Costa del Sol News
Torremolinos will host the 20th Legal Congress of the Malaga Bar Association on October 30 and 31 at the Congress Palace. Since its inception, the Congress has established itself as one of the most significant legal events on the national calendar, gathering hundreds of legal professionals each year in a common space for training, reflection, and coexistence. The poster for this twentieth edition was created by lawyer and graphic designer Francisco Montes Pastrana, a practicing member with a solid professional track record and known for his artistic reinterpretations of iconic posters, especially those of the Malaga Fair.
The design is a visual metaphor of the Congress and the Malaga legal profession, centered around the hall of the Torremolinos Congress Palace, with its translucent dome and iconic crystal chandelier, under which a skyline unfolds representing the most emblematic sites of the eight territorial delegations of the College: La Farola de Málaga; El Tajo de Ronda; Sierra Blanca, in Marbella; the Tower of the Trinitarians, in Coín; the Tower of El Morche, in Torrox; the Alcazaba of Vélez-Málaga; the Clock Tower, in Estepona; the Tower of Pimentel, in Torremolinos and the Sohail Castle, in Fuengirola.
The Congress will feature a comprehensive program, with over 70 lectures, panels, and workshops led by judges from the Supreme Court, academic experts, prosecutors, legal professionals, and institutional representatives. The programming covers a wide variety of legal specialties, such as Criminal and Procedural Law, with sessions on evidentiary exclusion, sexual offenses, or media defense of the lawyer; Family Law, with an analysis of the new Organic Law 1/2025 and succession planning.
It will also address Gender Violence and Sexual Violence, with panels formed by specialized female judges; Administrative Law and Urban Planning, with a review of Law 39/2015; issues of Commercial and Bankruptcy Law, with an analysis of shareholder agreements, bankruptcy law, or real estate crowdfunding.
Topics on Immigration, Penal Penitentiary, and Human Rights will also be discussed, including a conference on the new Immigration Regulation; Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence, with lectures on free tools for lawyers and their practical applications as well as International Taxation, Banking Law, Real Estate, Consumer Rights, Law Firm Management, Animal Welfare, Legal Oratory, among others.
Among the scheduled speakers are notable figures such as: Vicente Magro Servet, judge of the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court; Juana Pulgar, professor of Commercial Law at UCM; José Marín y Pérez de Nanclares, judge of the Court of Justice of the European Union; Emilio Calatayud, juvenile judge of Granada; Ana Tárrago Ruiz, chief prosecutor of Andalusia; Javier Hernández García, judge of the Supreme Court; and Jordi Nieva Fenoll, professor of Procedural Law (UB).
"The Congress thus reaffirms its commitment to continuous training, professional quality, and adaptation to the new challenges of Law, also serving as a meeting point for professionals from all over Spain," stated Flor Carrasco, dean of the Malaga Bar Association, during the event presentation, alongside the mayor of Torremolinos, Margarita del Cid (PP).
