Quinn Emanuel’s Julia Nobbe is vying to swap the high-stakes battlegrounds of Big Law for the rarefied air of Germany’s highest court, where only a select few VIPs argue the country’s most complex cases.

For her, litigation at the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof or BGH) isn’t just a career move—it’s a test of legal mastery, “I like the more regulated procedures at the BGH, focusing on interesting legal questions.”