Law Firm and Team

Personal advice on digital legal matters from dedicated contacts with different professional and legal areas of expertise.

TAPELLA Lawyers combines legal advice in IT and data protection law and on artificial intelligence with experience from companies, data protection organisations and legal matters relating to digital business models.

Portrait of Prof. Dr. Frank Tapella

Lawyer | Data Protection Officer | Professor

Prof. Dr. Frank Tapella

Founded the law firm in 2003 and is Director of the Centre for Data Protection. He combines legal advice with many years of experience in data protection organisation and communicating legal issues relating to digital business models and AI.

  • Internet, media and data protection law
  • External Data Protection Officer and compliance
  • Digital business models and artificial intelligence
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Portrait of Dr. Verena Jütte

Lawyer | In-House Lawyer

Dr. Verena Jütte

Combines legal advice with many years of in-house experience at various companies in the IT, media and infrastructure sectors. This gives her not only legal expertise but also a strong understanding of operational processes.

  • IT, media and data protection law
  • Corporate law
  • German, English and French
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Portrait of Ali Shafiee

Research Assistant

Ali Shafiee

Supports the team on legal matters relating to the use of generative AI. At the same time, he studies law and the supplementary programme “Legal Issues of Artificial Intelligence” at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.

  • Legal issues relating to generative AI
  • Studies at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
  • German, English and Persian
Prof. Dr. Frank Tapella

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