Amela Žrt is a senior attorney-at-law with nearly ten years of experience advising international and domestic clients on legal issues related to employment. She has also been co-head of the employment practice in CMS Ljubljana (Slovenia) since 2019.

She has extensive experience in advising domestic and international clients from variety of industries such as the automotive, retail, manufacturing, life sciences and leisure industry on a wide variety of employment matters such as flexible working hours, high-profile terminations, regulations on mobile work, salary-structure adjustments, and setting up and developing employment compliance policies. 

Amela has dealt with a number of high profile and complex cases through the years and stands out for her knowledge and experience in matters related to restructurings and redundancies, transfers of company ownership, employment litigation and HR data protection.

She is also frequently involved in corporate matters especially those connected to the relations between companies and their management.

Amela Žrt also co-heads the CMS Employment Associate Initiative, a new worldwide CMS platform giving a voice to associates and counsels, working alongside the CMS Employment Board.

Amela Žrt is an experienced attorney-at-law and has been one of the data protection practice heads in CMS Ljubljana since 2019. She helps her clients who come from very diverse sectors – such as automotive, retail, manufacturing, life sciences and leisure industry – work through challenges related to data protection law and challenges arising from increasing digitalization.

Her advice covers issues such as the data protection compliance of business models and internal/external processes that involve the personal data of customers, employees or other third parties and drafting various legal opinions. Amela regularly supports clients in the process of defining the controller-processor roles, with preparation of privacy policies, data processing agreements and other supporting data protection documents. 

She also regularly advises clients on HR data protection matters such as recruitment processes, HR apps, video surveillance, in which her main area of focus in employment law offers added value to the client.