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Guides to civil, labor, criminal and family procedures. Legal AI and legal technology for lawyers.
Legal design applies user-centred design principles to legal documents and services. We analyse how Spanish law firms are adopting visual contracts, process maps and plain language to improve client experience.
Spain has public APIs from BOE and CENDOJ enabling programmatic access to legislation and case law. We analyse what data is available, how to access it, and how open legal data is enabling new legal tools.
Hourly billing is under pressure in Spain. We analyse contingency fees (Art. 35 Lawyers' Statute), success fee arrangements, flat-fee models and how AI is changing law firm economics.
The Spanish legaltech ecosystem has grown 60% in the last 3 years. We analyse the most active segments (legal AI, practice management, e-signature, ODR), the most relevant startups and investment trends in 2025-2026.
The Spanish Supreme Court has consolidated shared custody as the preferred arrangement when beneficial to the child. We analyse the criteria from STS 257/2013 and subsequent rulings through 2025: distance between homes, parental communication capacity and child's wishes.
The compensatory pensión (Art. 97 CC) offsets the economic imbalance divorce creates for one spouse. We analyse the Supreme Court criteria for fixing its amount, temporal or indefinite nature, and extinction grounds including new cohabitation.
Liquidation of the community property regime (Arts. 1344-1410 CC) is one of the most complex divorce processes. We analyse which assets are community property and which are separate, how common charges and debts are calculated, and the inventory and allocation process.
Practical guide to collective redundancy in Spain: causes, numerical thresholds, consultation period, 20 days/year severance, permanence priority and rights of affected workers.
Complete guide to the 2025 Spanish income tax return: deadlines (April-July 2026), who must file, main deductions, how to review the draft and what to do if you owe or are owed.
The Spanish Supreme Court Social Chamber consolidated in 2023-2024 demanding doctrine on proportionality of disciplinary dismissal. We analyse sanction grading criteria, null dismissal for violation of fundamental rights and the "disciplinary record" doctrine.
Art. 24 of the Spanish Constitution guarantees the right to effective judicial protection. We analyse recent Constitutional Court doctrine on defencelessness, access to appeal, reasoning of decisions and the right to evidence.
The Supreme Court Civil Chamber clarified in 2024 the limits of vicarious liability (Arts. 1902-1903 CC) of companies and principals for harm caused by their dependants. We analyse doctrine on joint liability, the required diligence standard and adequate causation.
The Spanish Supreme Court Administrative Chamber clarified in 2024 the requirements for challenging negative administrative silence: deadlines for judicial review, effects of late notification of express decisions and tacit presumed acts vs. express acts.
The floor clause (voidness for lack of transparency) and IRPH (mortgage reference rate) are the two major chapters of banking mortgage litigation in Spain. We analyse CJEU and TS case law evolution from the Aziz ruling (2013) to the latest decisions in 2024-2025.
The damage repair mitigating factor under Art. 21.5 CP allows sentence reduction when the accused repairs harm before trial. We analyse TS requirements: voluntariness, sufficiency of repair, procedural timing and application as a highly qualified mitigating factor.
The limitation of contractual liability claims (Arts. 1101-1104 CC, general 5-year period after the 2015 reform) remains a permanent source of litigation. We analyse TS doctrine on the starting date for continuing damage, extrajudicial interruption and the effect of prior negotiations.
RD 902/2020 of 13 October regulates pay equality between women and men. It requires companies to maintain a pay register, conduct a pay audit (if a mandatory equality plan applies) and implement a job evaluation system. We analyse obligations and LISOS penalties.
Law 11/2018 on non-financial information expanded ESG reporting to large companies and listed groups. The CSRD Directive (EU) 2022/2464, in force from 2024, goes much further: expands scope, requires independent assurance and adopts ESRS standards. We analyse the ESG compliance roadmap for Spanish companies.
The Chief Compliance Officer has become a key figure after Law 2/2023 and the AI Act. We analyse their functions, criminal liability, whistleblowing channel duties and best practices per COSO and UNE 19601.
Complete guide to calculating the contributory retirement pensión in Spain in 2026: regulatory base, percentage, access age, contribution gaps and online simulator.
Everything about ERTE in 2026: types (ETOP and force majeure), approval procedure, unemployment benefit during ERTE, contributions, penalties and alternatives to collective redundancy.
Updated guide to claiming floor clauses back in 2026: CJEU ruling of 21 December 2016, full retroactivity, out-of-court vs. judicial route, limitation period and Supreme Court case law.
Complete legal guide to disinheritance in Spain: statutory grounds in the Civil Code, effects on the forced share, unjust disinheritance and its challenge, and how to draft the will.
Complete comparison between self-employment and salaried work in Spain 2026: self-employed quota, income tax, social contributions, social protection, tax risks and Labour Inspectorate criteria.
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