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Here is what the costume of the profession of lawyer consists of:

– the black dress with buttons (traditionally 13 as on a cassock)

– the epitome: for information, Parisian lawyers, according to an ancient custom, wear an epitoge without ermine (it will, however, be sealed during the oath, when pleading in the provinces, before the Assize Court or during a formal hearing of the Court of Appeal). The 12 secretaries of the conference also wear the epitoge with white fur. The President and members of the Council of the Order of Paris, during their term of office, but also the provincial lawyers, also carry an epitoge hermine.

Thus, in Seine-Saint-Denis, we wear an epitoge with ermine.

– the flap: it is the small white part that comes out of the dress, on the front, at the top and in the middle

– a toque: however, it is no longer used and now refers only to the box in the cloakroom lawyers.

– white gloves: which are no longer used – additional accessories can be added, such as the white bowtie during the oath (like the one worn by Dominique de Villepin during his recent oath) .

Just be aware that costumes worn by magistrates, prosecutors, clerks and bailiffs can sometimes, for uninitiated, look like lawyers' dresses and that it is often only a few details that differentiate them.

As far as fares are concerned, at least 300 euros are required for a lawyer's dress, which represents an investment for a junior lawyer who has just been sworn in.

Some lawyers are convinced that one dies in his third dress (and that therefore must maximize the first 2 profitable!) …

That's it, you now know everything (or almost) about avocado dresses!

Thus, to comply with the rules of Community law, French law had to abandon the notion of internship, trainee lawyer and therefore mandatory collaboration.

This is the subject of one of the last laws on the profession, the law n ° 2004-130 of February 11, 2004  which puts an end to any reference to the Stage in the previous texts. I'll give you the details.

The important point was transitional measures. Indeed, what about lawyers who had started to practice under the old statute when the law came into force? This article of the UJA of Paris detailed at the time how things would unfold.

En tout état de cause, à compter du 1 ^er septembre 2007 et quelle que soit la situation de l'avocat avant cette date, la liste du Stage disparaîssait, entraînant le passage automatique de nombreux avocats au Grand Tableau de leur Ordre respectif et la possibilité for everyone to settle immediately.

However, to settle when you are a young lawyer and especially in major cities of France and in particular Paris, you need a certain starting capital or / and a network of significant influence, to develop quickly its customers.

This is obviously not the case for everyone. Thus, even if it is no longer mandatory to go through the status of collaborator, for financial reasons and / or training, a number of young confreres are and will still be forced to get there.

Some feel however able to throw themselves immediately in the bath, even if to ask for a bank loan important to start in this profession. Indeed, even if during the first two years, flat-rate social charges remain affordable, structural expenses can represent significant expenses.

This is why the new President of Paris, Christian Charrière-Bournazel had proposed, some time ago in the bulletin of the CNB to set up a "nursery" of lawyers. He talks about it again today in the latest Bulletin of the Paris Bar  in which he explains that the "nursery" in question will probably be installed in the building which currently houses the  Bar School , the latter being transferred to a new building to be built in the 5 ^th arrondissement.

The transfer of the EFB is a good thing. For those who have had to go there, the building that is five to six floors, if I remember correctly, is almost desert. It contains over a hundred rooms, most of which remain desperately empty. It is not that there are not enough student lawyers since this number is increasing from year to year, it is just that the building definitely did not have a surface suitable to its functions.

This will now be more the case since it is planned to develop each "classroom" office to accommodate a lawyer. Thus, ninety individual offices of 10 to 12 m² will be created with meeting rooms on each floor, relaxation areas and a cafeteria in the basement, the rents are obviously set at preferential rates.

We spoke, some time ago, with other lawyers of the Blogosphere of the reform of the Legal Aid with the possibility of setting up a dedicated body of private lawyers who would treat only this type of files in premises specially reserved for this purpose and whose fees would be paid by the State.

Even if the "nursery" has not, for the moment, vocation to serve as a crucible of lawyers to the AJ, I feel well left for that, anyway, in the near future.

This seems to me a natural evolution of the profession towards a more Anglo-Saxon model that will at least have the merit of transparency, which is not always the case at present.