> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://report.hacking-legal.org/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://report.hacking-legal.org/impact-report-and-white-paper/chapter-3-multi-year-corporate-case-studies-and-winning-track-records.md). # Chapter 3: Multi-Year Corporate Case Studies & Winning Track Records The LLF - Liquid Legal Fund ensures that the technical advancements developed during these sprints are shared with our community and Hackathon participants. By providing comprehensive travel stipends, the LLF - Liquid Legal Fund fosters participation in Munich Hacking Legal and funds cross-border travel for the Munich winners to attend international tech competitions, primarily Hack the Law at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School. ## 2025: The BMW Group Legal Challenge (Munich to Cambridge) * **The Corporate Context:** Orchestrated by Peter Ruttmann and Bernhard Waltl, the 2025 challenge addressed massive-scale data constraints. The BMW Legal Department tasked hackers with building an AI-powered tool to streamline workflows and improve efficiency within a corporate legal department. * **The Munich Phase (BMW CaseDrive):** The standout engineering project in Munich was BMW CaseDrive, built by the team of Gaia Nardella, Katharina Köhler, and Sila Ayranci. This Flutter-based legal assistant used the Claude API to analyze documents, extract risk metrics, provide case-winning probabilities, and automate document generation. * **The Cambridge Evolution (ARIA):** For the international stage at Hack the Law 2025 in Cambridge, the LLF - Liquid Legal Fund provided a cross-border travel stipend to a team of top-tier talent drawn from the first- and second-place Munich winners: Gaia Nardella, Katharina Köhler, Felix Wiegand, and Valentin Wach. * **The Solution:** At Cambridge, this powerhouse cohort built ARIA (Arbitration Research & Intelligent Analysis), an AI-powered litigation-preparation assistant.⁵ As documented in the project presentation decks compiled by Gaia Nardella, ARIA advanced the CaseDrive framework by implementing a high-performance FastAPI Python backend, automating interface generation from API specs, and providing a Dockerized deployment infrastructure. It featured a context-aware legal chatbot that helped lawyers identify winning arguments, parse dense transcripts, and mitigate hidden arbitral hearing liabilities, under the banner: "Find Weaknesses. Fix Arguments. Win Arbitration." {% hint style="info" %} ⁵ Nardella, Gaia. Project ARIA (Arbitration Research & Intelligent Analysis) Project Deck & Architectural Technical Blueprints, Presentation delivered at Hack the Law Cambridge. {% endhint %} ## 2026: Double-Track Enterprise Engineering & Record Mobility In 2026, the LLF - Liquid Legal Fund significantly amplified its financial impact by granting a record 28 travel stipends to Munich Hackers, scaling up from an initial baseline of 10 covered applicants. This generous funding covered up to 250€ per student, enabling international talent from across Germany and even abroad to travel to TUM Munich to participate in the milestone 100-student event. Four enterprise challenge tracks pushed technical boundaries: * **Track A (The Siemens AG Main Challenge):** Siemens AG served as the main sponsor and a challenge sponsor. They tasked teams with "The Living Playbook", challenging hackers to liberate corporate negotiation playbooks from static Word documents and Excel spreadsheets. Hackers built intelligent, self-evolving playbook engines that transformed guidelines into structured, AI-ready data layers—relying entirely on open technical standards, eliminating vendor lock-in, avoiding opaque "black boxes", and keeping human lawyers firmly in control of updates. * **Track B (The ELTEMATE Challenge & Overall Winner Team FIDEVUS):** Hosted by ELTEMATE, the award-winning Legal Tech arm of Hogan Lovells, comprising over 120 global software engineers, data scientists, and AI experts. Teams designed an "AI-Supported EU Data Breach Response Assistant" to automate structured data intake, run immediate notification risk assessments under GDPR/NIS2 standards, calculate the strict 72-hour regulatory countdown window, and draft automated notifications for stakeholders. The overall 2026 jury prize was won by Team FIDEVUS, which engineered an open-standard, highly integrated multi-agent compliance application that automated these regulatory intake workflows and explicitly structured a secure, auditable trail for corporate counsel. * **Track C (The EQS Group Challenge):** Hosted by EQS Group, this challenge invited teams to build a Legal & Litigation Case Investigation Agent to bridge the gap between initial anonymous whistleblower intake files and structural legal analysis. The agent successfully eliminated "Legal Guidance Lag" and "Documentation Drag" by dynamically screening and restructuring high-risk phrasing to protect corporate safety while providing mid-case GDPR or local labor law clearances. * **Track D (The 2026 BMW Group Challenge):** Again orchestrated by Peter Ruttmann and Bernhard Waltl, moving beyond single-task chatbots to challenge hackers to build a collaborative, multi-agent platform in which distinct, specialized agents (e.g., country-specific searches, ESG compliance checks, contract negotiation) coordinate tasks autonomously before returning verified data templates for human lawyer review. --- # Agent Instructions This documentation is published with GitBook. GitBook is the documentation platform designed so that both humans and AI agents can read, navigate, and reason over technical content effectively. 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