WILIŃSKI LEGAL
Legal support for universities and educational institutions requires more than knowledge of statutes and regulations. It requires understanding how a rector's office, dean's office, school administration, teaching process, student and learner records, and the responsibilities of those in management actually work.
That is why we built this practice around combining legal experience with real experience in managing education.
Practice leadership
Practising lawyer, mediator, academic lecturer and dean of a higher education institution. She has pedagogical training and qualifications in education management. Her experience includes managing a higher education institution, a post-secondary school and other educational institutions.
Magdalena Osińska-Wilińska leads and substantively coordinates services for clients in the education sector, so the advice takes account not only of the literal wording of the law but also of the organisational, teaching and administrative realities in which a decision will actually be implemented.
Who we help
Advice for university authorities, dean's offices, administration and organisational units on day-to-day matters and situations requiring a rapid decision.
Support with statutes, records, learners, staff, supervision, organisation of education and relations with administrative authorities.
Support for organisations conducting educational, course and training activities, including those involving foreign nationals.
Admission to studies, refusal of admission, resumption, transfer, removal from student or learner lists, leave, course of study and other decisions concerning the status of a person in education.
Assessment of foreign applicants' documents, language requirements, admission rules, document compliance and procedures related to admitting and continuing the education of foreign nationals.
Minutes, periodic achievement records, examination, assessment and placement documentation, archiving, electronic records and compliance of procedures with legal requirements.
Issuing diplomas and supplements, duplicates, copies, certificates, corrections, signatures of authorised officials, document templates and responsibility for the proper conduct of the issuing process.
Study and education regulations, assessment and examination procedures, diploma procedures, complaints, document workflows, anti-discrimination, anti-mobbing and organisational procedures.
Preparing decisions, orders, notices and instructions, conducting proceedings and representation in administrative-court matters involving institutions and students.
Support in matters involving students, learners and employees, breaches of institutional rules, internal conflicts and events requiring a properly documented response.
Advice on organising classes, committees, examinations, diploma defences, placements, employment and cooperation with staff, and unusual organisational situations.
Preparation for inspections and supervisory actions, organisation of documentation, responses to findings and recommendations, and implementation of remedial measures.
Ongoing legal support
In the education sector, many problems can be resolved when preparing a decision, regulation, response to a student or organisational process. Ongoing support allows those issues to be consulted before they become a complaint, appeal, inspection or dispute.
ongoing consultations for authorities and administration
review of documents and procedures
preparation of decisions and correspondence
support in urgent situations
training for staff and administration
representation in proceedings
We do not stop at identifying a provision. We analyse how a specific solution will work in the real environment of a university or school and what consequences it may have for its authorities, administration, students and the organisation as a whole.
Contact us about ongoing support