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We are proud to announce that our trainee attorney at law Paula Staszak-Urbańska has successfully completed her Polish bar exam and will soon join the ranks of professionals entered on the list of attorneys at law in Poland.  Our sincere congratulations!

The Polish bar exam concludes the formal stage of legal education and is one of the most important moments in a lawyer's professional career. We are therefore all the more pleased that Paula has been working with us continuously since 2019. She focuses her professional interests on broadly defined business law and labour law. In this area, she not only advises clients, but also publishes and conducts training courses.

Our sincere congratulations wish her further success and professional development!

On 23 May 2024, we joined the VII. edition of the Tour de Wind 2024 bike rally. We have been supporting the ideas of this event since 2016, i.e. since the first edition. In addition, for the first time ever, the weather was not entirely in our favour and we rode for the wind in torrential rain while in the evening the souvenir statuette from the 2017 Tour de Wind, donated by us, was auctioned during a charity auction for the West Pomeranian Hospice for Children and Adults.

Tour de Wind is a cyclical event organised by the Windhunter Academy, which uniquely brings together a community of renewable energy enthusiasts, two-wheeled riding, but above all inspires action for the environment and for others. These are values that we value highly at VON ZANTHIER & DACHOWSKI.

In this year's edition, our team was represented by Karolina Barałkiewicz-Sokal and Małgorzata Stępień, who cycled 60 km along the coastal route with the aim of promoting wind energy.

From the very beginning, the Tour de Wind has been accompanied by a campaign to help the West Pomeranian Hospice for Children and Adults, which, in addition to the sick, also supports healthy siblings of sick children. That is why, during the evening gala, the participants not only shared their impressions, but by taking part in numerous auctions they were able to make a financial contribution to the hospice. This year, one of the items auctioned was a commemorative statuette from the 2017 Tour de Wind, donated by us.

We are delighted to have been part of this initiative and warmly encourage you to support similar campaigns!

The potential of geothermal energy can bring many benefits for consumers and the environment. At our law firm, we have known this for a long time and support client companies that produce this renewable energy source. With Arctic Green Energy and others we have very well known companies in this field. That's why we couldn't miss the Global Geothermal Impact Summit 2024, which focused on the financing of geothermal energy and took place on 23 and 24 April in The Hague.

During the event, Henning von Zanthier gave a presentation on "Berlin as front runner on geothermal transformation at a big scale?" as part of the "Climate Neutral Cities" panel. The conference participants also had the opportunity to visit the Haagse Aardwarmte Leyweg (HAL). This is a unique Dutch geothermal project next to the HAGA hospital, where two boreholes extract hot water from the ground at a depth of more than 2,000 metres and provide heat for consumers. 

The conference was organised by the International Geothermal Association.

2023 is drawing to a close. We hope that you and your loved ones can find peace in the festive season ahead, enjoy the time and recharge your batteries for 2024. We wish you and your staff a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
As well as last year instead of Christmas cards for partners and clients, we donated for a good cause: This year our Berlin office donates 1000 € to the Freya von Moltke Foundation for the New Kreisau (www.fvms.de), - which supports the work of the German-Polish youth meeting place in the Polish village of Krzyżowa.

A medical certificate affirming the ability to work in the occupied position is a mandatory component of employee documentation. Employers should ensure that employees' medical certificates remain up-to-date, covering both working conditions and any changes in employees' health status. The issues of appealing against so-called conditional medical certificates, directing employees for preventive examinations, and the consequences of refusing to undergo such examinations are discussed by Trainee attorney-at-law (PL) Maria Aleksiejak in her latest article.