Ongoing employment advice and assisting with restructuring and reorganisation are the mainstays of michels.pmks Rechtsanwälte's employment practice. Its broad client base includes medium-sized companies, manufacturing industry and media sector players as well as clients from the public sector, which instruct the team led by Marcus Michels (organisational and management consulting), Sebastian Maiß (New Work models) and Gunther Mävers (employment migration law and litigation) to advise on all individual and collective law issues.

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Testimonials

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  • 'The practice has a clear focus on ​​employment law and employs appropriately qualified specialist lawyers. If necessary, cooperation with specialists from other disciplines takes place, and this is communicated openly and transparently.'

  • 'The collaboration is at a high technical level and even out-of-the-box suggestions are discussed constructively but also critically. There is always a realistic risk assessment and evaluation based on experience of the matter. No untenable promises or commitments are made.'

  • 'The practice is very competent, the team is adequately set up and can answer all inquiries from our company. The cooperation with both our HR department and our legal department is very good.'

  • 'Marcus Michels: Very competent, clear and understandable written statements, short response times to inquiries, assertive in negotiations, explains alternatives and resulting consequences in an understandable way in order to make decisions.'

  • 'We work with Tilmann Isenhardt. He works professionally and always impresses us with his high level of expertise, quick response time, the quality of his work and his ability to explain things to us in such a way that we (laymen) understand them well.'

  • 'Strong team around Marcus Michels: competent, fast and down to earth.'

  • 'Sebastian Maiß is characterised by incredible empathy and creativity in finding solutions, especially when it comes to finding a way out of deadlocked negotiation situations.'

  • 'Marcus Michels is an experienced and outstanding expert in the field of collective and individual employment law, especially in the upper middle class sector.'

Key clients

  • Adler TS
  • Brauerei zur Malzmühle Schwartz GmbH & Co. KG
  • DTM Deutsche Tele Medien GmbH
  • Duisburger Hafen AG
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • METRO Markets GmbH
  • Music Store
  • Reuter Gruppe
  • UFA Show & Factual GmbH

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Marcus Michels, Gunther Mävers, Sebastian Maiß