Volker Backs Of Counsel

Qualification

Lawyer, LL.M., specialist attorney for labor law, specialist attorney for intellectual property law

Areas of expertise

• Employment and HR
• Trade and Competition
• Dispute Resolution / Litigation

Special sector knowledge

• Industrials
• Consumer
• Technology, media & telecommunications

Languages

• German
• English

Brief biography

• Since 2018 Forvis Mazars (formerly Mazars) 
• 1994 - 2017 BSK Attorneys at Law
• 1994 - 2000 Legal counsel in housing companies, Personnel Manager
• Studies and legal clerkship at the Ruhr-University Bochum and Dresden

Profile

Volker Backs has been Of Counsel at Forvis Mazars (formerly Mazars)  since 2018, focusing on labor and intellectual property law. In the past, he was a Partner in a medium-sized law firm in Dresden for many years and previously worked as in-house counsel in various housing companies and, most recently, as head of human resources. He is a member of the board of the Saxony Bar Association and was a member of the Electronic Legal Transactions Committee at the German Federal Bar Association until the end of 2017.