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THE 30-YEAR-LONG JOURNEY OF LOOKING AHEAD JPM Jankovic Popovic & Mitic is one of the oldest members of the German-Serbian Chamber of Commerce and, at the same time, the oldest full-service commercial law firm in Serbia
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n an interview for the jubilee issue of InFocus Germany, we spoke with JPM Jankovic Popovic & Mitic Law Firm, namely with the firm’s three founders Nikola Janković, Nenad Popović, Miloš Mitić and Dr Jelena Gazivoda, who became a Senior Partner and one of the firm’s top executives in the 2000s. Why is this year so special for you? Nenad Popović: This year, we are proud to celebrate the 30th anniversary of our partnership and legal practice. If we were to draw a timeline of our history, it would start back in 1991. Since good ideas don’t just 'come to you’, the years before our partnership defined the course of our future business. How did you decide to join forces and form this partnership?
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JMP developed and defined so much of what we today know as making law a successful business Nikola Janković: We were young lawyers working in the challenging economy in the country that was gradually falling apart. We felt the change and the whiff of market economy steadily taking over, and we wanted to participate in the formation of the new economy and legal market. Rules were quite different to what we were prepared for, during our studies. Most of all, we wanted to create a modern multi-prac-
tice law firm resembling Western law firms we saw in legal magazines and movies. We knew that this was not easy, but being young and having high aspirations, we embarked on what today is a 30-year-long journey of continuously looking ahead. So, there was a shared goal? Miloš Mitić: JMP developed and defined so much of what we today know about making law a successful business. Most importantly, with it came the unmistakable evolution of our three different characters sharing one vision. We wanted to help businesses achieve their goals by bringing the added value, rather than be only a cost to our clients. You started during the challenging decade of the 1990s and made it all the way? Nenad Popović: We now see that the whole
