Law office "Pravovyi Zahyst" (License No.1-4669 dated 23 Feb 99) was founded by Sokolovskiy Vladislav Vyacheslavovich on January 10, 1999. Later, on February 22, 2005, with intent of granting more qualitative juridical assistance to the clients, lawyers of law office "Pravovyi Zahyst" initiated the lawyers association "Legal Firm "Sokolovskiy and Partners". As part of lawyers association, the lawyers and the employees (associate lawyers and attorneys) may enjoy great rights, granted them by the Law of Ukraine "About Practice of Law". The norms of stated law entrust all employees of the legal firm with responsibility to keep advocate secrets. The subject of advocate secret is the items, the natives or legal bodies address with to the lawyers, the substance of consultation, advice, clarifications and other data, received by the lawyer in the exercise of his professional duty (article 9, "About Practice of Law").

Any intrusion in advocacy as well as claiming the data, forming the advocate secrets from the lawyer, associate lawyers, official bodies and support staff is prohibited. On these questions they cannot examined as witnesses. The documents, connected with carrying out the lawyer's commission are not the subject of examination, disclosure or withdrawal without his consent (article 10 "About Practice of Law").

It ought to be noted that at present, the activity of legal services providing is not licensed and agreeably, the quality of services is not examined. In lawyer associations the case is far different, as they are registered in Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, which employees monitor their activity. Furthermore the quality of provided services can be examined by qualified advocacy committee, which had issued the certificate to the lawyer. There are some advantages for the clients if their interests in court are represented by the legal firm. With reference to the norms of civil procedural and economic procedure codes, the lawyer (lawyers associations) costs are restituted at the expense of defeated party - this allows to reduce the cost of juridical expenses.

That fact that "Legal Firm "Sokolovskiy and Partners" has close partnership relations with Audit Firm "System Audit Capital", court-appointed manager Mr. V.A. Filatov and notary officer Mrs. N.V. Ostapchuk, is also the advantage for our company's clients.

Above-stated and other advantages of working with lawyer associations allow to make the conclusion that, in many cases, the clients for getting more qualitative legal services, it is worthwhile to conclude the legal service agreement exactly with legal firm.

Basing on the results of the eleventh annual "Legal Firms 2007" research performed by "Yuridicheskaya Praktika" newspaper, the Legal Firm "Sokolovskiy and Partners" went into the following ratings: "50 Leading Legal Firms by Income" and "50 Leading Legal Firms by Cost Effectiveness".

According to the ratings of "Yuridicheskaya Praktika" for years of 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005, Legal Firm "Pravovyi Zahyst" went into 50 most efficient legal firms of Ukraine. Information guide "Ukrainian Law Firms" of 2003, issued by "Yuridicheskaya Praktika" publishing house, recommends Legal Firm "Pravovyi Zahyst" to foreign clients as the most professional legal firm of Ukraine in the sphere of insurance companies legal support.