CAPTACIÓN DE CLIENTELA MEDIANTE PAGO DE COMISIONES EN EL SECTOR DE LA ABOGACÍA Y DERECHO DE LA COMPETENCIA EMPRESARIAL

This paper analyses, from the perspective of competition law, an increasingly widespread practice in the legal sector. It is the attraction of clients through the payment of commissions to third parties.It is expressly referred to in Article 18 of the Code of Ethics of the Spanish Legal Profession of 2019, which provides that this conduct may not be carried out unless the client is informed of it. Consequently, one of the main purposes of these pages is to analyze and interpret this rule in accordance with the guidelines established in article 3.1 of the Civil Code and taking as a guiding light the requirements derived from the market rules that regulate economic competition.