The legal occupational title of attorney (Rechtsanwalt / Rechtsanwältin) and bar-certified IT law specialist (Fachanwältin für IT-Recht) was granted by the Federal Republic of Germany;

Unless otherwise stated all lawyers at the law firm are admitted within the Federal Republic of Germany to practise as lawyers (Rechtsanwalt/Rechtsanwältin) and are admitted to the bar of Hamburg (Rechtsanwaltskammer Hamburg, Bleichenbrücke 9, 20354 Hamburg).

The following provisions on occupational law apply:
BRAO – Bundesrechtsanwaltsordnung
RVG – Rechtsanwaltsvergütungsgesetz
BORA – Berufsordnung für Rechtsanwälte
CCBE-Berufsregeln – Berufsregeln der RAe der Europäischen Union
FAO – Fachanwältin- und Fachanwaltsordnung

You can view the actual version of these regulations on the webpage of the Bundesrechtsanwaltskammer.

Details concerning the obligatory insurance as required by the Service-Information-Regulation (DL-InfoV, in force since 17.05.2010):

MARAIT Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH professional indemnity insurance for the profession of: Lawyers/Patent Lawyers
by HDI-Gerling Firmen und Privat Versicherung AG, HDI-Platz 1, 30659 Hannover

Area of applicability (AVB WSR 558)
1. Germany
2. European Union

Insured are liability claims relating to services in connection with consulting and concerning European law; of a lawyer before European courts.

Information and liability:

Despite careful content control, we assume no liability for the content of external links. The operators of the linked pages are solely responsible for their content.

The provider hereby expressly declares that no illegal content was recognizable on the linked pages at the time the links were created. The provider has no influence whatsoever on the current and future design, content, or authorship of the linked pages. Therefore, the provider hereby expressly distances itself from all content of all linked pages that were changed after the link was created. This statement applies to all links and references set within the provider’s own website as well as to third-party entries in any guest books, discussion forums, link directories, mailing lists and all other forms of databases set up by the provider to whose content external write access is possible. For illegal, incorrect, or incomplete contents and in particular for damages resulting from the use or non-use of such information, only the provider of the page to which reference is made is liable, not the person who merely refers to the respective publication via links.

Online Dispute Resolution under Article 14 (1) of the ODR Regulation: The European Commission provides a platform for online dispute resolution (OS), which is available at http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/.

We are not obligated or unwilling to participate in a dispute settlement procedure before a non-fulfillment office.