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We are a small law firm with only four attorneys, all of them qualified specialists in criminal law. We are a small firm because we restrict our practice to criminal law alone, but from the outset we have made criminal law our speciality.
We have an exclusively criminal-law practice because long experience has shown us that a criminal defence practice all too easily conflicts with a general legal and commercial practice. We value close personal contact with our clients. It is vital for us to have this contact and to discuss the case in depth with the client. This is the only way we can decide on the ideal approach to each individual case and develop a feeling for the right strategy for the individual client.
We practise solely in criminal law, but within criminal law we deal with all areas: classical criminal law and the ever-growing field of business and white-collar crime, particularly the central areas: criminal embezzlement and abuse of trust and corruption; tax, customs and other fiscal charges; accounting, stock exchange and securities trading law, criminal bankruptcy and foreign trade and payments law; and seizure of assets, an increasingly common procedure. We advise individuals and businesses that have suffered loss and damage as the victims of criminal offences, and we represent them when they assert their claims or are parties to criminal proceedings as private accessory prosecutors.
We are experienced in the law of international legal assistance in criminal matters, and we have made many contacts with colleagues in other countries in this connection; we occasionally work together with them.
We place great value on always being up to date on case law and criminology. We publish frequently and speak both at conferences and at training sessions for practising attorneys qualifying as criminal law specialists (Fachanwalt für Strafrecht). We also attend a large number of continuing professional development events.
We train: We regularly take a trainee attorney, and from time to time we also take law students as interns, in order to introduce them to our profession, its demands and its challenges, on a level adapted to their experience.
Within the firm, we cooperate closely in order to consolidate our knowledge and our experience for each individual case.
Eberhard Kempf works together with the defence attorneys Bertram Börner, Hannover; Gerald Goecke, Kiel; Dr. Stefan König, Berlin; Uwe Maeffert, Hamburg; and Christian Richter II, Cologne, in an informal professional cooperation, sharing academic research and enjoying mutual support and discussion of fundamental questions. These contacts give us an important stimulus and valuable assistance in individual cases.
We see it as part of our profession as defence counsel to be actively involved in criminal justice policy. Eberhard Kempf has been a member of the criminal law committee of the Deutscher AnwaltVerein, the German Bar Association, since 1990 and was its chairman from 1996 to 2005; in this capacity he is frequently invited to address the criminal law committee of the Bundesrechtsanwaltskammer, the Federal German Chamber of Attorneys. He is a member of the European Criminal Bar Association (ECBA), an association of defence counsel from all EU member states.
He has testified as an expert witness before the law committee of the German Bundestag on several occasions.
Eberhard Kempf was actively involved in the foundation of the Barreau Pénal International / International Criminal Bar, an association of lawyers at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. From 2003 to 2005 he was the Vice-President of the ICB, and from 2005 to 2007 the President. Our data and our office's internal and external communications are protected against external access by state-of-the-art security technologies that are constantly updated and monitored. Where necessary, we add extra protection to our outgoing communications in the form of professional encryption tool. |
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