Twenty-four edition of the Young Lawyers Award
Young Lawyers Award 2024

Garrigues and Centro de Estudios Garrigues are proud to announce the twenty-third edition of an award that promotes excellence in the knowledge and practice of business law.

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6.000€
1st prize
In addition to the prize money, the winner will be awarded a scholarship of 100 per cent tuition to study the Master of Access to the Legal Profession at Centro de Estudios Garrigues.
2º y 3º
100% and 75% scholarships.
The winners of the second and third prizes will be awarded scholarships of 100 per cent and 75 per cent tuition, respectively, to study the Master of Access to the Legal Profession at Centro de Estudios Garrigues.
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Finalists
Nine other finalists will be awarded scholarships of 50 per cent tuition to study the Master of Access to the Legal Profession at Centro de Estudios Garrigues.

Prizes

The following prizes will be awarded:

  • First prize: €6,000 and a scholarship of 100 per cent tuition to study the Master of Access to the Legal Profession at Centro de Estudios Garrigues.
  • Second and third prizes: scholarships of 100 per cent and 75 per cent tuition, respectively, to study the Master of Access to the Legal Profession at Centro de Estudios Garrigues.
  • Finalists: nine scholarships of 50 per cent tuition to study the Master of Access to the Legal Profession at Centro de Estudios Garrigues.

All prize-winners will also receive a certificate of participation.

Who can apply?

Students in the final year of their undergraduate degree in law from any Spanish or foreign university, with an average grade of ‘B’ (8 out of 10) or higher.

Case study

The competition will consist of the drafting of a written presentation and subsequent oral defence of an opinion on a business law case, including both theoretical and practical aspects.

Registration 2024

To apply for registration, please send a copy of your national identity card or passport, a copy of your current academic transcript, and your curriculum vitae to carmina.de.pablo@centrogarrigues.com.

The application deadline is 25 March 2024.

Results of the Young Lawyers Award 2022

The jury of the Young Lawyers Award — composed of José Maria Alonso Puig (president), Eduardo Maria Valpuesta Gastaminza, Pablo Olábarri Gortázar, José Ramón Martínez Jiménez (who apologised for his absence), and Alberto de Martín Muñoz (who served as secretary) — met on 23 May 2022, at 10 a.m., at Centro de Estudios Garrigues, Avenida Fernando Alonso 8.

Having considered the written presentations and subsequent oral defences of the case brought before it, the jury passed the following

RESOLUTIONS

FIRST: To unanimously award the twenty-second edition of the Young Lawyers Award, held by Garrigues and Centro de Estudios Garrigues, to the following participants:

  • first prize to Begoña Olaizola Zárraga;
  • second prize to Francisco Javier Galindo Giménez; and
  • third prize to Claudia Rosales Rivas.

SECOND: To award a diploma accrediting the following participants as finalists of the twenty-second edition of the Young Lawyers Award:

  • Jesús Andreu Pérez-Cuadrado;
  • Paula del Barrio Torres;
  • Juan Delgado Giner;
  • Víctor González Vitón;
  • Edurne Beatriz Lamoneda Gavito;
  • Miguel Larragay Coscolluela;
  • Jilin Ye Lin;
  • Christian López Torres; and
  • Alejandro Uriz Lucientes.

THIRD: To thank all participants and congratulate them on their work.

Apply to register for the Young Lawyers Award 2024
If you are in the final year of your undergraduate degree in law and have an average grade of ‘B’ (8 out of 10) or higher, this is your chance! The application deadline is 25 March 2024. Please send an email to carmina.de.pablo@centrogarrigues.com.

Watch the Young Lawyers Award 2023 prize-giving ceremony

Terms and conditions 2024

See the terms and conditions for the 2024 edition.

Young Lawyers Award 2022 prize-giving ceremony

On 6 June, Garrigues and Centro de Estudios Garrigues hosted the Young Lawyers Award 2022 prize-giving ceremony, an event chaired by the Director General for the Spanish Public Justice Service, María dels Àngels Vidal.

Begoña Olaizola Zárraga, from the University of Salamanca, was the winner of this year’s first prize. Francisco Javier Galindo Giménez and Claudia Rosales Rivas were awarded the second and third prizes.

In 2022, the panel of judges included prominent legal experts like José María Alonso Puig, Alberto de Martín Muñoz, Eduardo María Valpuesta Gastaminza, Pablo Olábarri Gortázar, and José Ramón Martínez Jiménez.

The Young Lawyers Award has become a reference and one of the most important annual events for law students who want to put their skills into practice. The aim of this award is to promote excellence in the knowledge and practice of business law. Participants must complete a written presentation and subsequent oral defence before a jury made up of legal experts from the institutional, academic, and business sectors.

Meet the winners of past editions

Case studies

View the case studies from the written phase of the 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 editions.

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