On-line legal advice is a form of the legal advice, with which the mandator communicates exclusive or at least mainly over Internet with the lawyer. To on-line legal advice the same regulations apply as to the "“classical"” legal advice; in particular the individual legal advice is reserved in Germany here certified attorneys (see legal advice law).

To differentiate is between lawyers, who make available and in on-line legal advice specialized only the possibility of a E-Mail inquiry, which complete the entire mandate over their Internet operational readiness level. Such services draw out by high data security-legal yardsticks, fast response times as well as service achievements like e.g. the possibility of taking at any time on-line insight into the own document.

This form of the legal advice offers such as mandators new chances to lawyers, is not however not free from risks. Attorneys have an additional possibility of winning mandators the quite-looking for citizen keep uncomplicatedly technical advice ideally independent - of time of day and place of residence.

Doubts are raised against the fact that it gives to today no prescribed safety standard for the data communication during on-line legal advice: Although legally to the data security obligates, the majority of on-line legal advice offering Kanzleien does to secure the data communication between lawyer and mandator by coding sufficiently how this is technically possible by means of SSL. Critics recommend the fact that users should insist on this "“service"” or do without on on-line transmission of sensitive data since otherwise cannot be excluded that conveyed documents of third are seen and their contents abusively used.

On-line legal advice is subject like the classical legal advice to the attorney remuneration law (RVG), is thus in principle not expensive or more favorably. However by the possibility of the fee agreement use is often made, which may not be more favorable however also, as the RVG minimum rate for normal legal advice.

Related links

• Err are on-line ones - legal advice in the Internet - "“WDR"”
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