When It’s Already Too Late: The Cost of Not Having Decided
What happens to the family and the business when capacity is lost without any planning, and what can still be done. Series: support measures · 1…
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The Crossroads of the Family Business: Cognitive Decline, Law 8/2021, and Corporate Control
Series: support measures · 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 This article is a long one. You can download it as…
Read article →Assertive Lawyering: Neither Passive Nor Aggressive
Neither yielding nor attacking. Psychology has described a third way since 1949, and Spain's Organic Law 1/2025 is pushing lawyers towards it.
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The Family Conversation: Why It Fails and How to Frame It
Why family conversations about powers of attorney and autocuratela break down, and how to structure them. Three reasons, five decisions, and when to bring in a third party.
Read article →Impartial Is Not the Same as Neutral: The Principles That Underpin Mediation
Impartiality and neutrality are often used as synonyms, but they aren't. The five principles behind Spain's Law 5/2012 and Organic Law 1/2025 that underpin every mediation process.
Read article →MASC: The Option That Wasn’t on the Menu
Spain’s Law 1/2025 does not prohibit litigation: it compels the alternatives to be put on the table. A reflection on why, for decades, we have been working from an edited menu.
Read article →A Curtailed Menu
The most effective social pressure is not the kind that pushes you towards one option. It is the kind that makes the other one invisible. On how social norms shape business decisions — and why mediation remains the invisible alternative.
Read article →I Have My Reasons
“I have reasons. Others have flaws.” This way of analysing events has a name in psychology: the “fundamental attribution error”, described by Lee Ross in 1977…
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On the Mediation Act
Since 3 April 2025, going to court without having attempted mediation can cost you the case. This is not an exaggeration. It is Organic Law 1/2025.…
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