<p>Lawyers have been dictating for decades. Briefs, contracts, opinions, client correspondence — the volume of text produced daily is enormous. Classic dictation solutions are being replaced by modern speech recognition apps. But most have a problem that's not tolerable in legal practice.</p>
<h2>Client data does not belong in the cloud</h2>
<p>Attorney-client confidentiality is one of the oldest professional duties in law. In Germany this is § 43a BRAO; equivalents in the UK, US, and other jurisdictions go by different names but all share the same core: privileged information must not be exposed to third parties. That includes service providers, software vendors, and cloud infrastructure.</p>
<p>Anyone dictating a brief through Apple Dictation, Google Voice, or a cloud-based transcription service is potentially transmitting privileged client data to third parties. That's legally risky and in many constellations simply not permitted.</p>
<p>Mundwerk processes nothing outside the device. No audio, no text, no metadata leaves the Mac.</p>
<h2>What lawyers do with Mundwerk daily</h2>
<h3>Briefs and decisions</h3>
<p>For practiced users, longer briefs are produced faster by dictation than by typing. Whisper recognises legal terminology — terms like <em>restitution claim</em>, <em>unjust enrichment</em>, <em>insolvency challenge</em>, or <em>preliminary injunction</em> — reliably without manual correction. Frequently used phrases trained once feed back into the personal vocabulary for subsequent dictations.</p>
<h3>Client correspondence</h3>
<p>Standard letters, time records, and status updates to clients can be dictated while the relevant file is still open. That saves the back-and-forth between reading and typing.</p>
<h3>Notes and file memos</h3>
<p>After court hearings or client meetings, file memos can be dictated directly into the firm's case management software — system-wide, without switching windows.</p>
<h2>Privacy comparison</h2>
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<th>Criterion</th>
<th>Apple Dictation</th>
<th>Cloud solutions</th>
<th><strong>Mundwerk</strong></th>
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<td>Local processing</td>
<td class="cross">No (Siri backend)</td>
<td class="cross">No</td>
<td class="check">Yes</td>
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<td>No third-party upload</td>
<td class="cross">No</td>
<td class="cross">No</td>
<td class="check">Yes</td>
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<td>Privilege-compatible</td>
<td>questionable</td>
<td class="cross">No</td>
<td class="check">Yes</td>
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<td>One-time purchase, no subscription</td>
<td>free</td>
<td class="cross">Subscription</td>
<td class="check">€14.99 <span style="opacity:.75;font-size:.85em">(€8.99 with <code>LAUNCH</code> until 2026-06-19)</span></td>
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<h2>Code-switching: Latin and English in legal text</h2>
<p>Legal text mixes languages by nature: Latin formulations like <em>in dubio pro reo</em>, English clauses in contracts, and German running text. Mundwerk detects these language switches automatically — no manual switching of input language required.</p>
<h2>Limitations</h2>
<p>Mundwerk is a universal dictation tool, not specialised legal software. There's no integration with case management systems like RA-MICRO or AnNoText, no template management, no automatic file association. Mundwerk handles the dictation part — the rest stays with the existing legal software stack.</p>
<p>Mundwerk also runs exclusively on macOS with Apple Silicon (M1 or newer). Intel Macs are not supported.</p>
<h2>Conclusion</h2>
<p>For law firms on Apple hardware and lawyers who take privacy seriously, Mundwerk is the only sensible dictation choice among modern AI-based alternatives. The one-time purchase of €14.99 (currently €8.99 with code <code>LAUNCH</code> until 2026-06-19) is a non-question given the time saved and the reduced privacy risk.</p>
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