While many arbitration conferences over the past year were cancelled due to the persisting Covid-19 pandemic, the organizers of the Vienna Arbitration Days 2021, with KNOETZL partner and ArbAut President Florian Haugeneder at the helm, opted for a different path: On 12 February 2021, Austria’s leading arbitration conference was for the first time held remotely. More than…

KNOETZL partner Florian Haugeneder, President of the Austrian Arbitration Association (ArbAut), organizes the first remotely conducted Vienna Arbitration Days taking place on Friday, 12 February 2021. The Vienna Arbitration Days (“VAD”) are the leading arbitration conference in Austria and welcome participants from around the globe for an intense exchange of academics and practitioners on topical issues in…

2020 was a challenging year. Not only our daily life in Austria changed, but, so did the Austrian litigation landscape. Austrian litigation is also morphing under the circumstances of COVID-19. During the pandemic new procedural rules were adopted, and courts started working with new technologies. There are also new proposals for Dispute Resolution Reform in…

2020 – What a year. Who would have imagined what it would bring. We discussed how to bring our year to a nice closing and decided to defy the tedious, overused, Zoom format and virtual playgrounds for once, and hold our Christmas Punch “in person” on our beautiful and spacious terraces, with enough distance and following our…

Die Presse, das Extrajournal, Wirtschaftsanwaelte.at wie auch KNOETZL, berichteten bereits über die Wahl von KNOETZL Partnerin Bettina Knötzl zur Vizepräsidentin der Rechtsanwaltskammer Wien. Im Magazin Anwalt Aktuell gibt Bettina Knötzl Einblick zu ihrer Person, ihren ungebrochenen Tatendrang, ihre große Leidenschaft bei der Rechtsvertretung ihrer Mandanten, und spricht zu ihren aktuellen Anliegen für den Stand: Hier…