Our clients regularly describe him as quick, solution-oriented, pragmatic, and extremely empathetic. His employment law practice focuses on all issues relating to corporate restructuring, termination law and works constitution law. He has both special expertise and extensive experience regarding relations and disputes between employers and works councils. In this context, he regularly negotiates works agreements and represents employers in conciliation proceedings. At the interface with social law, Dr. Dirk Monheim has been advising on the topics of third-party employment and bogus self-employment for many years.
He is Head of Employment Law Litigation at Eversheds Sutherland in Germany and regularly litigates before German employment law courts. He also conducts in-house training for companies of all sizes on various employment law topics in both individual employment law and works constitution law.
Dr. Dirk Monheim is listed as a lawyer in “F.A.Z. Institut© - TOP Lawyer 2026 (Business Lawyers)” for employment law, as well as in “Handelsblatt© - Germany's Best Lawyers 2025” for employment law and “Best Lawyers© in Germany 2026” for employment law.
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Dirk’s recent experience includes:
- Regular legal advice, including litigation representation, for one of Germany's leading corporate groups in the security market, a global galvanizing group, a leading consumer goods manufacturer in the food sector, one of Germany's largest real estate companies, Germany's largest waste disposal company, one of the leading passenger data processors, and a leading insurance group
- Dirk is listed as a lawyer in “F.A.Z. Institut© - TOP Lawyer 2026 (Business Lawyers)” for employment law, as well as in “Handelsblatt© - Germany's Best Lawyers 2025” for employment law and “Best Lawyers© in Germany 2026” for employment law
- Dr. Dirk Monheim is an arbitrator at the German Court of Arbitration for Sports and an arbitrator at the Arbitration Court of the German Ice Hockey Association and chairman of the Federal Arbitration Court of the German Hockey Federation
- Fines against sports clubs as an adequate means to tackle the use of flares: Dr. Dirk Monheim – Geldstrafen gegen Vereine als probates Mittel gegen das Abbrennen von Pyrotechnik, in SpuRt 03/23, pp. 189-196
- Employees as alleged whistle-blowers: Dr. Dirk Monheim / David Johnson: Vermeintlich hinweisgebende Arbeitnehmer, in AuA 10/23, pp. 18-22
- About the status and responsibility of team managers: Dr. Dirk Monheim – Status und Verantwortlichkeit des Trainers, in: Der Trainer im Sport, Recht und Sport, Monheim (ed.), Vol. 45, Stuttgart, 2016, pp. 21-44
- The end of mandatory arbitration in sports: Dr. Dirk Monheim – Das Ende des Schiedszwangs im Sport – Der Fall Pechstein, in: SpuRt, Issue 3/14, pp. 90-94