:: CONSULTATION AND JUDICIAL SERVICES

We deliver legal services to different businesses linked to the Office, either sporadically, or on a regular basis by way of a service arrangement we term a fixed retainer; by virtue of which, client companies, national and foreign, charge us to defend their legal rights and interests in:

• First instance
• The seats of the courts of the different provinces
• Civil Courts of First Instance
• Labour Courts
• Commercial Courts or Contentious-Administrative Courts
• Regional and Central Economic-Administrative Courts
• Higher Courts of Justice of the Autonomous Communities
• Provincial Courts
• Authorities on competition, and industrial and intellectual property law
• Local and regional urban planning authorities
• The National High Court, the branches of its hierarchical and territorial competence
• The Supreme Court, in reference to ordinary and extraordinary appeals in cassation for the unification of doctrine, in its different Divisions:
• Civil
• Criminal
• Contentious-Administrative
• Labour
• Relevant European proceedings, if required by companies.

In addition to the aforementioned competent bodies, we act in the administrative sphere, prior, if appropriate, to taking court action. Furthermore, in the strict sense of consultation, we issue verbal or written reports, notes and opinions on matters of business law, as requested or instructed by our clients.

In any case, we aim to provide a full legal advisory service mindful of prevention , so as to avoid conflicts of interests emerging, which we would be obliged to resolve procedurally. Our Office has always believed in taking the appropriate measures in each case, if through them, we can contribute to preventing legal and judicial problems from arising, or reduce them. In this sphere, consultation takes on special significance.

Prevention is not only achieved through conversations and personal meetings, held whenever we or the businesses deem fitting, but also through the periodic information we sent to them, in the form of circulars. This information highlights legal amendments published in the Journal of the European Communities, Official State Gazette, Autonomous Gazettes or conveys the new doctrines and decisions of the Supreme Court, Higher Courts of Justice, National High Court, Provincial Courts, civil, commercial or labour courts and administrative authorities with competence in the different branches of business law and in the diverse areas of business of our clients.

Independently of our lawyers' team work, in relation to matters in which joint analysis is required and opinions are conducive to solution, all writings produced in the Office, both for consultation purposes and to take effect before courts and administrative authorities, are closely reviewed and individually corrected, being systematically revised by two lawyers; this enhances content and ensures comprehension and perfection from a grammatical and legal phrasing point of view. Therefore, no writing, report, opinion, claim, appeal or challenge to a counterpart appeal leaves the Office without undergoing the aforementioned revision process. Thus confirming our eminently craft-like approach to legal advice.