Amongst the top law firms for labour law
Heisse Kursawe Eversheds: Amongst the top law firms for labour law
The international law firm of Heisse Kursawe Eversheds is, according to the current ranking "The WIWO Top Law Firms" , amongst the top 25 in Germany in the area of labour law. In this ranking, Wirtschaftswoche recommended Dr. Stefan Kursawe as one of the eight leading lawyers in Germany for advising managing directors, chief executive officers and executive managers. The basis for the list of the 25 best specialist lawyers of Germany was a selection procedure of multiple stages. At first, data bases were researched. The result of this first stage was a list suggesting 130 names that were selected out of 8038 registered specialist lawyers. After that experts were interviewed, by which it came down to 40 candidates. The last stage was to assess the names on the basis of proven successes, experience, strength of the team of the law firm as well as cost awareness - each of these aspects constituting 25 % of the assessment.
Dr. Stefan Kursawe, partner and head of the practice group labour law, says: "Of course I am pleased if our work is conceived as positive in the public. We owe the ranking to the whole team which has been convincing through service and quality for many years."
The practice group labour law of Heisse Kursawe Eversheds covers the whole variety of individual labour law and collective labour law. One focal point of individual labour law is advising and representing executive managers on matters of labour law, liability law and criminal law. In addition, experts of the team advise on contract and fee arrangements, flexible staff employment, assignment of temporary workers, company pension schemes, on all issues of terminations of employment relationships as well as on extensive measures on restructuring and rationalisation; this is done in a national as well as in an international context. The team negotiates reconciliations of interest or social plans and represents the clients' interests as assessors in arbitration committee and labour courts. The team offers solutions with the transfer of businesses and parts of businesses as well as with questions regarding collective bargaining law.