Dr Grete Langjahr

As a lawyer and certified specialist in building and architects’ law, I have been advising clients, contractors, planners and consumers on private construction and architectural law for more than ten years.

 

My expertise covers the following areas in particular:

 

• Advice on and drafting of building and planning contracts
• Representing public clients in the realisation of construction projects, as well as in liability and warranty issues
• Advising condominium owners’ associations, in particular on warranty issues
• Defence against liability claims against architects and engineers
• Enforcement of fee claims by planners

 

I advise my clients both out of court and in court disputes. In legal disputes, I always endeavour to find amicable solutions. If these cannot be achieved, I accompany my clients through court proceedings with the necessary willingness to engage in conflict.

 

Before joining SNP Schlawien in December 2022, I worked for ten years in a law firm in Munich specialising in private construction and architectural law.

 

I am married and have two children. I enjoy travelling in my free time.

• Attorney and partner at SNP since 2022
• Certified specialist in building and architects’ law, 2015
• Admission to the bar, 2012
• Doctorate on a topic of civil construction law ‘The distribution of risk and the duty to notify concerns in the construction contract’, 2015
• Research assistant at the Chair of German and European Business Law at the University of Konstanz, 2009 – 2012
• Legal internship in Konstanz and Toronto, 2007 – 2009
• Study of law at the University of Konstanz, 2002 – 2007

• WirtschaftsWoche “Top Law Firm 2023” in private construction law
• Handelsblatt “Germany’s best law firms 2024” in construction law

       

• Langjahr, Grete: Beck’scher HOAI- und Architektenrechtskommentar Fuchs/Berger/Seifert (ed.), 3rd edition 2022 (co-author)
• Langjahr, Grete: BeckOK Construction Contract Law, Leupertz/Preussner/Sienz, 2020 (co-author)
• Langjahr, Grete: Disability: Contractor once gone – always gone?, in: BauR 3/2021
• Langjahr, Grete: Duty to notify concerns and contributory negligence, in: BauR 2a/2022
• Langjahr, Grete: Cancellation of the contract according to § 8 para. 4 sentence 1 no. 2 lit. b VOB/B, in: Festschrift for Hans-Egon Pause on his 70th birthday (2022)

• German Bar Association (Deutscher Anwaltverein e.V. – DAV)
• Construction and Real Estate Law Working Group of the German Bar Association (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Bau- und Immobilienrecht im Deutschen Anwaltverein e.V. – DAV)
• German Society for Building Law (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Baurecht e.V.)
• Institute for Building Law Freiburg im Breisgau (Institut für Baurecht Freiburg im Breisgau e.V.)
• Munich Bar Association (Münchner Anwaltverein e.V.)
• BKM Bau Kompetenz München e.V.