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Maintaining the safe operation of one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies requires its legal team to possess both breadth and depth of legal knowledge and specialist skills to succeed in this highly regulated and competitive industry. Alongside this, innovation is at the core of everything it does, and the Boehringer Ingelheim legal function is perhaps at the very forefront of in-house innovation globally considering its dedicated innovation team within the department. Alongside an automated contract tool which enables greatly increased efficiency for contractual work, this team has also been looking into the possibility of putting swarm intelligence principles to work on legal work with potentially dramatic positive results to come in the future. Dr Martin Schwartz is group general counsel and overall head of the legal function at Boehringer Ingelheim, and can look back on an extremely successful year for the company that has seen it stand out as among the best legal teams in Germany according to the legal business industry press.