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The Best Lawyers in Portugal™ 2024

The 2024 awards for Portugal include the 14th edition of The Best Lawyers in Portugal™ and 2nd edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Portugal™.

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November 15, 2023 04:00 PM

The Best Lawyers in Portugal™ Awards

Best Lawyers® is proud to announce the 14th edition of The Best Lawyers in Portugal™. The 2024 edition of these esteemed awards include 984 individual honorees in 54 distinct practice areas.

Among the individual awards for Best Lawyers, we are also proud to recognize 50 “Lawyer of the Year” honorees for 2024. “Lawyer of the Year” awards are bestowed to lawyers who have received the highest average of votes in their particular practice area and metropolitan area.

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Of the unique practice areas in which lawyers were awarded in Portugal, these are the top ten with the most honorees: Litigation, Corporate Law, Tax Law, Labor and Employment Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Banking and Finance Law, Real Estate Law, Public Law, Arbitration and Mediation and Insolvency and Reorganization Law.

Individuals seeking legal guidance and services in Portugal turned to www.bestlawyers.com to find and source lawyers in several practice areas. The top five most searched practice areas were: Litigation, Corporate Law, Energy Law, Intellectual Property Law and Labor and Employment Law.

Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Portugal™ Awards

Best Lawyers launched the first edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch™ in 2021 and has sense grown into several markets worldwide, including Portugal. For 2024, Portugal is celebrating its 2nd edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Portugal™. This award recognizes lawyers who have been in private practice between three and eight years.

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The 2024 edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Portugal honors 222 individual lawyers across 25 practice areas and 38 law firms. Of these practice areas, the 10 with the most honorees include Corporate Law, Litigation, Real Estate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Tax Law, Banking and Finance Law, Labor and Employment Law, Criminal Defense, Public Law and Arbitration and Mediation.

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Please contact sales@bestlawyers.com to learn more about how you can highlight individual lawyer and firm awards through your website, social media channels, Best Lawyers Profile Suite packages and commemorative items.

Interested in seeing Best Lawyers honorees in Portugal? Use our Find a Lawyer tool to search by location and specialty. If you think a deserving lawyer is missing from this list, nominate them to be recognized in an upcoming edition.

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