International work exchange through the Student Trainee Exchange Programme

This year LexDellmeier is for the first time a part of the European Law Students’ Association’s Student Trainee Exchange Programme. The European Law Student’s Association (ELSA) is an international, independent, non-political, non-profit-making organisation run by and for students with over 40.000 members at nearly 300 faculties throughout 43 countries in Europe. ELSA provides for the Student Trainee Exchange Programme (STEP), which is an outstanding opportunity for law students and young lawyers to gain practical legal experience abroad and to get to know the culture of another country. This year LexDellmeier has decided to accept two interns from another country, each for a period of three months I therefore have the pleasure to be LexDellmeier’s intern from mid-July to mid-October 2015. My name is Elisabet Høines Totland and I am currently in my fifth year of law school in Bergen, Norway. I was introduced to Intellectual Property Law during my exchange semester in the Netherlands. Studying IP law made me eager to enhance my knowledge and to work more within this field of law. Throughout law school I have aimed to work in an international atmosphere, and I thus seized the opportunity when the IP law firm LexDellmeier offered an internship in the IP capital of Europe. I am eager to get started and to learn more about German and European IP law through conducting research and supporting the lawyers in the firm and writing interesting articles for this blog. If you are interested in becoming a part of the STEP Programme, you can check out http://elsa.org/page/traineeships/ for more information.