Julia Exner-Kuhn has been a lawyer at LEITNER & KOLLEGEN since 2016. Prior to that she worked as a research assistant and assessor.
She studied law at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where she specialized in criminal justice, criminal defense and prevention. She also completed university-level professional language training in English and French.
She completed her legal clerkship in the district of the Higher Regional Court of Munich (Oberlandesgericht München), where she then passed the second state examination in 2013.
After that, Julia Exner-Kuhn began working at LEITNER & KOLLEGEN as a research assistance and assessor.
She is particularly interested in European criminal law, having written her doctoral thesis on the scope of application of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in German criminal law.
Together with Werner Leitner, she is a contributor to the Nomos Commentary on white collar crime raveland criminal tax law on the subjects of tax secrecy (§ 30 of the German Fiscal Code (AO)) and its protection under criminal law (§ 355 of the German Criminal Code (StGB)).
Julia Exner-Kuhn has been a member of the Executive Committee of the German Criminal Law Section of the German Bar Association (DAV) since November 2018. She is also co-editor of the law journal StraFo.
She is a member of the Munich Lawyers' Association (Münchener Anwaltsverein) and the Munich Bar Association (Rechtsanwaltskammer München).
Languages: German, English and French.
Dr. Julia Exner-Kuhn is listed in Handelsblatt’s ranking in cooperation with Best Lawyers (2024) as „Best Lawyer“ in the areas of „Commercial Criminal Law“ and „Criminal Tax Law“. She is also recommended as a „top lawyer“ for criminal law in the FOCUS ranking (2024).
