Dr. Daniel Halft · Attorney at law
Artificial intelligence and the future of legal services
Keynotes and in-house training for legal departments and law firms, helping legal teams understand what artificial intelligence changes, where its limits lie, and how to use it responsibly.
Trusted by law firms, legal departments and corporations
A selection. Further references on request. In-house formats only.
Formats
How I work with organisations
Keynotes & talks
- Conferences, leadership meetings and client events
- 30 to 60 minutes, tailored to audience and occasion
- Vendor-neutral: no product demonstrations
- Available in German and English
In-house training
- For legal departments and law firms
- Practical use cases from everyday legal work
- Prompt engineering and clear guardrails
- Two hours to a full workshop day, on site or remote
Advisory
- Longer-term support for legal teams
- Groundwork for internal guidelines and standards
- Focused on adoption, not just technology
Artificial intelligence raises a great many questions for the future of legal services, legal, organisational and human ones. My work is about creating orientation and confidence in dealing with that change.
Background
About
I am a German attorney and former General Counsel of one of Europe’s fastest-growing digital companies. Before moving into business, I served as a judge. That path shaped how I look at change: not as a risk to be avoided, but as a precondition for development.
- Former General Counsel (idealo) and in-house counsel (German Federal Film Board)
- Attorney in private practice
- Co-editor of Die Zukunft der Rechtsberatung (C.H. Beck, 2025)
- Founder of KI-Labor Recht and AnwaltsCampus
- Member of the Legal Committee of the DIHK and of the German Legal Tech Association
- Lecturer for Beck Akademie and other institutions
Working languages are German and English. Sessions can be delivered on site anywhere in Europe or remotely.
What clients say
Feedback from practice
“I like Dr. Daniel Halft’s pragmatic approach best: showing what is actually out there, vendor-neutral and entertaining.”
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Markus HartungAttorney at law, Managing Partner, Chevalier
“A highly practical introduction with genuinely useful pointers for the senior lawyers, and not a single sales pitch.”
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Joachim KämpfGeneral Counsel, ECE Group Services
Next step
An introductory conversation
Tell me about the occasion and your audience, and we will find out together whether and in what form I can be useful.
Request a conversation No sales pitch, simply a conversation to establish fit.