Employers usually seek legal advice on employment law from professionals at the start of their business, as they seek to plan employee behaviour, costs and business development opportunities. In this case, rules of procedure, payroll procedures, confidentiality agreements, non-competition agreements, job descriptions, employment contracts, etc. are drafted. Employees usually need the services of an attorney in the case of non-compete agreements, violations of the employee’s rights regarding safe and healthy working conditions, working hours, wages and dismissal.          

Our law firm also specialises in trade union formation and activities. Representing trade unions, we draft collective agreements, represent them in negotiations and monitor the implementation of collective agreements. Collective agreements seemingly safeguard the interests of employees, but it is also employers who can use collective agreements to regulate the complex issues of compensation, working time and holidays more efficiently.     

When advising employers on employment law, our aim is to regulate employment relations in such a way that disputes between the employee and the employer do not arise at all, and when representing the employee, our aim is to make the employee feel dignified and to resolve the dispute in the most advantageous way possible.    

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We prepare documents for the court for opening of insolvency or restructuring proceedings of a legal entity, represent the client’s interests in court when dealing with the confirmation of financial claims, when challenging decisions of the bankruptcy administrator, the creditors’ committee or the creditors’ meeting that violate the client’s interests, and when representing persons at creditors’ meetings, creditors’ committees and in court. 

We prepare procedural documents for the court to declare insolvency to be fraudulent, as well as procedural documents for pre-trial investigation authorities to declare insolvency to be criminal, and represent individuals in these proceedings. 

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So, if you are planning to come to the Republic of Lithuania, to live and work here, to obtain citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania, but you don’t know where to start and what to do, our firm is ready to help you.

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It is somewhat paradoxical that most family law disputes are about the division of property. It is safe to say that the division of material provision and the division of jointly held property is perhaps the most sensitive issue in the event of a family separation, as the resolution of this issue determines how the joint children will be cared for and how the separated ex-spouses will be able to rebuild their lives, starting from scratch.                     

In the practice of our firm of representing parties in family law cases, we have been observed that, although family law cases start very aggressively, counterclaims are often filed, and petitions for pre-trial investigation are often filed, in the end, after having recovered emotionally and having listened to the rational advice of the attorneys, in about 90% of the cases, the parties to the dispute reach an amicable settlement. At first sight, this does not seem to be a good indicator, and the parties must try to reach an agreement immediately, without even going to court. However, practice shows that the accumulated anger and confrontation between the parties has to be vented somewhere, and when it is vented in court, it is as if the parties are released from their emotional tensions, relaxed, and can more easily bring closure to a difficult phase of their lives by reaching an amicable settlement. 

Judges and mediators in family cases should be given special attention and respect in resolving family disputes. The judge is often able, with his or her perceptive advice, comments and sometimes stern words, to control the quarrelling parties and effectively bring about the amicable settlement. 

An innovation in this area, judicial mediation, has given a new dimension to family disputes. In a less formal setting, disputants can benefit from the assistance of authoritative legal experts, who can provide an outsider’s perspective and a neutral assessment of the situation. One of the pioneers of mediation, Judge Artūras Driukas, has been particularly successful in his mediation process, as he is able to accommodate to his interlocutor, both through his personal qualities and his psychological and legal knowledge, and discuss his/her problems with a person he is seeing for the first time, as if he/she were an old friend whose sincere advice is difficult to respond to negatively.  

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In cooperation with national patent and trademark offices and the EUIPO, we carry out all the necessary actions to protect your intellectual property, constantly monitoring registered trademarks, detecting infringements and taking countermeasures. As a result, our clients can be involved in their business without any worries, leaving the legal aspects of intellectual property to us.  

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communicate, provide certain information and documents to the relevant public authorities and you do not know where to start and how to do it, or if you find that public officials are not performing or are not properly performing their duties in making a decision that is important to you, or if you may be subject to administrative liability or an administrative offence and you want to appeal such a decision, our law firm is ready to assist you. 

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Our firm’s criminal and procedural law professionals successfully defend suspects and accused persons in criminal cases, protecting clients from unfair trials or unfounded accusations. They also successfully represent the interests of victims and civil claimants in criminal proceedings.

Regardless of your procedural status in a criminal case, our priority is to protect your interests, freedom, honour, and dignity.

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The success of public-private partnership projects depends to a large extent on the ability of the parties to properly assess the effectiveness of the public-private partnership in each individual case, to choose the right form and to properly document all the arrangements. In this context we provide legal advice to public and private sector representatives planning or carrying out public-private partnership projects. Efficient, prompt advice given by our firm to public and private sector clients has repeatedly ensured successful public-private partnerships. 

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