Lawyers

1. Introduction. Two models for perceiving the legal profession In the realm of free professions, two approaches have been opposed and conflicting for more than twenty years, and they can be seen clearly in the world of legal professions. Professional activity, and especially that of a Lawyer, ... [Read All]

Greece's notoriously slow and ineffective judicial system has been a long-known problem. Among others it has led to the European Court of Human Rights delivering from 1959 to 2013 some 449 cases against Greece due to excessive length of judicial proceedings, which constitutes a violation of Art.... [Read All]

This case addresses a common practice among aspiring Italian lawyers, who allegedly “bypass” some “harsh” features of the Italian route to qualifying for the practice of law in Italy by obtaining a foreign qualification and then return to their home country without having to ... [Read All]

Sommario 1. The sources of law regulating the legal profession in the Italian system 2 . The aspects of the reform (Law No. 247/2012) 3. The choices made by the reform law 4. Supervision over lawyers’ behaviour and the rules of professional ethics and conduct 5.... [Read All]

Aldo Bulgarelli, an Italian Lawyer in Verona and former councillor of the Italian National Bar Council, has been elected, for the year 2014, president of the CCBE, the representative body, seated in Brussels, of Bars and Law Societies of Europe. Appointment was at the plenary session, held on 29th ... [Read All]

Today, 1st July 2013, Croatia becomes the 28th member state of  the  EU. This change will also affect the 4063 lawyers and 1753 trainee lawyers, who, at the moment, according to the Croatian Bar Association,  are members of the Croatian Bar Association. The editors of Altalex.E... [Read All]