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The Faculty and Finance and Law at the Kraków University of Economics announces the beginning of recruitment for the first edition of postgraduate studies in “Protection of personal data in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)”.

The studies are addressed to all participants in economic trade – primarily representatives of legal professions, managers of various levels, data protection officers (DPO), and public administration staff in the broad sense.

The objective of the postgraduate studies is to acquire specialised knowledge on the protection of personal data in GDPR, which is necessary to function in the economic environment, not only because of the application of new legal provisions since 2018 – the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation), but also the application of other legal regulations connected with the processing of personal data.

We are pleased to inform that the manager of the studies in “Protection of personal data in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)” is Jan Byrski, PhD Habil., Partner at our law firm.

Detailed information about the curriculum can be found on the website of the Kraków University of Economics: link

The Traple Konarski Podrecki i Wspólnicy law firm has once again been appreciated by the prestigious Chambers Global ranking.

We are pleased to inform that the Traple Konarski Podrecki i Wspólnicy law firm has once again been awarded distinctions in the 2019 edition of the Chambers Global ranking in the category of Intellectual Property (Band 2).

Individual distinctions in this category were awarded to three of our lawyers:

• Professor Elżbieta Traple, PhD Habil. (Band 1),
• Paweł Podrecki, PhD Habil., Professor of the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Band 3),
• Tomasz Targosz, PhD (Band 4).

The results of the Chambers Global ranking were announced on 14 February 2019.

Once again the Traple Konarski Podrecki i Wspólnicy Law Firm was honored in the prestigious ranking “World Trademark Review 1000 – The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals” and earned a place among top specialists in the scope of trademark protection.

Similarly to past years, there were also individual recommendations for our lawyers. Prof. Elżbieta Traple, PhD, hab., received the “Luminaries” distinction, while Prof. Paweł Podrecki, PhD Habil., Professor of the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, received the “enforcement and litigation” distinction.

The team at our Law Firm was distinguished due to its vast knowledge of Intellectual Property Rights law, including not only Trademark law, but also Copyright law, design, patents and trade secret topics.

Detailed ranking results are available on the website of the WTR- link.

We are pleased to announce that on 28 January 2020, during celebrations of the Data Protection Day in Warsaw, our attorney-at-law Grzegorz Sibiga, PhD, received the annual Michał Serzycki Award granted by the President of the Office for Personal Data Protection (UODO) for “promoting the values of personal data protection and the right to privacy”.

Congratulations!

Online coverage of the 14th Data Protection Day: https://lnkd.in/e5_XT4b

On 3 October 2019 in the Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Traple Konarski Podrecki i Wspólnicy Law Firm.

Over 300 guests, including our Clients, Institutions and Friends of our Law Firm, joined us in celebration on this exceptional evening.

Thank you for placing your trust in us. Without you, none of our accomplishments would have been possible! 2019 will also mark the change in our visual identity, the new face of which will be presented soon.

The 17^th edition of Ranking of Law Firms in the “Rzeczpospolita” daily took place on Friday, 7 June 2019 in Warsaw.

Professor of the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Paweł Podrecki, PhD Habil., represented our Law Firm in receiving the distinction for Best Law Firm in the “Intellectual property, industrial property and copyright law” category, and Xawery Konarski, Attorney-at-Law, received the distinction in the “Technology media telecommunications” (TMT) category. The Law Firm also received recommendations in the “Protection of personal data” category. The “Leading Lawyer” distinction and a recommendation in the “Intellectual and industrial property law as well as copyright law” category was awarded to Professor Elżbieta Traple and Professor of the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Paweł Podrecki, PhD Habil.

The Lawyers of the Traple Konarski Podrecki i Wspólnicy Sp.j Law Firm were distinguished by “Rzeczpospolita” as one of the best teams and law firms on the market, winning four places in the ranking.

We would like to thank our clients and “Rzeczpospolita” for the distinctions and recommendations, and we congratulate our lawyers in their successes.

New Technologies Law Association began its activities on 24 April 2019.

One of the main originators is Xawery Konarski, Senior Partner of the Traple Konarski Podrecki i Wspólnicy Law Firm, who on 10 May 2019 also became the President of the Association.

The main goal of the Association is the integration of lawyers specialising in TMT, as well as promoting knowledge about New Technologies Law. The activities of the Association will include preparing assessments and reports, initiating research and organising conferences and training sessions on New Technologies Law.

We are pleased to inform you that in addition to Xavery Konarski the nearly 50 founder-members also include: Paweł Podrecki, Attorney-at-Law, Professor of the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Jan Byrski, PhD Habil., Attorney-at-Law, Agnieszka Wachowska, Legal Advisor, and Grzegorz Sibiga, PhD, Attorney-at-Law.

On 17 April 2019, the inaugural meeting of the PIIT Council took place in Warsaw, marking the start of its 14th term (2019-2021).

We are pleased to announce that a Senior Partner from our law firm, Xawery Konarski, Attorney-at-Law, was appointed Vice President of the Management Board of the Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications (PIIT) for the 2019-2021 term.

For more information on the meeting of the PIIT Council, visit PIIT website.

This year’s edition of the acclaimed Legal 500 EMEA ranking sees Traple Konarski Podrecki & Partners recognised in as many as three areas of practice: Tier 1 for Intellectual property and Tier 2 for both TMT and Competition/antitrust.

Professor Elżbieta Traple (Intellectual property), Xawery Konarski (TMT), and Paweł Podrecki (Competition/antitrust) have been listed as Leading Individuals in the ranking. Agnieszka Wachowska (TMT) has won individual recognition as a Next Generation Lawyer.

The new recommendations from Legal 500 EMEA come as further acknowledgement for Traple Konarski Podrecki & Partners over the years. We would like to thank our clients for their trust and for contributing to the research carried out by Legalease, which compiles the ranking.

This year’s edition of the acclaimed Legal 500 EMEA ranking sees Traple Konarski Podrecki & Partners recognised in as many as three areas of practice: Tier 1 for Intellectual property and Tier 2 for both TMT and Competition/antitrust.

Professor Elżbieta Traple (Intellectual property), Xawery Konarski (TMT), and Paweł Podrecki (Competition/antitrust) have been listed as Leading Individuals in the ranking. Agnieszka Wachowska (TMT) has won individual recognition as a Next Generation Lawyer.

The new recommendations from Legal 500 EMEA come as further acknowledgement for Traple Konarski Podrecki & Partners over the years. We would like to thank our clients for their trust and for contributing to the research carried out by Legalease, which compiles the ranking.

On Wednesday, 13 March 2019, the first meeting was held by a new composition of the Copyright Commission, appointed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage for the ninth 5-year term of office.

The group of 20 arbitrators chosen by the Minister includes Professor Elżbieta Traple and Wojciech Kulis, attorney-at-law.

One task of the Commission, which is important for the media, culture or authorship sectors, is to rule on the principles of collective use by various users (e.g. radio and TV broadcasters, cable network operators, cinema and hotel owners, Internet sector) of copyrights and related rights to audio-visual, musical, written and graphic works, artistic performance of songs, etc.  The full composition of the Copyright Commission appointed for the present term of office is presented in the Public Information Bulletin on the website of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage under the tab “The Copyright Commission”.

We are pleased to announce that the Traple Konarski Podrecki i Wspólnicy law firm was awarded distinctions in the 2019 edition of the prestigious Chambers Europe ranking.

As in the previous years, we were awarded in the following categories: TMT (Band 1) and Intellectual Property (Band 2).

The recommended lawyers include:

• Professor Elżbieta Traple
  Intellectual Property – Band 1
• Xawery Konarski
  TMT – Band 1
  TMT:  Data Protection – Band 2
• Paweł Podrecki, PhD Habil., Professor of the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences
  Intellectual Property – Band 3
• Tomasz Targosz, PhD
  Intellectual Property – Band 4

Full results of the ranking are available on the website of Chambers and Partners.