Associate in the Litigation and Arbitration Team and the Infrastructure Team. He specialises in court proceedings and issues regarding liability for damages.
His experience includes supporting entities from the pharmaceutical, food, construction and railway sectors. Among other cases, he advised on a dispute concerning contractual penalties charged to a subcontractor performing an advanced metal structure and contractual penalties charged to a supplier of an Internet connection system in high-speed trains.
Rafał has also assisted clients in cases regarding unfair competition, liability for a hazardous product, liability of former management board members and annulment and invalidation of company resolutions. He has supported clients in administrative proceedings before the President of the Competition and Consumer Protection Office and the Regional Inspector of Trade Inspection.
He provides legal advice before and during litigation.
Professional experience
- since 2024 JDP DRAPAŁA & PARTNERS
- 2023 Hogan Lovells LLP (Warsaw)
- 2022–2023 KRK Kieszkowska Rutkowska Kolasiński Kancelaria Prawna, internship
- 2021 Rymarz, Zdort, Maruta, Wachta, Gasiński, Her i Wspólnicy (formerly: Rymarz Zdort), internship
- 2021 Wardyński i Wspólnicy, internship
- 2020 State Treasury Solicitors’ Office, internship in the Department of Studies and Analyses
- 2019 Constitutional Tribunal, internship in the Legal Service Office
- 2019 Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights, internship
Education
- since 2024 Warsaw Bar Association, advocate trainee
- since 2022 Doctoral School of Social Sciences at the University of Warsaw
- 2017-2022 University of Warsaw, Faculty of Law and Administration, graduation with honours; individual course of study for the best students
Distinctions
- 2024 First place in the 10th Competition organised by the Scientific Society of Civil Litigation Scholars for the “Polish Civil Litigation” Prize for the best master’s thesis in the field of civil procedure
- since 2021 Project “Good faith in constitutional law” (2020/39/B/HS5/02298) funded by the National Science Centre within the OPUS 20 programme, scholarship
- 2021 Winner of the “Career Programme” organised by the Polish Business Council
- 2018–2021 Scholarship of the Rector of the University of Warsaw
Selected publications
- Admissibility of an individual claim by an aggrieved former participant in a class action for a further part of compensation, “Polski Proces Cywilny” 2023, No. 2, p. 330–339
- Effect of joining an action alongside one of the parties to the original action and a third-party notice in light of the constitutional principle of the right to be heard [in:] A. Orzeł-Jakubowska (ed.), T. Zembrzuski (ed.), Constitutional aspects of litigation
- author of more than a dozen presentations at international and national scientific conferences on civil procedure, civil law, constitutional law and human rights
