In English. Under power of attorney. Without you flying over.
An inheritance after your parents. A property that needs to be sold or put in order. A marriage or a child born abroad that the Polish records know nothing about. A claim against a Polish business partner. A case before a Polish court. Matters like these rarely fail on the law — they fail on distance, on language, and on having no one on the ground who holds the threads together. That is exactly what we do.
We work with clients across the United Kingdom, Ireland, the United States, Canada and Australia — and we know what they expect from a law firm: a named person responsible for the case, reliable deadlines, costs agreed before the work starts, and reports written in plain English rather than legal prose. Cross-border matters are not a sideline of our practice. They are our practice. English is also how our clients from France, Belgium or South Africa write to us — it has long been the lingua franca of this firm.
We write in British English, for the record — but whether you organise your affairs or organize them, the Polish registers will treat you exactly the same.
Many of our clients have Polish roots — and live their lives in English. Some have nearly lost their Polish; others speak it at home but feel far more confident discussing legal matters in English. With us, you do not have to choose and you do not have to apologise: you can run your Polish case entirely in English — from the first conversation to the final report. The Polish courts and authorities are our job.
A word to our readers in the United States: yes, we act for you too. Confirming Polish citizenship — sometimes through a grandparent who sailed a century ago — and bringing an American lifetime of marriages, divorces and children into the Polish records is our daily bread.
Certificates and records are available on request.
Inheritance, property, civil records, Polish citizenship, family matters with a Polish element. For people with Polish roots wherever they live — and for foreign clients whose case happens to be in Poland.
Claims against Polish counterparties, defective goods and services, contractual disputes and misunderstandings, your Polish company or shareholding, litigation and enforcement. Hard evidence and experts first — court when it pays off, not on principle.
You keep the client relationship; we act as your correspondent counsel in Poland. More below →
When parents or relatives pass away, an estate is often left behind in Poland: a house, a plot of land, bank accounts — sometimes ownership that was never properly sorted out for decades. A foreign grant of probate carries little weight before Polish courts and registries; Polish succession proceedings have their own rules, deadlines and forms.
We establish which law applies, conduct the succession proceedings before the Polish court or notary, put the land and mortgage registers in order and steer the division of the estate among the heirs — through to sale or transfer. In most cases, you never need to travel to Poland.
Selling or buying a flat, untangling ownership left unresolved for years, land and mortgage register entries, co-ownership within the family, adverse possession. Foreign buyers ask us to check a Polish property before they commit — and they are right to: even seemingly simple Polish transactions tend to reveal, at the very end, one missing document, one entry that was never deleted, one signature that should have been notarised. We prepare the transaction in full, examine the register and represent you before the notary — under power of attorney, without your presence. Foreign buyers ask us to check a Polish property before they commit — and they are right to.
You emigrated twenty, thirty, forty years ago — or it was your parents or grandparents who did. Children were born abroad, marriages were entered into or dissolved — and none of it was ever recorded in Poland. Sooner or later the question comes back: with an inheritance, with the sale of a property, with a passport for your child, with confirming Polish citizenship — often the key to a Polish, and therefore EU, passport for you or your children. We bring the Polish records up to date with your life: registration of foreign birth, marriage and divorce documents, corrections and completions, paperwork for getting married, formal confirmation of Polish citizenship — from the civil registry office through the provincial governor to, where necessary, the court. Cases like these are our daily work. And to our clients in the United States: yes, we confirm Polish roots and citizenship from across the Atlantic every week — the ocean is a logistics problem, not a legal one.
When one parent takes a child to Poland without the other's consent, every week counts. Proceedings under the Hague Convention on child abduction are heard in Poland by specialised courts — while authorities in two countries must be kept aligned: family courts, social services, the police. We conduct the Polish proceedings and make sure the two sides of the case do not work past each other. Discretion and speed are part of the mandate.
Divorce involving assets or children in Poland, maintenance, contact arrangements, recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments before Polish courts. We make sure that what you have achieved at home actually takes effect in Poland.
The garden building or windows ordered from a Polish manufacturer, the furniture that arrived damaged, the contractor who walked off the job. We secure the evidence first — with experts and hard documentation — and negotiate from a position of strength. We go to court when it pays off, not on principle.
We verify the debtor first (registers, assets, signs of insolvency), send a formal attorney's demand, use Polish payment-order proceedings — or the European order for payment where available — and take enforcement through the Polish bailiff to the end.
You have been served with a Polish claim, or your case in Poland has ground to a halt. Sometimes the case is older than your emigration: proceedings left behind years ago — civil, enforcement, occasionally criminal — that resurface at the least convenient moment. We establish exactly where the case stands and take over representation in pending and new proceedings — before civil, commercial, administrative and criminal courts, nationwide.
You describe the case by e-mail or on a video call — we reply in your language, across time zones.
What is legally possible, which steps come next, what cost range to expect — transparent, before you commit to anything.
A single document, prepared by us and signed by post. From then on, we act for you in Poland.
Courts, notaries, civil registry offices, authorities, the other side. Documents travel electronically.
You always know where your case stands — in plain English, without legal prose.
Polish bar regulations do not allow us to publish a price list — so you will not find one here or anywhere else. Agreeing the fee is instead one of the first steps of every engagement: in most matters on the basis of an hourly rate, confirmed in writing before any work begins.
A significant share of our mandates reaches us through colleagues: law firms abroad whose clients have a Polish limb to their case — an estate, an asset, a debtor or proceedings in Poland. The division of labour is clear: you keep the client relationship and run the mandate; we take the Polish part.
We report in the rhythm and level of detail you would expect from your own firm, and agree fee arrangements in writing before the work begins. We are also regularly instructed to prepare written opinions on Polish law for use in foreign proceedings — including as the basis for expert witness statements. You instruct us in English — and read our reports without a translator.
Contracts, business and IT law, cross-border mandates. LL.M., University of Regensburg. Works with clients in English, German and Spanish. (Adwokat — Polish attorney-at-law.)
Civil and family law, estates and succession, mediation. Doctor of Laws, LL.M., University of Regensburg.
A family tradition at the Polish Bar since 1983. Four decades of courtroom experience in Polish legal practice.
Senior Associate
The one who reads people.
Advocate on the roll of the Wałbrzych Bar Association (non-practising) — the analytical pillar of the team. Drafts pleadings and challenges to expert opinions, prepares legal reports, reviews contracts. In analysing witness statements she senses when an account stops matching the facts.
Works in English.
Trainee advocate
The one who brings order to chaos.
With the firm since 2019 — she began while still at university. A lawyer and an economist (Erasmus at the University of Salzburg): wherever dozens of documents must become one accurate conclusion, she is irreplaceable. Calmly guides clients through assembling and organising their case files.
Entered on the roll of trainee advocates of the Wrocław Bar Association. Works in English and German.
Trainee advocate
The one who pairs precision with courage.
At an international moot court in Budapest she argued before Advocates General of the Court of Justice of the EU — distinguished as a “Noted Speaker”. Experience since her third year of law school: damages and insurance claims, then energy and commercial law for grid operators — documents with no margin for error.
Entered on the roll of trainee advocates of the Wrocław Bar Association. Works in English.
Trainee advocate
The one who goes where the case is.
Winner of the oratory competition of the Wałbrzych Bar — the spoken word is his element. He builds his craft at the desk, but when a case demands it, he travels: client meetings, site inspections with court experts, inventory proceedings. At home in the courtroom, examining witnesses and experts.
Entered on the roll of trainee advocates of the Wałbrzych Bar Association. Works in English.
We also work in ongoing cooperation with Dr Jakub Pawelec, LL.M. (University of Regensburg). Research, documentation and the coordination of your case are handled entirely in-house — that is how your matter moves forward quickly and precisely.
This team was not assembled by chance. Since 2016 our Managing Partner has headed the training of trainee advocates at his regional Bar, and — now in his second term — serves on the Professional Development Committee of the Polish National Bar Council (Naczelna Rada Adwokacka). Someone who trains and examines Poland's future advocates applies the same standard to his own team.
For companies bidding in Polish public tenders or operating in regulated markets, we run a dedicated Industry practice led by Dr Jakub Pawelec, LL.M. (Universität Regensburg) — chairman of the Working Team on Public Procurement at the Polish SME Ombudsman and former member of the European Commission's Expert Group on Public Procurement. The practice works in English, German and Polish.
The questions we hear most often from clients abroad. Anything else — simply ask in your first message.
In most matters, no. We prepare a power of attorney which you sign abroad and return by post; court hearings usually proceed without your presence, and everything else happens by video call and e-mail.
Yes. Attorney-client privilege under Polish law covers everything we learn in connection with providing legal help — from the very first contact, whether or not you decide to instruct us.
No — copies or scans are enough to start. Much of what a case needs we obtain ourselves from Polish public registers: the company register, land and mortgage registers, civil records.
You receive regular reports in plain English, at a rhythm we agree at the outset — no legal prose, and no need to chase us for updates.
Describe your situation in a few sentences. You will receive a reply in English with a first assessment of the next steps.
By appointment at our Wrocław office — or, for inheritance and property matters in Lower Silesia, at our Kłodzko office. All meetings are arranged through the contact details above.