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The Central Beneficial Ownership Register, created by Royal Decree 609/2023, centralises information on who controls companies and other entities. For firms involved in corporate transactions it is both an obligation of their clients and a due diligence tool.
Law 4/2023 obliges companies with more than fifty employees to have a planned set of measures for the equality of LGTBI people, with a protocol against harassment and violence. Royal Decree 1026/2024 specifies how to negotiate it and what it must include.
Lawyers' fees are freely agreed, and the Professional Associations Act prohibits bar associations from recommending prices. They may only draw up indicative criteria for a very specific purpose: the assessment of costs and the jura de cuentas (fee-claim procedure). We explain the scope of the rule.
A law firm is a business and its workers have the right to effective health and safety protection. The Occupational Risk Prevention Act requires prevention to be integrated into management, risks to be assessed and prevention to be organised in a way that depends on headcount.
When remote work at a firm reaches thirty percent of working time over three months, Law 10/2021 requires a written agreement with a minimum content. We review the obligations for the firm's management.
Conflict of interest is one of the most relevant ethical risks for a firm with many clients. The Code of Ethics of the Spanish Legal Profession devotes eight rules to it in its Article 12, and the last extends all the others to the firm as a whole.
