KlaudiaSzwarczyńska

She specialises in individual and collective labour law. She represents clients in employment proceedings and advises on matters related to hiring and dismissal, including members of management boards and senior managers. She supports Polish and international corporations in the preparation and verification of employment and internal company documents, as well as in individual employment disputes. Her interests include, in particular, the termination of employment contracts, employment disputes and the protection of personal rights in employment, with particular emphasis on mobbing and discrimination.

She also deals with compliance issues, including, above all, whistleblower protection, as well as matters relating to personal data protection law and intellectual property law.

Selected projects:

• Advising on the compliance management system in the area of whistleblowing,
• Conducting an internal investigation that examined irregularities in the areas of bullying, management of company assets and managerial abuse of high-level managers,
• Representing the employer in litigation with a senior managerial employee, involving multifaceted claims and complex legal issues,
• Advising on and preparing a comprehensive set of model employee and intra-company documents for the implementation of remote work and employee sobriety checks,
• Advising on the implementation of copyright clauses in employment contracts,
• Advising related to the entry into force of legislation implementing the so-called parental and work-life balance into the Polish legal order,
• Advising on the reorganization of the work of production teams and solving problems related to time management,
• Advising on the implementation of electronic employee documentation,
• Advising on the spin-off and transfer of part of the business to a newly created entity,
• Advising on the implementation of information clauses on the processing of personal data in connection with the implementation of the Law on the Protection of Whistleblowers,
• Advising on matters related to data protection and intellectual property rights in a large construction project.

Prior to joining the Firm, she gained experience in reputable law firms, where she supported HR and legal departments in all day-to-day employment matters. She also worked as an in-house lawyer at a leading Polish company in the electronics sector, which allowed her to develop well a business approach to solving HR issues.

She graduated from the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics at the University of Wroclaw with a very good degree. She also completed a master’s degree in forensic archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology at the Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences at the University of Wroclaw.

She completed her legal advisor’s apprenticeship organized by the District Chamber of Legal Advisors in Warsaw.

She is currently pursuing postgraduate studies at the Jagiellonian University in the field of ‘Information and personal data security in administration and business’.