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Achim Deisenroth understands that one of the major challenges for any legal department is to continuously adjust its work to a changing environment, especially in compliance and risk management. He sees the legal department not as law firm within the company but ensures that the legal team is actively involved in all of the company’s internal processes. ‘Previously existing reservations are gone’, and Deisenroth watches closely that the regular interaction with other business units becomes and remains part of the legal department’s daily tasks, as much as the setting up of internal training. Deisenroth also set up legal training in risk management and compliance. A career highlight has been the successful restructuring in relation to the company succession in a family-owned company, but to him the most valuable success is ‘the good reputation of the legal department, internally and externally’. He enjoys most the ‘close cooperation with the company’s owners and its various departments’ which enables him ‘to be part of and initiate imminent change’. He says law firms should ‘operate as service providers while keeping an eye on the costs’.