24.06.2021 | answered by Jasmin Pesla
Background:
A lawyer is hired by the legal protection insurance for out-of-court representation. The client wanted to take legal action immediately, as he had been in out-of-court correspondence with the other party for months without reaching a sati...
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03.03.2017 | answered by Jan Wilking
Can one force a public prosecutor's office to provide information on the status of a case that I reported and that was opened by the public prosecutor's office in 11/2016? If so, I am looking for a specialist criminal defense attorney who knows how t...
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29.12.2016 | answered by Jan Wilking
Hello
For about 19 years, I have been working partly in field sales for a company. For 14 years, I was provided with a company car for private use, including fuel and a 1% rule. About 4 years ago, the company cars were removed and instead a car allo...
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19.10.2016 | answered by Andreas Scholz
A has been provided with a technician by a wholesaler, who is supposed to install an electrical part at A's place. After the work is done, A finds out that the technician is employed as a technician at the wholesaler, but is not self-employed on the ...
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14.01.2016 | answered by Jan Wilking
Hello,
I am a development engineer at a semiconductor manufacturer (around 900 people) for 33 years, 60 years old, and I would like to work only 3 days a week in the future, so I am planning to submit a request for part-time work. I am familiar with...
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25.08.2015 | answered by Jan Wilking
Dear Sir or Madam,
I have been transferred to a European country by my employer for professional reasons and have relocated with my wife.
The cancellation of the membership at the gym for me and my wife was answered / rejected as follows:
We canno...
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29.07.2015 | answered by Stefan Steininger
I have recently started working at a music school. Now I have given a trial lesson to a potential customer for the music school. There is no signed contract between this potential customer and the music school. For various reasons, this customer has ...
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11.01.2015 | answered by Steffan Schwerin
Dear Mr. Lawyer,
I have a new client who would like me to handle the maintenance and management of his website. The website was created by a different agency. Am I allowed to do this? Does the creator of the website still have rights to the content,...
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22.05.2014 | answered by Jan Wilking
There seems to be no peace....
... therefore we will soon be availing ourselves of the services of a local lawyer. However, before that, a very important, as I find it, exciting question. Just now we received a fax (for the first time) from a lawyer...
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11.12.2013 | answered by Steffan Schwerin
Hairdresser visit:
Customer X wants a short haircut as usual for 10.00 EUR. Since she has been visiting the hair salon for some time, she knows that the service includes washing, cutting, and a quick blow dry to dry the hair if it is still wet after...
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10.07.2013 | answered by Dr. Danjel-Philippe Newerla
I have been working for almost 13 years at the German branch of an international airline. Since September 11th (2001), things have been constantly declining in the industry. In 2001, the company had 22,000 employees worldwide, but now there are only ...
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21.06.2013 | answered by Steffan Schwerin
At one of our clients, the insolvency proceedings have been opened. We have a contract that has not yet been fulfilled with this client. We have requested the insolvency administrator to exercise his option according to §103 InsO, but he has not resp...
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21.05.2013 | answered by Jan Wilking
There has been a dispute with my neighbor for years over his 3-4m high hedge at the property boundary. A lawsuit has been ongoing since 2009. In October 2010, the court determined a height of 2m to be maintained by December 21 of each year. The hedge...
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01.12.2012 | answered by Jan Wilking
The GmbH is in liquidation, the blocking period is over. The creditors have been satisfied. The GmbH has not been deleted yet. Now there are complaints / warranty claims from customers. Is the GmbH still liable for this? There are no assets of the Gm...
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19.11.2012 | answered by Jan Wilking
Given the following scenario: A German seller acts as a business intermediary on a commission basis between Far Eastern traders who want to sell their goods (primarily electronics) and customers on major sales platforms like Amazon / Ebay. This is ne...
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03.05.2012 | answered by Andreas Scholz
Dear Sir or Madam,
we would like to sell our property and have given a qualified sole agency mandate to a broker, which includes the following passage:
"This qualified sole agency mandate relates to the provision of potential buyers or the negotiat...
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29.04.2012 | answered by Steffan Schwerin
Hello,
for two years I have been using a car registered in my name. For tax reasons, the vehicle is linked to my part-time IT consulting business.
The private use amounts to 86%.
I now want to sell this car without being liable for any defects.
F...
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24.03.2012 | answered by Jan Wilking
The questioner is a provider of a small profession-specific online software that is sold "as is" or that can be changed/rebuilt at a cost according to the buyer's layout and/or functionality requirements. How and by what means the predetermined goal ...
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11.03.2012 | answered by Steffan Schwerin
Dear legal expert,
The following situation is giving me a headache:
Ten years ago, my grandmother purchased a condominium for 125,000 euros with her then partner, each owning half. My grandmother had the money, while her partner financed his half of...
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08.02.2012 | answered by Dr. Danjel-Philippe Newerla
A customer bought several wooden facades from us over the weekend. The customer automatically received an order confirmation and has already paid.
On the past Monday, it was noticed that there was an error in the item description on the internet. T...
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03.02.2012 | answered by Steffan Schwerin
I wanted to sell my collection of 53 records through a website.
For this, I had to send the records to the company because there was no immediate price available on the website.
The records were shipped on December 28, 2011.
On January 20, 2012, I...
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03.02.2012 | answered by Steffan Schwerin
Dear Sir or Madam,
I am not satisfied with the reference letter for my mother and believe that there is a need for significant corrections.
Would you be able to review the letter and draft a letter to the employer with the necessary corrections?
T...
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16.12.2011 | answered by Steffan Schwerin
Hello,
I am 36 years old, a single mother of 2 children aged 5 and 8 years old.
I have completed a three and a half year vocational training as a dental technician with 21 months of work experience afterwards. I then worked in a non-vocational job ...
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25.11.2011 | answered by Bernhard Müller
Dear Sir or Madam,
Regarding the situation: A is a valued long-term private customer of B, who, due to liquidity problems in his company at the time of ordering in 2009, had to downsize or close his business as he needed financial state support. B o...
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23.11.2011 | answered by Dr. Danjel-Philippe Newerla
Hello,
I have the following problem:
First of all, I must say that I come from South Tyrol and therefore have Italian citizenship. Therefore, I am not very familiar with German law.
Since I am frequently on business trips in Germany, I often order th...
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