SOCIAL SECURITY

Social security legislation has undoubtedly been one of the areas that has undergone the greatest change in recent years, due to major swings in demographic and economic variables. It has become common for laws designed to last for decades to be amended a year or two later due to the speed of change in socio-economic circumstances. This legislative instability makes it difficult to interpret the framework in force at any one time and has a direct impact on the supplementary private social security systems which became popular after the eighties and which were designed around the then-existing legal framework.

PLMJ has a vastly experienced team of lawyers in this field, the result of assisting clients in setting up supplementary plans to the normal social security schemes, with all the issues this creates, and providing legal representation in legal and administrative proceedings arising from complex legislation scattered over various legislative instruments to which the solutions are not always clear.

PLMJ AWARDS

  • PLMJ has a leading firm in Chambers Global 2013
  • PLMJ’s competition team is again named among the world’s best 100 by Global Competition Review 2013
  • PLMJ partners José Luís da Cruz Vilaça, Manuel Lopes Rocha and Vasco Marques Correia named as Antitrust, Intellectual Property and Media Lawyer of the Year, respectively
  • Finantial Times considers PLMJ the most Innovative Portuguese Law Firm in Europe
  • PLMJ is named iberian law firm of the year 2012
  • PLMJ named as best portuguese law firm on Chambers Europe Awards 2012
  • PLMJ lawyers feature extensively in Legal 500 - 2012”
  • Financial Times considers PLMJ the most innovative law firms in Portugal
  • PLMJ partner Luís Sáragga Leal wins European Managing Partner of the Year
  • 40 under Forty Awards - Tomás Pessanha and Tiago Duarte
  • PLMJ on the shortlist for The Lawyer Awards in the categories of Iberian Firm of the Year and Managing Partner of the Year for Luís Sáragga Leal.
  • PLMJ has been shortlisted for an Award for Excellence in Portugal
  • GCR 100 - PLMJ as a world-leading competition practice
  • PLMJ has a top tier ranking in the IFLR1000
  • Luís Sáragga Leal Finalist for European Managing Partner of the Year 2010
  • PLMJ Finalist for Law Firm of the Year: Iberia 2010
  • Winner of International Law Office Clients Choice Award
  • PLC Which lawyer – Leading firm
  • Shortlisted - Chambers Europe Awards for Excellence 2010
  • PLMJ has a top tier ranking in the IFLR1000
  • Winner of International Law Office Clients Choice Award
  • IFLR Recomended Firm
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