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    Engaging Foreign Lawyers Considerations for the Spanish legal sector
    (IE University, 2024-07) Jacobsson, Johanna; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75
    This paper explores the regulations governing the practice of foreign lawyers in Europe, with a specific focus on Spain. Current trends in the global as well as in the Spanish legal market underscore the importance of fostering international collaboration and encouraging skilled lawyers from other jurisdictions to contribute to the local legal landscape. With the growing globalization of the profession and as demographic and technological shifts shape the legal sector, it becomes imperative to recognize the value of diverse perspectives and expertise in sustaining a dynamic legal ecosystem.
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    Innovation Beyond Technology. The Crucial Role of Skills in Driving Change in the Legal Profession: Perspectives from Lawyers at Major Firms in Spain
    (2025-05-13) Galeote, Pilar; Aloisi, Antonio; Parra-Herrera,Nicolas; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75
    This study examines the legal profession’s ecosystem, focusing on the interplay among technology, innovation, and skills. Through a survey of 460 legal professionals from major firms in Spain, it examines how lawyers perceive and respond to the challenges and opportunities associated with technological advancements. This study is among the first to address this population and region, offering new insights into the transformation of legal practice and the implementation of novel legal training initiatives. Innovation, as articulated in this study, extends beyond the reductionist view that equates it solely with technology. Instead, innovation includes rethinking organizational structures and cultivating human-centric skills (e.g., negotiation, communication, leadership, and management skills) to make the most of digital tools. By embracing an integrative approach to innovation whereby technology and soft skills coalesce, legal professionals can gain a competitive advantage and excel in the increasingly dynamic and technology-driven professional environment. The findings of this study demonstrate that artificial intelligence is largely seen as a tool to complement, rather than to replace, uniquely human legal skills. Furthermore, this study introduces the TIE Lawyering model, which highlights three critical dimensions for modern legal professionals—namely, mastery of technology (T), interpersonal skills (I), and robust ethical standards (E). The model underscores the need to balance technological proficiency with core skills to achieve innovation in legal practice. This study contributes to bridging the gap between theory and practice, advocating for a redefinition of innovation in the field of law that encompasses organizational, interpersonal, and technological dimensions. As the legal profession continues to evolve, the insights provided here suggest a promising roadmap for fostering meaningful and sustainable innovation, ensuring that lawyers are “future-proof.”
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    Las obligaciones de medios y de resultado en la propuesta de Código Mercatil
    (IE University, 2014-07-01) Elizalde, Francisco de; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75
    El trabajo analiza la novedosa regulación de las obligaciones de medios y de resultado en la Propuesta de Código Mercantil (PCM), que incide directamente en los contratos de servicios. Para ello, estudia previamente la validez actual de la mencionada y controvertida clasificación, respecto de la cual se aprecia un renovado interés. Sobre esta base, se valora críticamente la regla general de la PCM en la materia, sugiriendo algunas reformas que la doten de una mayor utilidad práctica en la labor de determinar el alcance vinculante de una obligación de hacer. Asimismo, se estudia la aplicación del binomio obligaciones de medios/obligaciones de resultado a los contratos mercantiles particulares de la PCM.
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    The EU Platform Work Directive. What’s new, what’s missing, what’s next?
    (European Trade Union Institute, 2024) Aloisi, Antonio; Rainone, Silvia; Vandaele, Kurt; European Union’s Erasmus+; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75
    Policy recommendations The adoption of the Platform Work Directive by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union (EU) enhances the EU and national labour law systems by introducing a number of concrete advancements. They include a presumption of employment for platform workers, clearer rules on algorithmic management and data rights, stronger collective labour rights, and robust enforcement safeguards. By granting algorithmic management and collective rights to genuinely self-employed platform workers, the Directive significantly expands the personal scope of application of labour rights. This initiative should be seen as one of the first steps towards redesigning the normative paradigms that govern labour law. By establishing a comprehensive framework for algorithmic management and data rights at both the individual and collective levels, the Directive highlights the urgent need for a new EU instrument regulating data-driven technology in the workplace, applicable to workers across all conventional sectors. Given the broad discretion left to national legislators, it is crucial that trade unions, employers and labour advocates take advantage of the Directive’s groundwork to prevent the emergence of fragmented, burdensome and ineffective regimes during (and after) the two-year transposition period, which will start from the moment the Directive is published in the Official Journal of the EU and thus is likely to end in autumn 2026.