As a result of the increasingly global nature of our economy, many individuals and companies find that cross-border transactions and dispute resolution, along with international taxation issues, are occupying an increasing amount of time and attention.
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The Lawyer Enterprises are represented by the Simonas Rėksnys
Simonas Rėksnys was a special child because he started reading and writing when he was just two. And when he was four, he had already known the capitals of all the countries of the world. So nothing strange that from the first class it was suggested to jump straight into the fourth: the teachers decided that in the lower one he would have nothing to do. Simon, 44, now works as a lawyer in Vilnius, speaks at least twelve foreign languages, and collects phone numbers from memory. – Simon, where are your such extraordinary abilities from? – Such an inheritance, I would say.
The father – physicist – who defended his dissertation is from the highly educated Cibiras family. Povilas Cibiras was a professor, a long-term head of the VU Department of Infectious Diseases, as well as a head of Infectious Hospital. He also was a doctor and author of the first Lithuanian textbook on Infectious Diseases.
The mothe, while pregnant, ate a lot of fish. And now I read a recent research, I learned that phosphorus in fish was very good at the development of the fetal brain. These would be the success factors. When did you realize that you were separating your abilities from peers? – Maybe when I went to first class for seven years and school leaders offered me to go straight to fourth if I passed the five exam session.
Then there was still a five-point system, it was necessary to pass all the exams at least getting four. And I succeeded. I remember, and I wrote the dictation, checked the knowledge of mathematics, nature cognition. I was immediately transferred to the fourth grade. – You probably were never left for a second year? – No, I wasn’t. (Laughs.) I finished the school in ten years. I originally studied at Vilnius Michael Biržiška Gymnasium, from the eighth grade – Gabija gymnasium. I was by two years younger than my peers. I then entered sixteen at the Faculty of Law at Vilnius University.
Out of the 630 entrants, I was second in terms of scores. When I successfully graduated from the Faculty of Law, there was a dilemma of what to choose: whether a scientific or practical path. I did very well in science, theoretical things, but I still chose practice. I worked practical legal work without forgetting the theory: I published an „Employment law“ book in 2003. I was the head editor. My customers – foreign firms that have interests in Lithuania. – In this case, it is very useful that you know a lot of foreign languages. In what languages are you easily communicating? – Learning Languages – in English, Spanish, Polish, German, Italian, French, Norwegian, Danish, Russian is my hobby, matched with the work. For example, in the years of studies, I have accompanied tourist groups and Italian tours. Of course, this has helped to improve the language very much. Once the following order was: two weeks with one client and driver to drive from Vilnius to Tallinn and communicate constantly in the car.
On the other hand, you still need to be in that country to capture knowledge in memory. – Now as a lawyer, you represent one Japanese company. You probably already know well Japanese too? – I still learn Japanese. There are two thousand hieroglyphs and eyes can be tired while learning. So a lot of Japanese wear glasses. 🙂