Swisslex
| Swisslex - Swiss Legal Database AG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | AG (share capital approx. 1.6432 million CHF) |
| founding | 1986 |
| Seat | Zurich |
| Number of employees | 22nd |
| Branch | Legal informatics, legal information, media |
| Website | www.swisslex.ch |
Swisslex - Swiss Legal Database AG is the provider of a legal information platform in the Swiss market.
Around 70% of all lawyers working in Switzerland have subscriptions to Swisslex's services. Swisslex has its own software development team that takes care of the construction, further development and operation of your applications. These applications are responsible for data reception, production and processing of data, data management (backend), retrieval and data output and display (frontend). Swisslex employs 22 people from the fields of software engineering, data science, law and administration. Today's shareholders consist of three main shareholders with equal rights, Schulthess Juristische Medien AG , Stämpfli Verlag AG and Geneva lawyer Jacques Python, as well as two minority shareholders, Helbing Lichtenhahn Verlag (part of the publishing group CH Beck ) and the Swiss Association for Legal Informatics , today an association eJustice.CH .
history
The corporation was founded in 1986 with the aim of building an online database for the collection of judgments. Swisslex 1.0 was presented to the Swiss legal community in 1987. This year the company started with an initial offer that was limited to collections of decisions and individual magazines. Swisslex 1.0 was operated on a mainframe solution and access was via a telephone-based input and receiving device (Minitel). In 1997, Thomson Legal and Regulatory joined the company as a shareholder as part of a restructuring carried out by the shareholders Schulthess Juristische Medien AG and Python & Peter Rechtsanwälte . The offer was first made available on the Internet in 1999 . In 2007, Thomson sold its stake to the two remaining shareholders, Schulthess Juristische Medien AG and the Geneva-based law firm Python & Peter, as part of a global portfolio streamlining. In 2009, Stämpfli Verlag AG finally took a one-third stake in the company and became an equal partner in the shareholders alongside Schulthess Juristische Medien AG and Python & Peter Rechtsanwälte. On July 25, 2011, Swisslex presented a completely new portal solution and in 2015 the company's own search engine went live.
offer
Swisslex has structured its offering primarily into two products, archive (standard subscription) and up-to-date (premium subscription). Swisslex's offering includes the collections of decisions from the federal courts and the collections of decisions from most of the last-instance cantonal courts, more than 350 legal comments and around 2,300 monographs , dissertations , anthologies and conference volumes as well as commemorative publications. The Swisslex database contains the archive and the current issues of over 75 specialist journals in full text as well as legally relevant articles from the daily press. In addition, online specialist journals in the areas of intellectual property law (INGRES) and labor law (ARV-online) are exclusively available through Swisslex. In addition, EU law with its contracts, regulations and directives, the ECJ rulings and the Commission's Official Journal are available. Various newsletters and services round off the Swisslex offer.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Handelsamtsblatt ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 6, 2011.
- ^ Shareholders of Swisslex AG
- ↑ History of Swisslex ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Swisslex's own description
