Dirk Grotstollen

After 15 years working as a lawyer in a law firm in Duisuburg, specialized in transport and freight forwarding law, Dirk Grotstollen has started working in the current office in 2009. A few years before he was admitted as a notary public in 2006.

Today NJP Grotstollen deals with a wide range of practice areas, especially transportation, labour, administrative, and company law. The firm also acts on behalf of clients in property-related and inheritance cases.

NJP Grotstollen provides specialised services for inland navigation, CMR freight, and all manner of transportation issues, whether in the air, rail, road, and on Europe’s waterways. He says that “our competence, good results and honest, open approach” allow the firm to offer “realistic advice that helps manage client expectations, even if that sometimes means saying ‘no’ to cases.”

Born in Ruhrort, the port district of Duisburg, which lies just at the mouth of the Ruhr into the Rhine, Dirk comes from a family that has long had links with the shipping industry. Duisburg is Europe’s and, by some measures, the world’s largest inland harbour, so, he recalls, it was only natural he gravitated to the sector after being admitted to the bar in 1995.

Having come into contact with TEN at his previous firm, while working on cross-border cases involving the movement of goods from Duisburg to the ARA ports, Dirk joined the network in 2002. He feels that TEN is “good for clients, because we TEN lawyers know each other”, something that is particularly helpful with the debt collection and probate cases he has handled through the network in recent years.

Dirk insists that he “loves his job, both in terms of working with the law and with people.” When not busy with work commitments, he is an active member of the community in different organsations and associations, so he as good contacts with many people in business and politics. Especially he is member of the Rotary Club Duisburg (PP).