Ideas
Friday, February 23rd, 2007This is a summary of the extended Polish version of the proposal. Its cornerstones are:
1. Unification of two professions: attorneys and legal advisors (and optionally notaries).
2. Admission to the profession depends on successful passage of the bar exam.
3. No formal requirement of apprenticeship or practical or theoretical training to sit for the bar.
4. More streamlined and centralized discipline system.
5. Law graduates who are not members of the bar may give legal advice or any other legal service not restricted by procedural or substantive law upon registering and buying insurance.
6. Optional proposal, conditioned on unification of the attorney and notary profession: Attorneys are entitled to provide notarial services. You can read the English summary here, or download it as a pdf.