About JUVE

JUVE

JUVE is the specialist publisher for the legal market: the JUVE Verlag für juristische Information GmbH in Cologne reports since 1997 on the commercial law firms, the tax advisors, and the European patent scene, the complete legal economy. The monthly JUVE Rechtsmarkt magazine, the annual JUVE Handbuch Wirtschaftskanzleien, the azur career brand, and the juve.de news portal make JUVE the orientation in the specialized economic sectors — for the business lawyers, the tax consultants, and the in-house counsel, every day.

Overview

JUVE appears as the monthly periodical JUVE Rechtsmarkt: ten times yearly, in the 28th volume, with around 14,000 copies print and online (ISSN 1435-4578), the legal market's magazine. The magazine targets the commercially advising lawyers in firms, legal departments, and consulting companies: analyzing the potentials in the various legal fields, informing on the regional, national, and international trends, month after month. The juve.de portal reports continuously on the deals, proceedings, and news from the commercial-law scene in Germany and Austria; the JUVE Newsline newsletter summarizes the most important news every Thursday, without fail, today and tomorrow, always, ten times yearly, without fail, today.

The portfolio spans the legal market: the JUVE Handbuch Wirtschaftskanzleien (the annual handbook), the JUVE Steuermarkt (the tax-advisory market, website plus four annual special issues plus biweekly newsletter), the azur and azur100 (the career magazines for the young lawyers, with the top-employer portraits and the awards for the training commitment), the JUVE Magazin für Wirtschaftsjuristen in Österreich (since 2012, bimonthly), and the JUVE Patent (the European patent scene), the complete legal information offering. The JUVE Awards honor the firms and legal departments with the particularly dynamic development; the JUVE plus benchmarking tool lets the firms analyze their market position, interactively and precisely.

History

JUVE's history begins in 1997: reporting on the law firms commercially advising in Germany, a pioneering beat at the time. At the start stood the monthly JUVE Rechtsmarkt magazine and the annual JUVE Handbuch Wirtschaftskanzleien, the two pillars of the young publisher. Since then the number of publications and the company's size have grown continuously: into everything that moves the business lawyers and the tax advisors in Germany and Austria and the European patent scene, without pause.

In 2016 the JUVE Verlag joined the NWB Gruppe (Herne): the legal-information publisher under the tax-publisher group's roof, a strong combination. The management evolved: the four-member leadership with Geertje de Sousa (managing director, HR and administration), Jörn Poppelbaum (managing director and editor-in-chief), Ulrike Sollbach (digital product development and data management), and Marco Bitonti (marketing, events, sales, advertising — from Wolters Kluwer, joining for November 2025). The data knowledge grew: revenues, salaries, ranking positions — the JUVE plus tool's foundation.

Coverage and Content

The law-firm coverage is the core: the deals, the proceedings, the personnel, the strategies. The JUVE Rechtsmarkt analyzes monthly the defining topics and accompanies the important names of the industry in Germany — since 1998. The target group of the income-strong readers values the serious but lively reporting: the potentials in the diverse legal fields, the regional, national, and international trends.

The handbook coverage ranks the market: the JUVE Handbuch Wirtschaftskanzleien's annual rankings of the firms by practice area, the azur100's 100 top employers for the aspiring business lawyers. The career coverage serves the young: the azur brand from the studies through the Referendariat to the career start, the salary information, the employer portraits, the four annual awards for the training commitment. The tax coverage serves the advisors: the JUVE Steuermarkt on the management trends, the market and revenue analyses, the transactions and proceedings.

The Legal Market

The legal market that JUVE covers is the German-speaking commercial law: the Wirtschaftskanzleien advising the companies, the legal departments in the enterprises, the tax consulting firms, the patent attorneys. The market's dynamics are the beat: the mergers, the lateral hires, the revenue growth, the international expansion, the digital transformation.

JUVE's role is the orientation: in the specialized economic sectors, the publisher offers what the market participants need — the researched facts, the rankings, the analysis. The firms use the JUVE plus benchmarking: revenues, salaries, ranking positions, interactively prepared and analyzed, understanding their own market position. The awards honor the dynamic: the JUVE Awards for the firms and legal departments with the particularly dynamic development. In the legal market where the reputation is the currency, JUVE mints the coin: the rankings, the handbook, the awards.

The Rankings Business

The rankings that JUVE publishes are the industry's currency: the JUVE Handbuch Wirtschaftskanzleien ranking the firms by practice area, the azur100 portraying the 100 top employers for the aspiring business lawyers, the JUVE Awards honoring the dynamic development. The rankings shape the market: the firms marketing their positions, the clients orienting by them, the young lawyers choosing by them.

The rankings rest on the research: the JUVE editorial team researching the deals, the revenues, the personnel, the strategies — the data knowledge encompassing the revenues, the salaries, the ranking positions. The JUVE plus benchmarking tool productizes this: the firms seeing their market position interactively, analyzing the competitors, understanding the trends. The methodology is the journalism: the detailed research, the high quality, the serious but lively reporting. In the legal market where the information is the advantage, JUVE sells the orientation: the handbook, the rankings, the tool.

Organization and Ownership

JUVE is the JUVE Verlag für juristische Information GmbH, Sachsenring 6, 50677 Cologne (HRB 29593, Amtsgericht Köln). Since 2016 the publisher belongs to the NWB Gruppe (Herne). The managing directors are Geertje de Sousa and Jörn Poppelbaum (also the editor-in-chief). The bibliographic data: ISSN 1435-4578 (JUVE Rechtsmarkt). The contact: info@juve.de, 0221/91 38 80-0.

The Events

The events that the JUVE Verlag organizes extend the publishing: the specialist conferences, the network events, and the award ceremonies — above all the JUVE Awards, given to the firms and legal departments distinguished by the particularly dynamic development in the respective year. The events gather the market: the partners, the general counsel, the young lawyers.

The events serve the community: the networking, the knowledge exchange, the celebration. The awards create the visibility: the winning firms marketing the honor, the market noting the dynamic. The azur events serve the young: the career fairs, the employer contacts, the training awards. In the publishing where the print meets the people, JUVE's events are the meeting place: the legal market gathering in Cologne and beyond, conferring and celebrating.

Digital Presence

The juve.de portal is the digital home: the leading news portal for the commercially advising lawyers and the corporate counsel, with the continuous deal and news reporting, the firm and lawyer profiles, the sponsored content, and the job market. The juve-steuermarkt.de and azur-online.de extend the brands; the juve-patent.com serves the European patent scene in English. The newsletters — JUVE Newsline (Thursdays), azur-mail (monthly), Steuermarkt (biweekly) — deliver the curated updates.

For the legal market, JUVE is the publisher: the Cologne specialist for the juristic information, from the 1997 founding to the NWB present and beyond. With the Rechtsmarkt magazine, the handbook, the azur career brand, and the digital portals, JUVE orients the business lawyers: the deals, the rankings, and the trends, into the future, without compromise, today and tomorrow, always, from Cologne, for the legal market, without fail.