Rising Stars: Lawyers and Tomorrow’s Leaders is a competition organized by LexisNexis and Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, to distinguish successful young legal professionals. This year, Weronika Papucewicz, a CDZ lawyer, was nominated as one of 30 rising legal stars of 2014.

Weronika specializes in individual and collective labor relations, anti-discrimination law, personal data protection, and labor law-related litigation. She mainly advises international entrants to the Polish market and companies from the BPO/SSC sectors. She graduated from the Warsaw University’s Faculty of Law and Administration and the American Law School of the Center for American Law Studies. She is a Ph.D. graduate in law sciences from the Institute of Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She has authored numerous press publications related to individual and collective labor law and has been a speaker at conferences. Weronika is actively involved in pro bono activities: she cooperates with the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights and the Polish Society of Anti-Discrimination Law. She joined CDZ in 2012.