Luís Sáragga Leal in an interview to the Portuguese newspaper “Diário Económico”

Luís Sáragga Leal, PLMJ Partner and Founder, the Firm’s President of the Board of Directors was interviewed the past 29 th of April on PLMJ’s evolution, policies and strategies, internationalization advantages, means of overcoming Portuguese market limitations, national and international expansion, the recently awarded Chambers & Partners’ prize “Best Portuguese Law firm of the Year”, all of which having as backstage the current global crisis and the challenges law firms need to face.

According to Luís Sáragga Leal’s declarations to “Diário Económico”, after being concluded PLMJ´s restructure the Firm passed on to the second phase of its plan for the future. Nowadays legal practice has to be more and more close to Clients and PLMJ’s policy is to share risks with them. This is the reason why partnerships and multidisciplinary specialized teams either per area of practice or by geographical localization have been created.

There is a general tendency for enterprises to invest abroad and this is shared by Portuguese investors. PLMJ is therefore bound to accompany its client’s efforts and to share their risks with them.

PLMJ is 40 years old, it as passed by various crises but nevertheless has grown in a consolidated and sustained manner. Therefore PLMJ believes to have the adequate conditions and experience to overcome the current crisis.

PLMJ is a full-service law firm with very faithful Clients. PLMJ is not a law firm dealing only with punctual issues and great transactions which gives the Firm continuous solid stability.
 The recently awarded Chambers & Partners prize “Best Portuguese Law Firm of the Year” to PLMJ is particularly comforting in a stage where the Firm undergone a major restructuring.

 PLMJ is proud of all its Lawyers and the Staff’s daily support. Without this help, the less than 1 year restructuring and the obtained results would not be possible.

 For many years PLMJ has been prepared for a larger flexibility and risk-sharing towards Clients. This does not mean a blind reduction of Firm’s fees. PLMJ rather created a net of partnerships to share costs deriving from the crisis and maintain the high- quality of its legal services.
For PLMJ it has been fundamental and a reason for its success the ability to reinvent itself continuously.