career questions to ... Christoph Lindinger

1. What was your first job?
As a student, I worked part-time in the Jaguar/Rover spare parts section, where I had to do the inventory, counting spare parts all day long.

2. What would you be doing professionally if you weren’t a lawyer?
I’d be an actor.

3. What do you consider your biggest achievement in your career?
Expanding the firm to 14 offices.

4. Which song would you choose as the soundtrack of your life?Why?
“Bobby Brown”, because Frank Zappa has such a great voice.

5. Who or what has had the biggest influence on your life?
My parents.

6. What do you like to do when you are not in the office? (or on Sundays)
Being in nature.

7. What’s your favourite place on Earth?
My old farmhouse in Salzburg.

8. What do you like the most about being a lawyer?
I like the fact that when you know your facts well, you can be the one who is right.

9. What is the most challenging part of your job?
My partners at the firm.

10. If you could be a superhero, what power would you possess?
Mind-reading.

11. Are there any (other) new skills that you want to develop this year?
Languages: Serbian and Turkish.

12. Looking back 15 years from now, what would you like to have accomplished in your life?
To become a successful actor.

13. What career advice would you provide to others?
Love it, change it, or leave it.

14. Why do you think someone should join Schoenherr?
It's the greatest firm on earth.