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 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!
We have compiled our values and the most important aspects of our work together - from respect, tolerance and commitment to excellence, service and support to health and environmental protection - in a Code of Conduct as the basis for our actions in the POELLATH team.
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
- 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.
Our Offers
- 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.
We work hard! Excellent service for our clients is our focus. That makes some work days long. Nevertheless, we do not want to throw your life out of balance. Whether you want to start a family, play your favorite sport regularly or travel around the world: Your career at POELLATH makes it possible.
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. 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.
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.
Experience reports
In the spotlight
Here we introduce you to the people behind the names. Briefly and to the point. Our professionals are each asked three questions about their work, career and private life, and reveal to you what keeps them busy, fascinated and driven every day.
Katharina Hammer (Senior Associate)
“How the various stakeholders deal with the issue of sustainability is particularly exciting because so much is at stake. The regulatory requirements for sustainability disclosure for financial products are growing faster than the corresponding demand from investors. The challenge is to do justice to highly complex interrelationships and at the same time find a practical implementation that benefits everyone.”
“Through a friend! I asked friends and acquaintances how satisfied they were in their current working environment and only considered law firms where I got a positive picture ‘from the inside’”
“I rarely see things in black and white, I like to look at them from different angles. I can therefore empathize well with other people, their points of view and interests. At the same time, that doesn’t stop me from being decisive when it comes to difficult issues.”
Erik Muscheites (Counsel)
“The permanently increasing complexity and unfairness of the tax system. Real simplifications in the tax system are urgently needed, also to counteract a creeping undermining of legitimacy.”
“Decide on a profession and a specialization that really interests you from the heart. If that’s the case and you’re ‘on fire’ for your field, sooner or later you'll be successful professionally.”
“When I can organize my working hours and my place of work as freely as possible. That gives me the opportunity to ‘reconcile’ as many challenges as possible.”
We are looking forward to receiving your application! It doesn’t matter whether you are responding to a specific job ad or sending us a general openings application. We are continually looking for new, exceptional and committed employees to expand our team.
Regardless of which location you choose, what is important to us is your ambition, team spirit, thirst for knowledge and having fun. We will provide you with the rest - career beginners and trainees are very welcome!
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us!
