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Dr. Sara Thienhaus
Dr. Sara Thienhaus

Dr. Sara Thienhaus

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Sara is a member of the Employment, Pensions & Mobility Practice Area and a specialist lawyer in employment law. She advises national and international companies on all aspects of individual and collective employment law. The focus of her advice includes all legal problems that arise in this context.

She has particular expertise in the area of employment law compliance (criminal employment law/HR compliance) and provides comprehensive support to companies in this context in - among other things -  setting up and implementing an HR compliance organization and in conducting structured and investigative investigation processes; in particular "#MeToo investigations."

Expertise

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CV

Since 2025 Salary Partnerin, Taylor Wessing
2020 Associate, Taylor Wessing
2018 – 2019 Associate, Beiten Burkhadt Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH
2015 – 2017 Research Assistant, Noerr LLP
2012 – 2014 Research Assistant, Clifford Chance LLP
2023 Specialist Lawyer for Employment Law
2018 Admitted to the Bar
2018 Second state examination, Hessen
2016 Ph.D., Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
2013 First state examination, Hessen

Career

Since 2025 Salary Partnerin, Taylor Wessing
2020 Associate, Taylor Wessing
2018 – 2019 Associate, Beiten Burkhadt Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH
2015 – 2017 Research Assistant, Noerr LLP
2012 – 2014 Research Assistant, Clifford Chance LLP

Education

2023 Specialist Lawyer for Employment Law
2018 Admitted to the Bar
2018 Second state examination, Hessen
2016 Ph.D., Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
2013 First state examination, Hessen

Publications

Arbeitsrecht: Diskriminierung Teilzeitbeschäftigter bei tariflichen Mehrarbeitszuschlägen, in: EuZW 2024

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English

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