The official nationwide directory of lawyers admitted in Germany, operated by the Bundesrechtsanwaltskammer over the registers of the regional bars. It answers one question — whether a person is admitted to practise as a Rechtsanwalt in Germany — and admission is required to practise, not merely to use the title.
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Partly open The search form was served anonymously with no credential, in German and English, with fields for name, professional title, specialist subtitle, firm, address and bar, so login is recorded as not required. No query was executed, so result content, coverage and any rate limit were not observed and stay null.
Official name
Bundesweites Amtliches Anwaltsverzeichnis
English title
Editorial translation
Assessment
Strengths
It is the official nationwide directory and covers every lawyer admitted in Germany, so one search replaces twenty-eight regional ones.
It reaches beyond German lawyers to European lawyers and to lawyers from other states established in Germany under section 206 of the Federal Lawyers Act.
It is served in both German and English, which is unusual for a national professional register.
Limitations
Admission is required to practise, not only to use the title, so an entry means more here than in a protected-title register — but it still says nothing about competence in any field.
The federal chamber operates the directory; it is not the body that admitted anyone. Admission and discipline sit with the regional bar, which the search page states directly.
It records individual lawyers and their firms, not a firm’s quality, and specialist subtitles are conferred by the local bar rather than centrally.
The chamber states it is not entitled to give legal advice, to examine the conduct of individual lawyers, to recommend them, or to check fee invoices, so inclusion establishes none of those things.
No search was executed during verification, so result content and any limits were not observed and none is asserted.
Submission guidance
Records are created through incorporation, registration, filing, or statutory processes.
Submission difficulty
Unknown
Typical listing quality
High
Typical approval time
Unknown
Review process
Unknown
Best for
Checking whether a named person is admitted to practise as a lawyer anywhere in Germany.
Confirming that a European or non-German lawyer is established in Germany under the Federal Lawyers Act.
Not recommended for
Judging whether a lawyer is suitable for a matter. The chamber states it may not assess or recommend individual lawyers.
Treating a nil result as proof that someone never practised. Admission can end, and the directory shows current status.
Preparation checklist
No checklist recorded yet.
Common mistakes
No common mistakes recorded yet.
Establishing required submission assets requires submitting a listing and observing the result. That has not been done for any directory in this dataset, so it is not published rather than estimated.
What this directory accepts
Startups
Unknown
SaaS products
Unknown
Enterprises
Yes
Agencies
Unknown
Freelancers
Yes
Local businesses
Yes
Developer tools
Unknown
Open-source projects
Unknown
Non-profits
Unknown
AI products
Unknown
Mobile apps
Unknown
Ecommerce stores
Unknown
Recommended industries
legal-services
professional-services
How the PetroHrys Score was reached
Editorial trust 15%
10 / 10How far the entries a directory publishes can be relied on as accurate.
Business usefulness 15%
9 / 10How much practical use a listing there is to the business being listed.
Verification quality 12%
10 / 10How thoroughly the directory establishes that an entry is genuine before publishing it.
Platform reputation 10%
9 / 10How the platform is regarded in its field. Deliberately not a popularity, traffic or recognition measure.
Spam resistance 10%
10 / 10How well the directory keeps low-quality and promotional entries out.
Industry importance 10%
9 / 10How central the directory is to its sector, independently of how useful one listing is.
Long-term stability 10%
9 / 10How likely the directory is to still exist, and to still carry the entry, years from now.
Submission quality 8%
6 / 10What the submission process asks for and how workable it is for the business submitting.
Transparency 5%
9 / 10How openly the directory states its rules, costs and criteria.
Moderation quality 5%
9 / 10How the directory maintains entries after publication.
The PetroHrys Score is a first-party editorial assessment, not a third-party
authority metric. It is the weighted sum of the ten factors above, divided by ten, so the number
on this page is reproducible from the values shown. Each factor is scored from 0 to 10 by a human reviewer and weighted as shown. The definitions describe what was weighed, not a rubric: no threshold or formula maps a directory onto a value, and two reviewers could reach different numbers. The score is reproducible from the factors shown on every record, but it is an editorial judgement, not a measurement.