Lateral hires, partner moves, corporate deals and rankings of the firms leading the legal market.
A firm that advises on sales, companies or fund management can fall under anti-money laundering rules. The law distinguishes those operations from defence and advice on the client's legal position. We explain where the line is.
Almost every collective firm of any size practises through a professional company. Law 2/2007 sets the rules on who can be a partner, who controls the company, how it is registered and who answers for professional errors.
What Royal Decree 1331/2006 regulates for employed lawyers in firms. Scope, written contracts and notice, with links to the BOE.
When a lawyer leaves one firm to join another, the special employment relationship, the agreements signed and the ethics rules all come into play. We go through what can be agreed, what is forbidden and what happens to the clients.
