Direction Saint-Tropez for the big evening of the presidents ! This first meeting desired by Adrien Verrier, the new president of the Regional Conference of Bar Associations of the Greater South-East and Corsica (Cobseco) was organized by the Draguignan bar.
On June 21, he brought together no less thanaround a hundred current and former barristers of the territory. This friendly intergenerational meeting took place in a restaurant and continued the next day, in the Saint-Tropez municipal council room, with a working session for the 15 current barristers, the elected representatives of the Regional Conference of Barristers and Jean-Raphaël Fernandez, the current president of the Conference of Barristers of France.
Mandatory tutoring in 1is January 2025
After having mentioned the conditions for practicing the profession of lawyer “ made difficult in certain countries abroad where human rights are violated and lawyers are currently detained », explains Jérôme Brunet-Debaines, the president of the Draguignan bar, the participants also did not fail to mention mentoring for young lawyers who have been practicing for less than two yearswhich will be made mandatory from January 1, 2025.
« LLawyers are no longer required to complete an internship to open their own firm. This mentoring will therefore allow new lawyers to benefit from the help and advice of an experienced colleague.he explains enthusiastically, a few days after the event. I am delighted that this measure has been made mandatory because this tutoring is one of the flagship projects that I already wanted to set up on a voluntary basis during my term at the Draguignan bar. »
Lawyers’ funds victims of cyberattacks
All the presidents then chose to equip themselves with a banking IBAN control software.
« Lawyers’ funds are increasingly victims of cyberattacks. In Draguignan, we narrowly avoided an embezzlement! ».
Finally, in their fight against money laundering, particularly in the context of real estate auctions and transfers of businesses and shares, the various bars have decided to iIntensify controls on the origins of funds of high-risk clients « and this in order to be able to make ever more suspicious activity reports to the financial intelligence service Tracfin ».
