Spain’s largest law firms rarely make the headlines with news of mass departures and strategy disputes. Solid and rapid growth has seen them become some of Europe’s leading firms, but how long will they keep their home advantage against the Anglo-Saxon competition? Derek Bedlow reports
In contrast to their Italian neighbours across the Mediterranean sea, Spanish lawyers and law firms have been a model of stability over the years – particularly at the top end of legal practice. Despite the incursion of international firms, the entrance of the major accounting firms into the legal market and the breakneck growth of the Spanish economy, the legal sector has been characterised by the apparently serene progression of its leading law firms from small local players into some of continental Europe’s largest and most successful independent law firms.
