Our Focal Practice Areas

We take on and conduct appeals and complaints before all civil divisions (panels) of the Federal Court of Justice in the practice areas listed below, with varying emphasis.

For more details (in German) on which proceedings were conducted by us before which civil divisions of the Federal Court of Justice, please select the respective button.

  • First Civil Panel

    Copyright law; law on the protection of intellectual property rights; forwarding, storage and shipping law; brokerage law

  • Second Civil Panel

    Corporate law; law of associations

  • Third Civil Panel

    State liability law; notarial liability law; law on foundations and endowments; mandate/agency law; service contracts law

  • Fourth Civil Panel

    Law of succession; insurance contracts law

  • Fifth Civil Panel

    Real Property Law; law concerning neighbours and the interests of adjoining owners; residential property law; deprivation of liberty matters* (*until 1 September 2019)

  • Sixth Civil Panel

    Tort law, e.g. Medical and product liability; transportation and traffic accidents law

  • Auxiliary Sixth Civil Panel (Civil Panel VIa)

    Claims for damages in tort concerning so-called “diesel cases”

  • Seventh Civil Panel

    Work and services contracts law; architectural law; compulsory execution law