in office community with

Dr. Rainer Klocke


Attorney at law
Specialist lawyer for insurance law

Dr. Klocke (born 1954) has been a lawyer in Cologne since 1984. After first working in a larger law firm, he was a founding partner of the law firm Dr. Klocke & Dr. Linkens in 1988, which continued to practice civil law at Theodor-Heuss-Ring in Cologne for a period of 32 years. In doing so, Dr. Klocke represents the civil law interests of clients nationwide at all local, regional and higher regional courts.

His professional focus initially lies in the areas of commercial law with an emphasis on distribution and subcontracting agreements, also with an international orientation. Contractual law covers the contractual clauses of both purchase and sales contracts, including general terms and conditions. Dr. Klocke has frequently been appointed by the courts as joint representative of outside shareholders in appraisal proceedings under stock corporation law. He is a specialist lawyer for insurance law with a focus there on property insurance law and the representation of legal protection insurers. In addition, he has been repeatedly appointed as an arbitrator in ad hoc arbitration proceedings.

After the termination of the law firm Dr. Klocke & Dr. Linkens, Dr. Klocke joined the newly founded law firm of Dr. Andrea Nehl & Sabine Breitegger, with whom he has worked together for more than 20 years.

Since 2007
Specialist lawyer for insurance law


1985
Doctorate in law


1984
Admission to the bar in Cologne and start of legal practice

Second State Examination in Law, State Judicial Examination Office, Ministry of Justice NRW


1981–1984
Legal clerkship, Higher Regional Court of Cologne, including stations at the University of Administrative Sciences Speyer and at the German-British Chamber of Industry and Commerce in London


1981
DAAD scholarship holder, summer course at the London School of Economics “Introduction to modern English Law”


1981–1982
Correction assistant at the Institute for Procedural Law, Prof. Dr. Baumgärtel, University of Cologne


1981
First State Examination in Law, Judicial Examination Office, Cologne Higher Regional Court


Until 1980
Law studies at the University of Cologne

German, English, French

German-British Lawyers Association e.V., Hamburg
DAJV – German-American Lawyers Association, Bonn
Cologne Bar Association (KAV), Cologne
German Bar Association (DAV), Berlin
AIJA – Association International des Jeunes Avocats, Brussels
Working Group on International Business Law in the DAV
Working Group on Insurance Law in the DAV
Insurance Law Committee of the KAV
Art Culture Justice e.V.
Rheinpreußischer Amtsrichter Verein, founded in 1880

2013
Advisory Board Chairman


Seit 2009
Member of the Advisory Board of D.R.S. Deutsche Rechtsanwalts Service GmbH, management company of ÖRAG Rechtsschutzversicherungs-AGender

deputy Chairman of the Board of the Soldan Institut für Anwaltsmanagement e.V.


Seit 2008
Member of the permanent deputation of the Deutscher Juristentag e.V. (board member)


2006–2009
Member of the Advisory Board of Soldan Institut für Anwaltsmanagement e.V.


Seit 2000
Member of the Board of the Institute for the Law of the Bar at the University of Cologne


1999–2011
Member of the Statutory Assembly, the decision-making body at the Federal Bar Association for the professional law of lawyers


Seit 1999
Member of the Board of Directors Cologne Law Society


1998–2007
1st Chairman Cologne Bar Association e.V.


1997–2007
Member of the Board of Directors Kölner Anwaltverein e.V.