PLMJ, specially highlighted by ILO’s 2009 “Clients Choice Awards Guide”

Clients Choice Awards Guide, an annual guide which reflects the  results of the International Law Office researches  to find the enterprises with the best  client- performance, dedicates to  PLMJ the page on Portugal in an extensive article  under the title, “Follow the Leader".

The article, which quotes two of PLMJ Equity Partners’ declarations Manuel Santos Vitor, the Firm’s Deputy Managing Partner heading the Energy and Human Resources Practice, and Jorge Brito Pereira Head  of the  Firm’s  Capital Markets Practice, constitutes an overview on the main aspects of the Firm’s culture and performance raging from its pioneering attitude towards the model of law firm which it characterizes, the sustained and organic growth and the position as an independent law firm to the improving lawyer-hiring strategies and the career regime it  provides to its lawyers. All of which to maintain PLMJ as “first class, full service law firm“ which it is nationally and internationally recognized for.

In the words of Clients Choice Awards Guide, PLMJ detains: «As a veteran, in a comparatively youthful market, a wealth of experience enriched by an organic expansion policy which has seen the vast majority of its partner base train at the firm. The result is a strong internal ethos that places client care among the firm’s top priorities» .

Within the same scope, the declarations of PLMJ Partner Manuel Santos Vitor: «I would say it is part of our DNA: to recognize the bond between the legal professional and the client. We have always been aware of the need to concentrate on client care and it is something that has developed very naturally within the firm» .

And those of Partner Jorge Brito Pereira: «We are a client-based firm; we are not a firm that is based on the deals and transactions we perform in a certain year. We have clients that have been with us for decades and they are much a part of our firm as our lawyers. We grow with our clients: we don’t grow through huge transactions».

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