Kieszkowska Rutkowska Kolasinski Kancelaria Prawna sp. j.

Product Law and Product Liability | Dispute Resolution | Life Sciences

Principal | Attorney-at-Law

Ewa Rutkowska is an expert in product liability, pharmaceutical law and healthcare law. She heads the Product Law and Dispute Resolution Practice and advises global Life Sciences companies.

Ewa has many years of experience in providing legal advice to Polish and international companies from the pharmaceutical, new technology, medical devices and FMCG sectors. She advises industry organisations which she has repeatedly represented as the public party in the legislative process, as well as supporting them in work on industry codes of best practices. She also works pro bono for non-profit organisations.

Ewa Rutkowska has many years of experience in product liability litigation, including highly publicised cases of global product recall from the market. She represents clients in other cases before courts of law and arbitration courts.

For years, she has been recommended in the Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal) international ranking as a Thought Leader – Global Elite in the field of Product Liability, and recognized as a leading lawyer in Life Sciences in the Chambers Europe, Legal500 and Rzeczpospolita (Polish daily newspaper) rankings. She has also been recommended by the Legal500 EMEA in the Dispute Resolution category in Poland.

Before co-founding KRK, Ewa led pharmaceutical and product liability practices at Hogan Lovells and Baker & McKenzie in Warsaw.

Polish, English, German

International Bar Association (IBA) - Chair of the Product Law and Advertising Committee

Court of Arbitration at the Confederation of LEWIATAN - Chairman of the Nominating Committee

Polish Arbitration Association - Member of the Audit Committee

ICPHSO (Intl Consumer Product Health & Safety Organization) - Member of the Planning Committe of the 2026 ICPHSO International Symposium in Brussels

Center for Amicable Resolution of Food Disputes at the Polish Federation of Food Producers of the Employers' Union - Member of mediators / conciliators team