The Firm
Experts in healthcare law
medlegal is a specialist law firm dedicated to the healthcare sector. We advise healthcare providers and businesses throughout Germany on the full range of legal issues affecting their operations.
Our lawyers combine recognised expertise in medical and healthcare law with many years of sector-specific experience and a deep understanding of our clients’ structures, processes and commercial realities.
Our advice is underpinned by a strong academic focus. Our longstanding involvement in professional associations, industry bodies and health-policy committees also enables us to contribute to the debate on the future of healthcare and gives us an extensive network across the sector.
medlegal provides focused yet comprehensive legal advice across the full spectrum of the healthcare sector. Our work ranges from inpatient and outpatient care structures and complex regulatory matters to research and innovation, healthcare transactions and reimbursement, as well as representing clients in litigation and other disputes, particularly in liability and remuneration matters.
Where scholarship meets practice
Whether you are planning your succession, facing complex regulatory questions or needing to resolve a dispute: in a highly regulated healthcare sector there are many tasks that are difficult and often sensitive. At times, the requirements of different areas of law cannot easily be reconciled. Where there are no established benchmarks for assessing new legal questions, it takes challenging established approaches, exploring the boundaries of what is legally possible and developing robust, workable solutions. We take on that challenge. We think further, to find the best route for every one of our clients – whether their structures are small or large.
In the transformation of the healthcare sector, established and innovative business models call not only for outstanding expertise in medical law and for creativity, but also for deep sector knowledge and an understanding of how outpatient and inpatient care actually works: pragmatic, entrepreneurial solutions grounded in rigorous academic analysis. We are committed to helping shape the framework for the healthcare market of tomorrow.
We are a team. Each of our lawyers brings different strengths, and we bring them together with a passion for the matter at hand. Before medical chambers, associations of statutory health insurance (SHI) physicians, admission committees and other authorities. In court when disputes arise. Before the Federal Constitutional Court if need be. Out of conviction, without egos, always committed to quality. That is how something remarkable comes about. And how work can be a pleasure.
Founded in 2008 by Johannes Kalläne , medlegal quickly grew into a recognised and highly specialised boutique for the healthcare sector. The firm expanded considerably when it joined forces with Sozietät Prof. Dr. Prütting & Shirazi, a practice with which it had long been on friendly terms, on 1 January 2023. Without forgetting its roots. medlegal remains medlegal, with even more expertise in medical and healthcare law that reaches far beyond practical work. That is all the more true since 1 February 2025, when the team of the renowned Berlin office of the long-established firm Ehlers, Ehlers und Partner (EEP), led by Dr Melanie Arndt and Dr Johannes Arndt , together with the experienced Munich partner Karin Gräfin von Strachwitz-Helmstatt , joined medlegal. With Prof. Dr Martin Rehborn joining on 1 September 2025, medlegal also gained one of the leading experts in German medical and hospital law. Our team has grown to 20 experts in Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Kiel and Dortmund. This further strengthens our position as one of the leading boutique firms in medical, long-term care and healthcare law.
So we have the right contact for almost every topic.
