The Federal Chamber of Lawyers advocates for introducing an exam to check would-be lawyers for professional integrity and proficiency
The Federal Chamber of Lawyers of Russia is planning to submit by December to the Ministry of Justice a bill which stipulated professional licensing rules for lawyers. That information was provided by First Vice-President of the chamber Yury Pilipenko to the journalists on Monday. Yury Pilipenko insists on clear regulation of the requirements for becoming a lawyer in Russia.
He explains such position by the fact that the chamber receives a great number of complaints from litigants who claim their counsels to lack proficiency. And in such cases the chamber can do nothing because the majority of counsels are registered neither with the federal chamber nor its regional divisions.
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