About Us

JUDr. Irena Valíčková, MBA

Irena graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Masaryk University in Brno, where she obtained the title of the master at law in the field of the Law and Legal Science. She successfully defended her diploma thesis at the Labour Law Department. After that she successfully defended her doctoral thesis at the Labour Law Department of the Masaryk University in Brno and obtained the title of the doctor at law. She is a graduate of the MBA programme – Master of Business Administration – human resources management. She is currently in a doctoral study programme (Ph.D.) at the Faculty of Law of the Charles University in Prague.

She completed her practice as an attorney trainee in the Joint Law Office in Brno under the supervision of JUDr. Miloslav Petržela, JUDr. Ludvík Ševčík, JUDr. Vladimír Kristýn, JUDr. Kárim Titz, Mgr. Petr Kubica, JUDr. Daniel Ševčík, Ph.D., Mgr. Václav Rožec, JUDr. Ludvík Ševčík, jr., and JUDr. Martin Machač.

She gained practical experience during her student practice in the law office Havel, Holásek & Partners s.r.o., advokátní kancelář, the educational agency TSM, spol. s r.o., with which she cooperates as a lecturer to today, and also in an on-line legal advisory centre.

Irena has been a member of the Accreditation Committee of the Ministry of the Interior. She is a founder and a member of the Experts Council of the Union of Personalists and a member of the Experts Collegium of the Association for the Development of Collective Bargaining and Labour Relationships. Irena is also an author of labour law model drafts for the legal system ASPI by Wolters Kluwer, a.s. She has given lectures at trade shows in Prague (INCHEBA EXPO Prague) LINGUA SHOW and JOBS EXPO.

Given that Irena likes to transfer experience from practice, she was also dedicated to lecturing activities in the legal area for Brno University of Technology. Today she actively operates as a lecturer of labour law, GDPR and civil law, and more than ten thousand of trainees have already gone through her trainings. In her free time she is active as a member of the editorial council of the quarterly magazine AD REM designated for personalists, where she contributes on a regular basis with her professional articles from the area of labour law. She also regularly publishes on the server Epravo.cz, Idnes.cz, Penize.cz, Metro, HR News etc. Irena also provides interviews for television, most often in the labour law area.

She speaks fluent German (she has obtained Zertifikat Deutsch and Mittelstufe Deutsch) and she has a command of English at a communicational level. She knows the basics of Latin.

Within her practice, Irena focuses especially on labour, civil, business and family law.

Her hobbies are time spent with family, walks in the nature, travelling, sport, Italian cuisine, and wine tasting (especially in the picturesque wine cellars of Southern Moravia, and also with her friends in favourite Tuscany, and at the sun soaked top of Cartizze in Italy). Since childhood she has been active as an aerobic instructor, which started her lifelong love for sport. She practices advocacy as a shareholder and a managing attorney at law of the law office Valíček & Valíčková, advokátní kancelář, s.r.o.

She is a founder of the project Legal clinic under her law office, which helps people who have found themselves in an oppressive economic situation. She is also the creator of Start your successful business, which helps to beginning entrepreneurs. Irena has engaged herself in business since she was 18 years old, when she created a small e-shop, which expanded within a few months into a successfully operating and well-known e-shop. Due to her graduation from university she left the world of sales and entrepreneurship and she established her own law office with full taste and enthusiasm.

She has passed the bar exam with the evaluation excellent.

Motto: “Per aspera ad astra” (through obstacles to the stars). This motto has accompanied Irena in her whole profession. She started to practice advocacy without a sole client “from scratch”, where after the intensive work she developed a stable and well operating law office, thanks to the trust of her clients.

JUDr. Adam Valíček, MBA

Adam graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Palacký University in Olomouc, where he gained the title of the master at law in the field of the Law and Legal Science. He successfully defended his diploma thesis at the Civil Law Department. After that he successfully defended his doctoral thesis in the area of labour law at the Labour Law and Social Security Department of the Masaryk University in Brno and obtained the title of the doctor at law. He is a graduate of the MBA programme – Master of Business Administration – human resources management. He is currently studying in a doctoral study programme (Ph.D.) at the Charles University in Prague.

He completed his practice as an attorney trainee in the law office in Brno under the supervision of JUDr. Petr Poledník and further in the law office of Mgr. Tomáš Vácha under the supervision of Mgr. Pavel Bareš.

He gained his practical experience during his student practice in the law office of JUDr. Petr Poledník and further of JUDr. Petr Procházka. He was also operating within the educational agency TSM, spol. s r.o., with which he cooperates as a lecturer until today.

Adam lectures in the areas of labour law, GDPR and civil law, and more than ten thousand of trainees have already gone through his trainings. In his free time he is active as a member of the editorial council of the quarterly magazine AD REM designated for personalists, where he contributes on a regular basis with his professional articles from the area of labour law. He also regularly publishes on the server Epravo.cz, Idnes.cz, Penize.cz, Metro, HR News etc. Adam also provides interviews for television, most often in the labour law area. He is a founder and a member of the Experts Council of the Union of Personalists and a member of the Experts Collegium of the Association for the Development of Collective Bargaining and Labour Relationships.

He is an author of labour law model drafts for the legal system ASPI by Wolters Kluwer, a.s. He speaks fluent English, and he has a command of Russian at a communicational level. He knows the basics of Latin. He regularly engages himself in publishing activities.

In his practice he focuses especially on labour, real estate, civil, criminal and insolvency law. Between his hobbies are wine tasting, tourism, collection and especially tasting of rums, travelling, sport, Italian cuisine, and cooking for family and friends. He practices advocacy as a shareholder and a managing attorney at law of the office Valíček & Valíčková, advokátní kancelář, s.r.o.

Motto: “Who wants finds a way, who does not want finds a reason.”

Mgr. Miroslav Papoušek

Mirek graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Masaryk University in Brno, where he gained the title of the master at law in the field of the Law and Legal Science. He successfully defended his diploma thesis at the Labour Law Department. He currently intends to write a doctoral thesis at the Labour Law Department of the Masaryk University and thus gain the title of the doctor at law.

He completed the practice as an attorney trainee in the Law Office of Mgr. Eva Kocmanová in Brno.

He has gained practical experience since 2011, when he in the course of years operated in the Law Office of Mgr. Roman Keznikl and he is also experienced in execution proceedings due to his practice at the Execution Office Brno-City of the court executor Mgr. Ing. Josef Cingroš.

He speaks fluent English, and he is in a partial command of German. In the past, he also started to study basics of French and he would like to return to it in the future.

Within his practice, Mirek especially focuses on labour, civil, family and criminal law. In his practice Mirek is fulfilled especially by litigations before courts and finding of complex solutions for clients.

His hobbies include guitar playing and sport of any kind, especially racket sports (tennis and badminton), biking, and earlier he was also actively engaged in Thai boxing. Mirek is also an enthusiastic homebrewer, which means he likes to cook his own beer.

He practices advocacy as a cooperating attorney at law of the office Valíček & Valíčková, advokátní kancelář, s.r.o.

​Motto: “The only way how to do your job well is to love what you do.” (Steve Jobs). This motto depicts Mirek´s approach to practice of advocacy precisely, because his main goal is the desire to improve himself and have as many satisfied clients as possible.

Mgr. Marek Němeček

Marek Němeček is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of the Palacký University in Olomouc, where he in 2018 gained the title of the master at law in the field of the Law and Legal Science. He successfully defended a diploma thesis at the Private Law and Civil Proceedings Department. For one semester he studied at the Italian Universita degli Studi di Ferrara, where he engaged himself mainly in the studies of the European and international law.

During his studies he gained practical experience as an intern at the District Court in Kroměříž and as an intern in the law office Krejčí, Rajf & partneři, s.r.o., advokátní kancelář, in Brno.

Po absolvování právnické fakulty působil na pozici advokátního koncipienta v SCHREIBER & PARTNER, advokátní kancelář s.r.o., kdy jeho školitelem byl JUDr. Ing. Pavel Schreiber, advokát.

Within his practice, he focuses especially on civil, business, labour and criminal law. He likes the heterogeneity of working in advocacy, and therefore he does not avoid any legal area.

Marek´s biggest hobby is sport, both in the position of an active player and a fan. He engaged himself in football at the level of the Moravian-Silesian student and junior league. He is a passionate fan of Arsenal and an admirer of the football player Zlato Ibrahimovic. Marek´s other hobbies are travelling, history, getting-together with friends and Italian cuisine.

He speaks English and Italian, he also has a command of basics of German.

Mgr. Kateřina Kolářová Justová

Katka graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Masaryk University in Brno, where she received a Master of Laws degree in the field of Law and Legal science. She defended her diploma thesis at the Department of Criminal Law. She gained experience as an attorney trainee in the law office of JUDr. Karel Maláska in Tišnov.

She also gained practical experience in the judiciary. She also provides an assistance to victims of crime.

Katka speaks English and would like to return to studying French.

She focuses on civil law, especially family law, real estate, construction law and criminal law. She tries to maintain a personal and sensitive approach to clients in her practice. She passed the bar exam in 2015 with honours.

Katka likes jogging, riding a bike, swimming and she would like to return to sport climbing. She is an enthusiastic breeder of wire-haired dachshunds she has an understanding of gamekeeping and likes to spend time in nature. She is a deputy mayor in a small village in the heart of Vysočina region.

She practices law as a cooperating attorney-at-law in Valíček & Valíčková, advokátní kancelář, s.r.o.

Mgr. Marika Dlouhá

Marika is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of the Masaryk University in Brno. She has always been very attracted to advocacy, which is why she started working as a paralegal in a renowned law firm during her studies, where she dealt with debt collection and real estate law. During her attorney trainee practice, she gained a lot of experience in representing clients in civil, criminal and administrative proceedings.

In 2013 she successfully passed the bar exams and since then she has been practicing advocacy. In her free time, she enjoys swimming, playing tennis and taking caravan trips with her family.

Mgr. Hana Zemanová Šimonová, Ph.D., LL.M.

Hana graduated from the Faculty of Law at Masaryk University in Brno, earning a Master of Laws degree in Law and Legal Science. She defended her thesis at the Department of Commercial Law. She is a graduate of the LL.M. program, Master of Laws in Czech Business Law in the European Union. Subsequently, she completed her doctoral studies at the Department of Labour Law and Social Security Law at the Faculty of Law of Masaryk University in Brno. She successfully passed the state doctoral examination and defended her dissertation on the topic "Protection of Privacy and Personal Data of Employees," earning her the academic degree of Ph.D.

She gained experience as an associate at the prestigious law firm Bulinský, Mach & Vávra (later Bulinský & Vávra, advokátní kancelář, s.r.o.) in Brno. After passing the bar exam, she continued as a cooperating attorney at law, subsequently becoming a partner in 2015. Since 2021, she has operated independently, primarily focusing on commercial and employment law. Since January 2024, she has been a cooperating attorney at law of the office Valíček & Valíčková, advokátní kancelář, s.r.o.

Hana specializes in commercial law and does not hesitate to solve any problems that arise in the operation of a company and business, with a particular focus on contract and corporate law. Her other areas of expertise are employment law, data protection law and real estate law. Hana's professional engagements extend to conducting training sessions, where she primarily educates clients' employees on matters related to employment and commercial law. Furthermore, she actively contributes to the legal literature through her publications, with her articles featured in esteemed publications like the Bulletin of Advocacy.

She offers legal services in Czech, German, and English.

Outside of her legal career, Hana enjoys yoga, travel, and long-distance trekking. Notable experiences include the legendary Inca-Trail to Machu Picchu and a solo walking pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in 2023. Her hobbies include reading, watching art films, and taking long walks with her dog, Woody.

Mgr. Denis Peml

Denis graduated from the Faculty of Law of Masaryk University in Brno. He defended his diploma thesis at the Department of Business Law.

He gained experience as a legal assistant in both big and small law firms during his studies. He also worked at the Office for the Protection of Economic Competition, where he was involved in the analysis of decision-making practice in the field of public procurement.

After graduation from law school, he entered the world of justice and became an assistant judge of the Supreme Court. He focused mainly on obligations, unfair competition and arbitration issues. Subsequently, he successfully passed the professional judicial examination with a rating of excellently qualified / excellent competence.

He continues to focus his practice mainly on civil and commercial law.

His hobbies include playing the guitar and sports.

He is fluent in English.

He practices law as an associate attorney at Valíček & Valíčková, advokátní kancelář, s.r.o.

Mgr. Aleš Vyhnánek

Aleš is a graduate of the Faculty of Law at Charles University, where he earned a Master of Laws degree in Law and Legal Science. He completed his studies with a thesis defense on the topic of Environmental Protection in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights.

He was active as a trainee lawyer at the Rath Schejbal & Co. law firm and with JUDr. Jan Szewczyk. He also has experience working as a corporate lawyer and in public administration.

Aleš passed the bar exam with honors in 2021.

He engages in general practice, providing legal services to clients in all areas of law. He is particularly interested in criminal, family, and civil law, especially representing clients in court proceedings.

Aleš views the legal profession as a service to justice. The opportunity to contribute to the correction of injustices brings him deep personal satisfaction.

Aleš is an enthusiastic sportsman. In the past, he participated in mountain marathons and ultramarathons, with the longest distance he ever ran being 70 km. Currently, he practices boxing. In addition to sports, his great love is literature and vegetarian cuisine.

Aleš speaks English and has a basic knowledge of German.

JUDr. Markéta Kubričanová

Markéta graduated from the Faculty of Law at Charles University in Prague, where she first obtained her Master's degree in Law and Legal Science, and subsequently passed the state rigorous examination in Civil Procedural Law earning the JUDr. degree.

She gained her first practical legal experience during studies as an intern in the legal department of the ING Czech Republic group, focusing primarily on corporate law. She then joined the law firm of Mgr. Karolina Panská as a legal intern, where she also completed her legal clerkship and continued to collaborate for many years.

Markéta has been practicing law since 2006 and has been an independent attorney since 2013. She collaborated with the law firm Ciprýn, Kiršner & Partners s.r.o. for nearly 2 years.

Throughout her professional career, Markéta has engaged in general practice, focusing mainly on civil law, family law, real estate law, and contractual matters. What she values the most is the diversity of general legal practice, which she encounters in her work. With years of experience as an independent attorney and daily direct interaction with clients, Markéta values a personalized and empathetic approach to each client.

Markéta consistently collaborates with the law firm Valíček & Valíčková, law firm, s.r.o. in its Prague branch.

In her free time, Markéta enjoys spending time with her family, is a member of Sokol, loves tea, enjoys reading (recently mainly contemporary Czech literature) and baking.

Mgr. Jana Štěpničková Strachová

Jana is a graduate of Masaryk University in Brno, where she earned a Master's degree in Law and Legal Science from the Faculty of Law, as well as a Bachelor's degree in International Relations, European Studies, and Journalism, Media Studies from the Faculty of Social Studies.

During her studies, she took an interest in copyright law and the protection of journalists' confidential sources. She also focused on the issue of domestic violence, providing legal support to multidisciplinary projects and conferences under the auspices of the Faculty of Social Studies at Masaryk University.

She completed her attorney trainee practice in a Prague law firm that provides services to both domestic and international clients in the fields of corporate law and real estate law. Since 2014, she has been an independent attorney, currently practicing in Prague and Beroun. In addition to real estate law and corporate law, she is intensively involved in all areas of civil law, especially family law.

A deeper interest in understanding interpersonal relationships, particularly all aspects of negotiation and agreement-making, led her to study mediation. In 2022, she passed the registered mediator exam at the Czech Bar Association. Since then, she has also been practicing mediation, focusing on family relationships and conflicts in work teams.

She provides legal services in both Czech and English and she also speaks German. She now permanently collaborates with the law firm Valíček & Valíčková, advokátní kancelář s.r.o.

In her free time, Jana dedicates herself primarily to her family, which includes her dog, a Border Collie named Champy. She enjoys hiking, reading fine literature (especially sci-fi and fantasy), and photography.

Mgr. Martin Hušek

Martin is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of the Masaryk University, where he earned a Master's degree in Law. During his studies, he developed a strong interest in private law, particularly in the areas of securities and international trade. He defended his thesis, titled "Bill of exchange in International Trade," at the Department of International and European Law.

While still a student, Martin gained valuable experience as a paralegal at the law firm Valíček & Valíčková. He was drawn to the advocacy to its variety, diversity, and the frequent challenges it presents.

Martin holds the Cambridge English Advanced (CAE) certification and has experience teaching English during his studies. He is also proficient in German.

In his free time, Martin enjoys cooking, especially Asian cuisine, he is an avid board game enthusiast, and enjoys tasting both domestic and international craft beers.

Mgr. Štěpánka Frimlová

Štěpánka is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of Masaryk University in Brno. During her studies she has already attended several legal internships, where she gained valuable experience in practice. In addition to her internship at our law firm, she also completed an internship at a law firm focused on insolvency law and a one-month internship at the Municipal Court in Brno. During the last year of her studies she also held the position of research assistant at the Department of Civil Procedure Law.

She mostly focuses on the areas of civil, criminal and insolvency law. She also focused on insolvency law in her thesis entitled "Verifying and Proving Bankruptcy".

Štěpánka is fluent in English and also studied German during her studies. In her free time, she enjoys playing sports and spending time with her cat or friends at musical performances.

Ing. Lenka Švédová

Lenka graduated from Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Business and Management, where she received the title of engineer in the field of Corporate Finance and Business. She has many years of experience in administration, economics and controlling, both in the public and private sectors.

In her free time, she enjoys sports, especially yoga, a healthy lifestyle and breeding exotic terrarium animals.

 

Mgr. Soňa Hrdličková

Soňa graduated from the Faculty of Arts of the Masaryk University in Brno. After graduating from the university, for many years she worked at the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Brno.

Her hobbies include history, travelling and reading especially a good historic novel or a non-fiction. She likes to spend her free time with her family, taking trips to nature, sightseeing and exploring zoos, which is a great passion of her children.

Mgr. Kateřina Mrňová

Kateřina graduated from the Masaryk University in Brno. She then studied in Germany at the Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität in Munich and at the University of Hamburg. In the Czech Republic, she subsequently acted mainly as an interpereter, which nicely combined work with her passion for traveling. After maternity leave, she fully concentrated on working in administration in the private sector as an office manager.

On weekdays, after working in the office, she likes to play tennis or practice yoga. When she has more free time, she prefers to spend it actively in nature: she likes hiking, swimming, cycling or cross-country skiing. However, she also enjoys good rest with a fine book and quality coffee or wine.

Katarína Konečná

Katarina is an assistant at our law firm. After studying high school and post-secondary studies in English, she worked for several years as an assistant at the Brno branch of the TSM spol. s r.o. educational agency and in recent years has devoted herself fully to her two sons.

Family comes first for her and she loves to spend her free time with them. Her greatest relaxation is nature, any creative manual activity, contact with animals and sports (e.g. yoga, pilates, in-line), but especially cycling or hiking, ideally somewhere under a tent and away from civilization.

Mgr. Monika Kokešová

Monika is a graduate of the Faculty of Law at Masaryk University in Brno. During her studies, she has already practiced law at the Bar and the Office for the International Legal Protection of Children. As she liked the variety and diversity of work in advocacy, she joined a law firm in Brno after her studies as a law clerk. Later, she worked as a lawyer at Brněnské komunikace, a.s.

Monika speaks German and English. She completed a six-month study stay at the Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken, located in Germany, close to the border with France, and thus had the opportunity to learn the basics of French.

She enjoys spending her free time with her family on outdoor trips and spending time with her children. She's also a big dog lover. With her border collie, she has tried various cynological disciplines and has won several awards - among her greatest achievements is the title of vice-champion of the Czech Republic in agility in the team category. Now she is doing dog sports just for fun.

Motto: Obstacles bring out talents in us that would remain hidden under more favorable circumstances. (Horatius)

Mgr. Michal Knecht

A lecturer, advisor, and consultant in the area of construction law and real estate. He pays attention to this area of course also during his lectures. 

After graduating from the faculty of law he worked at the section of property of the Regional Office of the South-Moravian Region. In 2006 he started to work as the chief of the zoning procedure and the building code section of the Municipal Office Tišnov. He gives lectures on regular basis and has cooperated in the area of construction law with many private entities, territorially self-governing units and administrative bodies. He also cooperates with law offices. His lecturing programmes are accredited by the Ministry of the Interior. He also engages in publishing activity and he is a member of the Czech Construction Law Society.

Josef Marčík

Josef handles the graphics and marketing in our law office.