Multilaw Academy

What is the Multilaw Academy?

The Academy is an intensive training programme in international lawyering for mid to senior level lawyers at Multilaw firms.  The Academy faculty consists of a number of experienced partners from Multilaw member firms. The programme includes more than 35 hours of formal instruction, discussion and numerous hours of informal interaction.

Key Benefits of Attending

• To get to know lawyers from other countries and build an international network
• To learn about other jurisdictions and other cultures
• To learn how to deal with cross-border issues
• Learn about negotiating with different lawyers from different countries, cultures and legal backgrounds
• To gain insight and greater knowledge about other legal systems

Multilaw Academy 2020

26 July - 1 August
Guimarães, Portugal

Academy 2019 Participant Blog

What did you hope to achieve by attending the Academy?

• Learn about the differences between civil and common law systems
• Learn how to use Multilaw to maximise its advantages
• Meeting other legal cultures and how to deal with them in daily practice
• Building working relationships with the participants
• Knowledge about legislation and regulation in different systems
• Exchange different experiences

What was most valuable about this course?

• It gave me the opportunity to get to know foreign colleagues, learn different cultures, realise that in our firm we are doing our work in a good manner according to international standards
• Knowledge about common law systems and personal approach to people
• Making friends and contacts from other jurisdictions
• The information about all the jurisdictions.  The procedures of jurisdictions, the expert tips and cultural / legal insights
• Meeting people and discussing the differences with them
• Insights, comparison between systems, balance transactional work – litigations