Towards a new legal profession

The latest products of the technological revolution which are the social networks where million of people share diverse opinions and experiences, the severe and economic crisis and crisis of values which affects all of us, or the clients’ legitimate demands that force us jurists to acquire a global training that enable us to take part in all the issues that our law firm deals with, characterize the birth of a new form of understanding the legal profession in which GRB Legal & Finance considers itself to be a pioneer.

The philosophy of GRB Legal & Finance is light-years from the large law firms. For us client service is essential. Our culture focuses on the person. It emphasizes several important priorities simultaneously: responsible behaviour, flexibility, customer service, a quality product, speed and work which give our employees the feeling of taking part in something special. A culture of genuine success that focuses on future opportunities rather than past achievements.

We feel that a law firm like ours needs to reinforce its corporative culture. Our policy, therefore, works towards generating cooperative and responsible attitudes, developing a sense of belonging from all the members of the law firm and to encourage a system where the concept of adherence is given priority. Adherence means that, beyond ordinary daily work, the employees must feel directly responsible for the good or bad progress of the law firm.

Each and every member of GRB Legal & Finance must be in perfect harmony with the values that make up our company culture, assimilate them and be able to transmit them to the future legal professional employees and other relevant people.

Big law firms are unable to offer -because of their very size- a specific solution to the clients’ real problems and, at the same time, offer them a familiar and sincere service. GRB Legal & Finance does not aspire to employing a large number of staff. On the contrary, we consider that the market is shrinking due to the crisis and what we must possess and practise is the agility and flexibility that the legal professional giants of the past lack. The reality is that we do nothing other than adapt to the new times more maiorum, in a hard-working, persevering and obsessive search for excellence.

To sum up,

1. The size of the law firm allows us to concentrate on solving our clients’ problems, offering the professional quality required and a relation based on reciprocal communication and trust.

2. The structure of the law firm qualifies us to adapt to our clients’ needs.

3. The legal areas in which we specialise make us a highly competitive law firm compared with others of similar or larger size. All GRB Legal & Finance professionals have a level of knowledge and experience that put us on a par with the best law firms.

4. We offer advice in the most important areas of productivity in companies.

5. We are specialists in consultancy to non-Spanish companies that do business in Spain and our vocation, reflected in the opening of the GRB Legal & Finance Prague office, is international business and foreign law.

Ricardo Fernández y García de los Ríos

Founder of GRB Legal & Finance