COFFEE & CASES with Paul Leon HOT COFFEE. COLD FACTS. ONE CASE. EVERY WEEK.
COFFEE & CASES
with Paul Leon
HOT COFFEE. COLD FACTS. ONE CASE. EVERY WEEK.
There are people who read the Sunday papers for sport, politics or culture. Paul Leon reads them for cases.
Preferably with a very good coffee in his hand.
Paul Leon is a lawyer and the founder of León Legal in Seville. But his connection to property began long before his legal career in Spain. After moving to California at 18 to study Business Administration, he obtained a real-estate-agent licence and spent several years working in the property sector. Later, after moving to Spain, his fascination with the law became a profession. Today, his practice covers, among other areas, real-estate law, property transactions and disputes, family law, inheritance, immigration and nationality matters.
Perhaps that combination is precisely what makes him interesting for us at The Expat Press Club: Paul knows property not only from the lawyer’s desk. He knows the business behind it.
And Spain provides plenty to talk about.
Buying a beautiful finca in Andalusia may look wonderfully uncomplicated on Instagram. In reality, there can be contracts, deposits, licences, communities of owners, inheritances, tenants, taxes, disputes, paperwork and occasionally one very expensive sentence somebody should have read before signing.
That is where Coffee & Cases begins.
Every Sunday, Paul sits down with his coffee and goes through the latest legal developments, property stories and cases making their way through Spain. He looks for the detail behind the headline – and, above all, for the question that matters to anyone living, buying, selling or investing here:
What does this actually mean in real life?
Then, every Monday, we bring one of those stories to Coffee & Cases.
Sometimes it will be about buying property in Spain. Sometimes about a contract that went spectacularly wrong. We will talk about deposits, ownership, inheritance, neighbourhood disputes, international buyers, landlords and tenants – and those wonderfully complicated situations in which Spanish property and Spanish law suddenly meet.
And occasionally, of course, there will simply be a case too good not to tell.
No endless legal jargon. No dusty law-school lecture.
Instead: one coffee, one case and the facts behind it.
Because Paul has a rather fitting philosophy for this series. His own firm describes his approach in a sentence that tells you quite a lot about the man behind the lawyer:
He deals with people, not cases.
We like that.
So make Monday coffee a little stronger.
Every Monday, a new case.
Every Monday, a new story.
Every Monday, a little more knowledge about buying, owning and living in Spain.
Welcome to COFFEE & CASES with Paul Leon.
Hot Coffee. Cold Facts. One Case. Every Week.
Background on Paul Leon and León Legal was researched from the firm’s public profile.