Career

Studies at a university of applied sciences to be a graduate in administration as well as studying law at Julius Maximilian University in Wurzburg. Clerk at the Provincial High Court in Celle. In-house lawyer for the BLANK construction group. Member of the law firm of HFK Attorneys at Law in their Berlin offices from March 2001 to the end of 2005, partner since 2004. Independent attorney in Hannover in 2006. Manager of the Hannover office since 2007. Specialist in construction and architect law.

Areas of Practice

• Private construction law
• Architectural and Engineering Law
• Construction insurance law

Expertise

• Advising of principals in the drafting of tendering documents and corresponding contract stipulations, general terms and conditions, purchasing conditions in all allocation areas etc.
• Advising in architect and engineer law as a part of legal advising during the project processes as well as the drafting of architect and engineer contracts, general planning contracts.
• Advising as a part of legal consultation accompanying construction in the execution phase, especially regarding supplemental claims, construction time frame, stipulating new dates, hindrances, alteration claims and claims for supplementary services, participation in acceptance, assertion of bonding requirements of an AG, participation in the auditing of invoices, enforcement of faulty workmanship claims.
• Advising in liability questions as well as in the area of construction-related liability, warranty, and property insurance.
• Procedural representation in regional and provincial high courts.
• Years of experience working in teams of lawyers.

Publications/Lecture Activities

• Meier, Bauversicherungsrecht, id Verlag Mannheim, 2006
• Meier, Hagenah, Francke-Weltmann, Platz, Handbuch der Immobiliensanierung, Heymanns Verlag Köln, 2007
• Co-author Heiermann/Franke/Knipp, Handbuch Baubegleitende Rechtsberatung, Beck Verlag München, 2002
• Diverse articles in the Baurecht and IBR magazines.
• Frequent presentations and seminars at the Architects Guild for Lower Saxony, the Engineers Guild for Lower Saxony, the Bremen Lower Saxony and Berlin Brandenburg Construction Law Associations; for ibr, attorney training, and in-house seminars

Memberships

• Chairman of the Bremen-Niedersächsischer Baurechtstag e.V.
• German Society for Construction Law
• Centrum für Deutsches und Internationales Baugrund- und Tiefbaurecht e.V.
• Deutscher Baugerichtstag e.V.