Dear Bar Members, We are enclosing a questionnaire concerning the current situation of the Coronavirus Covid-19 in the countries of the members of the FBE. We would like to point out that any Bar Member can complete the questions of his/her country, in order that our members are informed about the situation everywhere. You are kindly invited to…
Dear President, Dear President, Dear members and friends, I think that it is useless to engage in long preliminaries to explain the current situation to you and which unfortunately concern all the countries of the planet and in particular the countries of Europe as we approach the jury meeting scheduled for April 30.. After having…
LegalTech Survey (individual Lawyers) Filling this survey should take up to 10 minutes. The survey has been created by the New Technologies Commission at the Fédération des Barreaux d’Europe (FBE) in order to research the state of LegalTech within the Bar Associations – members of FBE and among their lawyers. By LegalTech (legal technology)…
LegalTech Survey (Bar Associations) Filling this survey should take up to 5 minutes. The survey has been created by the New Technologies Commission at the Fédération des Barreaux d’Europe (FBE) in order to research the state of LegalTech within the Bar Associations – members of FBE and among their lawyers. By LegalTech (legal technology)…
In my capacity as President of the FBE, I would like to approach you, leaders of the Bar Associations throughout the European Union and of those Bar Associations associated with the FBE, who are experiencing this pandemic by providing essential services to society. The right of legal defense has no truce, does not rest with…
In light of the growing international concern about the coronavirus Covid-19, we have to inform you that the Presidency of the European Bars Federation and the Paris Bar Association have jointly decided to postpone the General Congress to 2-4 July 2020.
We, the representatives of the Bar Associations united in Vienna on the occasion of the 48th European Presidents’ Conference on 21 February 2020, stand together with all judges, prosecutors and lawyers, to urge the European Institutions and national authorities to make full use of the tools available in order to safeguard and restore the independence…
The Secretariat of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the IBA examined the role of lawyers in detecting, identifying and preventing unlawful conduct in commercial transactions, in particular transactions of an international nature. This report is rejected in its entirety because it is mistaken with respect to the very essence of the…
The Ordine degli avvocate di Milano celebrated the opening of the legal year with a seminar ‘The cross border dimension of mediation’ in the majestic Palazzo Reale at the Piazza Duomo. Speakers from all over Europe and from Mexico and Taiwan gave contributions to the very interesting debates on how to manage mediation in an…
On that Day, January 24, 1977, four trade union lawyers and an employee were murdered in their office in Madrid, Spain, simply for doing their job. One of the killers, who was affiliated with extreme right-wing parties and organizations, was sentenced to 15 years in prison, another fled to Brazil and the third one ended…
