Maris Kask-Polacko
Director of Legal Research
Holding a PhD from King’s College London Maris is a lawyer who became an academic and is now back in legal practice. She lived and worked in academia in London, UK for the past 16 years where she established and led a new practice-based law school. Maris has extensive experience in legal research working as an academic on European Commission funded projects and teaching legal skills and research to students. She kept her foot in legal practice in Estonia as a self-employed solicitor providing legal counselling and advising in matters of real estate management and landlord-tenant issues.
Before moving to London, UK, Maris worked as a lawyer in Estonia where she was the Central Government In-house Legal Counsel. As such she has a long-standing experience in legal drafting, legislative work and litigation in Administrative Courts and Tribunals, the experience she is happy to bring to M&H LLP.