In connection with the press conference held by PiS MP Sebastian Kaleta on March 21, 2025, we inform that the statements made during the conference are false. The Law Firm did not receive the amount of PLN 3,200,000 between 2019 and 2024 for legal services under agreements with the Mayor of the Capital City of Warsaw, Rafał Trzaskowski – as falsely claimed by Sebastian Kaleta.
It is also untrue that the Law Firm received PLN 600,000 for services provided to the National Sports Centre. In connection with work related to the construction of the National Stadium, the Law Firm entered into an agreement in January 2008 – over 17 years ago – which specified a maximum remuneration of up to PLN 600,000. However, the Firm issued invoices amounting to approximately PLN 70,000 for many months of legal advisory services provided in relation to the execution of Poland’s most significant sports facility.
Furthermore, it should be clarified that the cooperation between the Capital City of Warsaw and Dubois i Wspólnicy Kancelaria Adwokacko–Radcowska sp. j. regardinglegal support for proceedings conducted by the Commission for the Reprivatization ofWarsaw Real Estate was established in 2017, when the Mayor of Warsaw was Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz.
For these legal services (and a minority of other services), between 2017 and 2025, the City of Warsaw paid the Law Firm total remuneration of PLN 2.483.130,00 plus applicable VAT, which averages approximately PLN 25,000.00 per month. This remuneration covers costs related to preparing complaints and cassation appeals, as well as comprehensive handling of these proceedings – including participation in early hearings before the Commission, and hearings before the Provincial Administrative Court (WSA) and Supreme Administrative Court (NSA) in Warsaw.
Between 2017 and 2025, the Law Firm handled over 400 cases before the WSA and NSA. It prepared and filed at least 100 cassation appeals. In the year 2024 alone, 153 court hearings took place, and as of March 21, 2025, already 47 hearings have been held in the first quarter – averaging one hearing every two days. Over 15 lawyers from the Firm were involved in these cases between 2017 and 2025 – averaging 7 lawyers per month. The Law Firm’s average monthly cost is significantly lower than the cost of employing several (at least 5 legal counsels and at least 2 administrative staff), whom the City of Warsaw would have otherwise had to hire to handle the Commission’s matters.
As false information was presented in the conference announcement regarding a conflict of interest, we clarify that the Law Firm has never handled reprivatization cases involving properties located at the following addresses: Topiel 12, Miodowa 14, 16, 18, Pl. Trzech Krzyży 2, Pl. Trzech Krzyży 18, corner of Bracka 2, Bracka 1, corner of Żurawia, Nowolipie 80, Czysta 6, Krakowskie Przedmieście 42/22, Marszałkowska 6, Mazowiecka 16, Żelazna 83. In 2016 and 2017, at the request of clients, the Law Firm submitted public information requests to determine whether any decree applications had been filed for these properties – and that was the extent of the Law Firm’s involvement. The Firm’s lawyers were never granted powers of attorney to handle these matters at any stage.
In light of Mr. Sebastian Kaleta’s concern for public funds, we note that, according to information available to the Firm, during the time Mr. Kaleta served as a member of the Commission, the Commission spent approximately PLN 4.5 million on legal services from external law firms and appraisers up until 2020 – a sum significantly higher than what the City of Warsaw paid to the Law Firm over 9 years of cooperation.
