Klaus Gennen studied law at the University of Cologne from 1983 to 1988. After graduating, he worked as a research assistant at the Research Institute for Social Law (Prof. Dr Peter Hanau) on labour law issues until mid-1990.
Klaus Gennen was admitted to the bar in mid-1993. Before he became a founding partner in LLR in 2006, he worked as a lawyer in a business law firm with its headquarters in Cologne for about 12 years, becoming a partner in 2000.
Klaus Gennen has been a specialist lawyer for labour law since 1997 and a specialist lawyer for IT law since the introduction of the specialist lawyer title in 2006. From 1997 onwards, Klaus Gennen held teaching positions at various universities (HHU Düsseldorf, University of Siegen, University of Applied Sciences in Cologne), and since 2011 he has been working part-time at the University of Applied Sciences in Cologne as a full professor of business law, in particular information technology law with IT contract law and e-commerce law.
His work focuses on IT law/digitalisation, technical industrial property protection, labour law with reference to digitalisation and data protection law, the latter also as managing director of the data protection company LLR DSC GmbH. Focuses in the area of IT/digitalisation are IT projects and IT operations, outsourcing (especially in the BaFin-regulated area), XaaS/cloud computing, data centre contracts, IoT/industry 4.0, IT procurement law/EVB-IT, IT security, KRITIS/NIS, IT compliance, software copyright (contract) law, open source, SAM/SLM, development, distribution and maintenance of software, licence/cooperation agreements in the IT sector. In the area of technical intellectual property law, the focus is on employee invention law and licensing, research and development agreements. In the area of labour law, his work is limited to the interface with digitalisation, including collective labour law, and creative services in the employment relationship.
Klaus Gennen was already active as a speaker during his traineeship. He is regularly booked by various renowned organisers, in particular for seminars on software copyright law, contract drafting, IT project management and data protection. He also offers in-house seminars on the topics he deals with. Klaus Gennen has been publishing actively in specialist journals and participating in specialist publications since 1989.
Klaus Gennen is a member of the preliminary examination committee of the Cologne Bar Association for the title of "Fachanwalt für das Recht der Informationstechnologie" (specialist lawyer for information technology law) and is, inter alia, a member of the working group on contracts of the DGRI e.V., the working groups on information law and labour law in the DAV, the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) and the Gesellschaft für Informatik in der Land-, Forst- und Ernährungswirtschaft e.V. (GIL) as well as, inter alia, of Bitkom, GRUR, VPP, ITechLaw and LES Deutschland.
Outside of work, his interests lie in his large family. Klaus Gennen devotes the rest of his free time to photography, cycling and rowing. And every now and then, a city trip with cultural pressure refuelling is also in the cards.
T +49 221 55400-170
F +49 221 55400-192
klaus.gennen@llr.de
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