Court: Uniform prohibition of success fees for lawyers is not valid; lower court ruling rebuts Supreme Court precedent
A South Korean court ruled that success fee agreements between clients and lawyers based on trial outcomes are valid, contradicting a previous Supreme Court ruling that deemed such agreements invalid.
Treasury estimates that the firm founded by Montoro received one million from gas companies and asks the judge to request information about 6.4 million moved in checks
A report from Spain's Treasury indicates that the consulting firm founded by former Finance Minister Cristóbal Montoro received nearly one million euros from gas companies in payments disguised partly as success fees between 2011 and 2020.