Legal 500: KLIEMT.HR Lawyers remains in TOP TIER – Law firm founder Kliemt named “Employment Lawyer of the Year”


The ranking handbook for corporate law firms The Legal 500 once again ranks KLIEMT.HR Lawyers among the leading law firms in employment law in Germany 2024. In addition, law firm founder Kliemt was named employment Lawyer of the year at the Legal 500 Germany Awards 2024.

In the recently published renowned international ranking handbook “The Legal 500 Germany 2024”, KLIEMT.HR Lawyers is once again ranked as a top law firm for employment law this year. Together with three other law firms KLIEMT.HR Lawyers continues to be listed as a TOP TIER law firm in employment law and thus maintains the leading position. Particularly worth mentioning: KLIEMT.HR Lawyers is represented by three partners among the 14 leading lawyers in German employment law: Prof. Dr. Michael Kliemt, Prof. Dr. Barbara Reinhard and Dr. Burkard Göpfert.

On February 16, 2024, the “Legal 500 Germany Awards 2024” were presented for the first time in a festive setting in Frankfurt am Main. We are very pleased that the law firm founder Prof. Dr. Michael Kliemt was named “Labour & Employment Lawyer of the Year” in Germany. A total of twelve well-known lawyers were nominated in this category. Among the nominees were Prof. Dr. Michael Kliemt and two other representatives of KLIEMT.HR Lawyers: Prof. Dr. Barbara Reinhard and Dr. Burkard Göpfert. In addition, KLIEMT.HR Lawyers – together with ten other law firms – was also nominated in the category “Labor & Employment Team of the Year”.

The entire KLIEMT.HR Lawyers team is pleased about these fantastic awards. We thank the Legal 500 research team, our clients and the numerous lawyer colleagues who positively evaluated our work as part of the research! Every ranking is a special incentive for us to maintain and further improve the service we provide to our clients.

Further information about the ranking can be found here: The Legal 500 Rankings and Kliemt in Legal 500.

About Legal 500

The Legal 500 is one of the leading independent business guides for law firms. For 33 years The Legal 500 has been analyzing the commercial law firm market worldwide and has been publishing the results in annual ranking handbooks. Amongst others the research is based on the market observations of the experienced Legal 500 research team, numerous interviews with market participants and the annual survey of over 300.000 in-house lawyers and clients worldwide.

About KLIEMT.HR Lawyers

With about 90 lawyers working exclusively in employment law, KLIEMT.HR Lawyers is the largest law firm specializing in employment law in Germany. The law firm was founded in 2002 as a spin-off of a team led by Prof. Dr. Michael Kliemt and Dr. Oliver Vollstädt from the Düsseldorf office of Clifford Chance. With offices in Düsseldorf, Frankfurt am Main, Munich, Berlin and Hamburg, the firm is now one of the market leaders in employment law. More than half of the DAX companies, a large number of successful German mid-sized companies and many global corporations rely on the employment law expertise of KLIEMT.HR Lawyers.

KLIEMT.HR Lawyers advises, among other things, on the implementation of restructuring and integration projects as well as on collective bargaining issues. Other areas of focus include works constitution law, company pension schemes, temporary employment, codes of conduct, compliance and data protection. The law firm also supports companies and top executives in all questions of manager liability, including taking over litigation.

KLIEMT.HR Lawyers has been viewed as one of the top law firms in employment law for many years by the leading handbooks for commercial law firms, e.g. by JUVE, Legal 500 or Chambers, and is ranked in Tier 1.

KLIEMT.HR Lawyers is the German member of IUS LABORIS, a global alliance of leading employment law firms in more than 55 countries and associated law firms in another 60 countries. With its IUS LABORIS partner law firms, KLIEMT.HR Lawyers offers a seamless employment law service in more than 100 countries worldwide.

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