since March 2007
Generally sworn and certified court expert for the calculation of the compensation pursuant to section 24 and section 26d respectively of the Commercial Agents’ Act 1993 / Article 17 Council Directive 86/653/EEC of 18 December 1986 on the coordination of the laws of the Member States relating to self-employed commercial agents (registered with the Commercial Court Vienna)

2003 - 2012
Lecturer for Employment Law & Industrial Relations, Distribution Law, Company/Commercial Law at the Carinthian University of Applied Sciences, Styrian University of Applied Sciences and the University of Applied Sciences in Wr. Neustadt

2003 also
Lecturer at the University Department for Labour, Employment and Social Insurance Law, University of Vienna

10/2002 - 3/2007
Gassauer-Fleissner Attorneys-at-law, Vienna, founding-partner Labour and Employment Law, Commercial Law, Agency Law, Real Estate Law, Commercial Litigation, Arbitration

1/2001 - 9/2002
Weiss-Tessbach Attorneys-at-law GmbH, Vienna, partner Head of the department Labour and Employment Law and Commercial Litigation

2/1997 - 12/2000
Weiss-Tessbach Attorneys-at-law GmbH, Vienna, associate (Agency and Distribution Law, Commercial Litigation)

1995 - 1996
District Court and State Court (Employment Tribunal) Salzburg

1992 - 1994
Salpius & Schubeck attorneys-at-law (Salzburg)

9/1999-9/2000
University of London, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
LL.M. Labour Law
(Dissertation: The Protection of Employees against Dismissal on the Grounds of a Transfer of an Undertaking, Business or Part thereof in Austria and the United Kingdom or Who (if any) got it right?))

7/1999
Bar exam (with the Court of Appeal, Vienna), with distinction
University of Salzburg, Department of Law Doctoral studies graduation Doctor iuris. 5/1999, with distinction
(Dissertation: Outsourcing and the transfer of an enterprise – Selected problems of Employment Law and Industrial Relation in the light of the European Court Decisions)

University of Salzburg, Department of Law, graduation Master of Law 5/1995
Master thesis: The Right to Vote of Managers and Temporarily Posted Employees in Elections of the Works Council)

Seminars

Regular seminars in the fields of Labour Law (Employment & Industrial Relations), Agency & Distribution Law

generally sworn and certified court expert

for the calculation of the compensation upon termination of an agency (distribution) agreement pursuant to section 24 and 26d respectively of the (Austrian) Commercial Agents’ Act 1993 / Article 17 Council Directive 86/653/EEC of 18 December 1986 on the coordination of the laws of the Member States relating to self-employed commercial agents

Arbitration

regular Arbitrator and legal counsel in arbitration proceedings pursuant VIAC, DIS, ICC, UNCITRAL and ad-hoc arbitration

Publications