Lea Stegemann
Rechtsanwältin (Lawyer), Senior Associate
Class & Mass Action Defense
Data Protection Litigation
Data Tech and Telecoms
Lea Stegemann defends companies against private enforcement of European law, such as antitrust law or data protection law. She represents companies in court proceedings against individual claims and class actions brought by associations and private legal service providers. Her doctoral thesis focussed on the interpretation and enforcement of new European regulations in the digital sector (in particular non-material claims for damages in data protection law). She continues to research and publish on this topic and is a lecturer in civil procedure law at the Business & Law School Berlin.
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Career
Legal studies at the Humboldt University Berlin
Research assistant at Noerr in the field of real estate
Legal traineeship at a leading law firm in Berlin and at a law firm in New York (USA)
Research assistant at Noerr in the field of litigation
Admitted to the Berlin Chamber of Lawyers
Inter-university Graduate College "Law of the Information Society"
Doctorate at the Leibniz University of Hannover on the topic of " Non-material damages for data protection violations "
Lecturer for civil procedure law at the Business & Law School Berlin
Memberships
- German Women Lawyers Association
Lectures
- Lecture Certificate Course Cyber Insurance Manager at TH Köln: "Liability risks of the DSGVO"
- Lecture "Non-material damage in data protection law - a risk for companies?" at the 1st Cologne Cyber Insurance Forum
Publications
- Datenschutzrecht: Verarbeitung von Gesundheitsdaten durch den Medizinischen Dienst – Schadensersatz (Schumacher/Stegemann), EuZW 2024, 270
- Immaterielle Schadensersatzansprüche bei Cyber-Angriffen (Stegemann/Schumacher), EuZW 2024, 209
- Non-material damages for data protection violations (Stegemann), Nomos, doctoral thesis
- Der immaterielle Schadensersatzanspruch der DS-GVO (Schumacher/Stegemann), RDi 2023, 390
- EuGH: Keine Bagatellgrenze für immateriellen Schadensersatzanspruch bei Datenschutzverletzungen (Schumacher/Stegemann/Trenkler), ZD-Aktuell 2023, 01208
- Gegenwart und Zukunft kollektiver Rechtsdurchsetzung im Datenschutzrecht (Lühmann/Schumacher/Stegemann), ZD 2023, 131
- Kein immaterieller Schadensersatz bei bloßem Ärger über Datenschutzverstoß, Anm. zu Schlussanträgen des GA vom 6.10.2022 – C-300/21 (Schumacher/Stegemann), ZD 2023, 34
- Vorschlag des BMJ zur Umsetzung der EU-Verbandsklagenrichtlinie (Schläfke/Lühmann/Stegemann), PHi 2022, 138
- Voraussetzungen für Verbandsklagen bei Verstößen gegen die Datenschutz-Grundverordnung (Lühmann/Stegemann), NJW 2022, 1715
- EU-Verbandsklagenrichtlinie (Grewe/Stegemann), ZD 2021, 183
- Caught between a rock and a hard place? Arbeitgeber zwischen Daten- und Infektionsschutz (Stegemann/Grewe), DSB 2020, 269