The Portuguese law firm has revamped its management.
The law firm has recruited a Swedish lawyer to help attract Scandanavian investors and individuals to Portugal.
The lawyers believe the government reforms are endangering the legal system and are constitutionally unsound.
Plans to close at least 230 courts in Portugal from 1 September have led to hundreds of lawyers protesting outside the parliament building in Lisbon.
PLMJ, one of Portugal's leading law firms, has signed its fifth partner agreement with a local firm in Portugal, this time in Madeira.
PLMJ has launched a service targeting the luxury real estate marketplace.
Portuguese practice PLMJ has established an office in Lausanne, reflecting both the interest of Portuguese clients to invest money there and the spread of Swiss-based companies abroad.
Vieira de Almeida, a prominent Portuguese practice, is setting up a new office in East Timor.
The Portuguese Bar Association is calling for a single zone of Portuguese-speaking countries which lets lawyers qualified in one country work anywhere else.
Portugese law firm PMLJ has set up a Private Wealth team to advise private clients.
Draft legislation aimed at combating inefficient court and enforcement procedures is lined up for Portugal's parliament this year, but lawyers have already suggested it will have little impact.
A group of Europe's most influential and muscular independent law firms is forming an alliance to challenge the power and continuing incursions of UK and US firms on the continent.
Portugal's domestic economy has hardly been providing the country's leading business law firms with much cheer over the past few years, but a recent surge in the privatisation of state-owned assets has at least partially lifted the gloom.