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"A-List" Firm

The American Lawyer, 2024

Ranked Among Most Innovative Firms in North America 

Financial Times 2024 North America Innovative Lawyers Report

Ranked Among Best Summer Associate Programs

Vault, 2024
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2024 Pro Bono Honor Roll

The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC)

Environment & Sustainability: Outstanding Firm 

Chambers USA Awards 2024
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Among Top Real Estate Practices in NYC

The Real Deal, 2024

Ranked Among the Top Law Firms for Investigations

GIR 30, 2024

Included Among Latin America’s Top International Law firms

Latinvex, 2024

175 Lawyer and 91 Practice Area Rankings

Chambers, 2024

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About Us

We are seeking highly motivated and qualified lawyers focused on:

Antitrust | Capital Markets | Compliance | Corporate/M&A | Employment | Finance | Litigation/Arbitration | Private Equity | Real Estate | Regulatory | Restructuring | Tax

We Offer

  • Mentoring by partners who are recognized leaders in their respective fields
  • In-depth, practical, on-the-job training
  • Formal in-house training sessions and access to external courses
  • Tutored academic writing
  • Access to high-profile clients and involvement on significant transactions and projects
  • Early client contact
  • Highly spirited team working environment
  • Top-of-the market salary
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Qualifications required

  • Total of 18 points or more on the two state examinations
  • Fluency in English
  • Demonstrative interest/focus in chosen field of practice
  • Ambition and intellectual curiosity
  • Ideally, a doctorate and/or English-language LL.M.

Associate Life

Based on their respective focuses and personal preferences, associates will join one of our practice groups. As part of a team, you will advise our clients in your field, participating in various phases of transactions, projects and proceedings. We believe that your training and work responsibilities should be focused, yet comprehensive and integrated across our practices. We aim for our team members to find a balanced understanding of their areas of focus and the broader legal, commercial and technical opportunities and challenges our clients face. In this respect, we encourage academic activities such as pursuing writing and public speaking opportunities.

Overview Approach Client Contact Compensation Development Matters

A professional working environment is essential for successful legal work. We therefore maintain state-of-the-art offices with modern telecommunications equipment. We also believe that personal development is crucial. This applies not only to our lawyers‘ daily work, but also to their personal lives. For example, we are open to discussing part-time arrangements.

We expect our associates to have the best qualifications in the marketplace.

International Approach

We work closely with our other offices in Brussels, Chicago, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Milan, New York, Palo Alto, Paris, Rome, San Francisco and Washington. You will have the opportunity to experience different languages, cultures and new perspectives on handling international deals. Depending upon your qualifications, we can discuss secondments in our other offices or at our clients‘ offices.

Teamwork

You will find a workplace environment at Willkie that emphasizes client needs and team play. We are proud of our collegial environment and believe that true teamwork is a major part of our formula for success.

Individuals Welcome

We encourage our attorneys to express and rely upon their creative and entrepreneurial spirit. We feel that individualism and team play are not mutually exclusive. We do not brand you as part of a legal organization, but rather provide you with a basis to develop your individual profile in the legal market.

Flexible Approach

We are open to your individual needs, including part-time arrangements.

Early Client Contact
You can expect to have significant client contact at an early stage. We work very closely with our clients and see you as an integral part of our team. We will facilitate your involvement in client meetings, negotiations and external discussions.
Competitive Compensation
Our basic compensation is at the top of the market. Additionally, we offer a discretionary bonus of up to 20 % based on performance.
Dedicated Training and Development

We understand the importance of your practical training and career development. We offer you the opportunity to work closely with highly reputable partners who are leading practitioners in their fields of practice, and who will closely monitor your career development.

Excellent Career Development

As a fast growing and leading law firm, we provide opportunity for tremendous career development. Partner promotions depend upon your individual success and are not subject to “allocations” of “slots” from abroad.

Cutting-Edge Matters
We are regularly sought to provide sophisticated advice on major headline transactions. From day one you will be involved in handling some of the most challenging and intellectually stimulating matters.
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Trainees and Students

We believe that traineeships are an excellent way for us to get to know one another. We therefore welcome applications of recent university graduates (Referendar/innen, wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in) and students (Praktikant/innen, studentische/r Mitarbeiter/innen) with ambitions to work for an international law firm. Depending upon the interest of the candidate, trainees as well as students will join one of our practice groups and work closely with our lawyers on the transactions, projects and proceedings we are advising. We consider trainees and students as full members of our teams.

The candidates should possess a genuine interest in international business law and be fluent in English. Candidates for a traineeship (Referendar-Station) are expected to have obtained 9 points or above in their first state exam (1. Staatsexamen). The judicial training curriculum should show initiative, openness and career planning orientation.

In addition to being granted the opportunity to develop professional skills and to get to know the work atmosphere in a successful international law firm, trainees and students working in our office receive competitive compensation.

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Hiring Process

Please email cover letter, curriculum vitae and customary documentation to:

Georg Linde
bewerbung@willkie.com

 

Address:
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
An der Welle 4
D-60322 Frankfurt am Main

 

Potential interviews will be conducted by the partners and associates with whom the prospective candidates would be working.

INSEAD

The Frankfurt office of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has entered into an official cooperation in August 2013 with one of the world’s leading business schools, INSEAD, regarding INSEAD’s MBA Program. INSEAD is among the largest and most prestigious business schools in the world with its main campuses in Fontainebleau, France and Singapore and offers inter alia a 1-year MBA Program for professionals with work experience.

 

Willkie is widely perceived in the market to not only provide high-quality legal advice but also to understand the clients‘ business. With this cooperation we want to further build on this reputation. The firm will coach current and future employees throughout the application process and support them financially up to 50% of the tuition in case of acceptance into the program, which remains at the sole discretion of INSEAD.

 

As official “Cooperator of the INSEAD MBA Program” Willkie is to its knowledge the first law firm in Germany to officially support its associates in obtaining a full MBA.

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Contacts

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Fabienne Kraus
Office Manager
Frankfurt Frankfurt Emailfkraus@willkie.com Phone+49 69 7930 2204
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Mihriban Odabas
Administrative Assistant
Frankfurt Frankfurt Emailmodabas@willkie.com Phone+49 69 7930 2310
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Miriam Steets
Partner
Frankfurt Frankfurt Emailmsteets@willkie.com Phone+49 69 7930 2194

Locations

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1040 Brussels

T +32 2 290 18 20
Dallas 2828 Routh Street
Dallas, TX 75201

T +1 214 233 4500
Chicago 300 North LaSalle Dr.
Chicago, IL 60654-3406

T +1 312 728 9000
Frankfurt An der Welle 4
D-60322 Frankfurt am Main

T +49 69 79302 0
Houston 600 Travis Street
Houston, TX 77002

T +1 713 510 1700
London Citypoint, 1 Ropemaker Street
London EC2Y 9AW

T +44 20 3580 4700
Los Angeles 2029 Century Park East
Los Angeles, CA 90067-2905

T +1 310 855 3000
Milan Via Michele Barozzi, 2
20122 Milan

T +39 02 76363 1
Munich Brienner Straße 22
D-80333 Munich

T +49 89 203047500
New York 787 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10019-6099

T +1 212 728 8000
Palo Alto 1801 Page Mill Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304

T +1 650 887 9300
Paris 21 boulevard Malesherbes
75008 Paris

T +33 1 53 43 45 00
Rome Via di Ripetta, 142
00186 Rome

T +39 06 68636 1
San Francisco 333 Bush St
San Francisco, CA 94104

T +1 415 858 7400
Washington 1875 K Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20006-1238

T +1 202 303 1000
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