A Responsabilidade Civil das Sociedades de Advogados em Portugal (The Civil Liability of Law Firms in Portugal)

Dias Simões, Fernando

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A Responsabilidade Civil das Sociedades de Advogados em Portugal (The Civil Liability of Law Firms in Portugal)

Dereito – Revista Xurídica da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Vol. 17, No. 1 (2008), pp. 5-23

19 Pages Posted: 13 Aug 2012 Last revised: 30 Jun 2013

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Fernando Dias Simões

Lusíada University of Porto; Portucalense University

Date Written: August 13, 2008

Abstract

In Portugal law firms can choose between limited or limitless liability. In limited liability law firms only the corporation answers for social debts, having to contract a civil liability insurance. The admission of this type of law firms, with exclusion of partners liability, implies a limitation of liability for acts of the debtor himself in cases of deceit or gross fault. The Portuguese legislator should have adopted a solution close to the one of Ley 2/2007, de 15 de Março, de sociedades profesionales, admitting limited liability law firms but imposing limitless, joint and several liability of the intervening partners in a particular case, leaving the remaining partners free from liability.

Keywords: Lawyers, civil liability, lawyers' liability, law firms, law firms' liability

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Dias Simões, Fernando, A Responsabilidade Civil das Sociedades de Advogados em Portugal (The Civil Liability of Law Firms in Portugal) (August 13, 2008). Dereito – Revista Xurídica da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Vol. 17, No. 1 (2008), pp. 5-23, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2128596