Apply for permission to provide extrajudicial legal services

You can register if you meet the following requirements:

• They are personally suitable and reliable for the activity.
  
  Personal suitability is lacking, for example, in the case of a fundamental conflict of interest. Not sufficient for a conflict of interest is the fact that you exercise another profession. It must be an activity that is generally incompatible with the provision of legal services. This may be the case if you operate a debt collection agency and a financing brokerage at the same time.
  The criteria for reliability are yourparticularly any criminal offences, and your financial circumstances. As a rule, you cannot register due to a lack of reliability if
  • You have been convicted of a felony or a misdemeanour affecting the exercise of your profession in the last three yearsyou have been convicted of a felony or a misdemeanour relating to the exercise of your profession,
  • Your financial situation is in disorder,
  • You have been disbarred from practising as a lawyer within the last three years.

You are particularly theoretically and practically competent in the areas of law relevant to the activity applied for.

• For debt collection services aspecial theoretical expertise is required in particular in
  • Civil law,
  • commercial, securities and company law,
  • civil procedure law, including compulsory enforcement and insolvency law
  • as well as costs law
• For pension counsellingt requires special theoretical expertise in the following areas
  • Law of statutory pension and accident insurance as well as all other fields of law mentioned in section 10, paragraph 1, sentence 1, no. 2 RDG,
  • Structure, organisation andd structural principles of social security
  • Common legal principles applicable to all areas of social security, including administrative proceedings under social law and proceedings before the social courts
• For legal services in a foreign law, you must be particularly theoretically knowledgeable in the foreign law or in sub-areas of the foreign law for which you are applying for registration.

You are practically competent ifn you have been practising in the area in which legal services are to be provided for at least at least two years

• you have worked under supervision for at least two years or
• have completed vocational training.

In principle, these must be activities that require independent processing of dunning and enforcement ordersthe practical expertise can be acquired, for example, in a legal practice in which you have worked for at least one year under supervision or have completed vocational training. The practical expertise may have been acquired, for example, in aacquired in the course of a debt collection service as

• Clerical assistant to a lawyer or solicitor,
• Clerk in a debt collection agency,
• a self-employed member of staff in the legal oryou must be an employee of the legal or dunning department of a larger company or a bank or savings bank.

You can provide evidence of this expertise.

You have taken out professional liability insurance with a minimum insurance sum of 250,000 euros for each insured event in accordance with the provisions of the Legal Services Ordinance.