Mgr. Jan Vytřísal

Jan leads the firm's disputes practice and its business strategy. He represents clients in commercial disputes and criminal matters from the first analysis through to judgment, and wherever a settlement serves the client better than a judgment, he negotiates on their behalf: settlement talks with the other side, negotiations over complex deals and crises, and the preparation and conduct of witness examinations. The disputes and transactions he works on range in value from hundreds of thousands to tens of millions of CZK, including contractual relationships in regulated industries.

For him, negotiating and litigating are a single discipline. He comes to the table with his procedural ammunition ready, and in court he never loses sight of the door to a settlement. He builds his cases on a combination of law and the psychology of decision-making: Kahneman, Tversky, Argyris, Schön and Schein are not on his shelves for decoration but in his arguments.

Nine years behind a radio microphone taught him to say complicated things so that people actually hear them, whether in the courtroom, at the negotiating table or on a recording that may one day become evidence.

The firm offers preparation for a specific confrontation, and the running of it, as a separate service: the War Room.

Outside legal practice he explores the logic of power through social simulations, and he writes books.