Senior counsel is an not-academic title, which is lent by the state as honour designation to attorneys and notaries.

History

In earlier times senior counsel was also the title of an advice with the upper judicial authorities and with the upper courts. A higher honor meant the title secret senior counsel. In Prussia one understood under secret senior counsel also a department of the Court of Appeal in Berlin, before which the members of the royal house and the hohenzollerischen family had its personal area of jurisdiction. The speaking advice of the Prussian Ministry of Justice led the title secret upper senior counsel, the directors the title of real secret upper senior counsel.

Today's award practice

Nowadays with the title only in two Lands of the Federal Republic persons are distinguished, in a Land of the Federal Republic are the title office designation for the notary career.

Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate

In the Saarland the title is lent to attorneys and notaries as "„indication of the acknowledgment of special earnings/services around the Saarland and its citizens and citizens, of outstanding achievements or from an other special cause "“("§ 1 exp. 1 TitelV SL). The charter is handed out by the Prime Minister, the president of the federal state parliament or the Minister of Justice. In addition the Verleihnung in the Official Journal of the Saarland admits made. Economical use is to be made by the award of the title.

Likewise attorneys and notaries can receive the title senior counsel in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Baden-Wuerttemberg

In Baden-Wuerttemberg is the "“senior counsel"” (BesGr. G 1) and "“upper senior counsel"” (BesGr. G 1 with extra pay) as office designation by the national pay regulation for office notaries of Baden in the right area of Baden intended. It concerns thereby however not around an honour title as in the above Lands of the Federal Republic, but an office designation in the context of the career (like e.g. Secondary school teacher).

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