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Redefining Excellence in
Costa Rican Legal Services
GUARDIA MONTES ABOGADOS -unlike other law firms- sets the difference in the Costa Rican legal market that is evidenced in the longstanding relationships we have with our clients. Our unique results are based in our business-oriented approach, responsiveness, and cost-efficient decisions made by our highly regarded professionals combined with their extensive range of experience in their respective practice areas.
Legal Solutions for
Businesses and Entrepreneurs
GUARDIA MONTES ABOGADOS is a full-service law firm that provides high quality legal services for national and multinational companies, as well as individual investors and entrepreneurs. Our team of diverse legal experts delivers services focused on favorable results, responsiveness, and cost-efficient outcomes.
Your Trusted Partner in Business Success
Our mission is to become our clients’ strategic allies. Our team provides legal services to protect your interests, mitigate your risks, help you develop your business, and to offer you solutions for your conflicts. Our work is based on integrity, excellence, team work, and the best customer service.
Research shows that integrity is the number-one quality clients want from their lawyers. We believe clients should be able to trust their attorney completely.
Reasonable Fees
Primerus member firms may work by the hour, on a contingency plan (pay if you win) or on other fee arrangements. But regardless of the structure, the fees must be reasonable, based on what is customary in their geographic area, and on the individual attorney’s knowledge and experience. We know clients are looking for value now more than ever, and Primerus members are here to deliver high-quality legal services for a good value.
Excellent Work Product
Work product is more than winning or losing. It means that all of a lawyer’s work for clients is of consistent, high quality. It means that records, as well as communications with clients, are detailed and clear. It means phone calls are returned, deadlines met and promises kept.
There are two ways Primerus ensures the quality of members’ work product. One is through reputation and strict pre-screening, checking with clients, judges and other local attorneys. The other is by choosing members who specialize in certain areas of law such as business or family law.
Continuing Education
For Primerus members, education doesn’t end with a law degree. Primerus attorneys are required to complete an average of 30 hours of CLE (Continuing Legal Education) per year. This is more than twice the typical state bar CLE requirement.
Integrity
At GUARDIA MONTES ABOGADOS, our work is guided by a set of core principles that define who we are and how we serve our clients. Among these, integrity stands out as the foundation of our practice. Integrity is the number-one quality clients want from their lawyers. We believe clients should be able to trust their attorney completely.
Civility
Primerus members still hold the courtroom to be a place of honor. Accordingly, as officers of the court, all lawyers and judges deserve our respect, even when in disagreement. Members may express themselves strongly, but never rudely. Primerus attorneys pledge professionalism, in accordance with the profession’s noblest traditions.
Community Service
Law, in its purest sense, is community service. The law, fundamentally, exists to hold communities together. Primerus members pledge themselves to numerous community service endeavors including pro bono services for those who cannot afford legal counsel.
