• DR. GEORG RIHS
    Attorney at Law, 1010 Vienna

    AS AN ATTORNEY’S OFFICE, OUR ULTIMATE GOAL
    IS TO HELP YOU ENFORCE YOUR RIGHTS!

    AREAS OF EXPERTISECONTACT US

We help you defend your rights!

Dr. Georg Rihs is your expert on administrative and public law, especially public commercial law, public procurement law,
antitrust law, environmental law and immigration law.

Our office is near to St. Stephen’s cathedral at Kramergasse 9/13, 1010 Wien.

We will represent your interests with the same diligence and discretion
as if they were our very own. Successful legal counsel and representation rest on trust.
We will handle your case personally and confidentially.

We believe that good legal services rely on a sense of justice, commitment to work and clients.
We passionately put these ideals into practice in our daily work.

We will gladly assist you. We will resolve your legal issues quickly and determinedly!

COMPETENT.

In our fields of specialization, we keep our expertise up-to-date and follow the latest legal developments intensively and in detail. Time permitting, we publish in legal journals and actively participate in legal debate.

Find more information on our competences under Services.

EFFICIENT.

We take the necessary legal steps at the right time in order to enforce your goals. Our work is transparent and cost saving for our clients. Our clients appreciate our mode of engagement and our common successes.

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CREATIVE.

We see legal work as a creative and constructive process. We set the highest standards for the perfection of our legal work and its results in submissions and publications. Our success proves us right.

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We guarantee you quick and purposeful legal advice!

Get to know us...

Facilitation of access to the Red-White-Red Card

The Red-White-Red card is an attractive residence permit for qualified professionals who have a job offer from an Austrian company. The immigration office and the Austrian Labour Market Agency (AMS) assess an applicant’s professional qualifications according to a set of defined criteria. An applicant gets “credits” for an accomplished professional education, training and professional experience as well as English and German language skills. The job-offer by the Austrian company and the future employer have to fulfil certain criteria as well (minimum salary, qualified and adequate position in the company etc.). The criteria are explained under www.migration.gv.at. Although the critera are clearly stated in the relevant regulations, administrative practice shows that the interpretation may differ. Good preparation of an application facilitate a positive decision by the immigration office and Austrian Labour Market Agency (AMS).

Acquisition of Austrian citizenship by notification (§ 58c StbG): Extended opportunities for descendants of victims of National Socialism

The Austrian Citizenship Act provides the possibility for descendants of victims of National Socialism to obtain Austrian citizenship by filing a complaint. Already several thousands of descendants, for example of Holocaust survivors, have obtained Austrian citizenship in this way. The Austrian legislator has now included further groups of persons in the circle of those entitled to citizenship in order to eliminate cases of hardship.

Excursion to the Austrian Constitutional Court

Last Monday, we visited the Austrian Constitutional Court as part of our office excursion. Despite the ongoing summer session of the Constitutional Court, we received a very friendly welcome there. Apart from our legal "daily business", the interesting and expert lecture by the head librarian, Hon.-Prof. Dr. Josef Pauser, and the subsequent tour were an excellent opportunity for us and our staff to gain a direct and personal impression of the history, the working methods, the representative building and the importance of this Austrian supreme court. Since we repeatedly submit appeals to the Constitutional Court in the name of and on behalf of our clients, the lecture complements our legal work and will remain a very good memory for us in our regular professional activities, which often include submissions to the Constitutional Court (complaints against decisions and legal norms). The convivial lunch in the nearby courtyard of the Schottenstift was the pleasant finale of our law firm excursion.