DLA Piper announces winners of the All-Ukraine Scholarship Competition for law students 2013-2014

DLA Piper, a global law firm, 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 7th year in a row for students of law departments of the Ukrainian universities.

The winners of this year are:

1ST PLACE: Anna Gluschenko, student of the Kiev National University named after Taras Shevchenko.

2ND PLACE: Anna Ruzhenska, a student of the Kiev National University named after Taras Shevchenko.

3RD PLACE: Vladislav 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 Kiev 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 Kiev 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 less 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, finalists are chosen, 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" - says Margarita Karpenko.

Judging Panel of the 2013-2014 Competition included:

• Natalya Bondarenko, Legal Director, Carlsberg Ukraine
• Chala Kateryna, General Director, Managing Partner, MMIGroup
• Karpenko Margarita, Managing Partner, DLA Piper Ukraine (Kiev)
• Kochergina Natalia, Partner and Head of Real Estate, DLA Piper Ukraine (Kiev)
• Kravchenko Olga, Head of Legal Department, Ministry of  Education and Science of  Ukraine
• Lazurenko Anna, Head of Legal, Louis Dreyfus Commodities Ltd. LLC
• Osipov Andriy, Head of Legal Department and Compliance Officer, Metro Cash & Carry Ukraine Ltd.
• Syroyid Oksana, Director, Ukrainian Legal Foundation
• Vakhel Yuriy, Head of Legal and Business Development, Noble Resources Ukraine LLC, Expert of the Ukrainian Agricultural Confederation
• Vinnikov Oleksandr, LEP Legal Advisor, USAID Project
• Zhurzhiy Andrii, Head of Legal Department, Fozzy Group

All-Ukraine Scholarship Competition for Law Students of 2013-2014 is traditionally 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-Kiev". Interfax information agency is the media partner of the Competition.