Dr Julia Uznanski, LL.B.
Attorney //
Certified Employment Law Specialist (Germany)
Dr Julia Uznanski, LL.B.
Attorney // Certified Employment Law Specialist (Germany)
We advise and represent companies in Germany and abroad in German labour migration law matters – where employment law and immigration law meet.
Employment of Foreign Nationals and Skilled Employees
Your company would like to employ foreign nationals – for example skilled workers – in Germany or
already employs foreign nationals and would like legal advice in this regard.
Secondments/Global Mobility
- Your company requires legal assistance regarding the secondment of employees or posting of workers – for example from a group company abroad to Germany.
Mobile Working from Abroad
- Your company would like to enable employees to work remotely from abroad – for example for a workation or even permanently.
We offer the following services:
The law firm is based in Berlin, and we can advise your company in German law in English or German language anywhere in the world.
Legal Advice
We provide advice on the legal implications, risks, and possible solutions of the respective matter, give recommendations on the next steps and guide your company through their implementation.
Advice in Berlin, Germany and Worldwide
While the firm is based in Berlin, we provide legal advice remotely anywhere in the world.
Contractual Design
Contracts are individually tailored to the specific case (e.g. secondment contracts, mobile working contracts or immigration law clauses for employment contracts).
Legal Representation before Authorities
We support your company and its (future) employees in
- applying for residence titles (for example visa or residence/work permits, Blue Card EU) at German Embassies and Consulates abroad and at foreigner offices in Germany, as well as
- obtaining the German Federal Employment Agency’s pre-approval.
- Moreover, we provide assistance with the accelerated skilled workers procedure and
- security exception agreements and other certificates according to Social Security Agreements.
Legal Representation before Courts
If any problems occur in cases such as the above, we represent your company in front of in front of German administrative courts and labour law courts.
Non-German Law
In cases in which non-German law becomes relevant, we cooperate with specialised law firms in other countries which are able to advise your company on the relevant national law.
We offer the following services:
The law firm is based in Berlin, and we can advise your company in German law in English or German language anywhere in the world.
We provide advice on the legal implications, risks, and possible solutions of the respective matter, give recommendations on the next steps and guide your company through their implementation.
While the firm is based in Berlin, we provide legal advice remotely anywhere in the world.
Contracts are individually tailored to the specific case (e.g. secondment contracts, mobile working contracts or immigration law clauses for employment contracts).
We support your company and its (future) employees in
- applying for residence titles (for example visa or residence/work permits, Blue Card EU) at German Embassies and Consulates abroad and at foreigner offices in Germany, as well as
- obtaining the German Federal Employment Agency’s pre-approval.
- Moreover, we provide assistance with the accelerated skilled workers procedure and
- security exception agreements and other certificates according to Social Security Agreements.
If any problems occur in cases such as the above, we represent your company in front of in front of German administrative courts and labour law courts.
In cases in which non-German law becomes relevant, we cooperate with specialised law firms in other countries which are able to advise your company on the relevant national law.
Dr. iur. Julia Uznanski, LL.B. (King’s College London)
I am a German-qualified attorney and certified employment law specialist. In 2022, I founded The Labour Migration Law Firm.
- 2022 Founded The Labour Migration Law Firm
- 2022 Certified Employment Law Specialist
- 2021 PhD in Labour Migration Law at Humboldt University Berlin
- 2018 – 2022 Attorney / Senior Associate at KLIEMT.HR Lawyers in Berlin
- 2018 Admitted to the Bar by the Berlin Bar Association
- 2017 Research Associate at BEITEN BURKHARDT in Employment Law, Berlin
- 2014 – 2016 Legal Training at Berlin Court of Appeals (trained at CMS Hasche Sigle in Employment Law, Berlin and Shanghai, and at the German Federal Foreign Office) / Second State Exam in Law
- 2009 – 2014 English Law and German Law studies at King’s College London and Humboldt University Berlin / LL.B. English Law and German Law and First State Exam in Law
- Languages: German, English
Timmermann, Petra / Uznanski, Julia / Mävers, Gunther / Klaus, Sebastian: Employing Foreign Nationals. Labour Migration Law in Practise, NOMOS, Baden-Baden 2021 (link to the book)
Uznanski, Julia: The Labour Market Opinion – A Central Regulatory Tool in German Labour Migration Law, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2022
(link to the book)
Uznanski, Julia: Legal policy traps in the concrete design of the “opportunities card”, ZAR 2022, 156 (link to the article)
Uznanski, Julia: The skilled labour pillar of the Act on the Further Development of Skilled Labour Immigration – “good on paper”? (link to the article)
Interview with Tina Groll of ZEIT Online regarding the immigration of skilled workers, 18 July 2022 (link to the article)
Mirko Vorreuter, LL.B. (TU Dresden)
Mirko Vorreuter is a German-qualified attorney. In 2023, he joined The Labour Migration Law Firm as an Associate.
- 2023 Associate at The Labour Migration Law Firm
- 2021 – 2023 Associate in an internationally oriented commercial law firm in Berlin, with a focus on labour law and migration law
- 2021 Admitted to the Bar by the Berlin Bar Association
- 2019 – 2021 Legal Training at Higher Regional Court of Naumburg with focus on migration law and administrative law / Second State Exam
- 2015 – 2019 German law studies with focus on European law at University of Münster / First State Exam
- 2012 – 2015 Studies of Law and Political Science with focus on International Law at Technical University Dresden / Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.)
- Various pro bono activities in general migration law, especially volunteering in integration assistance and in providing migration law consultations.
- Languages: German, English
Ursula Seeböck
Ursula Seeboeck is a German-qualified attorney. In 2024, she joined the Labour Migration Law Firm as an Associate.
- 2024 Associate at The Labour Migration Law Firm
- 2024 Admitted to the Bar by the Berlin Bar Association
- 2019 – 2023 Policy Officer at the Federal Ministry of the Interior, for Building and Community and the Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building in Berlin with secondment to the European Commission in Brussels
- 2019 Fully qualified lawyer in an internationally oriented commercial law firm in Berlin
- 2016 – 2018 Legal training at the Regional Court Regensburg (inter alia trained at PUMA SE in Herzogenaurach and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development in Berlin) / Second State Exam
- 2010 – 2016 German Law studies at Leipzig University and the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa) with a focus on public and administrative law and study visits at the Miami Law School, USA and the Universitas Brawijaya in Indonesia / First State Exam
- Various voluntary activities in the area of refugee aid and general migration law.
- Languages: German, English
Wiktoria Gröhlich, LL.B. (Viadrina)
Wiktoria Gröhlich is a Masters student of German and Polish Law and joined The Labour Migration Law Firm as Office & Billing Manager in 2023.
- since 2023 Office & Billing Manager at The Labour Migration Law Firm
- 2023 Bachelor of German Law and Polish Law (LL.B.) at European University Viadrina (Frankfurt/Oder)
- since 2020 Student of German and Polish law at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) in Germany and the Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań in Poland, expected to graduate with a Magister of Law / Master of German Law and Polish Law (LL.M.)
- since 2022 Volunteer at the Student Legal Advice Centre in Słubice (Poland)
- Languages: German, English, Polish
Annabella Witossek
Annabella Witossek has completed the First State Exam in German Law and joined The Labour Migration Law Firm as a Research Associate in 2023.
since 2023 Research Associate at the Labour Migration Law Firm
2019 – 2023 German law studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich with a focus on International and European Public Law / First State Exam
2017 – 2019 German law studies at the University of Leipzig
Languages: German, English
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