Marta Kopec > Kopec & Zaborowski > Warsaw, Poland > Lawyer Profile

Kopec & Zaborowski
Hoza 59 A lok. 1 B
Warsaw
00-681
Poland

Work Department

COMMERCIAL, CORPORATE AND M&A, EMPLOYMENT.

Position

Managing Partner at Kopec & Zaborowski (KKZ), Attorney at law.

Marta Kopeć specializes in labour law and commercial law. She is an outstanding expert in labour law, particularly in areas where labour law intertwines with commercial law.

She has extensive experience in conducting court cases. She is a member of the Labour Law Association (Stowarzyszenie Prawa Pracy – SPP).  Marta Kopeć is a personal legal advisor to Members of Management Boards, Managing Directors as well as HR Directors of employers operating in Poland. Marta Kopeć is also the author of numerous legal opinions and articles on labour law. In the law firm she supervises the Department of Business Law.

Career

Managing Partner at Kopeć & Zaborowski (KKZ), Attorneys-at-Law. She graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in the field of law. She is also a graduate of the School of Italian and European Law created at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw and ran in cooperation with the Faculty of Law of the University of Catania (Universita degli studi di Catania Facolta di Giurisprudenza). In 2015, she graduated from the Warsaw School of Economics, where she completed her post-graduate studies in the “Polish Companies Academy” with a very good grade. Her passion for labor law has accompanied her since her studies, which she graduated defending in the Labor Law Department her master thesis entitled “Work-Life Balance – a balance between work and private life”, written under the guidance of prof. dr hab. Małgorzata Gersdorf.

For many years of work in law offices and as part of her own business, Marta Kopeć dealt with consultancy in the field of labor law, conducting court disputes in this field, as well as handling collective disputes on behalf of employers, creating documents such as contracts of employment, non-competition agreements or work regulations, anti-mobbing policies and many more. Her latest publications are: “Can the employer use the employee’s first and last name?”, “Caution before avoiding the pick-up of the notice on the example of labor law”, “Work accident at construction site” and “Employer’s responsibilities in the field of health and safety at work”. She speaks at seminars, conferences and training sessions.

Languages

Polish, English, Italian.

Memberships

Member of the National Bar Council of Attorneys-at-Law,

Member of the Labour Law Association.

Education

Warsaw School of Economics, Post-graduate studies:
Akademia Spółek: funkcjonowanie spółek handlowych w aspekcie prawno ekonomicznym  (Eng:Polish Companies Academy: polish companies activity in law&economic aspect ) / 2015,
Warsaw Bar Association of Attorneys-at-Law, Attorney-at-law / 2012,
University of Warsaw, Master’s Degree, Law / 2009,
University of Warsaw & University of Catania
(Universita degli studi di Catania Facolta di Giurisprudenza),
School of Italian and European Law / 2007.

Leisure

In her spare time she practices sports, plays tennis and rides a bike. She also supports the Foundation’s activities Be 4sport and the New Sport Star-Sports Agency legally.

Lawyer Rankings

Poland > Employment

The employment practice at Kopec & Zaborowski is well versed at handling matters related to the transfer of workplaces and employees, restructuring of the workplace, collective labour and disputes. Izabela Dziubak-Napiórkowska heads the practice and has expertise in individual and collective labour law, being especially at representing employers in court. Managing partner Marta Kopeć remains an active team member.