Building regulatory workflows, during your studies.

Legal education teaches how to apply the law. What it rarely conveys: how to organise the work that flows from it. Reviewing contracts, meeting deadlines, structuring documents, making results traceable, that is learned on the job. Or not at all.

UNOY is present in the Legal Tech Certificate Program at WU not as a showcase, but as a working tool. Students build regulatory workflows with UNOY, not in a simulation, but on a platform that runs in live production at law firms, insurance companies and advisory firms. They learn how to translate expert knowledge into a structured process, how to define review logic, and how to make results controllable.

This matters to us because UNOY is built for knowledge workers, and lawyers are among the most demanding knowledge workers there are. If we want the next generation of lawyers to work with these tools, we must give them access before they are standing in the firm.

The Legal Tech Certificate Program is aimed at students in the Master's programme in Business Law at WU Vienna. In twelve sessions per semester, students work together with practitioners, IT experts, lawyers and legal tech founders on the fundamentals of digital legal work. Topics range from artificial intelligence and process automation, through the digitalisation of law firms, to the practical use of no-code platforms.

UNOY is embedded in the programme at the point where it concerns the transition from concept to implementation. Students take a concrete area of law, define review rules and decision logic, and build a working workflow from them. They discover that the challenge lies not in the technology, but in the clarity of thinking: which question is checked first? What information is needed for that? What happens when the answer is unclear?

For students completing the Master's programme in Business Law, the Certificate Program also counts as a specialist seminar. Those who attend at least ten of the twelve sessions receive the certificate.

First: students ask different questions than practitioners. They do not ask about features or costs first. They ask: why does it have to be this way? Why can it not be solved differently? These questions force us to re-examine our assumptions and make the product better.

Second: the hardest step in building a workflow is not the technology. It is the translation of expert knowledge into rules. Students experience this directly: they know the law, but when they must build a workflow that structures a contract review, they have to cast their knowledge in a different form. That is the core competence that legal tech requires.

Third: once students have experienced what is possible, they no longer accept the status quo. That is the most lasting effect of the teaching. The graduates of the Certificate Program will have different conversations in their firms and legal departments, because they know that things can be done differently.