Standard Terms of Rechtsanwalt (German: Attorney) Alexander Baron von Engelhardt

§1 Area of Application

These standard terms will be applicable to every the Client’s assignment for the Attorney and also
for contractual claims of other persons arising from the Client’s assignment for the Attorney
insofar as nothing else has been agreed upon in writing or is legally compulsory.

§2 Scope of Assignment and Execution

(1) The scope of the Attorney’s services will be determined in case of doubt at the time of
application. The Attorney shall acknowledge the scope of his services in text before beginning
his services. Further extensions or reductions of the assignment have to be acknowledged in text.

(2) The assignment will be executed according to the rules of proper professional activities to
the best of the Attorney’s conscience and knowledge.

(3) In case of solely preparing tax returns, i.e. without computing the profit, the Attorney can
trust the handed in data

§3 Copyright Protection, Duty to Observe Secrecy, and Communication

(1) The law on intellectual property is also applicable to the Attorney’s services. The Client will
receive necessary copies of written results of the Attorney’s services for the intended use. A
different application is to be permitted in writing by the Attorney.

(2) The Attorney will be permitted to process, collect, save personal data entrusted unto him
with modern data processing systems.

(3) If the Client informs the Attorney of an email address or a fax number, he will generally
agree that The Attorney corresponds with him or her per digital mail (PDF file attached to an
email) or per fax. The Client assures that only he or she resp. by him or her assigned person have
access to email account or fax machine and he or she will regularly – at least weekly – control
receipt of mail. The Client knows that unsecured emails only guarantee limited secrecy. In so far
the Client has the technical means for electronic signatures and encryption and wishes their
implementation he or she will instruct the Attorney thereupon.

(4) If several persons have hired the Attorney in one case, then all declarations or assignmentrelated actions of one person will be considered as if stemming from all persons. In case the Clients’ instructions indissolubly contradict each other, the Attorney may close the case. If the Attorney has (not yet) closed the case, then the Attorney’s only obligation will be to instruct the Clients once on the expiration of a possibly running time limit.

§4 Duty of Secrecy

(1) The Attorney is obligated according to legal regulations to keep all facts secret, unless the
Client liberates him in writing. The duty of secrecy remains also after the assignment has been
fulfilled.