The firm of bjw lawyers was formed in 2001 through the amalgamation of the firms carried on by the lawyers Günther Böckmann, Peter John und Dr Roland Wiester.
The firm results from the coming together of experienced lawyers who have been practising for many years. The aim and basic idea was to establish a primarily commercial law orientated firm but with specialists in various areas - being a law firm that is dedicated to looking after the interests of its business and private clients in a rigorous and businesslike way.
In 2002 Tobias Gieding joined the firm as an additional partner. The firm has also been strengthened on the personnel front by Erik Andresen who, as legal counsel with a large German construction company, is primarily responsible for clients needing construction and architect related legal advice.
At our firm you will receive comprehensive legal advice in the following areas:
• Bank and credit security law
• Commercial law
• Company and partnership law
• Construction law
• Contract law relating to work and services
• Copyright and media law
• Custodianship law
• Employment law
• Inheritance law
• Insolvency law
• Insurance law relating to private persons
• Intellectual property law / Competition law
• Internet law
• Landlord and tenant law
• Pension law
• Restructuring law
• Social welfare law / Social security law
• Tax law
• Trademark and brand law
as well as in all areas of general German civil law.
We will advise and support you proactively and on an ongoing basis as an external legal department would in following up on, or making claims in respect of, your rights.
The nature and scope of our legal advice is always determined by the client's economic interests. Accordingly, we first ascertain your business objectives and then prepare a strategy to achieve an effective and economic solution.
Malicious taking of proceedings or unnecessary hardening of positions in existing disputes cannot be in your interests. Instead, situations that give rise to conflicts should if possible be viewed objectively, and with the parties involved one should aim primarily to achieve a common solution. In principal, legal proceedings will be initiated only if this is an appropriate way of making claims in respect of your rights and justifiable from the economic point of view. It must be the aim of all legal advice that the economic investment in the legal services is balanced by an appropriate element of usefulness.
The giving of legal advice for us includes not only dealing with problems that clients in fact raise with us. As legal advisers we want in addition to be proactive and point out the procedural risks and other legal ways of dealing with the matter. Only if your adviser "thinks around" the problem with you in such a way, can you achieve an optimal legal position.