Güneş & Güneş Law Firm
Zehra Sar
Trainee Lawyer
Research and file work under the supervision of the responsible lawyers
Zehra Sar supports her legal education at the Turkish-German University Faculty of Law with academic research, foreign language development and practice-oriented internship experience. Within the Presidential Career Gate (Kariyer Kapısı) programme she completed a summer internship at the Antalya Bar Association; she served as a student trainee at the Antalya Courthouse in 2024-2025.
- Law school
- Turkish-German University Faculty of Law
- HMGS
- Exempt from the Legal Professions Entrance Exam
- Practice
- Antalya Courthouse · 2024–2025 student trainee
- Summer internship
- Antalya Bar Association · Presidential Career Gate (Kariyer Kapısı)
- Undergraduate thesis
- Ecrimisil (compensation for unjust occupation)
- Foreign language
- German C1 academic · English B1
Professional résumé
She is preparing her undergraduate thesis on ecrimisil (compensation for unjust occupation); she examines its legal nature, unjust use, entitlement, conditions of claim, period and calculation principles, and its dimensions connected with real estate law. She is also conducting separate academic work on the acquisition of Turkish citizenship through the purchase of real estate.
She continues her professional development at Güneş & Güneş Law Firm, with the one-to-one attention and supervision of the Founding Lawyer, Atty. Umut Güneş, and under the regular guidance and oversight of the responsible lawyers. She contributes to legal research, review of legislation and court decisions, litigation file preparation, file chronologies, classification of information and documents, source research for petition drafts, and preliminary review of contracts and documents.
Education and practical experience
Academic background and courthouse practice
Turkish-German University Faculty of Law
She is developing her foundation in the core legal disciplines, legal method, reading of legislation and academic research. She is exempt from the Legal Professions Entrance Exam (HMGS).
Antalya Courthouse and Antalya Bar Association
She served as a student trainee at the Antalya Courthouse in 2024-2025; through her summer internship at the Antalya Bar Association under the Kariyer Kapısı programme, she observed legal practice and professional working order.
Academic work
She is preparing her undergraduate thesis on ecrimisil (compensation for unjust occupation). She is conducting a separate academic study on the acquisition of Turkish citizenship through the purchase of real estate.
Applied traineeship and file work
File and research practice under the supervision of the responsible lawyer
Zehra Sar benefits from the practical training provided at the firm and carries the one-to-one feedback she receives into her file work. She examines statutes, contracts, petitions and decisions in terms of concept, scope, parties, claims and legal consequences; she researches the legislation, Court of Cassation (Yargıtay) and Council of State (Danıştay) decisions and academic sources appropriate to the legal issue of the file. She contributes, under the supervision of the responsible lawyer, to establishing the chronology of events, determining the procedural status, identifying gaps and drafting petitions. She is developing the habit of monitoring the time limits for claims, notifications, interim decisions, hearings and other transactions, following tasks until they are completed, and reporting developments to the responsible lawyer.
Academic focus and legal research
Research topics
These headings do not describe expertise or independent legal practice; they describe Zehra Sar’s academic work and the research skills she has developed within the files assigned to her.
Foreigners and citizenship law
Review of the relevant legislation and academic sources.
Private law, public law and criminal law
Basic knowledge and the rules of civil and criminal procedure.
File-specific field research
Research in the area of law according to the subject of the file assigned to her.
German legal sources
Preliminary review of German academic and legal sources.
Multilingual terminology
Comparison of Turkish, German and English legal terminology.
Preliminary review of contracts and documents
Preliminary review of contracts and documents in terms of parties, dates, obligations and terminology.
Working approach
Analytical thinking, follow-up and multilingual communication
Analytical thinking, follow-up and communication
She breaks legal problems down into their components; she uses inductive and deductive methods together by relating facts and evidence. She is developing an approach of examining the file in terms of procedure, merits, evidence, risk and possible outcomes and determining workable procedural steps. She records the requests given to her; determines the transaction, the time limit and the expected output; and follows up until the task is completed. She applies the principles of listening carefully to the client, communicating clearly and in a measured way, and reporting developments to the responsible lawyer.
German and multilingual legal communication
Zehra Sar uses German at C1 academic level and English at B1 intermediate level. In the firm’s multilingual working environment with a high number of foreign clients, she communicates one-to-one with foreign clients under the knowledge and supervision of the responsible lawyers, and contributes to document exchange and correspondence processes. She develops her German and English legal terminology through technical document work, and her speaking practice through professional communication experience.
Professional status
Statement on trainee lawyer status
Trainee lawyer work is carried out under the supervision and oversight of the responsible lawyer. The statements on this page do not constitute expertise, independent legal practice or a commitment to any particular legal outcome.
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