Jürgen Palm can look back on a professional career spanning more than forty years, first as a lawyer and later also as a notary. His career was marked by profound changes within the legal profession, but also by remarkable continuity. In 1984, after completing his second state examination (following studies in Bochum and Münster and his legal traineeship in Dortmund), he joined the renowned Dortmund commercial law firm Dr Jaeger Dr Meißner, soon shaping its profile. When, around the turn of the millennium, consolidation in the international and national legal market made a structural response in Dortmund unavoidable, he played a decisive role in the merger of what had by then become Jaeger Meissner Palm with another distinguished Dortmund commercial law firm, Spieker Holtermann Duvernell Dieckhöfer & Partners, to form SPIEKER & JAEGER.
Throughout his entire professional life, Jürgen Palm remained loyal to our firm. While his focus initially lay on employment law, the assumption of his notarial office in 1995 and his growing experience soon made inheritance law his principal area of practice. We are especially pleased that, in Carlo Wiese, a specialist lawyer for inheritance law, we found two years ago a successor both professionally and personally equal to him in this important field.
Among clients as well as colleagues, Jürgen Palm was always a sought-after adviser on legal, strategic and personal matters, particularly when things became tricky. As one of those colleagues who have “kicked the ball around” for many years, his expertise on all matters concerning BVB naturally carried great weight. He is also a founding member of the firm’s internal Kick-Tipp community. One of the prime duties of his assistant was to enter his predictions into the Kick-Tipp app every Friday under his supervision – for Jürgen Palm is not what one would call a digital native. His prediction record has been modest, in sharp contrast to the legendary Kick-Tipp barbecue evenings marking the end of each season in the Palms’ garden at home – which, we hope, we shall not have to miss in the future either.