Legal services with regard to planning, preparing, constructing and trading of real estate developments is one of the key area of our expertise. We are proud with our experience in providing legal services in connection with complex infrastructure investments, including airport and road investments. We provide wide range of services for business as well as private individuals active in real estate market. Within this area of expertise we offer legal support in administrative proceedings aiming at obtaining land-use decisions (so called wz, ulicp), environment impact decisions, planning permissions or decisions under special legislation (on roads and airports), as well as legal assistance in procedures connected with filing applications or comments to land-use and spatial development frameworks and local spatial development plans. We act for our clients in disputes connected with re-zoning charges, betterment levies, expropriation and compensation, as well as the return of property. Our clients are also represented in disputes with architectural and construction control bodies, including representation before administrative courts. We give opinions, negotiate and draft contracts for design or construction works (incl. FIDIC), contracts with main contractors and subcontractors, construction and assembly contracts. Our legal services are further provided in case of litigations before courts, disputes over the quality of works performed including the disputes arising of special form of contract called development agreement. Our advice is offered while buying a property and may include audits of properties and loans. We advise clients in leases, negotiating and re-negotiating long term agreements, settling legal status of a property, offering legal assistance in the procedures of evictions and repossessions. We address our services to construction and engineering companies, to designers, architects, developers, real estate agents, property administrators as well as housing cooperatives or associations and private individuals.

We advice employers on complex employment law provisions. This includes, but not limited to, drafting employment contracts, managers' contracts, work and remuneration policies and other documents necessary for an organisation to operate in an effective and lawful manner in the area of employment relations. Our advice further refers to such issues as cost management, legal and fiscal consequences of any benefits outside regular salary. We also provide services to employees in this respect, which involves full advice on starting, amending or terminating work contracts. Our law firm acts for clients in disputes before employment tribunals and courts. In the area of social security benefits we primarily focus on advising our clients on lawful and cost effective options of fulfilling employers' duties imposed by the relevant provisions of law. Considering the circumstances where more and more individuals and companies, in a direct or indirect manner, use foreign social security systems, our law firm provides advice not only on domestic law in this respect, but also on EU regulations concerning social security systems coordination. Our representation in matters connected with social security law is provided before an appropriate government agency (ZUS) and courts of any instance.

We have broad experience in the field of protection of personality rights for both individuals and organisations. We assist our clients in obtaining appropriate statements from the infringing party as well as damages or compensation resulting from an infringement. We are particularly experienced in handling personality rights infringements committed in the Internet. Our services are also addressed to entities publishing in the Internet and press, defending authors against unfounded claims in personality rights disputes. We offer a broad range of services in the field of intellectual property protection, including moral and economic rights, neighbouring rights (incl. performers of works) rights arising from industrial property protection( incl. trade marks) and the protection of know how. We draft and give opinions on license and publishing agreements and other types of agreements transferring rights or authorising the exploiting of works. We act for our clients in court proceedings in matters relating to intellectual property protection.

We apply our expertise of electronic media law to matters relating to responsibilities of electronic media services providers. Our lawyers have experience regarding legal protection of the interests og new technologies authors, including innovative programming projects. We are experienced in legal aspects of planning advertising and promotional campaigns. We prepare, opinionate and negotiate contracts on image commercial use, advertising and promotional regulations and agreements relating to intellectual property in connection with advertising and promotion. We have worked on legal issues regarding tobacco and alcohol advertising. Our clients are represented before courts in matters involving unfair competition. We draft and give opinions on documents and procedures regarding personal data processing by data administrators. We have extensive experience in drafting personal data processing and information security policies. We draft and give opinions on agreements and bylaws regarding personal data processing and we act for our clients in administrative and court proceedings connected with personal data protection.

We offer a complete range of advice dedicated for medical service providers. We draft and opinionate documents used for forming and registering doctors' practices and other medical entities. We further audit legal status of operating entities in terms of their compliance with national health service agency (NFZ) regulations and law in general. Our law firm writes instructions for healthcare providers to be followed with a view to be in compliance with all the applicable provisions including those referring to keeping medical records, sanitary and EHS documents as well as concerning rules on personal data protection.

When hired by education or science institutions such as schools, universities, research centres we draft detailed analyses and opinions regarding legislation applicable to both elementary and higher education institutions as well as to entities providing commercial trainings. Furthermore, we advice education and science institutions on preparing and implementing inner regulations with a view to their compliance with fast changing provisions of law in force. In any case the business and tax nature of a given client' entity is taken into account. We also represent our clients in court disputes and administrative proceedings.

We support our clients pending proceedings before public administration bodies. This includes proceedings before local authorities, planning and construction bodies, councils, university governing bodies and tax authorities. On behalf of our clients we appeal against adverse administrative decisions, monitoring the case at each stage of the proceedings. Our services within administrative proceedings include central administrative and regulatory bodies. Prior to any appeal against public administration bodies including tax authorities we professionally examine whether it is grounded enough to file it with an administrative court. We offer full services in connection with proceedings: from a complaint against a decision or another document issued by an administration body, complaint against failure to act by a competent organ, then representation throughout the proceedings before higher instance court up to lodging cassation appeal with the Supreme Administrative Court.

Our lawyers have extensive experience in representing parties in civil procedures, both contentious and non-contentious. Although we specialise in commercial clients, we handle all sorts of civil proceedings involving private individuals as well. Upon examining any case we primarily aim to ensure that our clients will effectively have their rights granted should court proceedings be initiated, particularly taking into consideration procedural rules on taking evidence. We assist our clients in obtaining exemptions from costs of proceeding and we act for our clients in enforcement proceedings.

Our lawyers have significant experience In legislative process area, having acted in the capacity of experts and auditors for various units involved in the process of law formation. We advise in the field of legislature, drafting enactments and amendments. We issue opinions on legislative acts in particular taking into account their compliance with the Constitution of the Republic of Poland and EU law including European Court of Justice judgements. We review existing opinions on legislation and at the request of our clients we give opinions on Regulation Impact Assessments. Working closely with eminent academics specialising in law and economy, our law firm offers advanced opinions regarding economic effects of legislature to be passed.

We provide services in the field of Family law, including divorce, separation, parental responsibility and care procedures as well as matrimonial property regimes and division cases.

In criminal law matters we act as representatives for victims, auxiliary or private prosecutors and for civil claimants involved in criminal procedure. We work closely with individual practice of Adwokat Franciszek Araszkiewicz, which lets us provide legal advice encompassing the defence of the accused at each phase of the proceedings (pre-trial, court, post-conviction). We handle matters relating to business fraud (breach of trust, mismanagement, money-laundering, financial instrument related offences, defrauding creditors). We specialise in advice on copyright related offences (plagiarism and other copyright infringements under the Copyright Act). Our expertise includes matters involving offences against person, sexual offences, traffic offences, criminal damage, forgery and counterfeiting.

Our expertise includes advice on income, property and VAT taxes. We advise on tax planning and optimising for businesses and particular transactions. Our specialists evaluate risk adherent to a given project or measure in the tax and legal contexts. We represent our clients in the course of fiscal control procedures and we act for the parties before tax authorities, revenue control bodies and administrative courts of all instances. Our advice is in line with all current EU and international regulations, in particular double taxation treaties. Any matters of cross border nature have tax advisors based in foreign jurisdiction provided if required. Please note that we take into consideration the tax consequences of any solutions we provide regardless the area of law our services refer to. In proceedings involving tax offences we represent defendants before fiscal bodies carrying out preparatory stage of proceedings (Revenue, Customs) and in the course of court and enforcement proceedings. We further act for third parties involved in the proceedings (secondary liability, intervention). We assist in procedures such as interrogation, hearing, bargaining and defence in proceedings after the sentencing. We provide services in matters relating to tax evasion, tax fraud, books and records compliance failures.

Our expertise includes advice on income, property and VAT taxes. We advise on tax planning and optimising for businesses and particular transactions. Our specialists evaluate risk adherent to a given project or measure in the tax and legal contexts. We represent our clients in the course of fiscal control procedures and we act for the parties before tax authorities, revenue control bodies and administrative courts of all instances. Our advice is in line with all current EU and international regulations, in particular double taxation treaties. Any matters of cross border nature have tax advisors based in foreign jurisdiction provided if required. Please note that we take into consideration the tax consequences of any solutions we provide regardless the area of law our services refer to. In proceedings involving tax offences we represent defendants before fiscal bodies carrying out preparatory stage of proceedings (Revenue, Customs) and in the course of court and enforcement proceedings. We further act for third parties involved in the proceedings (secondary liability, intervention). We assist in procedures such as interrogation, hearing, bargaining and defence in proceedings after the sentencing. We provide services in matters relating to tax evasion, tax fraud, books and records compliance failures.