
Dr. Andrea Pirscher
Lawyer
Certified Specialized Attorney in Labor and Employment Law
Vita
- Born in 1966
 - Legal studies at the Universities of Bielefeld and Cologne
 - First Exam ("1. Staatsexamen") in 1991
 - Legal clerkship ("Refrendariat") at the Bielefeld District Court
 - Second (Bar) Exam ("2. Staatsexamen") in 1994
 - Bar admission in 1994
 - Lawyer with the firm of Bruckhaus Westrick Stegemann (now: Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer), Hamburg and Düsseldorf from 1994 to 1996
 - Self-employed lawyer in Detmold from 1996 to 1999
 - Certified Specialized Attorney in Labor and Employment Law since 1998
 - Doctor of Laws (Dr. jur.) 1999
 - Lawyer with the firm of Neef & Tschöpe (now: Tschöpe Schipp Clemenz), Gütersloh from 1999 to 2005
 - With our firm since 2006
 
Memberships
- Deutscher Anwaltverein
 - Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Fachanwälte für Arbeitsrecht im Deutschen Anwaltverein
 - Deutscher Arbeitsgerichtsverband
 - European Employment Lawyers Association
 
Publications
Monographs
- Betriebsteilung infolge Umstrukturierung - Auswirkungen auf die Amtsfortdauer des Betriebsrats, Frankfurt, 2000
 
Essays
- Anerkennung eines originären Freistellungsrechts des Insolvenzverwalters, 
ZInsO 2001, 698 - Zur Anrechnung von Urlaubsansprüchen in der Freistellungsphase, EWiR 2001, 751
 

Kompetenzen
Labor law
- Employee data protection
 - Labor law
 - Employment agreements
 - Termination agreements
 - Fixed-term employment
 - Plant closures and restructuring
 - Company pension schemes
 - Works agreements
 - Industrial constitution law and collective bargaining law (including negotiations with works councils and trade unions)
 - Labor law compliance
 - Due diligence
 - Conciliation board procedures
 - Judicial and out-of-court representation in labor law disputes
 - Reconciliation of interests and social plan
 - International labor law
 - Termination including mass layoffs
 - M & A
 - Legal relationships of managing directors and board members
 - Social security law
 - Co-determination
 - Restructuring of companies and businesses