Marion Bernhardt’s practice covers employment law and compliance. She is widely experienced in advising and representing large and medium-sized companies and groups as well as public enterprises on collective employment law matters, including restructurings and transactions of all types and representing her clients in negotiations with trade unions and works councils. She also advises on the introduction of new ways of working such as agile working, desk sharing and the use of digital tools as well as on the implementation of new software.

Marion furthermore advises on compliance matters, including on the set-up of customised compliance structures, risk analyses and business partner screenings as well as on installing and updating compliance management systems, including electronic reporting channels and digital training tools. She is very experienced in effectively executing investigations, also involving the CMS SmartOperations team, and the strategic handling of compliance cases.

Marion joined CMS in 1995 and became a partner in 1999. Alongside her legal practice and since 2015, she has been an honorary professor at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg (university of technology in the federal state of Brandenburg) and is a long-standing examiner with the Berlin/Brandenburg examination board for the German state examinations in law. Marion is also active on an international level, for example as a speaker at the Chamber of Commerce in Zurich and the Lebanese Holy Spirit University of Kaslik in 2015. In 2016, she participated in the German-Sudanese Higher Education and Science Forum in Khartoum. She delivered workshops at the University of Kurdistan Hewlêr in Erbil (2018 and 2021) and at the German University of Technology in Oman (2019 and 2022). Marion has been a member of the Ethics Committee of BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg since 2016 and Deputy Chair since 2021.