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What can a lawyer's website in Spain say, and what not?
What any website needs, plus your Bar association and registration number in the legal notice. And advertising that respects the Estatuto General de la Abogacía, the Spanish Bar Statute: no promised results, no clients named without their consent, no encouraging people to sue and no claiming a specialism you cannot prove.
The legal notice
Law is a regulated profession, so the LSSI, the Spanish e-commerce law, asks for your name, tax number, address and email, and also your Bar association and registration number, your qualification, the country where you obtained it and the professional rules that apply to you, with a link to them: the Statute and the code of conduct.
What article 20 of the Statute forbids
- Promising results that do not depend only on your work: "we win 95% of our cases" is one.
- Naming your clients without their authorisation.
- Inciting lawsuits or conflict ("claim now").
- Offering your services to victims of accidents or disasters within the following 45 days, unless they ask you.
- Using the Bar's emblems or confusingly similar ones, or revealing anything covered by professional secrecy.
Specialisms
Writing "family law specialist" requires being able to prove it: with a qualification, an officially recognised specialisation course or the professional practice that backs it (article 20.3 of the Statute). Otherwise, better "I mainly work on…".
Cases and client reviews
- Describing a case, even without names, can reveal what professional secrecy protects if the person can be recognised.
- Client reviews only with their written permission, and with nothing that tells their matter.
The contact form
- What someone tells you in the form may already be confidential, and sometimes specially protected data, such as health or criminal records. Ask for the minimum and have the message emailed to you without it being stored on the site.
- Under the form, a sentence saying who receives the data and why, with a link to the privacy policy.
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This is a practical explanation based on the Spanish Bar Statute and the LSSI, not advice. Your Bar association and its code of conduct have the final word.
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