Career
Ready to Rise? Whether you’re a young professional at the start of your career, an experienced advisor or a business professional. POELLATH is constantly looking for talents and ambitious employees to strengthen our team.
We offer a top training program in a culturally diverse environment, equal opportunities, good promotion prospects, flexible working hours and an above-average salary. In our market-leading, international business and tax law firm, entrepreneurship and partnership are practiced just as much as commitment and sustainability.
Take a step to becoming a successful business lawyer / tax advisor or expert in your field and optimize your talents. Working at POELLATH will be a challenging but rewarding next step in your career.
POELLATH is shaped by our employees. We are all unique, but have the same values and like to work within a team. We strive for professional and humane excellence, show team spirit and passion for our work. We live a friendly, open-minded and cooperative working environment. This kind of cooperation defines us and forms a friendly working basis that goes beyond the daily collective lunch. Business in good company! Cultural diversity, integration and equal opportunities are matters of principle for us. Equality and Diversity!
Excellence
We do not advise in all areas, but always in the high-end sector. The quality of our work is not only reflected in our ability to grasp legal issues. Rather, clients appreciate our economic solutions based on sound legal and tax advice. This makes our work complex, but at the same time very versatile. For economic success and the best work product, we are always on hand.
Team spirit
Our work is demanding and often time-consuming. This makes it all the more important to act as a team, to divide work within the team and to work hand in hand. We work in agile teams. Our experts are well-connected and supervise projects together. With us you will be integrated immediately and learn on-the-job. Your team will support you with help and advice, but will give you the necessary personal freedom. We strengthen our team spirit at joint team events, sporting events, celebrations and trips. We maintain a friendly and not just a collegial relationship with each other.
Passion
Excellence and passion are flip sides of the same coin. We work passionately and are interested in economic connections and our own entrepreneurship. Our remuneration systems ensure that the passion for the job pays off. At the same time, POELLATH supports our employees in matters that go beyond the professional framework. POELLATH beyond!
Colleagues and mentors at the top of their fields. Exciting mandates. Contact with interesting people and companies. Teamwork. New challenges every day. Flat hierarchies. Open-door policy. Gratis meals. This could also become your life.
At POELLATH you will find a number of career opportunities.
Internship, research assistantship & traineeship
Interns, research assistants and trainee lawyers also work with us on-the-job. You work in small teams with permanently assigned partners and mentors. Gratis meals and participation in most of the training programs are at your disposal.
Administration
Are you interested in an administrative job in a successful law firm? Working on our team has many facets. Whether as an assistant, IT administrator or service assistant, we are always looking for committed employees with a great deal of initiative. Become a full-fledged member of our team.
We look forward to your application! Whether you respond to a specific job advertisement or on your own initiative. We are always looking for new, excellent and committed employees to expand our team.
No matter which location you choose, what matters most to us are ambition, teamwork skills, a thirst for knowledge, and a passion for what you do. We’ll teach you the rest—we warmly welcome recent graduates and trainees!
POELLATH stands for market-leading expertise in high-end transactions and asset management. Here we offer multidisciplinary legal and tax advice in areas that are rarely part of a university education. You need good legal craftsmanship, the desire to try your hand at something and demand excellence of yourself. If this is the case, you are in the right place with us. We support the skills you have already acquired and give you the finishing touches with our individual training program. Interested?
Your skills
Above-average performance on both exams is the foundation of your professional expertise. A doctorate and a master’s degree are not prerequisites, but are welcome.
A large part of our work takes place in an international market environment. Comprehensive knowledge of English is therefore desirable.
There is no typical POELLATH professional. Rather, we look for: Interesting personalities | team players | communication talents | energetic | motivated | committed |people with determination.
We value a level-headed approach to each other and in relation to the outside world. Our clients appreciate our sporting ambition and our pursuit 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.
Our offers
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 spotlight
Here, we introduce you to the people behind the names. It’s engaging and to the point. Our professionals are each asked three questions about their work, career, and personal lives, and here they share what keeps them busy, fascinates them, and drives them every day.
Katharina Hammer (Senior Associate)
“It is particularly fascinating to see how different stakeholders are addressing the issue of sustainability, given that so much is at stake. Regulatory requirements for sustainability disclosures regarding financial products are growing faster than the corresponding demand from investors. The challenge lies in navigating highly complex issues while finding a practical implementation that benefits everyone.”
“Through a friend! I asked friends and acquaintances how satisfied they were with their current work environment, and only considered law firms where I got a positive impression ‘from the inside.’”
“I rarely see things in black and white; instead, I like to examine them from different perspectives. This allows me to easily put myself in other people’s shoes and understand their viewpoints and interests. At the same time, this doesn’t prevent me from remaining decisive when it comes to difficult issues.”
Erik Muscheites (Associated Partner)
“The ever-increasing complexity and unfairness of the tax system. Genuine simplifications to the tax system are urgently needed, not least to counteract the gradual erosion of its legitimacy.”
“Choose a career and a specialization that truly interest you. If that’s the case and you’re passionate about your field, you’ll eventually succeed in your career.”
“When I have the freedom to set my own hours and choose where I work. That gives me the opportunity to juggle as many challenges as possible.”
Antonia Puglisi (Senior Associate)
“When I first had contact with POELLATH back in 2017, I was surprised at how warmly I was received.
I had just completed my first state exam and was looking for a position as a research assistant. Until then, I had had no contact with large law firms and had no idea what to expect...”
Raphael Baumgartner (Associated Partner)
“POELLATH was already well-known to me as a leading law firm before my initial contact with them. At my first meeting in the Munich office, I was immediately impressed by the modern meeting room in the heart of downtown Munich. The POELLATH team itself appealed to me not only because of the high level of professionalism, but also because of their relaxed man-ner. We concluded the meeting with an espresso on the roof terrace with a view of the Frauenkirche. This first personal POELLATH experience convinced me to apply for a position here.”
