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03.12.2024
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GÖRG Employment Tracker, 12/2024
Dr Marcus Richter is a partner and has been a member of the Executive Committee at GÖRG Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten mbB in Cologne since 2021. His expertise as a specialist lawyer for labour law makes him a sought-after advisor for both national and international companies.
As a partner at GÖRG, Dr Marcus Richter advises his clients on all matters of individual and collective employment law. He specialises in particular in providing employment law advice on corporate acquisitions, reorganisations and restructurings as well as the implementation of outsourcing and integration projects.
He supports and advises companies in negotiations with trade unions and works councils on collective agreements, reconciliation of interests, social plans, works agreements and conciliation committee proceedings. He also advises on labour law compliance and drafting employment contracts for executives.
JUVE, Legal500 and Handelsblatt (‘Best Lawyers’) rank Dr Marcus Richter among the leading and most frequently recommended employment lawyers in Germany. He is a regularly booked speaker on labour law topics. He is also co-author of several standard works on employment law and, together with Prof. Björn Gercke and Dr Oliver Kraft, editor of the handbook ‘Arbeitsstrafrecht’. Dr Marcus Richter also publishes regularly in employment law journals. His lectures and publications contribute to further training and professional exchange in the labour law community and underline his commitment to sharing specialist knowledge.
More on labour and employment law: see also our restructuring blog Re.Work.
2021
GÖRG
Managing Partner
2012-2020
GÖRG
Head of Labor Law Service Line
2010
GÖRG
Equity Partner
2004
GÖRG
Associate, specializing in employment law
2004
University of Cologne
Doctorate (Dr. jur.)
2003
Regional Court of Cologne
Second state examination
2001-2003
Legal clerkship
Civil Law Days: Regional Court Cologne
Criminal law days: Public prosecutor's office Cologne
Administrative traineeship: Landschaftsverband Rheinland
Legal clerkship: Schlütter, Bornheim, Seitz (today: Seitz)
Elective: Heuking Kühn Luer Woijtek (labor law)
2000-2003
Institute for German and European Labor Law (Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ulrich Prof Preis)
Student assistant
2000
University of Cologne
First state examination
1996-2000
Institute for German and European Labor Law at the University of Cologne (Prof. Dr. Dres. H.c. Peter Hanau)
Student assistant
1995-2000
University of Cologne
Study of law
Member of the German Bar Association
Member of the Cologne Bar Association
Working Party for Labour Law in the Cologne Bar Association
For the fourth consecutive time in the JUVE handbook 2018/2019 on the “Leading Partners in Labour Law” (“high strategic skill, meets the highest quality standards”, “sound technical basis, very pragmatic and collegial”)
Repeatedly recommended by “Best Lawyers” (Handelsblatt), in particular under the heading “Germany’s best lawyers 2018” for labour law.
Legal 500 counts Dr Richter among the most frequently recommended labour lawyers in Germany (“responds effectively to the client’s wishes” and the service “is excellent in every respect”; “good negotiator” with a “nose for practical solutions”)
Dr Marcus Richter regularly lectures on labour law topics.
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