The law firm is publishing its sustainability strategy for the first time as part of the German Sustainability Code for the 2022 reporting year.

Sustainable management is also possible in a law firm, as BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT shows with the recently published DNK declaration (Deutscher Nachhaltigkeitskodex, DNK) for 2022.

The criteria that the German Sustainability Code requires for these corporate reports do not just relate to environmental protection and resource conservation. Employee rights, diversity, equal opportunities, commitment and responsibility for the community as well as innovation management and conduct that complies with the law and guidelines are further key categories on which the law firm also had to comment.

However, the work is not done with the publication of the declaration. After all, a successful sustainability strategy requires ambitious goals, which BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT has also set itself for the coming years. This means collecting and analyzing data for each business year, defining further projects and developing new effective measures for all sustainability criteria.

There is therefore still a lot to do for the firm’s sustainability team. But they will keep at it – for more corporate responsibility and a future worth living!

About the DNK

The German Sustainability Code (Deutscher Nachhaltigkeitskodex, DNK) is a project of the German Council for Sustainable Development (Rates für Nachhaltige Entwicklung, RNE), an advisory body with a mandate from the German government and is funded by the Federal Chancellery.
The Sustainability Code not only supports companies in the preparation of sustainability reports, but also participates in political debates, is constantly evolving in exchange with relevant stakeholder groups and has become one of the best-known transparency standards in Germany over the years. Today, more than 1,000 user companies report on their sustainability performance in accordance with the DNK standard.

BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partner and patent attorney Dr. Daniel Herrmann receives the good news from Prof. Dr. Klaus-Michael Ahrend.

Darmstadt, with its university and its technical university as well as numerous initiatives by the city and state of Hesse, is a very interesting location for start-ups. Measured by the number of inhabitants, the university city leads the ranking of Hessian start-up cities and ranks fourth nationwide.

BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT has been supporting the start-up scene in the Rhine-Main region, particularly in Darmstadt, for some time now, especially in the person of Dr. Daniel Herrmann (Frankfurt office), and offers separate advice as well as free seminars and lectures specifically for founders.

As part of his most recent impulse lecture at the HUB31 Technology and Start-up Centre Darmstadt on 21.09.2023, Dr. Herrmann was now informed by Prof. Dr. Klaus-Michael Ahrend of the appointment of the law firm as an official partner of the “Start-up Ökosystem Darmstadt” (Start-up Ecosystem Darmstadt) in recognition of BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT’s commitment to local start-ups.
Prof. Dr. Ahrend is a member of the board of HEAG Holding AG (investment management of the Science City of Darmstadt), managing director of the Technology and Start-up Centre HUB31 as well as a lecturer and honorary professor at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences.

You can find out more about the Technology and Start-up Centre on the HUB31 website.

In succession of late Melvin F. Jager, who died in September of last year, the sole editor of Standard Handbook “Trade Secrets Throughout the World” (“TSTW”), ISBN 978-1-731-92418-6, last edition 2022 Thomson Reuters, fulfilling a sincere wish of late Mel Jager, BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partner and patent attorney Heinz Goddar and Melanie Müller, attorney at law at BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT, since January 2023 are joint editors of “TSTW”.

Already at this opportunity, they would like to express their sincere hope that the numerous authors who, in cooperation with Mel Jager, in the past has been contributed to the handbook, will continue the fruitful cooperation in the past, together with the new co-editors, in honor and in continuation of Mel Jager’s great work.