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Melanie Kiesling, LL.M.
Melanie Kiesling, LL.M.

Melanie Kiesling, LL.M.

Legal Project Manager

  • Duesseldorf Germany
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Melanie is a Legal Project Manager for the Practice Area Employment, Pensions & Mobility. She focuses on compliance projects regarding the deployment of external personnel and coordinates the activities of our lawyers in this area.

Melanie is also the first point of contact for our clients and for our current team of 20 project lawyers. She implements the agreed milestones in cooperation with our teams and monitors the progress as well as the budget of the project and intervenes if necessary. In addition to her coordinating activities, Melanie also assists with contract reviews and leads simulated company audits in preparation for temporary employment or social security audits.

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Employment, pensions & mobility

CV

Since 2019 Legal Project Manager, Taylor Wessing
2016 - 2018 Commercial Lawyer, Collenda GmbH
2011 - 2015 Legal Assistant, KLEINER Rechtsanwälte
2016 - 2018 Master of Laws (Business Law)
2011 - 2014 Bachelor of Laws (Business Law)
2005 - 2008 Education as a Legal Assistant
2002 - 2005 Education as Certified Commercial Assistant for Foreign Languages (English and French)

Career

Since 2019 Legal Project Manager, Taylor Wessing
2016 - 2018 Commercial Lawyer, Collenda GmbH
2011 - 2015 Legal Assistant, KLEINER Rechtsanwälte

Education

2016 - 2018 Master of Laws (Business Law)
2011 - 2014 Bachelor of Laws (Business Law)
2005 - 2008 Education as a Legal Assistant
2002 - 2005 Education as Certified Commercial Assistant for Foreign Languages (English and French)

Additional languages

English

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