Focus Area

Legally valid digital processes in legal tech.

Contract automation, e-signature, electronic notification, and AI tools — we build your increasingly digital legal processes together with their validity, evidentiary, and KVKK layers.

Overview

An integrated legal framework for Legal Tech

In legal tech projects, legal service cannot be effective without understanding the operating logic and user experience of the technology product. Data, contracts, intellectual property, liability, and scaling risk depend on product decisions.

As a team that develops its own legal technology infrastructure, we offer technology start-ups and in-house legal teams the product, process, and compliance perspective together.

Legal Tech strategy / operations
Why Köksal?

Legal Engineering: we build the working system, not just the tool

Most legal tech projects fail not because of tool selection but because of process and usage design. With our team that discusses law and software at the same table, we build systems that are genuinely used, measurable, and compliant with legislation.

  • Technology built from the inside with Legal Engineering competence
  • Tools and workflows tested in our own operations
  • Designing the KVKK/GDPR and AI Act dimension from the outset
  • Proximity to sector start-ups through the Legal Tech Desk
  • Measurement and improvement tracking after implementation
Legal Tech multi-disciplinary team
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Related Publications

Legal Tech — latest insights and guides.

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Related Legislation

Legal Tech — the legislation that directly affects this focus area, tracked in plain language on our Legislation Radar.

ABAvrupa B.EU Directive & RegulationRecently amendedEU Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act)Source · ABl. L, 12.7.2024In force · 01.08.2024 (phased)Last amended · Jul 2026 (Digital Omnibus — high-risk timeline deferred; OJ publication pending)

The world’s first comprehensive artificial intelligence regulation: risk-based classification, provider/deployer obligations, and a phased implementation timeline. It may also cover Turkish companies whose output is used in the EU.

RelatedPersonal Data ProtectionIntellectual Property LawLaw of Obligations & Contracts
ABAvrupa B.EU Directive & RegulationRecently amendedEU Data ActSource · ABl. L, 22.12.2023In force · 12.09.2025 (application)Last amended · Sep 2025 (application) · next 12.09.2026 (design obligation); Digital Omnibus proposal under negotiation

Rules on access to, sharing of, and cloud switching for connected-product and related-service data: the regulation that re-establishes the contractual order of the data economy has been in application since September 2025.

RelatedPersonal Data ProtectionLaw of Obligations & ContractsCommercial Law
ABAvrupa B.EU Directive & RegulationIn forceEU Digital Services Act (DSA)Source · ABl. L 277, 27.10.2022In force · 17.02.2024 (full application)Last amended · First fines: X €120M (Dec 2025) · Temu €200M (2026)

Transparency, content-moderation and seller-traceability rules for online platforms and marketplaces: it directly shapes the platform relationships of Turkish sellers selling online into the EU.

RelatedCommercial LawIntellectual Property LawPersonal Data Protection
TRTürkiyeLawIn forceLaw on the Regulation of Electronic Commerce (No. 6563)Source · RG 29166, 05.11.2014In force · 01.05.2015Last amended · Law No. 7416 (2022) · Constitutional Court 2026/42: Art. 9/1 annulled (effective 03.2027)

Türkiye's framework law for e-commerce: the 2022 amendments introduced obligations on platforms that intensify with size, a licensing regime and prohibitions on unfair commercial practices.

RelatedCommercial LawCompetition LawPersonal Data Protection
Open the Legislation Radar

The compliance of the templates with current legislation, the alignment of approval flows with the authority matrix, and the suitability of the electronic signature type for the transaction are critical points. We build the automation together with a legal-validity review.

Under Turkish law, a secure electronic signature is legally equivalent to a wet-ink signature; however, certain transactions (e.g., specific security and consumer transactions) are exceptions. We map which signature type is sufficient in your processes and flag the risky exceptions.

The non-use of your data in training, confidentiality, data location, output rights, and clarity on liability limits are the minimum set that must be negotiated. We strengthen the procurement contract with these points.

With high-volume processes governed by clear rules: NDA approvals, power-of-attorney tracking, contract renewals and the like. Through a short discovery exercise we produce an impact-effort matrix and select the quick-win pilot together.

For most needs, mature off-the-shelf tools are sufficient; custom development makes sense only if the process is truly unique. We compare the options on total cost of ownership and data portability and give an impartial recommendation.

Hosting location, encryption, access roles, and the sub-processor chain must be secured by contract; KVKK rules on cross-border data transfers must also be observed. We negotiate vendor contracts against these criteria.

Adoption is the most critical risk of the project; that is why we design the rollout together with training, policy, and measurement. We start with small pilots and scale up based on usage data — we do not let you invest in systems that end up sitting on the shelf.

Focus Area

Let's build a legal strategy in the Legal Tech focus area.

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