Focal Points
International employment law
Restructuring
Operational co-determination rights
Works Constitution Law
Data protection under employment law
Compliance under employment law
Dagmar Lessnau is an attorney at Littler in Hamburg. She advises companies in all areas of individual and collective employment law with outstanding communicative skills and her fast and precise way of working. After working for a leading American law firm, she also, and in particular, advises international companies at Littler, contributing her special expertise in transactional employment law and restructuring processes. Another focal point of her work is the right of co-determination and works constitution law.
Languages: German, English, Polish
Career
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP in Frankfurt a. M., 2016–2018
Admitted to the bar, 2016
Education
Masters (Master of Laws, LL.M) at the University of Aberdeen (LL.M.), 2015–2016
Legal internship at the higher regional court of Hamburg (including work for the German Embassy in Moscow), 2011–2014
Studied law at the University of Kiel, 2005–2010
Publications
Co-Author, Germany Chapter, The Littler International Guide
No reason to fear commitment, SPA 2025, p. 109
Local everywhere – modern use of external personnel, SPA 2024, p. 61
BAG Offensive comments in private chat groups can justify extraordinary termination, SPA 2023, p. 169