Lawyer and licensed mediator / CEO

ŠPELA GRČAR

She graduated with cum laude in 1999 from the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana, within the Department of Civil Law Sciences, with the thesis “Copyright problems of satellite and cable television“. After completing a voluntary internship at the High Court in Ljubljana, she passed the state bar exam in 2004. In 2016, she completed training as a mediator and since 2017 she has also been a mediator on the list of the Mediation Center at the Slovenian Bar Association.

 

She is the co-founder of the Grčar Law Firm and works there as a lawyer and CEO. Before that, she trained in a large law firm and worked in a commercial company, for several years in the public broadcaster Radiotelevizija Slovenija and for a short time in the public administration in the field of media (Broadcasting Council of Slovenia). During this time, she also worked as a representative of the Republic of Slovenia in the Council of Europe, the European Commission and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), especially in the field of copyright and media law.

 

Throughout her career in the field of media, she was active in the drafting of media legislation as a member of working groups for the preparation of the media law, law on film and law on public broadcaster. In the past decade, as an interested public, she actively participated in the drafting of new copyright legislation and on the collective management of copyright and related rights.

»I see the meaning of life in creation, and in creation there is boundless satisfaction.«
(Maksim Gorky)