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Prawnik.pl writes about the course on legal writing taught by Ewa Don Siemion. Please note that we will be accepting new applications for the second edition of the course in the summer semester.

Legal Writing with Ewa Don Siemion

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SCHOOL OF AMERICAN LAW
Faculty of Law and Administration
Jagiellonian University

LEGAL WRITING
Ewa Don Siemion, Esq.

Study drafting correspondence, memos and other legal documents in English under an experienced, international lawyer.  Students will work on assignments and solve practical problems of legal writing under personal, individual supervision of Ms. Don Siemion.

Ewa Don Siemion, Esq.  is the managing partner at a business law firm in Warsaw: CDZ – Chajec, Don Siemion & Żyto.

Ewa Don-Siemion graduated from McGill School of Law in Montreal, Canada, and she was admitted to the New York Bar in 1995.

She practiced for six years at Shearman & Sterling in New York. She was responsible for international securities law transactions both in the financial and media/telecoms sectors. She rendered regulatory advice for banks and brokerage houses from Latin America and Western Europe. She represented Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs on media, telecoms, mining and energy transactions and tenders in Poland.

In Poland, Ms. Don Siemion was a member of the management board of Netia.  She was responsible for legal and regulatory matters, co-managing, among other things, a $860 million debt restructuring.

SIGN UP:
Number of participants is limited, so candidates need to submit in English the CV and the motivation letter by e-mail: okspo at uj.edu.pl not later than 7 October 2009, 1:00 PM.  Candidates might be asked for an additional   interview before admission to the course.

REQUIREMENTS:
Participants need to be fluent in English, and have completed the course on civil law I.

ECTS:
Students will receive credits for successful participation.

CLASS TIMES:
1:00 P.M. – 3:00 P.M., Thursdays: 8 & 22 Oct. 2009, 5 & 19 Nov. 2009, 3 Dec. 2009, 7 & 21 Jan. 2010 + one additional class, date TBA

VENUE:
Conference room, Jagiellonian University Guesthouse, ul. Floriańska 49, Cracow.

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