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Old Jul 1, 2019, 3:43 am
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Originally Posted by 8420PR
Yes, big risk for LH. My guess is the lawyer looked at what happened in the last case (in 2013, LH lost in a lower court, then won in the Oberlandesgericht Köln (regional) court, and then settled before it went to the Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Supreme Court)). I'm pretty sure the settlement included legal costs, so if something similar happens this time it is win-win for the lawyer (plus some publicity).

Unfortunately, this lawyer has the the potential to ruin things for the rest of us.
legal costs granted by a court in Germany is nothing to write home about. We are not the US.
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