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Benedikt is an Attorney in the Practice Area Technology, Media and Telecoms and Certified Information Privacy Professional Europe (CIPP/E). He has particular expertise in legal issues related to digitization and artificial intelligence.

His consulting focus includes IT-legal contract drafting, support for complex data protection projects, and advice on the implementation of new regulatory requirements in the use of AI. He also advises the public sector on extensive digitization projects.

Benedikt regularly publishes and lectures on the topics of digitization and AI regulation. He teaches in the “Executive Master in Law & AI” at the Brussels School of Competition.

 

 

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Since 2024 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing
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2020 Attorney at Law in an international law firm
2019 Attorney at Law in a law firm specializing in white-collar crime defense
2024 Specialist lawyer for information technology law
2021 Certified Information Privacy Professional Europe (CIPP/E)
2021 Admitted to the bar at the Düsseldorf Bar Association
2019 Admitted to the bar at the Munich Bar Association
2018 – 2021 Doctoral degree on a topic at the interface of criminal law and IT law, University of Augsburg
2018 Second State Examination
2016 – 2018 Legal clerkship, Higher Regional Court of Munich
2016 First State Examination
2010 – 2016 Law studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich

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Since 2024 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing
2021 Associate, Taylor Wessing
2020 Attorney at Law in an international law firm
2019 Attorney at Law in a law firm specializing in white-collar crime defense

Education

2024 Specialist lawyer for information technology law
2021 Certified Information Privacy Professional Europe (CIPP/E)
2021 Admitted to the bar at the Düsseldorf Bar Association
2019 Admitted to the bar at the Munich Bar Association
2018 – 2021 Doctoral degree on a topic at the interface of criminal law and IT law, University of Augsburg
2018 Second State Examination
2016 – 2018 Legal clerkship, Higher Regional Court of Munich
2016 First State Examination
2010 – 2016 Law studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich

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