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Circular letter of March 10, 2020
Due to the developments in the past days here in Germany, our goal is to prevent any harm from our employee's health and to continue the services of our law firm with best efforts. At present, the good news is that each and every one of us is healthy and we believe that the present situation is not dangerous for our staff and their families. And, of course, we hope that it will stay like this. However, by considering the daily news, the fact that there are a few cases of Covid-19 even in Munich and having in mind the developments in other countries, it seems to be a good idea to have an emergency strategy in case the situation becomes worse.
Two weeks ago, we started with preventive measures e.g. by implementing the hygienic recommendations of WHO and other organizations in our firm. From the technical side, our IT department ensured that most of our attorneys and staff will be able to work in home office in order to continue our work in a virtual office. Due to the transformation to digital processes in the past years, we estimate that most of our services will stay in operation even if we will be forced to close our physical office for some days or weeks. Beside our own operability, a lot of IP services depend on the IP offices. We carefully monitor the IPOs activities and we will keep you informed as soon as there will be any restrictions and their impacts, for example, to running deadlines.
In order to allow a timely and up-to-date information, we will show the current status of all relevant information on this page.
We wish you, your loved ones and colleagues the all best! Stay healthy.
Dr. Dorothea Hofer, Jürgen Feldmeier, Dr. Andreas Oser, Andreas Jacob
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