Switzerland is difficult terrain for foreign law firms
As a long-standing observer of the Swiss law firm market, Christoph H. Vaagt was interviewed on the question of how the market will develop.
Handelsblatt: Executive seeks wife, by Kevin Knitterscheidt
Christoph H. Vaagt was interviewed by the Handelsblatt on the topic: “Women as partners in law firms”. The article was published on 4.12.2017. In doing so, he corrected the often repeated but wrong perception that law firms are “bastions of male dominance”. In many law firms below the top 200, there are many female lawyers […]
Handelsblatt of 1.6.2015: We want to change the legal market!
Martin Tofern from the Handelsblatt interviewed Christoph H. Vaagt about the chance of the Dentons law firm to change the legal market and to do what all law firms want to do in Germany first: Personnel growth. Ideally with the help of a merger. In the early 2000s, Christoph Vaagt worked as a law firm […]
16.09.2014 Berliner Zeitung: path and change
Commercial law firms are facing great challenges today. On the one hand, the competition for promising young lawyers is becoming increasingly tougher, while on the other hand, the demands on lawyers are changing. In addition, commercial law firms have to face new competition from consultants and so-called project lawyers. The competition is enormous, since the […]
This is how media work: A faulty representation suddenly becomes “truth”.
As we reported last year, Christoph H. Vaagt was awarded “Best Lawyer” in the field of insurance law, although he is not active in this field (he revises partnership agreements with regard to governance and profit distribution). The ranking by the American firm “Best Lawyers”, which is allegedly based only on assessments by colleagues, has […]