Questão jurídica principal
Which prior professional activities count as sufficient practical legal training for admission to the bar examination?
Decisão extraída
Only genuinely relevant legal-practical work after completion of a law degree can be counted; the applicant's pre-degree activities, private-company project management, work as a 'Wirtschaftsjurist', and three years as a lay commercial-court judge did not qualify.
Fundamentação extraída
The authority held that work performed before completion of the legal studies cannot be credited. Activities in a private enterprise are not equivalent to work in a municipal administration. The role of 'Wirtschaftsjurist' at a fiduciary and consulting firm was likewise not sufficiently legal-practical. Commercial-court lay judges primarily contribute specialist knowledge and are not themselves engaged in markedly legal-practical work; a three-year term is in any event too short for the required practice period.