Nina Stephan
Areas of practice
Nina Stephan provides legal advice to national and international clients within the field of individual and collective employment law. This includes, inter alia, drafting service and employment contracts and negotiating works agreements, providing legal advice concerning restructuring of companies and redundancy as well providing legal advice concerning employee data protection. Another focus of her advisory services is on employment litigation.
Vita
Nina Stephan studied law at the University of Bochum (Germany). From October 2012 to November 2014, she carried out her legal training at the Higher Regional Court of Hamm (Germany), as part of which she worked for the employment and data protection law departments of law firms in Düsseldorf and Essen (Germany) – inter alia, Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH. Nina Stephan joined Luther in 2015.
Honors and distinctions
- Best Lawyers 2025: Recommendation in "Labor and Employment Law"
Publications
- Der Beschäftigungsanspruch in der arbeitsrechtlichen Praxis, in: Schreiner/Von Steinau-Steinrück (Hrsg.), Arbeitsrecht in der anwaltlichen Praxis – Festschrift für Axel Braun, C.H. Beck, 2024, S. 363-382 (gemeinsam mit Jana Voigt)
- Der Arbeitsschutz im Agilen Arbeitsverhältnis, in: TÜV Media GmbH, 19. Auflage 2020 (gemeinsam mit Kerstin Gröne & Paul Schreiner)
- Bearbeitung des Kapitels "Arbeitsplatzgestaltung/Gefährdungsbeurteilung", in: Arbeiten 4.0 in der Unternehmerpraxis, herausgegeben von Bundesverband der Arbeitsrechtler in Unternehmen e.V. (BVAU), HUSS-MEDIEN GmbH, 2020 (gemeinsam mit Kerstin Gröne)
- Reduction of annual leave during parental leave is lawfull (GE), in: European Employment Law Cases EELC, Ausgabe 2019/3
- The right to object against a transfer in case of incorrect information is not unlimited (GE), in: European Employment Law Cases (EELC), Ausgabe 2019/1
- Uniform minimum body height standards in the police service do not constitute indirect gender discrimination on grounds of sex (DE), in: European Employment Law Cases (EELC), Ausgabe 02/2019 (gemeinsam mit Paul Schreiner)
- No reduction of vacation pay for already accrued vacation entitlement in the case of a reduction of weekly working hours later on (GE), in: European Employment Law Cases (EELC), Ausgabe 04/2018 (gemeinsam mit Paul Schreiner)
- Meeting the qualification requirements for a job is not a prerequisite for an applicant to be entitled to damages on grounds of discrimination (GE), in: European Employment Law Cases (EELC), Ausgabe 1/2017
- Befristung wegen vorübergehenden Bedarfs - Anmerkungen zum Urteil des BAG vom 27. Juli 2016 - 7 AZR 545/14, in: Arbeit und Arbeitsrecht (AuA), Heft 5/2017, S. 313
- Urlaubsgewährung bei Beschäftigungsverbot - Anmerkung zum Urteil des BAG vom 9. August 2016 - 9 AZR 575/15, in: Arbeit und Arbeitsrecht (Aua), Heft 3/2017, S. 184
- Special protection for disabled employees against termination of employment – international aspects (GE), in: European Employment Law Cases (EELC), Ausgabe 4/2016
- Unwissenheit schützt vor Strafe nicht: Was Führungskräfte und Organe über Haftungsrisiken im Unternehmen wissen sollten, in: azur vom 22. Oktober 2015
Counsel
Volker von Alvensleben
Of Counsel
Hamburg
Dr Volker Schneider
Partner
Hamburg
Thorsten Tilch
Senior Associate
Leipzig
Thiri May Thu
Associate
Yangon
Swe Yee Htun
Associate
Yangon
Susanne Burkert-Vavilova
Counsel
Essen
Sophie Haeberlein
Associate
Leipzig
Simon Alscher
Associate
Frankfurt a.M.
Shi Yin Khoo, M.A. (Cantab)
Senior Associate
Kuala Lumpur
Sebastian Fedder
Partner
Hamburg
Sandra Sfinis
Partner
Hamburg
Sabrina Rosbroj
Associate
Singapore
Prof. Dr Robert von Steinau-Steinrück
Partner
Berlin
Robert Pacholski
Senior Associate
Leipzig
Pia Analena Wieberneit
Senior Associate
Essen
Paulina Noppeney
Associate
Berlin
Paul Schreiner
Partner
Cologne, Essen
Dr Paul Gooren, LL.M. (Chicago)
Partner
Berlin
Nina Stephan
Counsel
Essen
Nadine Ceruti
Counsel
Frankfurt a.M.
Michael Rinke
Of Counsel
Cologne
Melina Stamm, LL.M. (Paris)
Associate
Frankfurt a.M.
Dr Maximilian Kressner, M.Jur. (Oxford)
Partner
Singapore
Martina Ziffels
Counsel
Hamburg
Dr Martin Kolmhuber
Counsel
Cologne
Dr Marco Arteaga
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.
Lukas Paetzold
Senior Associate
Dusseldorf
Dr Lisa Kraayvanger
Senior Associate
Hanover
Lena Barry
Legal Consultant
Leipzig
Leif Dustin Schneider
Counsel
Ho Chi Minh City
Leif Born
Senior Associate
Essen
Kristina Gutzke
Associate
Hamburg
Klaus Thönißen, LL.M. (San Francisco)
Partner
Essen
Kevin Brinkmann, LL.M.
Senior Associate
Hamburg
Kerstin Gröne
Partner
Cologne
Kerstin Belovitzer-Franz
Counsel
Stuttgart
Kathy Just
Associate
Frankfurt a.M.
Katharina Müller-Ehrlichmann, LL.M. oec.
Partner
Cologne
Julie Schwarz, LL.M. (Georgetown)
Associate
Kuala Lumpur
Janina Ott
Senior Associate
Stuttgart
Jana Anna Voigt
Senior Associate
Dusseldorf
Dr Jan-Moritz M. Hahn
Associate
Leipzig
Dr Jan-David Jäger
Senior Associate
Leipzig
Jan Hufert
Associate
Hamburg
Jan Hansen
Senior Associate
Cologne
Jan Zimmer
Senior Associate
Singapore
Dr Isabel Schäfer
Senior Associate
Hamburg
Hla Yadanar Win
Associate
Yangon
Hans-Christian Ackermann
Partner
Dusseldorf
Hannah-Laura Schütte
Senior Associate
Stuttgart, Dusseldorf
Gina Susann Kriwat
Associate
Cologne
Fabian Lorenz, M.A.
Partner
Bangkok
Dr Eva Maria K. Rütz, LL.M.
Partner
Dusseldorf, Cologne
Dr Elisabeth Sechtem
Senior Associate
Munich
Elaine Tolksdorf
Associate
Hamburg
Dr Dorothea Fleckner
Associate
Hamburg
Dominik Ledwon, LL.M. (Norwich)
Senior Associate
Cologne
Denis Miller
Associate
Berlin
Dr Delia Jusciak
Associate
Leipzig
Daniel Zintl
Partner
Leipzig
Daniel Greger
Senior Associate
Hamburg
Cyrielle Therese Ax
Senior Associate
Frankfurt a.M.
Dr Christoph Corzelius
Senior Associate
Cologne
Christian Dworschak
Partner
Munich
Charlotte Elsner
Associate
Dusseldorf
Caroline Risse
Senior Associate
Berlin
Axel Braun
Partner
Cologne
Dr Astrid Schnabel, LL.M. (Emory)
Partner
Hamburg
Dr Annekatrin Veit
Partner
Munich
Dr Anna Mayr
Senior Associate
Hamburg
Ann-Marie Jüttner
Senior Associate
Stuttgart
Andre Schüttauf
Senior Associate
Essen
Amelie Räpple, LL.M. (Berkeley)
Associate
Hamburg
Achim Braner
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.