Clerkship at the District Courts in Bad Ischl and Urfahr-Umgebung as well as the Regional Court in Linz

Associate in father’s law firm Dr. Philipp Metzler and in the law firm of Prof. Dr. Alfred Haslinger in Linz

04/1980: Bar exam (summa cum laude)

since 01/01/1982: attorney at law (in succession of the father’s law firm, which was founded in 1954 and has been located at the Palais Kaufmännischer Verein Linz ever since)