For lawyers, notaries and mediators
Three professions, three roles: lawyers represent one side, notaries advise all parties impartially, and mediators guide parties in conflict towards a solution of their own. Your website shows this role at first glance and complies with the rules that apply to it.
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Family Law
Examples
Fictitious law firms, notaries’ offices and mediation practices, each with its own look.
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4.9(Google)
Steiner Law Office · Vienna
Family lawyer in Vienna: divorce, custody and maintenance, explained in plain words and handled with care.
Employment Law
4.8(ProvenExpert)
Dr. Brandt Employment Law · Munich
Certified specialist in employment law (Fachanwalt) in Munich: dismissal protection, severance and contracts for employees, advice for works councils.
Criminal Defence
4.8(Google)
Aydın Criminal Defence · Berlin
Fachanwalt für Strafrecht in Berlin: defence in investigations, traffic offences and white-collar crime. In German, Turkish and English.
Notary Office
Leitner Notary Office · Graz
Public notary in Graz: property contracts, probate, company formations, wills and certifications.
Mediation
Wallner Mediation · Linz
Registered mediator in Linz: separation and divorce, inheritance, neighbour disputes and conflicts at work.
Anyone looking for a lawyer is usually facing a specific question: a dismissal, a divorce, criminal proceedings, an inheritance. They search by area of law and location, often adding words like “cost” or “initial consultation”. Your website therefore answers three things early on: which areas of law you cover, how a first appointment works and how the costs are made up.
The question of cost in particular stops many people from calling at all. A factual explanation helps: in Austria, a note on freely agreed fees and the guidance provided by the RATG and AHK (statutory and chamber fee scales), in Germany on the RVG (Lawyers’ Remuneration Act) and the fact that, without a fee agreement, a first consultation for consumers costs at most €190 net. Mentioning that you will check cover with the client’s legal expenses insurance also lowers the threshold.
In Austria, advertising by lawyers is permitted if it is truthful and factual. § 47 RL-BA 2015 prohibits, among other things, loud self-promotion, comparisons with a specific other firm and naming clients without their consent. Fachanwalt titles do not exist, and you may describe your fields of activity as long as the statements are accurate.
In Germany, § 43b BRAO requires information that is factual in form and content. Since the new version of § 6 BORA took effect on 1 December 2025, advertising for an individual mandate is also expressly permitted, but advertising with mandates only with express consent. You may only use Fachanwalt designations once they have been awarded, three at most, and “Spezialist” only under the strict conditions of § 7 BORA.
Notaries hold a public office, and the framework is correspondingly narrow. In Austria, advertising is permitted as long as it provides truthful and factual information about professional activity (§ 31 Abs. 6 NO). The professional guidelines prohibit advertising fee advantages, naming clients and any promotional emphasis. In Germany, § 29 BNotO prohibits commercial conduct, and the guideline recommendations of the Bundesnotarkammer rule out evaluative self-presentation.
A notary website therefore shows fields of activity, procedures and required documents, the team and their roles, office hours and directions, and in Austria also Amtstage (free advice days). We leave out reviews, client testimonials and discounts. On costs, we refer to the statutory basis: in Austria the Notariatstarifgesetz, in Germany the GNotKG. In Austria, it is customary to mention the free initial legal information.
A mediation website must not sound like a law firm website. Mediators do not represent either side, so the texts address all parties and promise no one a particular outcome. The focus is on the process, voluntariness, confidentiality and costs, which are often shared between the parties.
In Austria, the title “eingetragene Mediatorin” or “eingetragener Mediator” (registered mediator) is protected and requires entry in the list kept by the Ministry of Justice. For separation and divorce, it is worth mentioning the subsidised family mediation. In Germany, there is no state register: anyone who has completed training under the ZMediatAusbV and meets the continuing education requirement may call themselves “Zertifizierte Mediatorin” or “Zertifizierter Mediator” (certified mediator).
The contact form only asks for what you need for a first reply and the conflict check, and expressly asks people not to send confidential details before you have taken on the matter. For powers of attorney and documents, there are secure forms with encrypted transmission.
Court filings continue to go via beA or the Elektronischer Rechtsverkehr, not via the website. A link to your entry in the lawyer directory, the Notariatsfinder or Notarsuche, or the list of mediators makes your admission verifiable.
In brief
In Austria, this is not expressly prohibited, and the bar associations themselves offer free initial guidance with the Erste Anwaltliche Auskunft. In Germany, there is no statutory minimum fee for advice. In both countries, the offer should be worded factually. For notaries in Germany, it does not fit, because the costs are set by law and cannot be agreed.
No. The Rechtsanwaltsordnung (Austrian Lawyers’ Act) has no Fachanwalt system. You may name your fields of activity as long as the statements are true. You should avoid designations that sound like a Fachanwalt title.
Because the professional rules prohibit promotional emphasis or evaluative self-presentation. The Bundesnotarkammer also considers it impermissible to encourage clients to leave positive reviews. What third parties write on Google of their own accord is not affected by this.
In addition to name, address and contact details, among other things the professional title with the state in which it was awarded, the competent Rechtsanwaltskammer (bar association) and a reference to the professional rules. In Germany, details of the professional indemnity insurance are added, in Austria the disclosure under § 25 Mediengesetz. Our legal notice generator helps you put it together.
Yes. You appear as “Rechtsanwältin und Notarin” or “Rechtsanwalt und Notar”. Fachanwalt titles belong to your work as a lawyer and are shown separately from the notarial office, and the stricter advertising rules apply to the notarial part.
Yes. The website presents your training, your background profession and your fields of mediation, in Austria with a reference to your registration with the Ministry of Justice. As you do not offer legal advice, we word the texts accordingly.
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