Grow with us. This is where you will have the opportunity to learn with the best and work on the most challenging issues while making friends for life.
Being a PLMJ lawyer means working with some of the best professionals in the legal sector. It means playing a part in highly complex transactions and disputes in a variety of areas.
All of this takes place in an intellectually demanding atmosphere, but one where there is great team spirit and a laid-back approach, where we emphasise human relationships and solidarity between everyone in the firm.
During the training period, you will work in multidisciplinary teams made up of lawyers with different levels of seniority. This is a rewarding dynamic that brings great returns in the form of continuous updating and deepening of your technical skills.
Moreover, as PLMJ is a firm recognised not only for its size, but also, and especially, for the quality of its work, you will be involved in resolving large, complex and very interesting issues. This methodology allows all trainee lawyers who join us to amplify their talent and make an impression on our clients.
Our network of partnerships, PLMJ Colab, gives all lawyers the opportunity to work on matters involving other jurisdictions. Through PLMJ Colab, you can also help Portuguese clients to invest in foreign markets, work with international clients, and share experience and know-how with lawyers around the world.
PLMJ Colab also offers the opportunity to work on secondment with our local partners in the countries where we are present: at DSL in Macao, BCSA in Angola or TTA in Mozambique.
For us, the arrival of young lawyers is one of the most important moments of the year. At PLMJ, career progression requires a minimum period in each of the categories, but it is essentially based on merit.
In fact, the majority of our lawyers, including partners, began as trainee lawyers at PLMJ. That is why we believe that in selecting our trainee lawyers, we are also recruiting our future partners. You could be next!
At PLMJ, we know how important it is to work in a collaborative and friendly environment that contributes to everyone’s well-being. This is why we invest in interpersonal relationships between colleagues and coordinators, and we value the balance between professional and personal life.
We are looking for people who, besides having excellent theoretical knowledge, also have the ability to create empathy, relate well with others and work as a team.
We work with people for people, and that is why our well-being and working environment is the best in the sector.
PLMJ is one of the most merit-based organisations I know. The career path is absolutely clear and predictable for all lawyers. This is the one aspect of how PLMJ works that I’m most excited about, because it provides motivation and structure that bring success to the firm. This is a true democracy based on the principle of 'one person, one vote', and the way the firm is managed is perfectly transparent. I think this makes us unique.
Vasco de Ataíde Marques
PLMJ is one of Portugal’s best-known law firms. Independent, pioneering, demanding and diversified are, for me, the adjectives that best describe this firm, a firm its partners and support staff are so proud of.
Filipa Cotta
I know this firm very well. I joined it as a trainee lawyer and now it’s an honour to be a partner here. Like a fine wine, over time PLMJ has improved on what was already good, but without losing the vigour of youth. Like a good book, PLMJ has stories and characters that make it unique.
Tiago Duarte
PLMJ is the firm where any valid project can be born, grow and thrive. This applies not only in the different areas of law, but also in the social and cultural work that plays a central role in the life of the firm. There is room for diversity, initiative and innovation here, and we never forget the importance of our social impact. These were the values that attracted me when I first joined PLMJ.
Serena Cabrita Neto
I remember the first day I walked through the doors of PLMJ. The interview. And walking out feeling “this is the one!”, the place I want to work. They say what you never forget about people is the way they make you feel. Ten years have passed since that interview and I have had other experiences, in an area different to the one I thought I would work at PLMJ. Now, my colleagues and our clients make me feel like this is where I belong.
Rute Alves
Besides being one of the top firms in Portugal and in the other countries where it’s present, it is simply the place where I grow and learn every day, as a professional and as a person. PLMJ has great lawyers and great support staff. This makes it both a friendly and a productive place to come and work every day. It’s really rewarding from a professional and a personal point of view.
Alexander Ehlert
PLMJ has changed a lot since I joined the firm in 1996. But we have always known how to keep our pioneering spirit and ability to adapt while preserving our most distinctive characteristic: our diversity and the quality of our personal relationships. New generations at PLMJ will find a deep-rooted culture in which they can flourish in their careers with great personal and intellectual satisfaction.
Ricardo Oliveira
At PLMJ, every day and every project is different and enriching. We work with excellent professionals in Portugal and in other countries, in my case, particularly with Mozambique. We also we have the chance to work together on matters, clients and international operations involving parties and companies from all over the world.
Miguel Spínola
PLMJ is my second home and no day is ever the same here. Sometimes I feel like I’m sailing a big yacht on a calm sea. Others, it’s like I’m riding a roller coaster with endless loops!
Raquel Ribeiro Correia
As an integral part of its human capital development policy, PLMJ recognises the importance of continuous training and qualification of its lawyers. The aim of this policy is not only the individual and collective betterment of our professionals, but also the creation of an environment to achieve the levels of quality, efficiency and innovation for which we are known.
The main objective of our training is to deepen and update the legal and behavioural knowledge of our lawyers, and to help them adapt to the different markets where we operate. We believe this is one of the reasons for the position PLMJ has achieved in the legal sector in Portugal, and one of the reasons it stands out from the crowd.
Our commitment to expanding knowledge is applied to all our people from day one. For this reason, in addition to the induction training, we offer a comprehensive annual programme that includes language training, and legal, technical and behavioural training.
We believe it is essential to help our lawyers and staff in their personal and professional development and growth. To achieve this, we have sessions where they can acquire and develop a thorough understanding of the challenges of the profession, of business, and of the markets where our clients operate.
Our experts do not only give training of a technical nature. We also have a programme of training in techniques and soft skills that help us be more productive, more efficient and more assertive in our relationships with clients.
Our training programmes have long been one of PLMJ’s distinguishing marks. For us, a bet on valuing our professionals and helping them grow is always a winning bet.
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