Procedural Law (Civil & Criminal)
The Procedural Law Department deals with conflicts that have not been solved in a cordial out-of-court agreement, regulating the form and content of the claims deduced by natural or legal persons and resolved by Courts and Tribunals, or mediation and arbitration bodies in different jurisdictions (civil, commercial, criminal, social, contentious-administrative).
Our team of professionals in this department assesses our client's legal issues and works to find the optimal way to resolving them, always encouraging extrajudicial agreements first. Should these out-of-court agreements fail, the team advises the client to on finding the most appropriate way to achieve legal protection of their rights -with their chances of success, risks and costs-, assuming the legal representation of the corresponding actions, guiding them in the different stages of judicial processes and appeals, and updating them on the actions taken.
Professionals in this area commonly work with expert in other fields on the following matters:
Claims of quantity: payment, exchange, ordinary, verbal, executive, and mortgage procedures, as well as liability derivations.
Civil liability: accidents, claims for injuries, contracts, breaches, insurance.
Professional responsibility: medical malpractice, constructive defects.
Leases: evictions, rent claims, sub-letting without consent.
Consumers and users: defective products, bank contracts, abusive clauses, land clause claims, and mortgage expenses.
Second Chance Act.
Corporate conflicts, administrators' responsibility, industrial property, transportation contracts, general contracting conditions, contests.
Capacity, filiation, marriage and underage children: legal separation, divorce, custody, modification of measures, paternity recognition, civil disability.
Inheritance: claim of inheritances and legacies, legitimacy, wills, nullity of wills and donations, donation and legacy reduction.
Labour conflicts: layoffs, wage claims, labour harassment, modification of conditions, contractual breaches, unemployment.
Criminal and administrative infractions.