Administrative law. Local government

We offer comprehensive support to entrepreneurs, private individuals, and public entities, including in particular: municipalities, counties, and provinces, universities, public hospitals, national parks, schools, cultural centers, libraries, and municipal utilities. We are able to look at each case from the perspective of both the authority and the participant in the proceedings.

Legal assistance includes representation in all proceedings before public administration bodies at every stage of ongoing administrative and administrative court proceedings, including in particular:

• drafting applications initiating administrative proceedings and preparing applications and positions of parties during ongoing administrative proceedings or enforcement proceedings in administration,
• representation in proceedings before first and second instance authorities, including in particular local government authorities (municipal offices, county offices, provincial offices), local government appeal boards, district and provincial building control inspectorates, the Chief Building Control Inspector, provincial environmental protection inspectorates, the Chief Environmental Protection Inspector, and the Financial Supervision Authority,
• representation in extraordinary proceedings before the above-mentioned authorities, including in the scope of reopening proceedings and declaring administrative decisions invalid,
• representation before the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection, the Arbitration Panel of the Public Procurement Office, and the Patent Office,
• representation before administrative courts and the Supreme Administrative Court,
• challenging resolutions of local government units and local laws and other legal acts issued by local government authorities.

As part of our services for public entities:

• we advise on all administrative and legal aspects of their jurisdiction and activities, as part of on-call services at the client’s premises, video and teleconferences, and ongoing remote support,
• we prepare audits and specialist legal opinions,
• we prepare, draft, and review draft resolutions, orders, and other legal acts issued by public administration bodies,
• we participate in meetings of public administration bodies and provide legal advice on their day-to-day operations, including advice on the legislative process,
• we conduct training courses for public administration employees covering issues related to their daily practice,
• we perform necessary legal assessments and advise on administrative proceedings, in particular in the areas of spatial planning and development, construction law, environmental and nature protection law, waste management, and access to public information,
• we provide legal assistance in all areas of law, in particular: public procurement law, information security, criminal law and liability for breaches of public finance discipline, civil law, labor law, commercial law, tax law, and financial law.