15. 5. 2025
Jana Kostěncová Promoted to Senior Associate at Giese & Partner
We are delighted to announce that our colleague Jana Kostěncová has been promoted to Senior Associate at Giese & Partner.
Jana has been with us for more than seven years and has become a strong part of the team, particularly in the field of litigation. She graduated from the School of Law at Charles University in Prague and was admitted to the Czech Bar in 2014. Jana has extensive experience in litigation and arbitration, insolvency, real estate matters as well as corporate law.
We are happy to have Jana Kostěncová on our team and wish her the best of luck in the future.
News & Publications
Conflicts of Interest: A Three-Layer Problem with Real Money at Stake
Babiš’s conflict-of-interest problem is not just politics – it is a three-layer legal framework, with the sharpest impact coming from the pub-lic-money firewall in Sections 4b and 4c. We explain why shifting Agrofert into trust-type structures still raises doubts, and why the Hartenberg arm remains a key part of the story. A brisk read on the limits of Czech legislation and why the European Commission’s next steps may keep this issue alive.
A Cabinet Minister: To Be or Not To Be?
A Czech ministerial nomination turns into a constitutional stress test: can the President refuse the Prime Minister’s pick in a parliamentary system? The Filip Turek saga - ending in a “government commissioner” workaround - raises hard questions about institutional boundaries, incompatibility rules, and the rule of law.
The Digital Hallucination: A CZK 25,000 Lesson in AI Legal Ethics
Constitutional Court penalizes an attorney for submission based on "hallucinated" AI-generated content.
