Jens Lorek, a 41-year-old Dresden lawyer, is a specialist in social and labor law, but he hopes to gain more clients by adding atypical work. He intends to help clients who believe they are UFO abductees to go after state compensation claims. On October 5, 2006, he told Reuters by phone of one problem involved in the endeavor — in that "people are afraid of making fools of themselves in court."
He is doing so on account of a German law which gives victims of kidnapping the right to obtain compensation from the state. Germany had recently reduced welfare benefits, thus affecting his previous main client base.
He advertised in the Bild newspaper, using the headline "I'm Germany's first lawyer for alien victims."
According to him, nobody has laughed at his plans, as of early October 2006, and he is not worried about looking ridiculous when enabling clients to appeal for cures and therapies. He is not taking on all cases, such as that of a clearly psychotic woman who needed help from the medical community more than from a lawyer.
But he has been investigating whether what people experienced as encounters with aliens were actually the results of abuses by humans. Thus he could help them sue under the "victim compensation law."
As of January 2007, Lorek's new specialty has not proved profitable.
— Douglas Chapman
Deutsche Welle, http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2197310,00.html, 10/6/06
Spiegel Online International, http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,458972,00.html, 1/11/07
China Daily, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2006-10/08/content_703288.htm, 10/8/06