We have to get to the cause

In General, lawyers in the rural areas, a similar defect as in the case of the in-house doctors. The German bar Association demanded higher fees.

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On the question of what profession he wanted to take, Wolfgang Janisch during his law studies, a standard answer: criminal defense attorney. Really seriously that was meant, and today he is glad it came to nothing, although he keeps the Job for one of the most important in the rule of law. So instead journalism: After various stations in regional Newspapers (Mainzer Rhein-Zeitung, Südwest Presse), and the FAZ, as well as a legal Promotion, with a one-year study stay in the USA, he went, in 1997, as a justice, a political correspondent for the German press Agency to Karlsruhe. Jura from the other side, as an observer of the Federal constitutional court and the Federal court of justice. Since 2010, reports and comments for the SZ. In the meantime, he also writes about the European courts; the location - Karlsruhe, Germany - has remained the same.

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In some rural regions is not missing now, not only the supermarket, the Baker, the doctor, and with fast Internet - there are less and less lawyers. On the one hand, this is due to the fees regulations, but also to the imagination of the people. This week, the German Anwaltstag in Leipzig is looking for solutions.

SZ: The German lawyers ' Association calls for an increase in the lawyer's compensation - also in order to improve the offer on the flat Land. Why?

Edith Kindermann: The lawyers in the area settle mainly in accordance with the statutory scale of fees - the last 2013. Since then, wages have risen by 16 per cent. We are only asking that this increase of catching up to do. In fact, in General, lawyers in the rural areas, a similar defect as in the case of the doctors.

Can't do the lawyers here, to fill in the gaps?

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There are positive examples. I know of colleagues who made of attorney, and living wills have specialized. They bought a Bus, and when citizens asked master, whether you can come for two days to the village. The have brought the administration of justice in the area. However, we must allow the cause and the presence of lawyers in the area by a customization.

General attorney, as you call him, would be the ideal way, the first point of contact when a legal Problem. A lot of people think, but for the first time to the invoice, you enter the lawyer's visit.

When I tell people, what is obtained after the fees costs, then many will say: As I would have expected, but with very different sums.

But there are studies that people riding only a certain amount of legal action - because including the cost risk is too high.

Edith Kindermann, 56, in March the President of the German bar Association. The Bremen lawyer is a specialist lawyer for family law. In 2007, she was admitted as a notary public.

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Yes, it is from a threshold of $ 1950. But you can ask the lawyer in advance what the cost is. An example: The landlord asks the tenant to 1300 euros in damages due to scratched doors. Who wants to be a lawyer for a consultation about whether a process is worth it, can agree on a fee. The capping limit for the initial consultation,

collect The Internet portal flight right, the compensation in case of flight delays, advertises a cost of risk of zero euros with a high chance of success. No question of where the consumer goes, is it?

In the case of flight right there in the rule to clear cases. And in clear cases, the lawyer is also a low-cost risk - because if you win, do not get the costs from the opponent refunded if the is broke.

So the window dressing?

no, but it has to be seen differentiated: The "uncertain prospect of success", which is when you go to the lawyer, consists in the vast majority of flight delay cases. Because there fast clear is whether there is a refund or not.