Build regulatory workflows — while studying.

Legal education teaches how to apply the law. What it rarely teaches: how to organise the work that arises from it. Reviewing contracts, meeting deadlines, structuring documents, making results traceable — you learn that on the job. Or you don’t.

In WU’s Legal Tech certificate programme, UNOY isn’t a showcase, it’s a working tool. Students build regulatory workflows with UNOY — not in a simulation, but on a platform that’s in real use at law firms, insurers and consultancies. They learn how to translate expertise 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 ones. If we want the next generation of lawyers to work with these tools, we have to give them access before they walk into a firm.

The Legal Tech certificate programme is aimed at students of the master’s programme in business law at WU Vienna. Across twelve sessions per semester, students work alongside practitioners — IT experts, lawyers, legal-tech founders — on the foundations 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 enters the programme exactly where the transition from concept to execution begins. Students pick a concrete legal area, define review rules and decision logic, and build a working workflow from it. They learn that the challenge isn’t the technology — it is the clarity of the thinking: which question is reviewed first? Which information do you need? What happens when the answer is unclear?

For students taking the master’s programme in business law, the certificate programme also counts as a specialist seminar. Anyone who attends at least ten of the twelve sessions receives the certificate.

First: students ask different questions than practitioners. They don’t start with features or pricing. They ask: why does it have to be this way? Why can’t we solve it differently? Those questions force us to test our assumptions — and make the product better.

Second: the hardest step in building a workflow isn’t the technology. It’s translating expertise into rules. Students experience this immediately: they know the law, but when they have to build a workflow that structures a contract review, they have to convert their knowledge into a different shape. That is the actual competence legal tech demands.

Third: once students have seen what is possible, they don’t accept the status quo. That is the most lasting effect of the teaching. Graduates of the certificate programme have different conversations in their firms and legal departments — because they know it can be done differently.