WILIŃSKI LEGAL
We do not build a mass-service model. We focus on matters that require strategy, litigation experience and the personal responsibility of a specific lawyer for decisions made together with the client.
We handle complex criminal, commercial and cross-border matters, support entrepreneurs and management boards, advise the education sector, conduct mediations and develop our AI and cybersecurity practice. The common denominator is not one field of law, but a situation in which the client needs a clear assessment of risk and a strategy for which someone is genuinely accountable.
The client should know who is responsible for their case. That is why key decisions, strategy and client contact remain with the specific lawyer leading the matter.
We combine litigation experience with knowledge gained through management, academic teaching, mediation and work with businesses and institutions. This lets us view a problem more broadly than through the lens of a single provision.
Attorney, managing partner, mediator and academic lecturer. He specialises in criminal, commercial and international matters, including pre-trial detention, economic crime, European Arrest Warrants, extradition and crisis situations.
Practising lawyer, mediator, academic lecturer and dean of a higher education institution. She leads the education and higher education law and mediation practices and co-leads the Business & Boards practice in an in-house model. She completed postgraduate studies in company law, restructuring, and accounting and financial reporting, and also has pedagogical training and qualifications in education management. Her experience combines law, management, finance and the practical operation of institutions.
Why clients come to us
Arrest, detention, search, a company conflict, an incident or another situation requiring action before the problem begins to develop a life of its own.
Liability of a management-board member, entrepreneur, parent or another person whose decision may have legal and financial consequences for years.
Criminal law intersects with business, a company, property, family, technology or a foreign element and cannot safely be divided into separate compartments.
The client wants to know who is responsible for the strategy, what the realistic options are and what should happen next — without anonymous delegation of key decisions.
Cross-border capabilities
Tomasz Wiliński and Magdalena Osińska-Wilińska completed a Russian Law Programme taught entirely in Russian and received a dual diploma from the St Petersburg Law Institute and Lazarski University.
This background is useful when analysing documents, terminology and communication in matters with an Eastern European element. We do not present it as a separate professional qualification to practise Russian law — it is an academic and linguistic competence that supports cross-border work.
Professional environment
Tomasz Wiliński is or has been publicly listed as a member of the European Criminal Bar Association (ECBA), European Fraud and Compliance Lawyers (EFCL), Defence Extradition Lawyer's Forum (DELF), the Foreign Lawyers' Circle at the Warsaw Bar, the Polish Aviation Club and the Polish Sports Law Association.
These professional relationships broaden the perspective in criminal, extradition, compliance and cross-border matters, but they do not replace the selection of appropriate local counsel where required by the jurisdiction.
Expertise beyond the firm
Litigation experience should also stand up in public discussion about the law. Tomasz Wiliński has published commentary and analysis in Forbes Polska, has been interviewed by Dziennik Gazeta Prawna on detained persons' access to defence counsel, has participated in TOK FM expert programmes on international jurisdiction and human rights, and has been invited by the Polish Bar Council to present possibilities for systemic legal assistance to Ukrainian citizens.
How we work
Where a matter requires it, we work with external specialists: tax advisers, restructuring advisers, patent attorneys, valuers, court experts, technical experts and other professionals. The client should nevertheless always know who coordinates the matter and who is responsible for its legal strategy.
When the matter requires a decision
We first try to understand the problem, its context and the real risks. Only then do we select the right tools. Sometimes the most important thing is simply to make the right decision early enough.