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Lucas Gropengießer, LL.M. (Los Angeles)

Associate

Attorney

Düsseldorf

+49 211-13 06 56-0

lgropengiesser@littler.de

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Lucas Gropengießer advises national and international companies in all areas of individual and collective labor law. With his open and direct manner, he champions the interests of his clients in day-to-day counseling and in legal proceedings. In doing so, he always has consensual solutions in mind.

Languages: German, English, Italian

Focal Points

Individual labor law
Collective labor law
Litigation

Teaching assignments

Lecturer and examiner at the SRH University of Applied Sciences Heidelberg

Career

Research associate in the employment law practice group at Linklaters in Düsseldorf, 2020
Research associate at Schweibert Leßmann und Partner in Frankfurt a. M., 2019 - 2020

Education

Legal traineeship at the Regional Court of Düsseldorf, including stations at Gleiss Lutz in the area of labor law and in the personnel department of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein (German Opera on the Rhine)
Studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg with a focus on labor and social law

Articles and entries

Blogpost

Less red tape, more opportunity: BEG IV and its effect on employers

November 2024

Dr. Ferdinand Hultzsch
Lucas Gropengießer

In Germany, approximately 107 new employment contracts are signed every 12 minutes.* That sounds impressive! Even more astonishing is the bureaucratic effort required for each new hire. While we can pay at the grocery store with smartwatches and easily open a bank account from home, employment contracts, parental leave applications, and promotion requests still need to be printed, signed by hand (wet ink), and mailed. This outdated process is driven by legal requirements. That's where the Bureaucracy Relief Act IV (BEG IV) comes into play, set to take effect on January 1, 2025, with the goal of simplifying these processes. Let’s explore which processes can be digitized in the future and which will still need an original signature, while also addressing your most frequently asked questions.

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