For law firms and notaries

Send case files without letting go of professional secrecy.

In Switzerland, legal professional privilege is not a statement of intent but Article 321 of the Criminal Code. Whoever places client files on a provider’s server, where they sit readable, is trusting that provider to share their interest. With LightSend the file sits encrypted on your own server — where even you cannot read it.

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Why here in particular

Confidentiality that covers the journey too.

Diligence does not end at the office door. A document travelling through an outside service is readable there for as long as it sits — and who read it cannot be established afterwards.

A criminal matter, not merely awkward

Breaching professional secrecy is prosecuted ex officio. That sets a law firm apart from most other businesses sending the very same files.

Recipients beyond your control

Courts, opposing counsel, experts, authorities. You cannot install anything there and cannot prescribe anything — a browser has to be enough, and it is.

Case files are bulky

A scanned dossier, a video recording, a due diligence room: up to 10 GB and 200 files in one transfer, without splitting and without couriering a disk.

Typical cases

What firms send with it.

Everything that leaves the building and concerns nobody in between.

→Client dossiers to corresponding counsel
→Pleadings with schedules of exhibits to the court
→Evidence: photographs, audio, video recordings
→Draft contracts during negotiations
→Due diligence material in company acquisitions
→Estate files and inventories to co-heirs
→Expert reports to specialists, and the questions back
→File access for the clients themselves

Day to day

Three steps, no new habit.

From the mail client

With Microsoft mailboxes the add-in opens beside the message. Otherwise a right click in Explorer and the companion app will do — on the Mac and in Apple Mail as well.

Add a second lock

The recipient requests a confirmation code when opening. Where it matters more, agree a password by telephone — then the link alone is worth nothing.

Withdraw and prove

A transfer can be recalled before it has been collected. And the audit log on your server shows when it was.

Questions from the trade

What firms ask first.

Can the server operator see the file?

No — and that includes you as the operator. Encryption happens in the sender’s browser, the key lives in the link and never reaches the server. What lies on the disk are blocks without meaning.

What if the court may not install anything?

It does not have to. The recipient opens the link in a browser, requests the code and downloads. Decryption happens inside the browser.

Does this satisfy the duty of care?

That is for the firm to judge. LightSend provides what is usually asked for: encryption before anything leaves the device, storage under your own control, deadlines, revocation and an audit log. What it does not provide is stated just as plainly on the front page.

And if a link goes to the wrong person?

As long as the transfer has not been collected, withdraw it. After that the second lock holds: without the confirmation code or the agreed password, the link alone opens nothing.

Show us one of your own cases.

Tell us how a dossier reaches corresponding counsel today. It quickly becomes clear whether LightSend fits.

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