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Law 2/2023, on the protection of people who report infringements, obliges companies with 50 or more workers to have an internal reporting system. A firm of that size is no exception. We explain what it requires and how it fits with professional secrecy.
Directive (EU) 2023/970 obliges companies, law firms included, to explain how they pay and to measure the pay gap between women and men. The Ministry of Labour has published a draft royal decree to transpose it in part. We summarise both texts.
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.
Almost twenty years after it was approved, Royal Decree 1331/2006 is still the rule that defines how an employed lawyer works in a law firm. These are its main rules, article by article.
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.
