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Areas
Connecting the dots that others don’t see
Connecting the
dots that others don’t see
Litigations And Arbitrations
A litigious solution should only be adopted when the negotiation - dialogue, mediation - have concluded. Expensive, slow and unpredictable litigation.
For AGRUPACION LEGAL SL, in the procedural area, risk assessment plays a very important role. It is about making accurate predictions about the probability of success in each case. The duty of the litigant includes detecting the weak points of the case, correcting them when possible, and preparing an intelligent negotiation when the prediction is unfavorable. An adverse prognosis leads to – or advises going to – mediation. It is always about focusing on the client's interests, calculating their risks. Our litigation department, in this procedural risk management function, calculates the first and second line of risks, including costs or counterclaims or the risks of possible emergency in the event of failure. To effectively anticipate the possible outcome, our trial attorneys must place themselves in the role of the opposing party's attorney, listing the possible lines of defense and attacking those that are expected in the case. Some jurisdictional systems allow - due to their stability and predictability - to make value judgments about the foreseeable result. Sometimes decision trees must be broken down into numerous minor questions that allow the possible outcome to be induced. Hence, the need to have the intuitive proposal of the great -veterans- experienced litigators. On the other hand, there are uncertainties; cases that, due to their exceptional nature, jurisprudential fluctuations do not allow a logical prediction to be made. In recent decades there has been an explosion of legal catastrophes derived essentially from a methodology not focused on risk assessment or based on check-in-box risk exercises drafted from under-experienced centers.
Finally, our professionals are specially trained in the art of evaluating evidence in general, and expert evidence in particular. As Richard Posner points out, “ expert evidence is inadmissible if it does not satisfy the methodological standards of its field .” (Frontiers of Legal Theory. Harvard UniversityPress. Cambridge, Mass. 2001).
Corporate
The corporate department is essentially preventive and creative. It focuses on the design of operations, contracts, legal businesses, corporate structures, insolvency and restructuring plans. Corporate operations require experienced attorneys, preferably with prior experience as commercial and corporate litigation attorneys. The objective is to build documents, prepared to resist medium and long-term risks. The business world of the 21st century is, from a legal point of view, more complex, more multifaceted and definitely more unpredictable. The risk of black swans during the validity of contracts requires - here too - special qualities for risk analysis. The competing disciplines (tax, commercial, financial, contractual, regulatory...) require teams made up of excellent lawyers with extensive business and commercial experience and oriented towards the integration of synergistic knowledge and experience. Our lawyers - stable teams - are always trained to foresee the quantification of risks or possible contingencies. This practice requires the use of tools that clearly define the responsibilities of each member and each risk associated with the structure of the operation. Our managing partner has always said that “lawsuits are won long before they are decided by the courts.” The company's great lawyers with vast operational experience and accustomed to intuition and induction are a critical piece. Therefore, we ensure the presence of analytical minds, accustomed to prediction trees and numerical probabilities. These skills are complemented by the experience of attorneys versed in drafting and enforcing warranties.
Finally, to be effective, the lawyer's corporate and contractual activity must involve the client. In light of the irreversibility of what has been “agreed upon,” corporate services create substantial procedural rules that will successfully protect the client's business. Incomplete knowledge of the subject or insufficient experience in the subject may create contractual risks or pave the way for a conviction or punitive action.
International
This is not an office number. It is about creating a center of excellence in each jurisdiction, in each discipline.
The ability to absorb, process or coordinate the knowledge or skills of complex teams does not depend so much on the brand as on the talent - emotional and cognitive - of the project manager . At Agrupacion Legal Sl. we are leaders in project management in complex operations, particularly in the restructuring of service companies and in the coordination of multidisciplinary and multijurisdictional teams. Coordination of such teams requires independent and experienced leaders with sufficient authority to integrate complex tasks carried out by senior and specialized lawyers.
In our business model we focus on the true interests of the client, the client is the company, on its direct and indirect costs and on the external or internal impacts produced by legal management. Cost calculation and performance, which is easy to produce when managing domestic youth teams, is more complex when dealing with lawyers who are experts in your jurisdiction. We have always demonstrated a great capacity to resolve the tension between excellence and robustness in execution and fragility in externalities. Our project managers are interventionist, and are oriented towards calculating the costs of success or failure.