Associate

Your career as an attorney.

Are you passionate about complex legal issues? Are you interested in challenging client matters and ready to take on responsibility? We offer you the best prospects: Perfect conditions for your career entry, the freedom to develop your personality as an attorney and the long-term perspective of becoming a partner.

You will work on challenging mandates in a personally pleasant working environment together with the best in your field. This way, you deepen your knowledge and acquire comprehensive expertise. Teamwork and team spirit are just as important to us as developing your professional qualifications and skills. Training and further education is a particular focus in the first few years.

Your designated partners will accompany your career steps from the very beginning. Together with you, they will design a structured plan for your further development that is transparent and fair, but also individual and flexible. Regular feedback meetings as well as comprehensive internal and external training opportunities will support you along your entire career path.

Your career path at SZA Schilling, Zutt & Anschütz.

1

Associate

You will be part of a team and directly involved in client work from day one. In daily collaboration, you learn "on the job" and are individually supported by our Schilling Academy. Your colleagues will accompany you closely during the first few months, enabling you to quickly find your way into the working practice of a business law firm.

2

Inclusion on the letterhead

At the end of the second professional year, the partnership decides on your inclusion on the letterhead - the first "promotion": You take on individual important tasks in the team and already handle individual work steps as well as smaller proceedings and projects largely on your own. You also act as contact for SZA Schilling, Zutt & Anschütz externally.

3

Senior Associate

As a general rule, after the fourth professional year the partnership decides on your appointment as a Senior Associate: You have developed expertise in your field and are increasingly taking on your first managerial responsibilities.

4

Principal Associate

From the seventh year of your professional career, you can become a Principal Associate. You will be sought out by your colleagues as a counsellor, lead them as a team and also train them in the process. You will be among our best-performing associates.

5

Partner / Non-Equity Partner / Counsel

As a general rule, the partners decide on your admission to the partnership after the eighth professional year. We are proud to be able to regularly appoint partners from our own ranks. As a partner of SZA Schilling, Zutt & Anschütz you bear comprehensive entrepreneurial responsibility.

Not all of our attorneys aspire to become a partner with the entrepreneurial responsibility that comes with it. In these cases, a non-equity partnership or counsel position may be considered. You have acquired particular legal expertise and are an established specialist in your field. You provide comprehensive and independent advice in your area of expertise. You take on client and team responsibility and have a prominent position both internally and externally.