News, analysis and opinion pieces on bar associations published on AGENTE LEX.
The Lawyers and Human Rights Foundation and the Murcia Bar Association organise on Monday 26 October a Human Rights Forum devoted to the defence and protection of lawyers practising in risky contexts. Lawyers from Afghanistan and Equatorial Guinea take part.
The Legal Profession Defence Department of the Madrid Bar Association organises a practical workshop on Tuesday 27 October to review, with a court clerk (letrada de la Administración de Justicia), the problems detected in how the first-instance courts work.
On 20 March 2026 the Plenary of the General Council of the Spanish Legal Profession approved an interpretive circular on the use of generative artificial intelligence in briefs. Its central conclusion: using AI is lawful, but filing what it produces without verifying it is, in general, a serious offence.
The Energy Section of the Madrid Bar Association holds a morning session, on Tuesday 27 October, on the contracts that prepare an energy project: development, shareholders' agreements and access and connection to the electricity and gas grids. In person in Madrid and online.
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.
In May 2026 the Advisory Council on Innovation and the Legal Profession of the Spanish Legal Profession published ten principles for the safe and responsible use of artificial intelligence. We summarise them and suggest how to turn them into concrete firm practices.
