TeamDrive stores all data end-to-end encrypted on servers in Germany – with a zero-knowledge architecture that prevents even TeamDrive itself from accessing client data.
Legal Requirements for Cloud Use by Law Firms and Notary Offices
Section 43a BRAO obliges attorneys to maintain confidentiality about everything that becomes known to them in the course of their professional practice. For notaries, Section 18 BNotO establishes a comparable duty of secrecy that continues even after their term of office ends. Since the 2017 BRAO reform, Section 43e BRAO governs the conditions under which attorneys may engage external service providers such as cloud providers: careful selection, a contractual confidentiality obligation for the provider, and access limited to what is necessary.
The use of US cloud services is therefore generally incompatible with this, since US authorities can access data stored there belonging to European customers under the CLOUD Act.
TeamDrive DAV – Partner of the German Bar Association
For the German Bar Association’s (DAV) nearly 70,000 members, TeamDrive DAV has been the official storage solution since 2015. The agreement between the DAV and TeamDrive guarantees law firms a legally compliant, GDPR-compliant system with cloud infrastructure in Frankfurt – exclusively under the control of German operators and with no exposure to the US CLOUD Act.
Pricing for Law Firms and Notary Offices
Entry-level pricing starts at 6.33 € per seat per month (Professional Starter 5 Cloud, billed annually). The starter package for the firm (Professional Starter 5 Cloud) with 5 users and 100 GB of cloud storage in Germany costs 389 € per year.