Legal Notice
Information pursuant to § 5 of the German Digital Services Act (DDG) and the German Ordinance on Service Providers’ Duty to Inform (DL-InfoV)
Bleichstraße 2-4
60313 Frankfurt am Main
Telephone: +49 (0) 69/583021 – 0
Fax: +49 (0) 69/583021 – 112
E-Mail: office@patzina-lotz.de
Thorsten Lotz, Dr. René Matz, Uwe Müllner, LL.M.
Frankfurt am Main, District Court Frankfurt am Main (Partnership Register), PR 2317
All lawyers at this law firm are licensed under German federal law and members of the Bar Association of Frankfurt am Main, Bockenheimer Anlage 36, 60322 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, phone: 069/170098-01, fax: 069/170098-50, www.rechtsanwaltskammer-ffm. de.
HDI Versicherung AG, P.O. Box 130323, 50497 Cologne, Germany
Geographic scope: Europe
German Federal Lawyers’ Act (Bundesrechtsanwaltsordnung – BRAO)
German Federal Lawyers’ Code of Conduct (Berufsordnung für Rechtsanwälte – BORA)
Specialist Lawyers’ Regulations (Fachanwaltsordnungen der Bundesrechtsanwaltskammer – FAO)
German Federal Code of Lawyers’ Fees (Bundesrechtsanwaltsgebührenordnung – BRAGO)
German Lawyers’ Fees Act (Gesetz über die Vergütung von Rechtsanwältinnen und Rechtsanwälten – RVG)
German Law on the Prevention of Money Laundering (Geldwäschebekämpfungsgesetz – GwG), German Federal Bar Order pursuant to § 14(4) pg. 2 (GwG) incl. explanatory notes
Code of Conduct for European Lawyers (Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe – CCBE)
Law Regulating the Activity of European Lawyers in Germany (Gesetz über die Tätigkeit europäischer Rechtsanwälte in Deutschland – EuRAG) from 9-3-2000 (BGBl. I pg. 182)
For further reading on all professional regulations, you can visit the official website of the German Federal Chamber of Lawyers at www.brak.de and click on the column “Informationspflichten gemäß § 5 DDG” (“Information Obligations Acc. to § 5 DDG”).
In cases of out-of-court disputes between lawyers and their clients, there is the option of filing for out-of-court settlement at the regional Bar Association of Frankfurt am Main (pursuant to § 73(2 No. 3 in conn. w/ § 73(5) (BRAO)) or at the Lawyers’ Mediation Board (§ 191 f. (BRAO)) of the German Federal Bar Association, available on the Internet via the official website of German Federal Bar Association at www.brak.de, e-mail: schlichtungsstelle@brak.de.
The European Commission offers a platform for online dispute settlements, available at http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/.
The relevant mediation board for consumer dispute settlements in Germany involving pecuniary disputes based client relationships is the Lawyers’ Mediation Board, Neue Grünstraße 17, 10179 Berlin, Germany, www.schlichtungsstelle-der-rechtsanwaltschaft.de.
The law firm of Patzina Lotz Partnerschaft Rechtsanwälte mbB does not participate in settlements before a consumer mediation board.
