António Magalhães Cardoso and Frederico Gonçalves Pereira are members of the new association

The first Litigation Lawyers Circle in Portugal has been created on the 21 March in Lisbon. The priorities of the group, which joins together lawyers from some of the major law firms in the country acting in the civil and commercial litigation area of practice, are focused on discussing legal reforms to the Civil Proceedings and to the Judicial Courts organization.

The Litigation Lawyers Circle is composed by 28 specialists in Commercial and Civil Litigation from the major Portuguese law firms. Among them are Vieira de Almeida & Associados (VdA)'s partners António Magalhães Cardoso and Frederico Gonçalves Pereira.