Dr Volker Schneider

Dr Volker Schneider

Dr Volker Schneider

Hamburg

T +49 40 18067 12195

Lawyer
Certified Specialist in Employment Law
Partner

Areas of practice

Dr. Volker Schneider provides comprehensive advice in collective and individual employment law matters. He specialises in restructuring and corporate transactions, corporate constitution law, employee dismissal protection, bankruptcy employment law and employment law for members of management. Besides providing consultation, he also conducts legal proceedings.

Practices
Vita

Dr Volker Schneider studied law in Freiburg and Munich (Germany), from 1988 to 1994, followed by a legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court in Munich as well as receiving his doctorate from the University of Osnabrück. He has worked as an attorney in Hamburg since 1998. In 2001, he completed a supplementary qualification as an employment lawyer. He joined Luther’s predecessor firm in 2004.

Honors and distinctions
  • The Legal 500 Germany 2024: Mention in "City Focus Hamburg" (first recommendation in 2023)
    The Legal 500 Germany 2021: Mention in the category "Labour Law" (first mention in 2020)
  • kanzleimonitor.de 2018/2019: Recommended in "Labour Law" (first recommended in 2017/2018)
  • Best Lawyers 2024: Recommended in "Labor and Employment Law" (first recommended in 2021)
  • WirtschaftsWoche 2022: Recommendation "Top Lawyer" in "Labour Law" (first recommendation in 2019)
Clients

Dr. Schneider's clients primarily include mid-sized, national and international companies in retail, technology, social services, logistics, banking, and personnel services, as well as a university and several general consulates.

Publications
Lectures