• Expertise - Above-average performance in both exams is the basis of your professional expertise and is therefore generally preferred. A doctorate and/or a completed master's degree are not required, but are welcome. These qualifications can also be acquired in part-time programs at and with POELLATH.
• Language skills - A large part of our work takes place in an international market environment. Comprehensive knowledge of English is therefore desirable.
• Personality - There is no typical POELLATH professional. Rather, we look for:
  Interesting personalities | team players | communication talents | energetic | motivated | committed | people with determination
• Personal excellence - We value a level-headed approach to each other and in relation to the outside world. Our clients appreciate our sporting ambition and our pusuit of excellence, as well as our sound judgment and prudence. Our standard is to give our best every day and to act in an exemplary manner.

• Top training opportunity - Our new recruits learn on-the-job. We encourage our employees to take part in professional training and continuing education programs. In the first three years of their careers, each advisor is expected to complete 600 hours of continuing training. There are many opportunities to do so.
• Master’s degree - For continuing education through our practice-oriented postgraduate programs (LL.M./ EMBA) at the University of Münster. Wanderlust: Master’s programs abroad are also welcome. We will support you from establishing contacts with international universities to letters of recommendation and individualized working schedule agreements.
• Practical insights - Many of our advisors do secondments in other law firms or in companies of our clients. You will gain valuable insights into companies or establish contacts with friendly law firms.
• Non-legal skills - In our four-year Non-legal Skills Program, you will learn everything that is required of you in addition to professional excellence. Project management, presentation techniques, negotiations with clients, self-management, leadership techniques, business development and the evolution of entrepreneurial skills, as well as the development of social competence – all these things make you an excellent advisor.
• Personal exchange - We learn from each other. In our internal mentoring program you will receive individualized feedback and will be introduced to our daily work routine by experienced colleagues. Meetings with all offices, training sessions and events, such as the annual training weekend and monthly jour fixes. Each event offers plenty of opportunity to exchange ideas with colleagues at every career level. We see ourselves as a team where knowledge and experience are shared.

“In the private clients area, we are currently particularly concerned with the legal tightening in the area of so-called exit taxation, which will apply to exits as of January 1, 2022 and will make the intra-European mobility of many shareholders more difficult. The Federal Ministry of Finance recently published the draft of the new application decree for the Foreign Tax Act. It therefore remains to be seen how the tax authorities will handle the tightening in concrete terms after publication of the final application decree.”

“There is a clear tendency toward overregulation through broad-based information, documentation and testing obligations that overshoot the actual legislative goal and whose fulfillment is increasingly only possible with disproportionate effort.”

“In addition to the indispensable professional competence, the willingness to recognize and understand the thoughts and motives of the other party is indispensable. This applies to the exchange with one's own client as well as with the negotiating partner. The triad of competence, empathy and result orientation is what makes a good lawyer for me.”

“The use of artificial intelligence is likely to pose major challenges for legal science in the future and also change the requirements profile of legal activities. At this point in time, it is difficult for me to imagine that complex contracts can be completely drafted, negotiated and executed by an AI. However, AI will be an increasingly valuable support in contract analysis in the future. Especially when it learns to understand the context of relevant information and draws conclusions from it. Since contracts defy purely black-and-white categorization, humans will probably still be required in the future to create contractual links and adapt contracts to the client's ideas, despite all the automation (at least I hope so 😉 ).”

“My wife and I are very fond of the mountains. Whether skiing, cycling or hiking, for me sports are the ideal complement to everyday professional life.”

“As part of a research project, I developed a system against microsleep at the wheel of motor vehicles (Tiredness Detection System) with three school friends in 2008. By monitoring various vital body functions (e.g. pulse rate) via sensors on the steering wheel and steering movements, the system was able to draw conclusions about the driver's fatigue level. In the event of danger, the driver was warned of impending microsleep by means of vibrations on the steering wheel and acoustic signals. A functional prototype was developed in collaboration with the automotive supplier Autoliv. Unfortunately, the technology was still too expensive for series production at the time.”