Agnieszka Kowalczyk-Zagaj

Agnieszka Kowalczyk-Zagaj

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She is a legal counselor and member of the District Chamber of Legal Counsel in Warsaw.

Agnieszka was a long-time employee of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK), where she specialized in consumer protection cases and headed a team for telecommunications and media issues. She also gained professional experience in law firms, both in Poland and the United States. She has handled many cases in the field of consumer protection, which ended in precedent-setting settlements - at the stage of administrative and judicial proceedings, including proceedings before the Supreme Court.

She participated in international projects in the field of consumer protection, including as a representative of Poland in working groups of the European Commission and in grant projects within the EU Consumer Protection Cooperation network. She was also involved in legislative processes in the field of Polish and EU legislation.

She advises leading entrepreneurs in various industries on broadly defined consumer law, including applied provisions of model contracts and legal aspects of marketing activities. Agnieszka has extensive experience in projects for e-commerce, chemical, FMCG, DIY and financial markets. She conducts trainings on consumer law.

She graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at Warsaw University. She is also a graduate of the Postgraduate Study of Competition Law at the Institute of Legal Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Center for American Law - a program of the University of Florida Levin College of Law at the University of Warsaw.

Agnieszka is a mediator specializing in business cases and a lecturer at the postgraduate program Consumer Protection Law at the Institute of Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She also serves as an Arbitrator-Referee at the Advertising Ethics Committee of the Union of Associations Advertising Council.

At the Modzelewska & Paśnik law firm, she heads the practice of consumer law.

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