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Thomas Gottlöber has initiated significant change in the legal department of his employer, a group of media companies specialising in business and finance coverage. He has ‘streamlined the legal department, negotiated agreements with law firms and centralised the handling of all legal matters’. He also implemented new software that ensured the switch to ‘electronic filing’. Particular challenges have been several corporate outsourcings as well as setting up joint ventures but his varied work also includes press law proceedings and innovative matters such as IT projects, most recently the introduction of apps for the media company’s products. Gottlöber’s work is rewarding because of ‘its varied nature and interesting projects around our established brands such as Handelsblatt and WirtschaftsWoche’. Law firms need to deliver ‘short, to-the-point and practice-oriented advice, always taking into account commercial drivers’.