Leander J. Gast

Education and professional career

• Studied law in Würzburg
• Scholarship holder of the Cusanus scholarship fund
• 1989/1990 studies at the University of Texas at Austin
• 1990/1991 studies at the Universidad de Salamanca
• 1993/94 law studies at the New York University School of Law, with a Master’s degree in International Legal Studies (LL.M.)
• 1994 Successful completion of the bar exam in New York (New York Bar Exam)
• 1994/95 work in a large US law firm
• Stays abroad and working in France, Sweden and Spain
• both state exams with great honors
• Legal traineeship in San Sebastian/Spain
• Admitted as a lawyer at the Berlin and New York Bar Associations
• 1998 - July 2000 worked as a lawyer in a Berlin law firm
• since April 9, 2008 specialist lawyer for tax law
• since July 28, 2010 specialist lawyer for inheritance law
• since February 24, 2012 specialist lawyer for commercial and corporate law
• Owner and lecturer of a private law academy (Hemmer Berlin the main course and Hemmer Berlin assessor course) - lecturer since 1995

Languages

• Fluent in English and Spanish
• Satisfactory French
• Swedish

Other activities alongside studies and work

• Elected confidant for soldiers during service in the Bundeswehr
• Participation in the Catholic university community
• Elected university spokesman for the Cusanuswerkes der Gruppe Würzburg
• Vice table tennis champion at the University of Würzburg and table tennis champion at the University of Texas (1990)
• Team captain of the "European Soccer Team" at the University of Texas (1989-1990)
• Memberships: German-American Lawyers' Association, German-Spanish Lawyers' Association, German Inheritance Law Association
• Lectures and publications in the areas of inheritance and donations, loan security law, corporate law, internet law