This strengthens trust and secures investments. We are proud of what we have achieved and are now working with even more momentum.

At the end of the year, one installation of Syndikus follows the other. DOCUVISTO undergoes multiple updates in December, and the challenges of moving to twice the size while support and operations continue have been mastered.

In 2012, Syndikus gained a new addition: patent management. With this, legal departments are able to manage another area of IP rights administration within a single software package.

For users working with Syndikus on Apple, the connection to Microsoft Office 2011, i.e. Word 2011 for Mac in particular, has been completed. Of course, the ability to run under OS X 10.7 Lion has also been added.

A fully automatic function to consolidate duplicate people makes it easier to merge addresses, contacts, documents, etc., sometimes scattered among a handful of companies, into a single company.

The rocket to the end of the year in 2012 is our new Outlook connection, which makes it possible to assign e-mails to files in Syndikus via drag & drop. It really doesn't get any easier than that!

We would like to thank all our customers and, of course, especially the numerous new users who joined us this year for their trust. We have had a lot of pleasure with the development of the ship administration, which we have developed for several large shipping companies as a supplement to the basic system "Syndikus - Software for Legal Departments".

The Outlook connection has been further developed and Syndikus has undergone numerous updates.

The file pool is introduced. Now not only hierarchical links can be formed but also on one level. The new replace updates allow us to react even faster and more customer-specific.

Contracts can now be created from files with a single click and vice versa. Extensive further developments have been made in mark management.

It is now possible to merge databases from different Syndikus installations fully automatically. This is always necessary when companies merge and both legal departments were already using Syndikus.

In key areas, performance was dramatically optimized through rewritten code. Product management was completely revised  (assignment of products to files for product liability cases, recalls, etc.).

Syndikus gets a document classification system that automates the cleanup of the document repository by automatically destroying documents that initially have to be kept for different lengths of time, thus ensuring that the document management system is always tidy and complies with the GDPR.

The corporate graphic is now no longer a banal bitmap graphic that can only be printed "as is" but is output as a vector graphic that can be placed in any graphics programs. So you can print it scaled in any size. Up to DIN A0 (!) - and theoretically even larger.

With the report generator, an extraordinarily powerful, optional tool is now available, which one can use for individual reports across the dataset. The intelligence behind it offers the great option to generate the reports dynamically across multiple tables (!), to save the search criteria as templates and even to pass the results directly to Excel.

Finally, the guided workflow for file creation accommodates beginners in Syndikus but also the use of assistants during the introductory period who are supposed to create files "straight forward".

Our presentations, which have been conducted online for several years, were expanded to include training last year with the Corona pandemic.

With several licensed online systems from different providers, we not only provide screen-to-screen support but now also introductions and extension training via the Internet. The consistent changeover to locally distributed work and virtual, internal meetings have proven their worth, as has the work of employees in home offices.

Update 369 will be delivered to customers as early as the first quarter, including a completely reprogrammed connection to Microsoft Word.

Update 370 comes with new text modules that can be inserted not only into Word documents but also into e-mail drafts. In addition to the Syndikus-PageFlip, which can browse animatedly through documents, FileFlip has been given new functions.

FileFlip browses through the entire file, just like the good old manual file. A cover sheet shows the key data of the case - and even better: you can insert writable dividers that subdivide the file (like tabs used to). The entire document is now also paginated.

Further development continues strongly in 2023.

For example, the integration of the automatic search for court jurisdictions (with update service!), which replaces the old court addresses, is being implemented. Work on AI modules is in full swing and the second generation of the family is being employed.

Enthusiastic new customers inspire the outlook.