JUDr. Ing. Jan Vych, gave an interview to the epravo.cz portal.

Our leading partner is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague and the Faculty of Finance and Accounting of the University of Economics in Prague. He has been providing legal advice since 1996. He specializes in aviation law and also in the law of business corporations, mergers, acquisitions, transformation of companies, privatization and operation of enterprises supplying infrastructure services (water, waste, heat), corporate law, commercial obligations, banking law, financial law, securities law, issues of investment incentives, public procurement, PPP, concessions.

1. What do you like most about your job?

Variety and diversity, each of our clients comes with a unique problem, every time we come up with something that we have not encountered and that will move us forward. Interestingly, these surprises and variety come mostly in cases that initially seem simple and uninteresting. In the profession of a lawyer, I also like the possibility of a certain freedom to decide, of course taking into account the needs of the clients, when I will devote myself fully to work, when to my sons and when to my hobbies.

2. Who or what has most influenced your professional life?

My uncle – my father's brother, the chairman of the regional association of lawyers in Hradec Králové in the period before November 1989 and the founder of one of the first important law firms in the Czech Republic after 1989 – certainly had a significant influence on the decision to go into law and advocacy. he's watching from above or from hell (if the jokes about where we end up as lawyers after we die are true) and I just hope he's not turning in his grave from the way I practice law...

3. An ideal vacation?

With the camper and my two sons on trips around Europe, or behind the stick of a helicopter anywhere in the world.

4. Which subject was your favorite during your studies and why? And which one did you not like at all?

In high school, mathematics, physics, computer technology. Nothing related to legal disciplines. At university, I studied law, which had some connection and overlap with economics, which I studied in parallel with law at the University of Economics in Prague. So commercial law, financial law, capital markets and securities law and similar subjects. In the first theoretical and legal block, I liked Basics of logic with prof. Gerloch. On the contrary, I did not like any history, sociology, environmental law. Nevertheless, as is often the case in life, for example, the application of environmental law has earned me a lot of money and contributed significantly to the formation of the name of our office.

5. What can students surprise you with?

A number of students unpleasantly surprise me with their little involvement and interest in working in advocacy. It seems to me that they often go to work without any ambition and only when they have no other agenda. With such an attitude, it is difficult to assign students any more responsible work, which leads to their further annoyance. On the other hand, I have to say that I can be pleasantly surprised by some young colleagues who already consider the study period as part of building their next career path and are able to present themselves very decently on social networks, I mean LinkedIn in particular. Thanks to this, I managed to approach several very interesting and healthy ambitious lawyers, with whom we established cooperation.

6. What would you say to young people thinking about the legal profession?

Think about why you want to study law in particular and don't go to law schools just because you enjoyed humanities subjects. Practicing the legal profession is very much a mission and it needs to be done with love and the right amount of enthusiasm. In the same way, when you leave the gates of the faculty as young lawyers, think about what area of ​​the legal profession you want to pursue and which corresponds best to your mindset. Someone can be an excellent judge, but a poor lawyer, someone can have it the other way around. None of the legal professions are better or worse, each requires something different, each can be done well or poorly. And don't be afraid to be healthy ambitious, but at the same time have a natural respect for your mentors, know that they have filled their mouths many times in their professional life and you can avoid many mistakes. And concentrate on your own mistakes. J

7. Who motivates you the most in your life – professional and private?

I am motivated by the clients who trusted me eighteen years ago, gave me the strength to set up an office with their support, supported me in times that were not easy for me, and who are still with me today. I am motivated by my two sons who, when comparing their social status with their friends at school, proudly declare that their dad is a lawyer. I am motivated by people who, with their diligence and courage, were able to fulfill their dreams, such as one of my aviation friends, who at the age of thirty-two, as a gamekeeper in the Krkonoše Mountains, hung a flintlock on a nail and set out to fulfill his dream of flying. He graduated from university, founded an aviation helicopter school, from which he built one of the top companies in the field of helicopter flying in the Czech Republic with a modern base that can withstand the strictest comparison with the most modern bases in Europe. In addition to all this, he flies with the yellow Kryštof and contributed to saving many human lives.

8. Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
I hope to still be in the legal profession, either as the sole partner of the firm or as one of its partners, if the situation suggests that I will open my firm as a partnership to other skilled colleagues, which I have been thinking about more and more recently. And if she stopped entertaining me

advocacy, I would like to work somewhere in the aviation business.

9. What are your strengths and weaknesses?
Strengths – fairness, directness, decisiveness, ability to see the economic essence of legal problems that we solve for our clients. And the weak ones? Not everyone will believe it, but considerable kindness and willingness to help people more than is reasonable and essential. And the resulting frustration when that kindness is deservedly punished.

10. A (work) conflict that stuck in your memory, how did you solve it and what did it teach you?
From a recent series of conflicts with the then office manager of our office arising from her poor quality work and permanent late arrivals to work. I dealt with it in the final by fairly forcefully terminating the employment relationship on our part. He convinced me that the occasional sharp surgical incision was necessary.

Source: epravo.cz

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