The profession of an attorney at law in Poland

The profession of an attorney at law is a profession of public trust. The aim of the profession is to protect public interest. Attorneys at law provide legal services and legal assistance in individual and legal entities cases, in particular by providing legal advice, preparing legal opinions, drafting legislative proposals and representing clients before courts and public bodies. They can act as legal representatives or defense counsels, also before the Supreme Court, the Constitutional Tribunal, the Supreme Administrative Court, the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights.
Attorneys at law can practise: a) in a law office on the basis of a civil-law contract, b) in partnerships – a civil-law partnership, a general partnership, a limited liability partnership, a limited partnership and a limited joint-stock partnership, c) as well as under an employment contract. Partners of attorneys at law in such partnerships may be other attorneys at law, advocates, patent attorneys, tax advisors and foreign lawyers. The only purpose of such partnerships is to provide legal assistance.
Each attorney at law must be a member of a professional association. Attorneys at law are obliged to respect the rules of professional conduct adopted by the National Assembly of Attorneys at law and protect the core values of the profession, such as independence, protection of professional secrecy, avoidance of conflicts of interest, protection of the dignity of the profession in professional, public and private life, as well as loyalty to clients. The Code of Ethics of attorneys at law regulates many aspects of the profession, in particular: relationships with clients, courts, government agencies, local governments and colleagues. Failure to comply with ethical principles can bring attorneys at law and trainee attorneys at law before special disciplinary bodies of the bar.

How can a foreign lawyer become an attorney at law in Poland?

An attorney at law can be anyone who has completed a Master of Law degree in Poland or an equivalent foreign law degree recognized in Poland. Such a person should hold full public rights, have full capacity to act, be of impeccable character and have completed legal training in a local bar. A final exam is required.
Foreign lawyers from the European Union Member States may provide permanent legal assistance to the same extent and in the same ways as Polish attorneys at law, subject to their entry onto the list of foreign lawyers run by each Regional Bar Association. To perform the profession in Poland, the candidate should contact the authorities of the Bar Association.

Cracow Bar

There are 19 Regional Bar Associations in Poland. The Bars are responsible among others for representing professional interests of its members, supervising the practice of the profession by attorneys at law and trainees, running legal training and continuous education of attorneys at law, keeping the lists of attorneys at law, foreign lawyers and trainees.
The Cracow Bar Association is a professional association of attorneys at law in the Cracow Region. The Bar represents professional interests of attorneys at law and ensures the highest level of their legal services. The Cracow Bar Association maintains a roll of attorneys at law practicing in the Cracow Region which includes: Kraków, Nowy Sącz, Tarnów and other counties [powiat] within the region, which are shown in the map below.

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The Cracow Bar is the second largest bar association in Poland with almost 3,000 members (data as of 2018).

Foundation and pro bono activities

Our members provide free legal aid in cooperation with local authorities in the Cracow Region. Cracow attorneys-at-law also appear on TV and Radio Kraków where they share their knowledge and experience with viewers and listeners.

SUBSIDIO VENIRE Foundation of Attorneys at Law

The purpose of the Foundation is to support the initiatives which ensure universal access to legal aid and protection of civic rights and freedoms, to run activity within the scope of social assistance and charity for attorneys at law, trainees and their families, to provide aid to orphans – children of the deceased attorneys at law, in particular to provide financial and educational support as well as to help them start their working lives. The Foundation is a public benefit organization.

 

 

Cracow Bar Association


Contact


Address ul. Francesco Nullo 8/4

City: Kraków 31-543

NIP: 675-10-42-048

Phone: 12 410 84 00

Phone: 12 410 82 60

E-mail: biuro@oirp.krakow.pl


Bank acc.: Bank PEKAO SA III O/Kraków, Nr 72 1240 2294 1111 0000 3708 7100

Opening hours:


Monday 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Tuesday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

 

Members of the Board of the Council

OFFICE PERSON ON-CALL HOURS
Dean

Marcin Sala-Szczypiński

Thursday 15:00-17:00
Vice-Dean for practice of the profession

Michał Krok

Tuesday 14:00-17:00
Vice-Dean for legal training

Andrzej Kadzik

Thursday 12:00-14:00
Vice-Dean for promotion, integration and foreign cooperation

Karolina Kolary

Tuesday 15:00-18:00
Treasurer

Piotr Lato

 
Secretary

Ewa Bielecka

 
Members

Michał Araszkiewicz
Alicja Juszczyk

 

Members of the Council

OFFICE PERSON
Members of the Council

Marcin Sala-Szczypiński
Bogusław Adamczyk
Michał Araszkiewicz
Roman Bieda
Ewa Bielecka
Krzysztof Buczek
Joanna Cisak-Kochaniewicz
Anna Jasielska-Papierkowska
Katarzyna Jasińska
Tomasz Job
Alicja Juszczyk
Andrzej Kadzik
Karolina Kolary
Tomasz Korpusiński
Michał Krok
Grzegorz Kuczek
Piotr Lato
Magdalena Mac-Szponder
Michalina Nowokuńska
Karolina Radosz
Magdalena Romanowska
Krzysztof Roszczynialski
Monika Skowrońska
Marzena Tyl
Joanna Żurek-Krupka

Spokesman

Karolina Kolary

Regional Audit Committee

OFFICE PERSON
President

Marta Rogóż

Vice-President  
Secretary  
Members

Łukasz Barut
Aneta Gawlak
Urszula Kućmierczyk
Małgorzata Szczepańska-Chwała

Disciplinary Spokesman

OFFICE PERSON ON-CALL HOURS
Disciplinary Spokesman

Zofia Krok

 Thursday 14:00-16:00
Vice Disciplinary Spokesmen

 

 

Regional Disciplinary Court

OFFICE PERSON
President

Wiesław Chwała

Vice-President

Urszula Layer
Ewa Pasińska

Members

Klaudia Basta
Ryszard Brzostowski
Bogdan Cymbor
Tomasz Dyrdycki-Borowy
Aleksandra Jach-Balicka
Agnieszka Kiebała
Monika Małgorzata Konior-Czarnota
Piotr Mróz
Dariusz Ornatowski
Iwona Pater-Surowiak
Aleksandra Pietrzak
Maciej Poje
Danuta Rebeta
Alicja Rosiek
Michał Rusinek
Justyna Smółka
Szymon Stańko
Łukasz Strutyński
Marek Szarzyński
Magdalena Szepczyńska
Małgorzata Trela

Regional Team of Inspectors

OFFICE PERSON
President

Monika Skowrońska

Vice-President Monika Rusek-Bal
Members

Krzysztof Buczek
Bartosz Góra
Maciej Hulist
Justyna Lokajewska
Monika Machlowska
Renata Maciuszek
Joanna Szanser-Smagacz
Małgorzata Szczepara

Committee for Legal Training

OFFICE PERSON
Coordinator

Andrzej Kadzik

Members  

Committee for Practise of the Profession and Ethics

OFFICE PERSON
President

Krzysztof Buczek

Members  

Committee for legal education

OFFICE PERSON
President

Magdalena Mac-Szponder

Members  

Committee for Promotion, Integration and Foreign Cooperation

OFFICE PERSON
President

Karolina Radosz

Members

 

National Bar Support Committe

OFFICE PERSON
President

Joanna Żurek-Krupka

Members  

Regulations and Registration Committee

OFFICE PERSON CONTACT
President

Bogusław Adamczyk

 



Members  

New Technologies Committee

OFFICE PERSON
President

Anna Jasielska-Papierkowska

Members  

Spokesman of the Senior’s Fund

OFFICE PERSON
Rzecznik Funduszu Seniora

Teresa Gniadek

The Bar representatives appointed to participate in the inspection in the attorney’s premises

OFFICE PERSON PHONE
The Bar representatives appointed to participate in the inspection in the attorney’s premises:

Marcin Dyczek
Jacek Gajlikowski
Halszka Kurleto
Małgorzata Kurleto
Zbigniew Pinkalski  
Urszula Pociecha
Bogusław Przywora
Wiesław Serafin
Anna Stokłosa
Joanna Szanser-Smagacz
Alina Waszęda
Joanna Żurek-Krupka

Phone numbers of the attorneys at law are published on the website of the Bar Association in the section: „Przeszukanie kancelarii radcy prawnego", after having logged in.

The following persons were elected as delegates for the 12th National Convention of Attorneys at Law

OFFICE PERSON

Delegates for the 12th National Convention of Attorneys at Law:

Bogusław Adamczyk
Michał Araszkiewicz
Ewa Bielecka
Krzysztof Buczek
Wiesław Chwała
Joanna Cisak-Kochaniewicz
Aleksandra Jach-Balicka
Anna Jasielska-Papierkowska
Katarzyna Jasińska
Tomasz Job
Alicja Juszczyk
Andrzej Kadzik
Karolina Kolary
Monika Małgorzata Konior-Czarnota
Tomasz Korpusiński
Michał Krok
Zofia Krok
Grzegorz Kuczek
Piotr Lato
Urszula Layer
Michalina Nowokuńska
Karolina Radosz
Danuta Rebeta
Marcin Sala-Szczypiński
Monika Skowrońska
Marzena Tyl
Joanna Żurek-Krupka
 

Ms Alicja Juszczyk was elected as a member of the National Bar Council of Attorneys at Law
Ms Aleksandra Owca was elected as a representative of trainees for the 12th National Convention of Attorneys at Law.

 

Centre for Mediation

The Centre for Mediation within the Cracow Bar Association of Attorneys at Law was set up under the resolution of the Cracow Bar Council of Attorneys at Law no. 333/X/2017 as of January 26, 2017.
The main purposes of the Centre are to organize mediation sessions, to develop and promote alternative methods of solving controversies, to run trainings, to organize and participate in events dedicated to mediation as well as to take up initiatives whose purpose is to modify the binding legislation towards the development of mediation proceedings.
The mediators within the Centre for Mediation are attorneys at law and trainees who completed the required training and hold experience within mediation proceedings.
The due professional preparation of our mediators guarantees that mediation proceedings will be held properly.
In the case of any questions or doubts, the following persons are willing to provide you with more detailed information:
- an attorney at law Tomasz Job – the Director of the Centre for Mediation - phone no.: 533-660-566, e-mail t.job@oirp.krakow.pl
- an attorney at law Magdalena Romanowska – the Director of the Centre for Mediation - phone no.:, e-mail:

 

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