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Legal advice - Permission
Service Description
If you wish to provide legal advice in the following areas, you must register with the competent authority.
- Collection services
- Pension advice in the field of statutory pension and accident insurance, social compensation law, other social insurance and disability law relating to a statutory pension as well as occupational and occupational pension schemes,
- Legal services in a foreign law; if the foreign law is the law of a member state of the European Union or another state party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, advice may also be provided in the area of European Union law and the law of the European Economic Area.
Who should I contact?
In Thuringia, the competent authority for registration as a licensee under the Legal Advice Act is the President of the Regional Court of Erfurt.
Requirements
- You need proof of special expertise in the relevant areas of law.
- Natural and legal persons as well as companies without legal personality can be registered. The application can be limited to one or more of the above-mentioned areas.
- If necessary for the protection of legal practitioners or legal transactions, registration can be made subject to conditions or linked to requirements.
Which documents are required?
- Summary of professional training and previous professional experience,
- Certificate of good conduct in accordance with § 30 Para. 5 of the Federal Central Register Act,
- Declaration as to whether insolvency proceedings are pending or whether an entry has been made in a debtor register (Section 26 (2) of the Insolvency Code, Section 915 of the Code of Civil Procedure) in the three years prior to the application,
- Declaration as to whether registration or admission to the bar has been denied, withdrawn or revoked or exclusion from the bar has occurred in the three years preceding the application and, if this is the case, a copy of the decision,
- Documents proving theoretical and practical expertise,
- proof of professional liability insurance
What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?
Permits to provide legal services for third parties under the former Legal Services Act (Alterlaubnisse) expired on January 1, 2009, unless you submitted an "Application for registration under the Legal Services Act for holders of Alterlaubnis" by December 31, 2008 at the latest.
Legal basis
Applications / forms
The application for a court decision on the administrative acts of the President of the Regional Court is to be addressed to the Thuringian Higher Regional Court.
What else should I know?
Anyone who is established in the European Economic Area (EEA) for the purpose of practicing a profession associated with the provision of legal services may, under certain conditions, practice this profession temporarily and occasionally in Germany.
Author
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.
Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Thüringen (Linie6Plus)
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