Dr. Thomas Winter studied law in Saarbrücken, Nantes (France) and Freiburg. During his legal clerkship he was an assistant at the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg. After obtaining his doctorate with a work on medical malpractice, he first worked for Boston Consulting Group and subsequently for the law firm Haarmann Hemmelrath. In 2003 he became an assistant of Prof. Dr. Krämer and an independent attorney in a law firm specializing in litigation. He was admitted to the Supreme Court bar in 2013 and subsequently became partner in the law firm of Krämer Winter.