Facio & Cañas merges with Pragma in Costa Rica

Latin Lawyer 250 firm Facio & Cañas has absorbed Pragma Legal, adding a 13-lawyer team including three new partners and three of counsel.

Latin Lawyer and the Vance Center’s Pro Bono Survey

Our latest survey continues to evidence the great efforts Latin American law firms are making to adopt pro bono into their culture. Ahead of publishing the full results on what institutional measures law firms are doing to promote pro bono, today we take a look at an area in which many law firms have reported doing work: migration.

Latin Lawyer Elite survey 2019

For a law firm to be more than a short-lived success, it must be able to guarantee its survival with each handover between different generations of partners. The managing partners of Elite firms reveal how they prepare ahead of time to contend with the reality of partner succession.

Exposing the gap

For the past two years, many UK law firms have been compelled to publicly disclose the difference between what they pay male and female lawyers. Gender pay gap reporting can be a blunt instrument, but acknowledging a problem is the first step to solving it. We consider the implications for Latin America’s legal market.