The leading solution for the competitive selection of law firms
Designed by leading general counsel and partners in international commercial law firms.
Lintum provides you with an intuitive selection process of external counsel, will help you manage external legal spend and quality of your matters.
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Your benefits at a glance
Efficient
With Lintum you assign mandates in a clear, structured process. Without emails, long pitch documents and Excel sheets. Free up time for more important things.
Comprehensive
Our tool is built for mandates of all complexity and size. And for every area of law.
Global
With Lintum you can also mandate law firms abroad. Lintum knows no borders.
Focused
You determine the law firms that take part in the tender. These can be your panel firms or other firms that you trust to handle the mandate.
Intuitive
Our tool is self-explanatory. After a short briefing, you will create your first tender.
To the Point
The offers of the law firms only contain what interests you. No more and no less.
Competitive
Identify a market price with Lintum. For a fixed fee, cap, fee estimate or for hourly rates.
Discreet
Lintum never shows the law firms the names of the other law firms. And of course not the content of competing offers.
Trusted
Product made in Germany, with deep understanding of the legal market.
This is how Lintum works
Q&A Tool
You only answer each question about the tender once. All law firms will see your answer.
Dashboard
You always have an overview. About all tenders and all current mandates.
Fair Competition
Choose between one of our bidding processes and decide on the intensity of the competition. You determine the rules of the game.
Analytics
Keep track of your legal spend. We provide you with the facts and figures.
Comparison View
See all offers at a glance. Compare apples to apples, not pears.
And many more features you will love
Conflict Check
Each law firm confirms in advance that it is not in a conflict of interest. Only then will she have access to the tender.
Scoring Tool
Weight quality and fee and then evaluate the offers. In this way, prepare your rational decision.
Secure Cloud
Your data is hosted exclusively in Western Europe by a leading provider. We don't have access.
Some examples on where to use the tool
Stand-alone, complex domestic or foreign M&A transaction with a significant fee volume. Corporate wants to test the flexibility of the legal market.
Major project of global revision of standard contracts (e.g. globall or regionally deployed commercial, procurement, or labour standard agreements). Corporate intends to outsource project management and get additional resources on board.
Voluminous due diligence exercise, including significant potential for tech-based data review and knowledge generation
Lintum Insights
Frankfurt-based start-up Lintum closes another financing round
Frankfurt-based legal tech start-up Lintum successfully closed its second financing round with BMH Beteiligungs-Managementgesellschaft Hessen mbH and leading figures from the German legal market in May 2021.
LWYRD! Postcast incl. exclusive Director’s Cut
Lintum visited LWYRD! Together with host Katharina E. Gangnus, Christian W. Jakob and Dr. Jens Kellerhoff talked about the changing German legal market, digital legal procurement and uncovered exciting insights about Lintum in the following podcast episode and exclusive Director’s Cut. Tune in to find out more!
Alternative Fee Arrangements
Several types of fee agreements are common in legal practice in Germany. Still the most widespread one is the traditional ‘billable hour’ (model 1); a modification of this is the …
Are Law Firm panels and auction-based RFPs mutually exclusive, and do panels deliver the expected results?
In recent years, a number of the largest German corporations have created so called ‘Panels of Law Firms’, ‘Preferred Law Firm Lists’ etc. in the hope to considerably reduce their …
Digital Legal Procurement – a trend still gaining strength post-Corona?
What were the main effects of the 2008 financial crisis for legal departments of corporations in Germany? As a result of that profound economic crisis, Chief Financial Officers and General …
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You are a law firm and want to know how Lintum can help your business?
- Benefit from lean, to-the-point RFPs
- Gain more scope information in a transparent Q&A process
- Prepare proposals with dramatically less time and efforts
- Position your law firm amongst others in a competitive bidding process
- Build further reputation through positive quality scores
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Frequently Asked Questions
Lintum may be used for smaller (e.g. litigation, preparation of standard contracts) as well as major RfPs (e.g. M&A transactions, comprehensive compliance investigations). The advantage to use Lintum for all external legal services purchased is that an inhouse lawyer will have the full overview at any point in time over the complete external legal spend through the dashboard implemented in the tool.
Lintum is a cloud-based solution and, as such, can be easily used upon installation with any up-to-date browser. As a result of the intuitive set-up, no trainings are required.
Transparency is central to our DNA, and we act as neutral trusted partners for both corporates and law firms. Lintum offers the opportunity to corporates to invite as many law firms as desired to respond to an RfP, and to draw a ‘side by side’ comparison between the responses received, based on economic and qualitative criteria. The in-built documentation of this process is tamper-proof.
Lintum collects data as part of your use of the tool. All data is stored with encryption in a redundant way in Microsoft’s cloud in Western Europe. The software is “made in Germany”. Further information regarding this data, and why we collect such data, can be found in our Data Protection Statement.
We would be glad to support selected charities. Please contact our team at hello@lintum.com for further information.
Team
Get in direct contact with our team and call us at +49 69 247558120.
Christian W. Jakob
CEO | Founder
Christian is a partner and founding member of ten., the leading legal tech company builder. He is an expert generalist with a deep passion for smart data, technology and automation. Before, Christian was the co-initiator of Frankfurt Forward, advising industry and DAX CEOs on innovation by 1:1 matchmaking with disruptive start-ups and Director of Investment at FiZ Frankfurt Innovation Centre. He offers the very rare blend of law, business and IT.
Dr. Jens Kellerhoff
Chief Legal & Strategy Officer | Member of the Management Board
Jens is admitted as an attorney to the bar in Germany. His main focus is M&A, commercial and corporate law, but in his legal inhouse capacity he also covers a wider remit of legal areas. He is familiar with both the law firm and the corporate perspective: For many years, he worked as a lawyer in large law firms, was a partner at a market-leading transaction insurance broker and held positions as a general counsel and compliance officer in German and international corporations. Now, Jens would like to contribute to the innovative development of the German legal market with Lintum.
Stephan Gittermann
Chairman of the Advisory Board | Founder
Stephan is a Senior Partner and Location Head at a leading German law firm. He has been with international law firms in their Frankfurt and London offices for more than 20 years and advises large corporates and financial institutions on cross-border M&A and capital markets transactions. Stephan has in-depth knowledge of the Big Law market. He senses an increasing need to streamline legal sourcing.
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