L'Etude & Fabbro drafts full briefs on the morning commute
How Stefano Fabbro turned his daily train ride into a productive drafting session — arriving at the office with a polished first draft already waiting.
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About L'Etude & Fabbro
A fifty-person Swiss firm where every minute counts
Founded 26 years ago by Stefano Fabbro, L'Etude & Fabbro has grown into a young, dynamic firm of around fifty people, some thirty lawyers, across Lausanne, Geneva, Fribourg and Lugano. The team mainly advises SMEs on construction and real-estate law, commercial law and M&A, and the day-to-day needs of companies, alongside a sports-law practice.
As a founding partner, Stefano Fabbro manages a heavy caseload across Italian, German, and French-speaking clients, spending significant time traveling between client meetings and the offices.
×L'Etude & FabbroThe Challenge
Dead time between meetings and the office
Stefano's 30-minute daily train commute was wasted time — he couldn't type effectively on a moving train, and voice memos needed manual transcription and formatting back at the office. Complex briefs could sit half-finished for days waiting for a clear desk.
“We cannot send our data just anywhere: professional secrecy forbids it. We needed a Swiss solution, on secure Swiss servers, where our clients' data could live.”
The Solution
Dictate anywhere — even on a noisy train
Whisperit's voice dictation engine handles background noise, legal terminology, and multi-language input. Stefano now dictates complex briefs during his commute. By the time he reaches the office, Whisperit has transcribed, structured, and formatted his dictation into a clean first draft — ready to review, not to start from scratch.
- Noise-resistant transcription engine built for mobile use
- Automatic legal formatting — paragraphs, headers, citations
- Multi-language: dictate in Italian, get formatted output in any language
- Syncs instantly to your workspace — no cable, no upload needed
“We record long meetings and video calls and transcribe them with Whisperit: we get precise minutes, and we can focus entirely on the conversation.”
The Results
An hour saved every day, for every lawyer
Across the firm, Whisperit saves each lawyer an average of one hour per day in documentation time. Dead commute time is now productive. Complex briefs that used to take half a day to write now start life as a fully-formatted first draft — arrived before the morning coffee.
The Interview
In conversation with Carlo Ceccarelli
Excerpts from the interview filmed at the firm's Lausanne offices in March 2026, lightly edited for clarity.
Can you introduce the firm?
Carlo Ceccarelli: The firm was founded 26 years ago by Stefano Fabbro. Today we are around fifty people, some thirty lawyers, across Lausanne, Geneva, Fribourg and Lugano, a young and dynamic team. We mainly advise SMEs, with three focus areas: construction and real-estate law, commercial law and M&A, and the day-to-day needs of companies, plus a sports-law practice.
Where does a lawyer's time get lost today?
Carlo Ceccarelli: What costs us a lot of time, energy and irritation is document handling: layout, printing, scanning. It matters, because we want to deliver clean, clear, readable work, but none of it adds value for the client or the lawyer.
How do you capture information from meetings?
Carlo Ceccarelli: For long meetings and video calls, we increasingly record them and transcribe them with AI, notably Whisperit. You get a fast, accurate summary, and you can concentrate on the meeting instead of taking notes. These tools have made us considerably more efficient.
How did the firm come to AI, and to Whisperit?
Carlo Ceccarelli: When ChatGPT came out, we quickly saw it would become part of our work. But we have a major constraint: professional secrecy. We cannot put client information into a standard tool when we don't know where the data goes. So we asked ourselves: could there be a Swiss solution, on secure Swiss servers, where client data can live? That's how we arrived at Whisperit.
“On my train commute, I dictated a complex brief in a noisy environment. By the time I reached the office, my first draft was ready to review.”