13:35 11.04.2014

DLA Piper announces winners of all-Ukraine scholarship competition for law students 2013-2014

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Kyiv – DLA Piper, a global law firm, has announced the winners of its All-Ukraine Scholarship Competition for Law Students of 2013-2014, which started in autumn 2013. The competition has been running of the 7th year in a row for students of law departments of the Ukrainian universities. The winners of this year are: First place: Anna Hluschenko, student of the Kyiv National University named after Taras Shevchenko. Second place: Anna Ruzhenska, a student of the Kyiv National University named after Taras Shevchenko. Third place: Vladyslav Dubrovsky, a student of National Law University named after Yaroslav the Wise. All the winners won the opportunity to work as interns in DLA Piper Kyiv office for one month, after choosing a practice group where they would be interested to work. Before the start of the internship the winners will meet with the Managing Partner of the Kyiv office of DLA Piper, Margarita Karpenko, and the representatives of the judging panel of the competition for a gala lunch, and will have the opportunity to discuss their internships and the hot topics of the legal market. "This year we got fewer papers than usually as the submission deadline coincided with the events of mid-February 2014 and, most probably, historical processes that took place in the country also influenced the number of works we received. Nevertheless, the contest was held, the finalists have been chosen, the internship will hopefully give them new useful knowledge and help their further career development. Currently we are developing several more projects for the students, which we believe will give even more opportunities to many young professionals," Margarita Karpenko said. The Judging Panel of the 2013-2014 Competition included: • Natalya Bondarenko, Legal Director, Carlsberg Ukraine • Kateryna Chala, General Director, Managing Partner, MMI Group • Margarita Karpenko, Managing Partner, DLA Piper Ukraine (Kyiv) • Natalia Kochergina, Partner and Head of Real Estate, DLA Piper Ukraine (Kyiv) • Olga Kravchenko, Head of Legal Department, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine • Anna Lazurenko, Head of Legal, Louis Dreyfus Commodities Ltd. LLC • Andriy Osipov, Head of Legal Department and Compliance Officer, Metro Cash & Carry Ukraine Ltd. • Oksana Syroyid, Director, Ukrainian Legal Foundation • Yuriy Vakhel, Head of Legal and Business Development, Noble Resources Ukraine LLC, Expert of the Ukrainian Agricultural Confederation • Oleksandr Vinnikov, LEP Legal Advisor, USAID Project • Andrii Zhurzhiy, Head of Legal Department, Fozzy Group the All-Ukraine Scholarship Competition for Law Students of 2013-2014 was as usual supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, the Students' League of the Ukrainian Bar Association as well as by USAID "Access to justice and legal empowerment" project in Ukraine and European student's forum "AEGEE-Kyiv". The Interfax-Ukraine information agency is the media partner of the competition.
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