Law Advices and Legal Tips

Business Plan: Be clear who your potential customers and develop a plan to attract them (marketing and sales plan).

How to facilitate new service contract? Increase your contacts list. Keep track of the business press, meet the needs of business, personalize their service offerings for them and visit them without pressing. Faced with a customized offer, the decoding of our message by the potential customer is clear: “This office has been concerned to know and understand my needs.

Actively participate in trade fairs and conferences enabling him to more potential customers. Divide the work among its members. Participate actively in an association. This participation should be consistent with your personal strategy and release. Think. If for example belongs to an association of young lawyers, so use it: to devote part of their time to the advancement of the profession, also dedicate yourself to create, for example, an international network of contacts between young lawyers’ offices.

Contacts: Contacts are essential in the business world. But beware: it is necessary to help you convey the image you want to convey.

For example, one of my clients is a lawyer for a newspaper. When participating in business meetings with the media and businessmen, was presented by the media as “The newspaper’s lawyer.” What was the problem? My client untapped potential business opportunities, since employers could begin to imagine that even worked as a clerk, staff attorney in the newspaper. I commented to my client that submitted as follows: “a member of X, a law firm and able to assist companies to internationalize. Furthermore, our legal counsel. ”

The message is very different and opens doors to new customers.

Customers: Remember to customers. There are professional firms who only remember when they receive from those paying the fee equals or periodically. It is the best way to be lost. Follow up: be at least fortnightly contact with customers. Send them articles of interest, ask about your satisfaction, praise her for her birthday, invite them to events that you know will be interested in attending, seminar exclusively for clients and acquaintances, and so on. Select “responsible for customers.” Your goal should not be selling both legal services and consolidate the relationship of trust with customers.

The offer should be different from competitors, but attention, by offering not only understand the range of services (always reproducible), but the concept and image of the office, technical and relational quality of the lawyers and the service provided to client customized.

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The market research: The world is full of conquerors who seek to change others, when the first thing to do is to change or improve yourself. If you improve, start to find new results. Therefore, the epicenter of its market is you and your office. It is essential that you know your strengths and areas for improvement. Ask your partner how you’re perceived. Enhance your personal brand on the basis of their virtues or strengths.

The professional profile – In a hypercompetitive world, the most valued profile is lawyer-consultant, ie a lawyer to help the customer oriented and able to detect the needs of their customers and even to anticipate them. An attorney with business profile, a professional who brings value to the customer.

The image: We are an image. Until we know, for people are a picture: pleasant, reliable, capable, smart, nasty, and so on. They are therefore very important first impressions when formed perceptions. Watch your language verbal and gestural detail. Language creates perception, the door of business.

Fees: Anyone can compete on lower fees. You should be able to provide a service that justifies the fees in line with the capacity of professionals. To achieve this, understands well the needs of customers, more valórese, gain brand and give clients a bespoke service.

Partners: Choose your partners with professional criteria, not just friendship or interpersonal harmony. Partner with professionals that will complement not only skills (specialty) but also and above all attitudes.

Consultants or suppliers: Select according to their quality, not taking the price as a basic criterion. Treat them with respect, as well as their best customers. A quality provider will save you time, trouble and add value to your brand.

Projects: Since the beginning of your career, in addition to performing tasks (impulse of cases) concentrate on projects, ie, to be referenced in any market. Focusing on projects involving our clients choose to work for it, strive to live the life you want to live.

Experience:
The talent knows no age. Youth can be a source of opportunity. The main opportunity for young lawyers is that they do not usually have so many prejudices and some elders. Limiting preconceived opinions in the world of business. What is experience? It is the ability to learn from the life of each customer case. This capacity depends on oneself, rather than age. To think that a veteran lawyer is an expert just by age is absurd and mental self-limitation for young lawyers.

Park your fear, your another potential barrier paper. The ability to think big costs no money and only those who think big find opportunities. Think big computing well as investing their money and their time. If you have good values, that no one will “steal” their dreams. The first steps

The first steps
Imagine a young graduate who has been trained in legal practice and decided to join the profession. Usually the first thing that comes to mind is to try to join a firm or associate with others and open office. It is not essential. The key is to market its own strategy, a strategy defined, in writing, and opt for one of the above options.

Constantly update their knowledge and reflect, however, the following. Knowledge, while essential, no marketing strategy is not going to carry very far. As George Bernard Shaw said: “Those who can, do, those who can not, teach [" Those who can, do, those who can not give classes "].

Attitude:
The attitude is the foundation. To get new results, you should do different things. If not, the reason for his professional roof is yourself. Do not blame others. Learning to be stronger mentally, gain self-esteem is essential to make a name in the profession. Improving self-esteem, accepting oneself is basic to better sell legal services.

Admire:
Admire, not envy. For example, if you aspire to have a legal services company, the best we can do is admire the large law firms. Then you can learn from them. If you envy, you will lose energy unnecessarily.

Values:
What is it that different? The values and style. You must know explicitly their values, define and communicate.

Vision:
What is your vision? Want to be an alternative to law firms that support the internationalization of companies in your country? An example: For years I have built up an extensive international network of contacts, influential law firms and indigenous major international markets. These offices are ready to support European business associations and my clients in their international expansion. If I’ve done it, so can you. Having a direction (vision) is transcendental. His dreams (vision) are becoming reality at the time that the plasma in writing, defines objectives, strategies, actions, responsible for their achievement and a calendar.

The Justices of the Peace
Operating in the area of the municipality in which they are located and there are those in which there are no Courts of First Instance and Instruction.

The Courts of First Instance and Instruction
They cover the territorial scope of a judicial district, that is, the territorial unit consists of one or more neighboring municipalities that belong to a single province. The venue of these courts is in the capital city of the party.
Have jurisdiction to hear the following cases:
* Proceedings of Habeas Corpus.
* The investigation of crimes committed in their judicial district and those whose prosecution is for the Provincial Courts and Criminal Courts.
* Knowledge and failure cases for minor offenses, except those representing the peace courts.
* Resources established by law against decisions by the Courts of Peace of the Party.

Criminal Courts, Juvenile and prison security
May include a game territorially judicial or several, and even several provinces. When Develop their skills in a single province, is located in the capital of the same.

The Criminal Courts prosecute crimes committed in their area punishable by less than 5 years imprisonment or fine.

Juvenile Courts prosecute crimes committed by minors.

The prison security courts exercise functions related to monitoring the implementation and enforcement of custodial penalties, security measures in prisons … etc.

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Generally, judges and courts to investigate and prosecute criminal proceedings are taken for the place where the crime was committed.

If it is not known, to determine the court or tribunal should be addressed to the place:
* In which have discovered evidence of the crime.
* In which made the arrest.
* The residence of the alleged accused.
* In the absence of the above is responsible any judge or court was aware of the crime.

But the jurisdiction of various courts and tribunals are not uniquely determined according to a criterion territorial but functional. Thus, there are certain crimes which by their gravity or nature are tried by special courts.

Below are all the courts with criminal jurisdiction and the powers or functions that each is assigned.
- The Justices of the Peace
- The Courts of First Instance and Instruction
- Criminal Courts, Juvenile and prison security
- The Provincial Courts
- The High Courts
- The Supreme Court, the Audiencia Nacional, the Central Criminal Courts and the Central Court of Instruction.
- The Court of Jury

The year ended reported a significant increase in criminal activities in the network of networks. Since the explosion of viruses such as Sobig and Blaster, to the growth of child pornography sites or international terrorism, the Internet has become an ideal space for illegal operations.

One of the characteristics of the Wold Wide Web (www) is the anonymity or the ability to disguise the origin of their activities. While police organizations around the world almost created specialized bodies to combat crime in the network, hackers and crackers are constantly looking for ways to not disclose their operating point.

According to experts, crime in the network could be divided into three groups. First, the hackers rebel attack aimed at large companies or government entities for ideological purposes. For example, the famous Blaster virus, which affected over 800 000 computers worldwide, included a message by calling Bill Gates to stop hoarding money and fix your software.

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Microsoft has created a system of alerts to publish a blacklist credentials theft or phishing (e-deceptive to obtain personal data). When it detects an item of mail fraud or theft of personal data are published and communicated to the concerned entity (shop online, bank, ..) so you can respond quickly and enhance the security of the internet system. According to Microsoft, in 2009, the Anti-Phishing Working Group received over 410 000 warnings.

“Through the centralized system of alerts technology supported Microsoft’s Internet Fraud Alert promptly inform the companies whose credentials are compromised, allowing them to take appropriate action to protect their customers,” says the company, which has donated the technology to National Cyber-Forensics & Training Alliance (NCFTA), with whom it collaborates in the project.

In The Register raised the issue of false positives. When a surfer who has not done anything wrong nor has their compromised accounts listed and its activity is blocked.

Microsoft has led the courts to a U.S. company to open thousands of accounts on its Hotmail email service and so can send spam from legitimate.

1. What financial products, “Deposits” are not covered by the FGD?

* Financial products made by other credit institutions on their own and in your own name as well as those made by insurance companies, securities dealers, real estate investment trusts, venture capital, etc …
* The debt securities issued by the credit institution, including promissory notes and negotiable.
* Certificates of Deposit to the carrier, the repurchase agreements and financing with subordination clause.
* Deposits made by companies belonging to the same economic group that the credit institution.
* Deposits made by the government.
* Deposits made by those who hold administrative or management positions in the state.

2. What if the bank deposit account or have more than one owner?

The deposited amount is divided by the number of holders, who will each receive up to 100,000 euros per person in each account. That is, if there are three account holders, the total guarantee is 300,000 euros. 5 Is there any difference according to the relationship to maintain the headlines? No. It does not matter whether the owners are family relationships, friendship, business or otherwise.

3. How long does it take to receive compensation?

Usually within three months of the crisis. This period may be extended up to one year for exceptional reasons and permission of the Bank of Spain.

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The deposit insurance system is to ensure our customers that have deposited their savings in boxes, banks and credit institutions in case of failure of these recovered some of their money to the limits established by the Executive (100.000 euros). But they also have another function: to strengthen the solvency and operation of a failing institution.

1. Are you protected the money deposited by savers?

The fund accounts for the failure of banks, savings banks and credit unions is the Deposit Guarantee Fund (FGD).

2. How are the funds?

Spanish credit institutions entered in the register of entities of the Bank of Spain are obliged by law to contribute to the FGD two per thousand of their deposits. These contributions may vary in certain cases.

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However, the credit rating agency identifies some weaknesses in both economic policy and in institutions that were unable to avoid major fiscal and macroeconomic imbalances.

The danger of bankruptcy in the short to medium term the euro area remains low, according to the latest report from the credit rating agency Fitch.

However, the agency, the current crisis has highlighted some weaknesses in both economic policy and in institutions that were unable to avoid serious fiscal and macroeconomic imbalances.

Countries need to correct these imbalances if they are to a successful economy, and want to dispel any doubt about the sustainability of the eurozone.

According to the report, the political response to the crisis, including the European Stabilization Mechanism of 500,000 million euros, and the “accelerated reduction of its deficit” undertaken by some countries further away the danger of bankruptcy.

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