Wanting to move to Germany and also have an eye on the costs. Check our calculator to get the best of quotes from companies in your vicinity !

6 Reasons Why Hiring a Business Lawyer is not that Expensive

If you are a small-business owner, contacting a lawyer is often a scary proposition. It appears to be costly and only a little bit comes back in return. Legal advice and guidance in varied forms is vital to any small business. It is true that you will get a bill. However, hiring an attorney doesn’t have to break the bank.

Coverage of LG2G in the Press:

• Berlin Hauptstadt Depesche, Stadtmagazin für Berlins Wirtschaft, Kultur, Diplomatie, Politik, February 2007, www.DasCorps.de
• Berlýn International, Newsletter of Berlin's Foreigners Commissioner, Juli + Aug

Awards

• Internations has awarded LG2G as "Top Expat Blog"
• Legal Guide to Germany (LG2G) has been nominated for German Prize for Civic Engagement 2011.

Berlin, June 23, 2011. LG2G works in the integration of new arrivals to Germany. The project bureau informed LG2G of this nomination per letter.

LG2G’s commitment has experienced with this nomination a special appreciation. This not only delights the publisher but also shows that the topic “legal orientation for the integration of foreigners” has been publicly noticed and has been deemed as an example worthy of the prize.

The German Prize for Civic Engagement honors dedicated organizations, businesses and persons for volunteering their time and acumen. The “Alliance for Engagement (Bündnis für Gemeinnützigkeit)” is an association of primarily umbrella as well as independent organizations in the Third Sector as along with experts and scientists found there. The German Prize for Civic Engagement has been funded from the outset by the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth and the Generali Future Fund.

The German Prize for Civic Engagement is awarded in the categories charitable third sector, individuals, businesses, politics & administration as well as for this year’s focus category engagement of older persons. The winners of the individual categories are determined by a top-class jury. A pre-selection of around 20 projects is then given over to an online voting, in which citizens themselves can decide on a winner of the Public Prize, the award of which includes prize money of Euro 10,000. They will elect the winner via an online voting procedure on the website www.deutscher-engagementpreis.de.

LG2G thanks all persons who nominated this project!

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Demoscopic Survey on the Readers via Personal Questioning

The survey shows the status of November 2009 – from personally collected data.  At the moment, there are about 1,400 readers registered. Though the status relates to some time back, it is nevertheless up-to-date because most changes were behind the "point". However, this page will be updated upon further sponsoring. For the mean time, we ask for your kind patience. Thank you.

Contents:

1. Where the readership lives:
2. When Germany, in which state do they live?
3. Which citizenship do they have?

Where the readership lives:

When Germany, in which state do they live?

Which citizenship do they have?

Logos from LG2G

Thank you for your wish to spread out the word about LG2G. Your help and assistance is valuable to help this project prosper. Below you can add the logo to your site or blog when you copy the image's location via right mouse button.

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Methods of Advertising

1.) Website Rates

a.) Listings

b.) Banners

2.) Ads in the Weekly Newsletter

3.) Spread the Word on LG2G

4.) Need Legal Newsletters for your Clients?

In addition to the standard banner ads, there are also different other ways to promote products and services on the website and other products of LG2G. Here you can discover the possibilities to best attract new customers to your business. Non standard ads can be negotiated. Interesting would be not typically legal content that an expat needs to generally understand. To help spread the word of mouth, a booked advertising will be announced in the next available weekly newsletter.

All paid ads will be not only be passively promoted but also actively by the publisher, authors, and associates!

1.) Website Rates

All following rates are for one year and will be automatically prolonged if not canceled on time (one month prior expiration). German addresses will be billed with the current VAT of 19%.

a.) Listings

A Free Basic Listing for one year in the website's searchable and search engine friendly database displays

• the company or organization name,
• name of contact person,
• postal address,
• telephone number
• fax number
• listing in one category,
• Google Map to your address,
• Router to your address
• metatags to better find your entry,
• metadescription to better find your entry,

Further details cost as follows:

Want to ad a listing? Please click here – you can enter everything by yourself!

b.) Banners

A Banner, which is independent of any listing in the searchable database, provides a hot button with your company's logo on the website's home page directly linked to your website. Banners can placed be placed on any page will come first after the navigation. A banner ad qualifies for a free linked listing. All prices are per annum!

Banners can also be placed in individual news articles!

News Articles are more indepth studies or judgement reviews for the "legal consumer" in Germany.

You would like to place a banner on the site? Please contact LG2G and have the link and banner added.

2.) Ads in the Weekly Newsletter

Whenever you need to quickly reach many expats, an ad in the newsletter will be the correct and efficient method.

Who are the readers? Smallest to medium-size business, private persons, diplomats. The readers are citizens of many countries like from the "Americas", Asia, the Commonwealth, Europe. The vast majority of the readers live in Germany and many live in the U.S.A., or Europe and some in Asia or Arabia. For a more elaborate description, please take a look at the demographic survey of the readers or on the usage of this site.

Want to place an ad in the newsletter? Please contact the sales management and add everything to be published.

3.) Spread the Word on LG2G

Spread the word on LG2G and get a discount for any banner or paid listing advertisement:
of € 20 when you add LG2G’s logo and link it back to this portal
of € 10 for a text link back. N.B. This offer is planned to be abandoned in 2013 and to be replaced with an affiliate marketing program – giving you the chance to get your advertizement paid by all your many refferals.

4. Need Legal Newsletters for Your Clients?

Media Services be it on the Internet, in online magazine or newspaper or as a newsletter, have a strong need for independent journalistic support. Internet presentations have to be editorially produced and maintained. Interesting and current content is needed. Independent journalists can quickly satisfy this demand.

LG2G covers legal topics of everyday – legal – concern typically and especially from the perspective of the Anglophone, new resident in Germany on a weekly basis. The official language of LG2G is English but nevertheless, any requested articles can be provided in German in the same easy to understand way. The contents are prepared that a legal layperson can understand the message of the text and readily obtain a legal understanding. German “peculiarities” will be uniquely and understandably introduced.

If have a social network for expats and would love to add expat related content to your network. We are open for that. Please send us an email.

Please send us an eMail to order your English or German legal content !

Current topics are:

1. Business Tax (Interesting cases on tax law for running a business in Germany, addressing freelancers, SME, professional services, trades)
2. Business Law (Interesting legal cases in general for running a business in Germany, addressing freelancers, SME, professional services, trades)
3. Civil Law (Interesting cases in general for addressing private persons in Germany - outside of any profession but possibly relevant for professionals)
4. Foreigners Law (Interesting cases addressing immigration, expulsion, naturalization)
5. Labor Law (Interesting cases regarding employment and especialy termination and miscellaneous questions of employment in Germany)
6. PC Law (Interesting cases in general for running a business in Germany, addressing online businesses, eBay, legal problems related to computer or internet)
7. Practicalities (Interesting articles addressing something practical to ease the strains of living abroad),
8. Private Tax (Interesting cases on taxes relating to employees, child benefits, private persons, etc.)
9. Real Estate Law (Interesting cases in general for renting an appartment in Germany – with specials for landlords and tenants).

Testimonials of Relevant Persons:

• Export.gov,
• Brian Johnson, Managing Partner of Verge Technologies,
• Prof. Dr. Andreas Pott, Institute for Migrational and Intercultural Studies, University Osnabrück,
• Prof. Barbara John, former Foreigners Commissioner of Berlin,
• Stephen Paul Kershaw
• Fiona Kump,
• Charles M. Taylor,
• Vreemdelingenrecht.com,
• Alan Garvie, Co-Owner of the Bookshop "East of Eaden",
• Joseph Doswell,
• Pension Sprachschule Maria Shipley,
• Sexy 'n' Sweet Julie,
• Property In Retirement

State.Gov – U.S. Government supporting American Companies Exporting

By its own initiative, the U.S. refers to LG2G as a source for legal research. Thanks Uncle Sam!

Verge Technologies, LLC

1985 Twin Sun Circle
Walled Lake, MI 48390

Subject: Obtaining reliable information for companies doing business in Germany

I had a chance to view your "Legal Guide" website and was favorably impressed. This is no casual interest on my part, since lack of comprehensive information of this type constitutes a major obstacle to confidently doing business.

There are several online guides I have used in the past, for example “Expatica's” and they all suffer from one or more deficiencies. Usually this involves their lack of specific relevant detail and references for further information. The information posted by both the US and German foreign services is of a very general nature without sufficient direction for authoritative answers. As a newcomer myself, I can assure you that reliable information on everyday legal, business and assorted bureaucratic issues is hard to locate – and none available in one resource.

Several items that have been of particular interest to me include:

• Business organizational forms and related law,
• Banking, tariffs, import/export, employment law, property, leases & utilities, and other general "border-line" legal/political/bureaucratic issues,
• Personal relocation issues, family, visas, etc.
• What external (local, federal) resources exist for quick research and general answers to common licensing and bureaucratic requirements?
• For a website: a functional format of presentation, including a means for displaying changing law and other requirements

While researching information necessary for my business, I have discovered a range of online information and services from government trade programs and chambers of commerce to expensive consulting companies. These offer some initial generic materials, targeted no doubt, for advertising further more expensive detailed information. Online guides are sometimes a type of "white paper" that functions more as a sales tool for demonstrating the need for further professional services. That is certainly not a bad approach, as many of the larger consulting firms' successful practice would indicate.

I believe that a thorough review of available sources that currently provide components of this information would be worthwhile in constructing a competitive alternative. There are many “public-domain” resources from which “free”, but incomplete information can be procured. Should that information be reviewed for general accuracy and legal compliance, a compilation into one source would constitute a value-added product. Such a new resource when coupled with expert legal advice should be cost-effective to assemble. It could be made available at a reasonable retail price as well, structured on free resources and a fee structure for premium services and consultation.

These are some initial thoughts, although I could elaborate upon other functional and business requirements that I would appreciate in such a service and site.

I extend my encouragement to your endeavors in this and project and offer what assistance I may be able to provide in the future.

Sincerely,
Brian Johnson, Managing Partner
Verge Technologies

Institute for Migrational and Intercultural Studies, University Osnabrück,

Your plans to develop this guide sound interesting and are important!

Prof. Dr. Andreas Pott

Preface of Prof. Barbara John to the 1st Edition of book The Legal Guide to Living in Germany

This guide is sincerely needed. Those, who are already residing in Ger­many, know why. In finding a job or an apartment, a foreigner is already well armed using the skills acquired at home. However, in subsequently trying to get a residence permit and additionally a work permit, that will give him or her the feeling of being set off on a different planet. It is said, that Germany has the highest density of regulations and laws of the whole world. All Germans suffer under this abundance, even those who invent, implement and control this nightmare of (bilateral and multilateral) conventions, decrees, implementing ordinances, laws, statutes, etc. All governments promise to clear out the legal jungle that has grown over more than a century, but it usually turns out like this: by the time ten old regulations have been abolished, 12 new ones will have been created in the meantime, some of them just to regulate the abolition in an orderly way; e.g. the reform of shop’s opening hours. Still a few years ago shops were only allowed to be open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., and now for two more hours a day. However, per extra decree for each single event, shops will be allowed to open longer in the event of happenings, of fairs, holidays, etc.

Of course, one could endlessly caricaturise the German’s irresistible desire to regulate. This could be amusing, however, foreigners need security in the sense that they can be assured of being able to live and to work in accordance with German law, as there is a reward for people who comply with all the requirements: they become entitled to the social and the legal system.

Although I am extending a warm welcome to newcomers, this gesture will not help as much as the reading of this book, in order to cope successfully with everyday life in Germany. Those who left Germany because they finally gave up, should seek a second chance.

Prof. Barbara John
Berlin, February 2003
(Former) Foreigners Commissioner of Berlin Senate

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Stephen Paul Kershaw

Sony Pictures Entertainment Corp

Executive Production Management

Reason for adding contact:
Hi Alexander,

I noticed you visited my profile, so in turn I visited yours. Could you tell me where I could find a copy of the Legal guide to Germany? That seems something essential for any home office/book shelf.

By the way, I find your website's honesty refreshing. That is rare.

-steve in the Publisher's guestbook on Xing

Fiona Klomp

an excellant concept - congratulations

on LinkedIn

Charles M. Taylor

The Guide is excellent and I recommend it to clients as they think about European expansion.

With all best wishes.

Charly

Charles M. Taylor, Esquire
Charles M. Taylor, PC
Honorary Consul General of Germany a.D.

Vreemdelingenrecht.com

Hello Alexander,
I noticed your website Legal guide to Germany on LinkedIn and I am going to mention that on my weblog about Dutch immigration law. As you maybe know in The Netherlands the so called "Europe-route" is discovered by the lawyers. For family reunification residence permits, the foreign partner has to pass a Dutch exam and the Dutch partner has to earn enough and steady income. But because of the European rules on free movement of people, lawyers discovered that it can be an idea that the Dutch partner moves to a neighboring country. Most people head to Belgium because of the common language and the fact that in Belgium no integration course is required but for some people Germany can be a better idea (a friend of mine had 2 clients living next to the border). But not many people know their way to and in Germany, so I think your website can be of great help.

Kind regards,
Wytzia

East of Eden

This is a book for anyone living or working (or planning to live and work) for a time in Germany. Packed full of easy to understand, clear answers to every imaginable legal question. With detailed information on legal issues from Entry and Residency Permits, Labour Laws, Taxation, through to statutory legal costs and dual citizenship. This is the first book of its kind published in English by a German Attorney-at-Law and has been badly needed by all of us who have struggled for years with German bureaucracy and legal terms as long as the queues at the Ausländerbehörde!

Alan Garvie

East of Eden Bookshop, Berlin-Friedrichshain

Maria Shipley of Pension Sprachschule

Being an expat family member, but also a repat at the same time, I am often consulted about legal matters in Germany such as prolonging a visa.

Read more in her very interesting blog!

Sexy'n'SweetJulie

Hya Al,
Thank you for your advice. I see that you offer much helpful advice to the people on the site, and that is really wonderful for those of us unsure of the German/American transition issues.

Take care

sexynsweet_Julie

Joseph Doswell

His comment in the publisher's guestbook on Xing:

The Legal Guide to Germany is an excellent resource of information.
Thank you!
Joe

Property In Retirement

Hello,

I see that the LG2G website gives really useful information for retiring abroad. We have created a public interest website at www.PropertyInRetirement.co.uk focused on choosing the right retirement property option for you, which I thought may be of interest to your visitors.

Louise Clare
PropertyInRetirement

Matthew Muszak

Country Contact for Warsaw, Poland on behalf of American Citizens Abroad

Gee, I wish we had such for Poland!

Visits to the Legal Guide to Germany

Visits have been increasing at a dramatic pace since the website has been page optimized for Google searches. A new admin has been hired for promoting purposes to outnumber by far the previous lay efforts of the publisher. Almost from the very beginning, this site had a Google ranking of "5" and a domain visibility of  40,800. There about 2,500 readers registered – as of January 2013. Recently Google has ranked up LG2G to "4". Even Alexa has recently ranked to # 4,066,284 – until then this prominent web information company did not rank LG2G at all.

Having introduced LG2G and publishing teasers on Plaxo in several different boards on Xing, regular promotions on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter have lead to more awareness of this grand resource.

Further explosions in the click numbers are yet to come.

Why is worthwhile to place advertizement on the Legal Guide to Germany?

LG2G is

• a concise, popular website that helps newcomers and residents to overcome officialdom in Germany in English or at least a language more comfortable than German,
• a direct outreach and exposure to expats from all over the world, who speak English,
• expats seeking businesses interested in them will find them to businesses in our "Business Directory". It includes product and service suppliers as well as churches, clubs, and organizations and other categories.
• a concise encyclopedia to German law for non-lawyers, weekly legal newsletter for expats and others, frequent updates on important topics are the most important features of this website,
• enjoying being read by SME and private persons, generally such that cannot afford their own in-house lawyer, receiving its popularity by the many visitors to the website who are sent there by many other internet sites that have linked to the Legal Guide to Germany,
• LG2G is all about telling lawyer's inside stories of living and working in Germany.

The testimonial of Brian Johnson, Managing Partner of Verge Technologies is very informative and clearly shows the need for this portal! Besides, as a member of numerous mailing lists, we always refer to the directory, when someone asks for a specific service.

Those in any kind of (legal / tax) consulting business will receive a list of useful permalinks in order for you to politely answer a simple question like "What do I need to get into Germany?" that will not to be paid. Just answer:  "Info for almost no cost is found here www.lg2g.info/entry !"

In order to finance this project your ad is needed.

All relevant information on LG2G presence in the Internet can be studied on the following pages:

Visitors? exploding

Testimonials on LG2G?Testimonials on LG2G from professionals, public officers, private persons, and especially those in the business directory

Demoscopics? A representative overview.

Press Coverage? Yup.

Methods of Advertising on LG2G? Several, to meet your needs.

Standard Terms and Conditions for Advertising on LG2G

Subject matter of this Contract

1. Subject of this contract is an advertisement as further determined in the online form on the Editor’s website http://www.LG2G.info. The Legal Guide to Germany wants to introduce German law to foreigners in the English language. Sponsor testifies that he can at least somewhat fluently sell his products and / or services in English and is willing and able to deal with potential customers in English. These are major criteria to qualify to place an ad on the website.
2. Purchase of any banner ad earns a free Linked Listing!
3. Advertisement shall be published within three working days after receiving payment. Editor will have the advertisement retrievable for generally 24 hours every day.

Specifications of Icons for Storefronts

Icons should be in GIF or JPEG format, maximum 300 x 300 pixel size, resolution of 75 pixels per inch. Logo may not simulate a Windows or Macintosh system message. Sponsor’s banner is to be so developed that viewers will not be mislead on the advertising character of the banner. Sponsor promises to meet current law and not infringe third parties’ rights.