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Liisi Jürgen

Partner, Attorney at Law

(+372) 525 2646liisi.jurgen@njordlaw.ee

Bio

Liisi Jürgen, attorney at law, is a partner and the head of IT law practice at NJORD Law Firm. She is also a visiting lecturer at Estonia’s oldest and most established university – University of Tartu. Her main subject is E-Commerce and IT Contracts. Liisi Jürgen is specialized in legal issues regarding IT law, data protection, e-commerce, electronic signatures (incl. legal issues arising from authentication and e-ID), consumer protection, and product development. Liisi advises clients on healthtech matters. She has developed a so-called new generation e-government, smart city, e-healthcare, personal medicine, metaverse, and proactive services in every field concept for different clients. Liisi advises both private and public sector clients daily on the development of a legal framework that supports innovation projects, e-services, and digital infrastructure. Liisi also advises on artificial intelligence compliance projects. In 2015-2016 Liisi was a member of a workgroup responsible for the development of the electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions act, set up by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications. In 2015, Liisi Jürgen finalized her second Master’s degree in law at the University of Münster in Germany. The topic of her thesis was Electronic Signatures according to EU law. She has a Bachelor’s Degree and a Master’s Degree in law from University of Tartu.

SELECTION OF DELIVERED SEMINARS AND TRAININGS

2015 Guest Lecturer of IT Law programme at University of Tartu (Teaching e-commerce and IT-contract law in a University program (LLM) held in English

2023 Artificial intelligence trends in justice (University of Tartu)

2020 Lecture in the lecture series “Technology and Law”: “On the development of open data in Estonia and thoughts on the PSI Directive”

2019 Protection and Processing of Personal Data of Employees

2019 Open data workshop -personal data (Avaandmete töötuba – isikuandmetest). in cooperation with OKEE

2019 How to Comply with the General Data Protection Regulation?

2019 How artificial intelligence affects your future? ELSA Estonia

2018 Training on GDPR: “Data is leaking from your company!?”. RMP

2015 Presentation on e-signatures and e-transactions: Trust Services, Electronic Transactions, and Electronic Signatures, ITECHLAW, San Diego

2015 Training: How to draft secure e-commerce or e-service T&C?

2015 Webinar: what a company needs to know about the legal issues of a digital signature?

2014 What does an entrepreneur need to know about the legal issues of digital and electronic signatures?

2014    Preparation of a study of the potential use of open data

2014 Presentation on legal meaning of e-signatures: Legal aspects of electronic signature in EU, Vilnius

2014 Presentation on international meaning and use of e-signatures: Cross-border use of electronic signature, FOC 2014 Tallinn

2014 Presentation on EU-Azerbaijan E-Signature Legislation at the EU-Azerbaijan Digital Cooperation Conference at the European Parliament (Brussels).

2014 Comparative Analysis of EU and Azerbaijani E-Signatures Legislation

2014 Presentation on legal meaning of e-signatures: Legal meaning of electronic Signature, Comex 2014 Oman

2012 Liability of a member of the management board. Contract of a board member and employment contract

2012 Issues regarding data protection and employment relationships

Areas of law

  • Data Protection
  • Euroopa Liit ja konkurents
  • Intellectual Property
  • IT and telecoms
  • Life science

Experience

  • 2019 -

    Partner, NJORD Law Firm

  • 2018 -

    Attorney at Law NJORD LaW Firm

  • 2017 - 2018

    Attorney, Law Firm Teder

  • 2013 - 2014

    Chief Legal Officer, SignWise

  • 2011 - 2012

    Lawyer, Glikman and Partners

  • 2010 - 2011

    Lawyer, Glikman and Partners

Educational Journey

  • 2012 - 2015

    University of Münster, LL.M

  • 2008 - 2010

    University of Tartu, Faculty of Law, MA

  • 2005 - 2008

    University of Tartu, Faculty of Law, BA