Uwe Wolff (journalist)

Uwe Wolff (born January 18, 1962 in St. Georgen in the Black Forest ) is a German journalist and PR agent for litigation PR .

Background and career

Uwe Wolff is the son of a journalist. After dropping out of law studies at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , he began his journalistic career in 1984 as a freelance journalist at the Badische Zeitung ( Villingen edition ), from there he switched to Südkurier , where he volunteered and then worked as an editor.

Further stations were the evening post / night edition , the evening newspaper and the express .

In 1991 Uwe Wolff moved to New York City , where he helped set up the correspondent's office for the news magazine Focus, which was founded by Helmut Markwort at the time, from the Burda office in New York . Uwe Wolff worked as a correspondent in New York for over ten years. He reported from North America , Central America , the Caribbean , as well as from South America and parts of East Africa . He also worked as a crisis and war reporter and came together with photographers such as James Nachtwey and Alex Webb .

Uwe Wolff is credited with a number of exclusive interviews , such as the conversations with the family of the Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar , the fugitive German building fraudster Jürgen Schneider or the dying LSD guru Timothy Leary .

Litigation PR

In the USA, Uwe Wolff came through talks with Alan M. Dershowitz about the influence of the public on the jurisprudence on litigation PR . In 2002 he returned to Berlin after ten years . There he founded the PR agency “NAIMA Media Services & Publishing Consulting”, which was renamed “NAÏMA Strategic Legal Services GmbH” in 2009.

He works primarily as a communications consultant for lawyers, entrepreneurs, associations and organizations, especially in the field of litigation PR in criminal proceedings, patent and labor law processes, company takeovers, product liability suits and insolvencies as well as disputes relating to banking and capital markets law and has offices in Berlin and Brussels . Uwe Wolff describes himself as the "founder of modern strategic legal communication in continental Europe" and is considered a pioneer in this field. He gives lectures and seminars for lawyers, managers and trade unionists and publishes articles on litigation PR. Together with Volker Boehme-Neßler , he organized a day of Berlin legal communication in 2010 .

criticism

The targeted influencing of the public by the party in court proceedings as a business model also met with criticism. BGH President Klaus Tolksdorf called Wolff's book “In the Name of the Public” a “storm attack on the finding of justice”. Volker Boehme-Neßler warned that litigation PR prevents a fair trial that meets the requirements of the rule of law. Gisela Friedrichsen wrote: “In Germany there is no jury. [...] In Germany, the criminal justice system works differently. And that's why litigation PR has not been successful in this country up to now. [...] That could change in the long run. "

Works

Stephan Holzinger , Uwe Wolff: In the name of the public. Litigation PR as a strategic tool in legal disputes . Gabler, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-8349-0839-1 .
Uwe Wolff: Media work for lawyers. A handbook for effective law firm PR . Gabler, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-8349-1460-6 .

Web links

NAIMA Strategic Legal Services GmbH

Individual evidence

↑ "My father was not a saint" focus.de, January 10, 1994
↑ “A niche in the market that Wolff, who sees himself as a pioneer in this country, encountered in 2002 with the establishment of NAIMA. His focus is on white collar crime, environmental law and product liability lawsuits. Consumer advocates, trade unions and non-governmental organizations are his customers, banks and insurance companies are his 'favorite opponents'. "(Daniel Neuen: Feuerwehrmänner. In: prmagazin . 10/2008, pp. 50–54)
↑ "Uwe Wolff can probably call himself a pioneer of this service in Germany." ( Prmagazin . 10/2008)
↑ Klaus Tolksdorf : Warning against manipulation . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of February 4, 2009, page 21.
↑ Volker Boehme-Neßler in: Ders. (Ed.): The public as judges? Litigation PR as a new method of finding law . Nomos-Verlag, Baden-Baden 2010, ISBN 978-3-8329-5276-1 , p. 45.
↑ Gisela Friedrichsen : “Zwischenruf” Litigation PR - litigation via the media? In: Journal for Legal Policy , Vol. 43 (2010), Issue 8, ISSN 0514-6496 .

personal data
SURNAME	Wolff, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 18, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH	St. Georgen in the Black Forest

[1] "My father was not a saint" focus.de, January 10, 1994

[2] “A niche in the market that Wolff, who sees himself as a pioneer in this country, encountered in 2002 with the establishment of NAIMA. His focus is on white collar crime, environmental law and product liability lawsuits. Consumer advocates, trade unions and non-governmental organizations are his customers, banks and insurance companies are his 'favorite opponents'. "(Daniel Neuen: Feuerwehrmänner. In: prmagazin . 10/2008, pp. 50–54)

[3] "Uwe Wolff can probably call himself a pioneer of this service in Germany." ( Prmagazin . 10/2008)

[4] Klaus Tolksdorf : Warning against manipulation . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of February 4, 2009, page 21.

[5] Volker Boehme-Neßler in: Ders. (Ed.): The public as judges? Litigation PR as a new method of finding law . Nomos-Verlag, Baden-Baden 2010, ISBN 978-3-8329-5276-1 , p. 45.

[6] Gisela Friedrichsen : “Zwischenruf” Litigation PR - litigation via the media? In: Journal for Legal Policy , Vol. 43 (2010), Issue 8, ISSN 0514-6496 .