Bar - Applying for extension of the syndic's licence

• Existing admission as lawyer (in-house lawyer) • Significant change of the activity or • Taking up another employment relationship • Job requirements www.gesetze-im-internet.de/brao/__46.html The activity must comply with the requirements pursuant to § 46 ( 2) - (5) BRAO.

• Application Submit the appropriate application with all attachments. The attachments must be also comleted and signed. The attachment Personal data sheet must be submitted with a photo. • Proof of employment contract In the event of the conclusion of a new / further employment contract or an amendment agreement, an original signed by both parties or a publicly certified copy pursuant to § 46a BRAO, § 129 BGB (notarial) must be submitted. • Proof of contractual independence www.gesetze-im-internet.de/brao/__46.html Proof of professional independence of professional practice pursuant to § 46 BRAO must be provided (employment contract regulation or supplementary agreement. This must be submitted as an original signed by both parties or as a publicly certified copy according to § 46a BRAO, § 129 BGB (notarial). • Proof of the job description (master sheet) (under "Forms") A job description must be submitted, signed by the employer's legal or legally authorised representative. In the case of a substantially changed activity pursuant to Section 46b BRAO, an updated job description must be submitted or a confirmation from the employer that there has been no change or no substantial change in the activity. • Proof of the employer's name and the object of the employer's company In the event of changes in the object of the enterprise or in the event of an application for extension to another employment relationship, proof of the employer's name and the object of the employer's enterprise (e.g. a copy of the extract from the commercial register, the register of associations or the register of cooperatives) must be submitted.

• Application for extension of the syndic's licence to another employment relationship (f) in Berlin (with questionnaire and master form) www.rak-berlin.de/download/mitglieder_pdfs_formulare/syndiku • Application for extension of the syndic's licence to another employment relationship (m) in Berlin (with questionnaire and master form) www.rak-berlin.de/download/mitglieder_pdfs_formulare/syndiku • Application for extension of the syndic's licence to a substantially changed activity (f) in Berlin (with questionnaire and master form) www.rak-berlin.de/download/mitglieder_pdfs_formulare/syndiku • Application for extension of the syndic's licence to a substantially changed activity (m) in Berlin (with questionnaire and master form) www.rak-berlin.de/download/mitglieder_pdfs_formulare/syndiku

100,00 Euro

• Federal Lawyers' Act (BRAO) www.gesetze-im-internet.de/brao/BJNR005650959.html • Fee schedule of the Berlin Bar Association <https://www.rak-berlin.de/download/rak_berlin_pdfs/2022_03_02_GebOrdnung_RAK.pdf?m=1647858302&>

approx. 3 months

• Information sheet on extension for admitted in-house lawyers www.rak-berlin.de/download/mitglieder_pdfs_formulare/syndiku

The Rechtsanwaltskammer Berlin (Berlin Bar Association) is responsible for the application to extend a Syndikuszulassung (licence as an in-house lawyer/Syndikusrechtsanwalt/-anwältin) to a further employment relationship or to a materially changed activity where admission as a Rechtsanwalt/Rechtsanwältin (lawyer) already exists.