Melissa Irtel has been an attorney at Oppenhoff since 2026. She studied law at Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg and the University of Passau. She worked as a research assistant in the Corporate/M&A department at major international law firms in Frankfurt am Main. During her legal clerkship at the Regional Court of Darmstadt, Melissa Irtel completed rotations in the IP/IT practice area. Before joining Oppenhoff, she worked as an attorney at a law firm specializing in open source law.