The work that used to take hours: How ATTYS put casepal to work across its practice

Most conversations about AI in law start with the big picture. The disruption, the transformation, the future of the profession. At ATTYS, the conversation started somewhere more immediate: the documents that pile up, the emails that need to be precise, and the hours that disappear into administrative work that is necessary.

That is where casepal entered - and where it has had the most impact.

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Choosing the right vendor

ATTYS team was not looking at another legal research database or a general-purpose chatbot. The firm had a different problem in mind: volume, precision, and the time lost on tasks that are important but repetitive. Employment matters, real estate files, corporate instructions - the work is varied, and the throughput is high.

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The tool that earned its place was the one that was versatile enough to move across all of it.

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"We rather wanted to get rid of very time-consuming tasks. And the human factor — you came to our requests and were always very speedy with your responses."

— Christoph Ludvik, Partner at ATTYS

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Seconds, not hours

One of the clearest gains has been in large document review. When working through a complex court file or a stack of regulatory protocols, finding a specific person, date, or sequence of events is painstaking work. Done manually, it takes hours. Done with casepal, it takes seconds.

The team used this most visibly when analysing a set of protocols from minimum wage ordinance proceedings: mapping who said what, on which topic, in which document, and building a structured overview across a body of material that would otherwise require careful reading line by line.

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"If you're searching for a specific person, or a specific date, what happened, how did we get here — it [casepal] does all the work that usually takes hours, in just a few seconds."

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— Christoph Ludvik, Partner at ATTYS

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‍Precision that clients can act on

Alongside document analysis, client communication has become one of casepal's most consistent functions at ATTYS. The team uses it to produce short, precise emails - clear summaries of the legal position, with an explicit section on recommended next steps, written in language that clients can understand and act on.

The team also configured their casepal Workspaces with specific citation instructions: references in brackets, author names in italics, positioned before the full stop. Set once, applied consistently - making it possible to copy directly into footnotes without reformatting.

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"We have precise emails with good summaries and a clear section of what to do next. That's where we've been using it most — client consultations, follow-up emails."

— Martin Zikeli, Partner at ATTYS

The results that move

The most unexpected discovery came not in research or drafting, but in appellate proceedings. When preparing a statement of appeals, the team needed to follow a very specific procedural order, separating the plaintiff's materials from the defendant's, working through the documents phase by phase, referencing only what was relevant to each part of the analysis.

By instructing casepal precisely on that structure - phased prompts aligned to the procedural logic of Austrian appeal proceedings - the ATTYUS team found casepal could follow the analytical order reliably and produce output that matched the requirements of the filing.

It was the kind of result that resets expectations.

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"We were surprised that, when handling the prompts in the right way, it was possible not only to draft statements to the court, but to have casepal follow your instructions on how to craft an appeal statement — the statement of appeals."

— Christoph Ludvik, Partner at ATTYS

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About ATTYS

ATTYS is an Austrian law firm specialising in employment, real estate, and corporate and commercial law. The firm advises clients across Austria and the DACH region, bringing deep local expertise and a practical, forward-looking approach to legal work.