Dentons

Attorney – Public Construction & Planning Law, Environmental Law

Dentons

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: BerlinGermany

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About the role

  • Advising clients on public law and regulatory matters
  • Transactional support in construction, planning, environmental and other areas of public law
  • Supporting construction and emissions-control permitting procedures for development projects, in zoning/land-use plan procedures and related matters
  • Advising companies and investors on property- and facility-related environmental law issues
  • Interdisciplinary, cross-office and cross-border collaboration

Requirements

  • Excellent legal qualifications demonstrated by two state examinations with top grades
  • Ideally 2 years of professional experience in the described area of practice
  • Demonstrable strong interest in public law, e.g. through previous internships, an academic focus, a substantive focus during the legal clerkship (Referendariat) or similar
  • Business-fluent English, both written and spoken
  • Commercial and creative mindset
  • Passion, commitment and team spirit
Benefits
  • Exciting international mandates
  • Cross-office collaboration with colleagues from a wide range of disciplines
  • Dentons Legal Academy for technical training and soft-skills development
  • Training in and use of state-of-the-art Legal-Tech software (Noxtua and Legora) as well as an in-house AI tool
  • Transparent performance review process
  • Option for mobile/remote work
  • 30 days' vacation (based on a five-day week) plus additional days off on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve
  • Corporate benefits
  • Get fit on the move: bike leasing for cycling enthusiasts
  • Regular employee events, professional language courses and a variety of fitness and sports offerings (Urban Sports or Fitness First membership, sports groups, digital yoga classes, etc.)
  • Dedicated team for occupational health services and further health-management offerings such as computer-workstation glasses, mindfulness sessions and a Europe-wide Healthy Challenge
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
public lawregulatory mattersconstruction lawenvironmental lawzoningland-use planningpermitting procedurestransactional supportlegal qualificationslegal clerkship
Soft Skills
communicationteam spiritcommercial mindsetcreative mindsetcommitmentpassioninterdisciplinary collaborationcross-office collaborationcross-border collaborationstrong interest
Certifications
state examinations