The law office of Thiery & Thiery was founded in 1978 in Saarbrücken. It is situated in "Keltermann", a historical building on the market square of St. Johann in Saarbrücken.

The office handles matters of civil and commercial law. It operates not only on a regional basis, but also nationally and internationally, in particular in the Anglo-American sector and the German-Austrian law.

There has been close cooperation with Hartwig Solicitors in London since 1980.
The lawyers Lechner & Lechner in Leipzig have been our cooperation partners since 1994.
Since 2004 the law office Thiery & Ortenburger has been our cooperation partner.
Since 2004 Austria’s honorary consulate represented by Detlef Thiery being responsible for Austrian citizens living in Saarland is located in our law office.

The consulting service we offer aims at making these relationships easy to survey, stable and clear. Our experience, professional competence and creativity provide a dependable basis for this. We assist in preventing disputes and avoiding lengthy and expensive legal disputes by means of negotiation.

In cases where this is not possible, we support our clients in court and with authorities, to ward off unjustified claims and consistently assert rightful claims. We are active at all the German local and regional courts (in particular at the regional courts of Koblenz, Trier, Kaiserslautern, Zweibrücken and Mannheim) and are admitted to the Regional Appeal Court of Saarland in Saarbrücken.

It is a matter of course for our law office to offer our clients a permanent contact person / person in charge and to put every effort into representing the individual interests of our clients.

Our clients benefit from the fact that our lawyers receive further training on a regular basis and from our membership in various national and international organisations:

• AKW Arbeitskreis Wirtschaft e.V., Saarbrücken
• ARGE Arbeitsrecht im Deutschen Anwaltsverein, Berlin
• ARGE Bau- und Immobilienrecht im Deutschen Anwaltsverein, Berlin
• ARGE Erbrecht im Deutschen Anwaltsverein, Berlin
• ARGE Familienrecht im Deutschen Anwaltsverein, Berlin
• ARGE Medizinrecht im Deutschen Anwaltsverein, Berlin
• German-British Chamber of Industry and Commerce, London
• Deutsch-Amerikanische Juristenvereinigung e.V., Bonn
• Deutsch-Britische Juristenvereinigung e.V., Hamburg
• Deutsch-Französische Juristenvereinigung e.V., Mainz
• Deutsch-Spanische Juristenvereinigung e.V., Bonn
• Europaverband der Selbständigen (CEDI) / Bundesverband Deutschland (BVD) e.V., Neunkirchen
• EWS der Industrie- und Handelskammer des Saarlandes
• GRUR-Gesellschaft für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht e.V., Köln

Our business activity’s main focus consists in advising medium-sized enterprises. We aim at establishing close cooperation with our clients so that we can guaranty effective and individual representation our client’s interests.

Our law office is particularly interested in the setting up of new businesses and the people involved in this.
 

We are members of Rechtsanwaltskammer des Saarlandes Am Schlossberg 5, 66119 Saarbrücken and operate in accordance with: Bundesrechtsanwaltsordnung (BRAO) Berufsordnung (BORA) Fachanwaltsordnung (FAO) RVG   and within the international domain of legal order we comply with Standesregelung der Rechtsanwälte in der Europäischen Gemeinschaft (CCBE-Berufsregeln). Further information concerning this is given on the German Federal Bar's website www.brak.de (Rubrik "Angaben gemäß § 6 TDG").

We are:

Detlef Thiery (born 1948) Studied jurisprudence in Tübingen and Saarbrücken Traineeship with, among others, the British-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry in London Admitted to the bar since 1978 Member of the board of the German-British Jurists Association, Hamburg since 1980  Honorary consul of Austria since 2004 Foreign languages: English

Gertrud Thiery  (born 1951) Studied jurisprudence in Tübingen and Saarbrücken Traineeship in, among others, a lawyers' office in London Admitted to the bar since 1978 Specialist in labour law since 1992 Vice-president of the Bar Association of Saarland "Justizrätin" since 2005 Foreign languages: English

Beate Carroccia  (born 1977) Studied jurisprudence in Saarbrücken Admitted to the bar since 2005 Foreign languages:   English and italian

Stefanie Appel  (born 1979) Studied jurisprudence in Mannheim and Saarbrücken Admitted to the bar since 2006 Foreign languages:   English and french

• Legal structure?
• Memorandum and articles of association, partnership agreements?
• Location?
• Financing?
• Contacts?
• Taxes?
• Property?
• Registration of the business?
• Public aid?
• Contracts of employment?
• General terms and conditions of trade?
• And, and, and…

We have the answer - fast, competent and tailored to your individual requirements.

Advising:

A lawyer's fee for a counsel is no longer prescribed by law and can thus be appointed individually. The most common agreement we recommend is a fee calculated according to time. We offer hourly rates of between EUR 140.00 and EUR 240.00, depending on the facts and circumstances of the case.

Moreover, we offer an introductory counsel at a fixed price. The first counsel is an introductory consultation which, in our experience, usually takes between 15 and 45 minutes. Such a consultation aims to provide a provisional appraisal of the likelihood of a client's case being brought to a successful conclusion and an assessment of the expected cost of proceedings. We offer this service for a fixed price of EUR 30.00 per 15 minutes plus VAT. By accepting this offer you have the opportunity - at little expense - of finding out if your personal issue can be solved successfully.

Representation in court:

Concerning representation in court, an official law (Rechtsanwaltsvergütungsgesetz) prescribes a certain fee that may not be undercut - not even by an individual agreement between the lawyer and the client. The costs to be covered by the client depend on the value of the matter in dispute, which is determined by the economic interest the client expresses by carrying out legal proceedings. In the case of claims for money the value in dispute can easily be ascertained. It corresponds to the sum of money being required by the plaintiff.

Things get more complicated if lawsuits do not involve claims for money. Litigation belonging to this category is, for instance, actions to restrain interference as well as claims for removal of institutions, buildings and so on. Nevertheless, in such cases we are usually able to establish at least the approximate value in dispute provided that we are aware of all significant facts. Based on this knowledge we are able to obtain a first overview of the judicial proceeding's costs. It goes without saying that, if you so request, we will calculate a personal prognosis of your costs based on the information of which we are aware about your case.

If you would like to have your risk of costs appraised by specialists, we are the people to contact.