Practice Experience  
Christian Schielke specializes in individual and collective labor and employment law. He advises clients on all legal issues arising in individual and collective labor.

His experience includes in particular the advising of companies and executives on issues related to their day-to-day HR work, collective bargaining and works constitution law and the right of co-determination.

In addition to providing non-contentious law advice, Mr. Schielke represents clients before labor law courts and civil courts. He regularly publishes articles in legal journals and speaks frequently on topical employment law issues. A main focus is in this regard the works constitution law of the Protestant Church in Germany.

Prior to joining White & Case, Mr. Schielke worked as an attorney for a leading national law firm in Eschborn/Frankfurt.

Bars & Courts
Rechtsanwalt, Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main, 2007
Rechtsanwalt, Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main, 2006

Education
Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelms University Bonn, First State Exam, 2002
Dr. jur., University of Potsdam, 2006

Professional Associations
German Lawyer Organization
Working group labor law of the German Lawyer Organization
Lawyers' Association Frankfurt
German labor court association

Publications
Books
Schielke, Christian: The works constitution law of the Protestant Church in Germany (Das Mitarbeitervertretungsgesetz der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland in rechtsvergleichender Darstellung mit dem Betriebsverfassungs- und dem Bundespersonalvertretungsgesetz), Stuttgart, 2007

Law Review Articles
"The interpretation of ecclesiastical law – exemplified at the Works Constitution Act of the Protestant Church in Germany (Auslegung von kirchlichem Recht – Am Beispiel des Mitarbeitervertretungsgesetzes der EKD (MVG-EKD))", RdA, Pages 91-97, 2008
"Transfer of business – duty to notify the employees and the right of objection in the legal practice (Betriebsübergang – Unterrichtungspflicht und Widerspruchsrecht in der Rechtsprechung)", MDR, Pages 1052-1056, 2007
"Statutory exemption clauses in the case of economic distress (Gesetzliche Öffnungsklauseln in wirtschaftlichen Notlagen – Entwicklungen im kirchlichen Recht)", NZA, Pages 717-723, 2007
"The cost bearing for an attachment of wages (Kostentragung bei der Lohnpfändung)", BB, Pages 378-380, 2007

Languages
German, English

Citizenship
Germany