Our Team
Dr. iur. Julia Uznanski, LL.B. (King’s College London)
Dr. Julia Uznanski is a German-qualified attorney and certified employment law specialist. In 2022, sie founded Uznanski – Labour Migration Law Firm. She is the Managing Director of Uznanski Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH.
- 2022 Founded Uznanski – Labour Migration Law Firm, Managing Director
- 2022 Certified Employment Law Specialist (Berlin Bar Association)
- 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, Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation / LL.B. English Law and German Law and First State Exam in Law
- Languages: German, English
- Tagesspiegel – “Berlin’s Best Attorneys” – Immigration Law – 2024 & 2025 (Link to Ranking)
- Handelsblatt – “Ones to Watch – Lawyers of the Future” – Labour Law, 2024 & 2025 (Link to Ranking)’
Timmermann, Petra / Uznanski, Julia / Mävers, Gunther / Klaus, Sebastian: Employing Foreign Nationals. Labour Migration Law in Practise, NOMOS, Baden-Baden 1st Edition 2021 and 2nd Edition 2025 (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)
Mine Kilisli
Mine Kilisli is a German-qualified attorney. In 2025, she joined Uznanski – Labour Migration Law Firm as an Associate.
- since 2025 Associate at Uznanski – Labour Migration Law Firm
- 2025 Admitted to the Bar by the Berlin Bar Association
- 2022-2025 Legal Training at Berlin Court of Appeals / Second State Exam
- 2022-2024 Research
Associate at a Law Firm specializing in Immigration Law in Berlin 2020-2022
Visa Officer at the German Embassy in Skopje (North Macedonia)2012-2019
German Law studies at Potsdam University / First State Exam with a focus on tax and corporate law
- Languages: German, English, Turkish
Isabel Bento Bilbao, LL.M. (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
Isabel Bento Bilbao is an Abogada (Spanish-qualified attorney). In 2025 she joined the Uznanski – Labour Migration Law Firm as an Associate.
- since 2025 Associate – Abogada (Spanish-qualified attorney) – at Uznanski – Labour Migration Law Firm
- since 2025 Member of the Berlin Bar Association (§ 2 EuRAG)
- 2023 – 2024 Legal advisor for immigration and asylum law at NGO “BBZ – Counselling and Support Centre for Young Refugees and Migrants” in Berlin
- 2021 – 2022 Master of Laws (LL.M.) in German and European Law and Legal Practice at Humboldt University Berlin
- 2018 – 2021 Associate – Abogada (Spanish-qualified attorney) – at an internationally oriented commercial law firm in Mannheim
- 2018 Admitted to the Madrid Bar Association (Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Madrid)
- 2016 – 2018 Master of Laws (LL.M.) at Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona with focus on labour law
- 2011 – 2015 Spanish Law studies at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid / Bachelor of Laws, (LL.B.)
- Voluntary work: Active member of the Refugee Law Clinic Berlin e.V. since 2021
- Languages: German, Englisch, Spanish
Tina Mindrul
Tina Mindrul is an Immigration Consultant who joined Uznanski – Labour Migration Law Firm in 2024.
- since 2024 Immigration Consultant at the Labour Migration Law Firm
- 2022 – 2024 Studies at Leuphana University in Lueneburg, Germany / Master of Public Economics, Law and Politics
- 2019 – 2021 Chief Expert of the Department for the International Cooperation at the National School of Judges, Kyiv, Ukraine
- 2017 – 2019 Paralegal at Law Firm in Kyiv, Ukraine, with a focus on International, Commercial and Immigration Law
- 2015, 2017 Legal Trainee at the Criminal Chamber of Shevchenkivskyi District Court, Kyiv, Ukraine
- 2013 – 2019 Commercial law studies at the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Kharkiv, Ukraine / Master of Commercial Law
- Languages: German, English, Ukrainian, Russian
Annabella Witossek
Annabella Witossek has completed the First State Exam in German Law and joined Uznanski – Labour Migration Law Firm as a Research Associate in 2023.
- since 2023 Research Associate at Uznanski – Labour Migration Law Firm
- since 2024 Legal Training at Higher Regional Court Dresden
- 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
Zoë Lay
Zoë Lay joined Uznanski – Labour Migration Law Firm as a Legal Trainee and Research Associate in 2025.
- Since 2024 Legal Trainee at the Court of Appeals in Berlin and Master’s student in European Studies at European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder)
- 2023 Student exchange with Azim Premji University in Bangalore, India
- 2017 – 2023 German Law studies at Humboldt University in Berlin with a focus on State and Administration in Times of Change / First State Exam
- Languages: German, English
Wiktoria Gröhlich, LL.B. (Viadrina)
Wiktoria Gröhlich is a Masters student of German and Polish Law and joined Uznanski – Labour Migration Law Firm as Office & Billing Manager in 2023.
- since 2023 Office & Billing Manager at Uznanski – 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
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