Sectors · Lawyers and notaries
Your confidential files. Your deadlines met.
A law firm can afford neither a breakdown the day before a hearing, nor a client file in a cloud of unclear status. AlpenData manages the IT of law and notary firms in French-speaking Switzerland: confidentiality, continuity, and less paperwork.
Real situations
What really threatens a law firm
No theory: here is what we encounter in firms in French-speaking Switzerland, and what we do about it.
A breakdown the day before a court deadline
What we find
Procedural deadlines are not extended because your server went down. A brief to file tomorrow and a system that is inaccessible tonight: that is the nightmare scenario of any law firm.
What we do
Continuous monitoring, tested backups and a documented continuity plan: even in case of an incident, you know how to access your files and file on time.
Professional secrecy facing American clouds
What we find
Privileged correspondence, procedural documents, notarial deeds: if everything passes through services subject to American law, the confidentiality you owe your clients rests on a grey area.
What we do
For the services we operate, we favour Swiss hosting, notably with Infomaniak. You can document where your clients' data is, and under which law.
Hours spent searching for the right document in the file
What we find
Documents scattered across emails, scans and network folders, named at everyone's whim. Finding the right version of a document becomes a daily waste of time.
What we do
Automated filing of incoming documents, clean folder structures and naming rules applied by the machine rather than by goodwill. Searching becomes instant again.
Repetitive letters and deeds written by hand
What we find
Cover letters, requisitions, deadline reminders, case follow-ups: a significant part of the week goes into documents that always follow the same template.
What we do
AlpenFlow generates recurring letters from your templates and your data, and triggers deadline reminders automatically. First simple automation from CHF 1,999, a fixed price agreed before we start.
Archiving that must last for years
What we find
Long retention obligations, closed files that must be reopenable in five or ten years: a hard drive in a cabinet is not an archiving plan.
What we do
Archiving organised and backed up in Switzerland, with tested restores. A file from 2018 reopens as reliably as a file from yesterday.
Associates, trainees: access rights that come and go
What we find
Trainee lawyers, secretarial staff, occasional collaborations: accounts are created quickly and rarely deleted. Who still has access to file X? No one knows.
What we do
Rigorous handling of arrivals and departures, regular access reviews and documented traceability. Every access to the files is known, justified and immediately revocable.
What we put in place
Three levers, based on your urgency
Start with what gains you the most, without committing to everything at once.
AlpenFlow · To get started
Automate the firm's paperwork
Recurring letters generated from your templates, automatic filing of documents, deadline reminders. First simple automation from CHF 1,999, delivered in about 2 weeks.
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IT that lives up to professional secrecy
Full managed IT with Swiss hosting for the services we operate, traced access, a continuity plan and durable archiving. Designed for law firms and their obligations.
Discover AlpenCareIT Projects · No commitment
Check the real confidentiality of your firm
Security and access audit as a fixed package: who accesses what, where your data passes through, what is recoverable. With no duration commitment.
Discover IT Projects- Swiss hosting preferred for the services we operate
- Contractual confidentiality, aligned with professional secrecy
- Data protection taken into account in your context, complementing your practice
FAQ Lawyers and notaries
Frequently asked questions from law firms
Three levels: contractual (strict confidentiality clause, applicable to our entire team), technical (named access, two-factor authentication, encryption, traceability) and jurisdictional (Swiss hosting preferred for the services we operate). You can document the whole towards your clients and your professional association.
Yes, fully or partially. Many firms want to reduce their exposure to American law for correspondence and documents. We migrate email and files to Swiss alternatives (Infomaniak kSuite, kDrive) while preserving your history, or we at least bring the backups back to Switzerland.
The most profitable cases: generation of recurring letters from your templates, automatic filing of incoming documents and emails by case, deadline and time-limit reminders, time tracking and invoice reminders. We start with the task that costs the most non-billable hours.
That is precisely what the continuity plan covers: tested backups, documented backup access and critical incidents handled within 4 business hours for clients under contract. An out-of-hours on-call service can be arranged contractually if your practice requires it.
From the independent lawyer with a secretary to firms of several dozen staff. For small structures, AlpenCare Essential covers the essentials; for firms with heightened confidentiality requirements, Sovereign is designed for you.
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A firm that fears neither breakdown nor leak
A first one-hour conversation about your files, your access and your deadlines. You leave with concrete recommendations, with no commitment.