Are you about to enter into a contract negotiation without attorneys? You need to go to a government office unaccompanied? You’re being questioned in court? You have a delicate conversation coming up? Are you well represented legally, but also want to prepare yourself personally and confidentially for a difficult dispute?
That’s what I’m here for. I will get you ready and prepared, in other words, fit. Fitness always means the following: Strength – and the elegance of abandonment; steadiness – as well as agility; speed – and taking the time it takes; resilience – and retreating before going overdoing it; endurance – and sprinting when it counts.
I will listen to you carefully, we will envision different scenarios together, and prepare you for the challenges ahead. After such sparring you will return back out onto the field at ease and full of energy.
In any dispute it is important to empathize perfectly with the opposing position, to understand attitudes, to comprehend arguments and to anticipate the strategy of the other side. This is not always easy, sometimes painful, but very helpful. Do you have a solid foundation for all your ideas and concept for this legal case? Have legal consequences really been comprehensively reconsidered? What court, which acting parties will be involved? Could your venture be legally successful but economically or humanly counterproductive?
This dialogue can become quite intense, because I will bring my decades of experience, my legal expertise and all the arguments that the other side could use into play. I may also ask awkward questions, even cast doubt on your whole plan. But by the end of the devil’s advocate session, you will see your case through different eyes. You will now have more security and self- confidence, a clear orientation and the certainty that possible stumbling blocks have been removed.
We all know this from other areas. You have trusted your doctor for many years, but before making a profound decision you will usually still consult a second specialist. And whereas you may have no doubt about the competence of your attorneys, you are still not sure whether the chosen path is the only right one. When, in the case of an extremely complex problem, the mountains of files grow, the costs increase and it becomes unclear whether the original goal can be achieved at all:
then a second opinion provides decision-making certainty and perhaps also saves costs, time and effort. You will leave with the reassuring feeling that you have the reins back in your hands and that the direction you have taken is right ... or we may discover a hitherto unconsidered weakness and make an important course correction.
The stress test is is performed on finished or almost finished documents. I evaluate the conclusiveness of the argumentation in a pleading, the persuasiveness of evidence, the linguistic clarity of the argumentation in a complaint, the plausibility of a claim, the consistency of contractual clauses with an unencumbered point of view in terms of content, expertise and emotion.
Is anything missing? Is something unclear? Can you make it shorter? Are there any contradictions? And above all: Does it read well? The quality, the smoothness of a text, whether you enjoy reading it actually matters a lot: I can adapt to very different addressees with a lot of tact and sensitivity.
Fiebinger likes to listen, play, cook, fry and advise. When it gets down to the nitty-gritty, frustration in the boardroom, pressure to make decisions, endlessly stalling negotiations, uncertainty as to whether everything is really going as it should; then a meeting room is often not the right place.
Not a law firm, not the usual throngs of consultants, legal clerks and experts: but Fiebinger’s kitchen, just you and me, with a participant observer if necessary. Without file notes, without formalities, but if suitable according to a previously agreed game plan.
People think differently, talk differently, argue differently in the Drama Kitchen. Cooking releases creativity, enjoying it together promotes relaxed communication, broadens and changes the view and perhaps the problem no longer seems unsolvable. Moreover, Fiebinger’s kitchen is a strictly private space of trust: “What happens in the Drama Kitchen, stays in the Drama Kitchen.”
Rudolf Fiebinger Rechtsanwalts GmbH
Dr. Rudolf Fiebinger
Lautensackgasse 14
A-1140 Vienna