The practice is a general legal office in Prague, working principally with owner-managed businesses, foreign companies with Czech operations, and individuals dealing with property, employment or residence matters. It is deliberately small, and the range of work reflects what a practice of that size can do well rather than everything a client might conceivably need.
Approach
Most legal problems that reach a small practice are not novel questions of law. They are ordinary situations that have gone wrong through a missed deadline, an ambiguous clause, or a document that was translated rather than drafted. The most valuable work is usually done early, before a dispute exists, and consists largely of getting the paperwork right and the timing right.
Working across languages
Operating between Czech and English creates a specific category of problem worth naming. A contract drafted in English on an assumption borrowed from common law may not do in Czech law what the parties thought it did. Terms that look equivalent frequently are not, and a translated document is not the same thing as a document drafted to work under Czech law. A great deal of practical work consists of catching that mismatch before it matters.
- Company and commercial. Formation, changes to corporate documents, shareholder arrangements, commercial contracts.
- Employment. Contracts, terminations, and the procedural requirements the Labour Code imposes on both.
- Property. Purchases, leases, and dealings with the cadastral register.
- Administrative matters. Registrations, permits, residence procedures and the deadlines attached to them.
The notes section
The notes published on this site exist because the same general questions arise repeatedly, and a written general explanation is more useful to most readers than a conversation. They describe how a procedure or a rule generally works. They do not describe what any individual should do, because that depends entirely on facts the notes cannot know.
Regulation
Legal practice in the Czech Republic is regulated, and lawyers are subject to professional rules on conflicts of interest, confidentiality and insurance. Those obligations apply to every matter and are not waived by anything published here.
Nothing on this page is legal advice, and reading it does not create a solicitor-client relationship.