Issue powers of attorney, onboard clients, set up files
An in-house tool for every power-of-attorney type — from client information through digital signature to the Advocat import.
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Who is Stenzel Attorney?
Wolfgang Stenzel, LL.M., is an attorney in Graz with his firm at Tummelplatz in the heart of the city. He studied at WU Vienna and passed the bar exam at the Vienna Higher Regional Court in 2020 with distinction. He gained his professional experience in renowned firms in Vienna and Graz before founding his own firm.
The firm's focus areas are unusually broad and consciously digital: startup and incorporation law, privacy and IT law, contract law and terms, crypto and social-media law, and family and inheritance law. What ties all areas together: Stenzel advises clients who operate in a digital world — and expects the same pace and precision from his own firm infrastructure.
The problem
Every mandate starts with a power of attorney. That sounds simple but isn't: depending on the legal area and the case, different types of power of attorney are needed — litigation power of attorney, general representation power of attorney, service power of attorney, specific powers of attorney for incorporation procedures or privacy representations. Until now that meant: find the right template, fill it in manually, send it to the client, wait for the signature, and then key everything into Advocat all over again.
On top of that came the information problem: before a power of attorney can even be drafted, the firm needs structured client information. Name, address, date of birth — but also case-specific details like legal form, name of the opposing party or subject of the proceedings. This information arrived by email, by phone, sometimes on handwritten notes. Follow-up questions were the rule, not the exception.
And at the end came the duplicate work: everything that had been collected manually and entered into the power of attorney had to be captured a second time in Advocat — client master data, case data, document assignment. For a single-attorney firm with a broad spectrum of legal areas, that's not just a waste of time, it's a scaling problem: more mandates mean proportionally more administrative effort.
Work in — result out
Input
- → Client fills out the onboarding form
- → Master data, case details, document upload
- → Selection of the matching power-of-attorney type
- → Case-specific details per legal area
UNOY works
- • Structure client data
- • Generate the matching power of attorney
- • Collect a digital signature
- • Prepare the client file
- • Import data into Advocat
- • Forward for sign-off by the attorney
Result
- ✓ Signed power of attorney in the system
- ✓ Client file set up in Advocat
- ✓ Structured case information
- ✓ Documents assigned and archived
- ✓ Engagement immediately ready to work on
Minutes
instead of hours, from first contact to a finished power of attorney
Zero
duplicate entries thanks to the Advocat import
All
power-of-attorney types in one system
Digital
signature, no paper trail
“The power-of-attorney tool has completely changed our engagement intake. What used to be email ping-pong and paperwork is now a digital flow — from the first information to the file in Advocat.”
Supervision model
Self
You build your own digital twin that delivers results. Every rule defined by you, every result under your control.
Your digital expert — built by you.
Partner
UNOY's expertise is included. You work together with the system — we set it up, you keep control.
Expert knowledge included — we set it up, you keep control.
Supervised
The entire work is delivered as a finished result — with legal accountability through Skribe Attorneys.
You hand off the case — we deliver the finished result.
Why UNOY?
The power-of-attorney tool solves a problem every firm knows but few tackle systematically: engagement intake. Stenzel did not want a document management system and no legal AI. He wanted an internal tool that mirrors exactly one process from end to end — from the first piece of client information through the signature on the power of attorney to the finished file in Advocat. No more, no less.
UNOY built the tool, Stenzel operates it. Concretely that means: when a new legal area is added or a power-of-attorney type needs to be adapted, the firm can do it themselves. The templates, the forms, the logic — all in Stenzel’s hands. For a single-attorney firm with a broad spectrum that is decisive: no waiting for external developers, no ticketing system, no dependency.
The real gain lies in the chain: client enters data → UNOY generates power of attorney → client signs digitally → UNOY sets up the file in Advocat. Four steps that used to require four different systems and several days are now a single end-to-end workflow. From the moment the signature is in, the firm can start substantive work — instead of administration.
What we learned
First: powers of attorney are not a side issue — they are the bottleneck. Every engagement begins with one, but no firm management system treats this step as an independent, optimisable process. Most firms see powers of attorney as a formality and put zero automation into them. Stenzel has shown that this is where the largest lever sits: whoever digitises engagement intake gains days per case.
Second: a tool doesn’t need to do everything — it needs to do one thing well. The power-of-attorney tool doesn’t do contract review, deadline monitoring or billing. It does exactly one thing: the path from first contact to a finished, signed power of attorney plus an Advocat file. This focus isn’t a drawback — it is the reason the tool works. No feature bloat, no learning curve, no distraction.
Third: solo and small firms are ideal UNOY customers. Stenzel has no IT team, no specialist department, no CTO. He needs tools he can operate and adapt himself. UNOY builds, Stenzel operates — the model fits perfectly for firms that are too small to develop their own software but too ambitious for paper and email.
Technical Deep Dive: power-of-attorney generation & Advocat import
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Client onboarding form
Web-based form with master data, contact information and case-specific details — dynamic, depending on the legal area selected
Power-of-attorney type selection
Litigation power of attorney, general representation power of attorney, service power of attorney, incorporation power of attorney, privacy representation power of attorney — suggested by rule or chosen manually
Automatic power-of-attorney generation
Template-based creation with variable fields: client data, opposing party, subject of proceedings, scope of authority
Digital signature
Integrated signing function — the client receives a link, signs digitally, the power of attorney is finalised automatically
Document upload and assignment
The client can upload relevant documents; automatic assignment to the case and to the file
Advocat import
Automatic export of all structured data — client master data, case data, power of attorney, documents — directly into Advocat, without duplicate entry
Sign-off workflow
The attorney reviews and signs off before data is transferred into Advocat — human-in-the-loop as quality assurance
Power-of-attorney template administration
Stenzel can create and adjust templates and add new power-of-attorney types himself — without UNOY support
Audit trail
Complete traceability: who entered which information when, signed when, imported into Advocat when
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