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why join us? At schoenherr, we don’t have set career tracks, but rather many diverse paths to success. Those paths reflect your interests, abilities, and ambitions. We provide our lawyers a thorough preparation for an excellent professional career and first-rate contacts, as well as the opportunity to learn from the best practitioners. However, we want to offer you more than just a job. The way we see our professional life also has to do with dedication, passion and a personal mission - in other words, taking a holistic approach that we call “lawyering”. Let us give you some insights into our world.
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you’re different? so are we! Schoenherr is proud of the great diversity of the people working in its network of offices. We don’t take a cookie cutter approach to hiring. With us, you’ll be working alongside people with a remarkable range of backgrounds, perspectives, and experience.
too general? be special! At schoenherr, you have the opportunity to choose from and move between a broad range of practice areas, allowing you to develop specialist expertise: banking, finance & capital markets; compliance & white collar crime; corporate/m&a; dispute resolution; eu & competition; insolvency & restructuring; insurance; ip, it & life sciences; labour & employment; new technologies; real estate; regulatory; tax.
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deals? big deal! Our character is international and so are our clients. schoenherr is their firm of choice for Central and Eastern Europe’s most challenging crossborder mandates. With us, you will work on complex headline deals involving well-known companies – important and challenging work that opens doors and can be a springboard to other career possibilities.
4 think? yes - outside the box! The challenges presented by our complex, multijurisdictional mandates require bright minds that think outside the box. At schoenherr, you’ll join a team of innovative thinkers who stand out on the basis of their business-oriented, problem-solving approach to their work.
Connect the dots: Link all 9 circles using no more than four straight lines, without lifting the pen, and without tracing the same line more than once. Got it? This challenge should be simple enough when you’re willing to take your solution outside the box. Check out our website www.schoenherr.eu/ think-outside-the-box for one solution.
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explore? central and eastern europe! Schoenherr‘s international network isn‘t just for our clients - it‘s for our lawyers too. We give you the chance to go on secondment within the schoenherr network, as well as to other leading law firms with whom we work closely. It‘s a perfect opportunity to gain legal experience abroad, work on your foreign language skills, and expand your professional and personal horizons.
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our culture? tight-knit! Our home market stretches across Central and Eastern Europe and encompasses an incredibly diverse group of markets, cultures and people. schoenherr reflects that diversity – and yet, a red thread runs through our firm and our people: a love of practicing law. Whether in Brussels, Belgrade or Istanbul (or any of our 14 offices), our lawyers work together closely with their colleagues, both across practice areas and throughout the schoenherr network. At schoenherr, the knowledge, experience and know-how of our lawyers is tight-knit.
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growing? never stop! Your education doesn’t stop when you join us – it just gets started. Ongoing training and learning is a core part of “lawyering” and essential to delivering high-quality legal services. We offer extensive professional development opportunities, including legal skills and practicetailored training. You’ll also have the chance to attend lectures and seminars to keep yourself up-to-date with the latest legal developments.
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opportunities? endless!
Schoenherr‘s young lawyers have excellent prospects. From the moment you join the firm, you‘ll have plenty of opportunities to further develop your legal and business skills in a real-world setting. As a large and growing firm, we offer more opportunities by the day, including career advancement within the firm.
lawyering it‘s all about
be part of it and join now!
At schoenherr whatever we do, it’s all about taking a holistic approach towards our profession: lawyering Being a successful lawyer is about more than just knowing the law. It requires broad knowledge and a set of skills: knowledge management, negotiation techniques, written and oral communication skills, business development savvy and more. It also requires social, mental and physical strength. Developing your personal and professional skills and knowledge on a broader basis will open doors and perspectives, wherever you go and whatever you do.
your application? yes, please! Are you interested in a career with us? Have you already had a look at our current opportunities? Check out our website and our current job postings. Nothing there for you? Then take the initiative and send us an unsolicited application: www.schoenherr.eu/apply-online
schoenherr attorneys of law schoenherr is a leading full-service law firm in Central and Eastern Europe. With 14 offices located in Belgrade, Bratislava, Brussels, Budapest, Bucharest, Chisinau, Istanbul, Ljubljana, Kyiv, Prague, Sofia, Vienna, Warsaw and Zagreb, as well as country desks for Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Macedonia and Montenegro, schoenherr provides its clients with comprehensive coverage of the CEE/SEE region.* More than 300 legal professionals work across borders in both a centralized and de-centralized manner, according to the individual client’s needs and requirements. Quality, flexibility, innovation and practice-oriented solutions for complex assignments in the field of business law are at the core of the schoenherr philosophy.
*schoenherr is in compliance with the respective local legal standards and conduct rules in all countries; therefore, the local firm name may vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
belgium/ EU
poland ukraine
czech republic
slovakia moldova
austria hungary romania slovenia croatia
serbia
bosnia/ herzegovina
bulgaria
montenegro
albania
macedonia
turkey