And in my mind he was a large, older, gray-haired man with a flappy, oversized, gray suit jacket and perhaps a few crumbs of his sandwich on the lapel. A German, more conservative version of Gerard Depardieu.
Pretty much the opposite! When I was looking for a lawyer in Regensburg, I set up appointments with two. One was pretty much as you describe, the other had in his online bio that he was born in 1986. How can he be a lawyer, I wondered, as he's still in elementary school?
The first lawyer didn't want to do anything via email and wanted a retainer up front before even making an appointment to find out if he dealt with my kind of legal issues. The younger lawyer was happy to do everything electronically, bill by the hour and speak English with me...definitely the better choice!
He's tall, thin and light brown hair and obviously still quite young. In the four years I've been going to him, he's gone from 'dress to impress conservative dark suits' to 'young sporty-funky GQ'. Usually very nice suit jackets with a bit of Bavarian flair paired with the tightly tailored trousers young German men adore and lately leather old-school Converse-type trainers. Kind of Bavarian Matt Smith Doctor Who? I mostly see him on a Friday when he doesn't go into court, so his court day attire may be a bit more staid.
There you go, just blew away your German lawyer stereotype, right?
