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Alke Helene Sundermann, LL.M. (Münster)

Senior Associate

Certified Employment Law Specialist

Hamburg

Sundermann

Alke Sundermann LL.M. (Münster) is an attorney at Littler in Hamburg. She advises in the fields of occupational pension schemes, litigation and the law of termination. Her wide-ranging professional and personal experience enables her to understand both the perspective of her clients and the interests of the opponent. With her mixture of empathy and assertiveness, she finds solutions that satisfy all parties involved.

Languages: German, English, French

Focal Points

  • Termination law/litigation

  • Collective employment law

  • Occupational pension schemes

Career

  • Certified Employment Law Specialist since, 2024

  • Legal Counsel at EDEKA VERBAND kaufmännischer Genossenschaften e.V. (employment law), 2022–2023

  • Associate at Eversheds Sutherland (employment law), 2020–2021

  • Previously, research associate at BCLP (employment law) and Addleshaw Goddard (employment law) and optional internship at British American Tobacco (HR/IR)

Education

  • LL.M. Master's degree in ›Labor Law‹ at JurGrad gGmbH, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 2023

  • Qualification as a specialist attorney for employment law (theoretical part), 2021

  • Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Schleswig, 2017–2019

  • Subject-specific foreign language training for common law lawyers at WWU Münster (FFA) with internship at the Superior Court of Juvenile Justice in San Francisco, 2014

  • Semester abroad (ERASMUS) at the Université Paris X Nanterre, Paris, 2014

  • Law degree at the University of Münster, Germany (WWU), 2011–2016 

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