“Law is one of the professions that heals. While medicine heals the body, and religion heals the spirit, law heals the cracks in society” Steven Keeva.
On July 12 in Mexico the day of the lawyer is celebrated, this in commemoration of the first law professorship that was taught at the then royal University of Mexico in the year 1553, which was in charge of the lawyer Bartolomé de Frías y Albornoz and since then four hundred and seventy-one years of law have passed not only in our country but also in the rest of America.
According to INEGI, during 2021, there were four hundred and forty-two thousand lawyers throughout the country, of which forty percent are women, and it is said that Mexican lawyers work around 39.7 hours a week with an approximate salary of six thousand pesos, the majority is concentrated in the provision of legal services and a minority in the administration and administration of justice.
Law is one of the noblest professions because it allows people to fight for access to justice and obtain what they are entitled to by law, allowing those who are at a disadvantage in relation to justice to have a voice. to others who may be more powerful, it strikes a balance between the unequal by placing them on an equal footing before the law.
It is also a profession that dates back to antiquity in history to the time of classical Greece perfected by Rome who laid the foundations for oratory and served as the basis for the civil law that we know in turn perfected by Napoleon himself in its French or Napoleonic Civil Code as it is known that comes to nurture the law in its modern times that was and has been part of history in an outstanding way, it is enough to remember the Nuremberg trials established to judge the most heinous crimes committed in during the second world war being a precedent for the history of humanity.
Among the various decalogues that exist in relation to the commandments or conduct that lawyers must observe, there is one in particular, the one prepared by the French jurist Jean Moliérac, who, among other precepts established by him, said and I quote: “When we litigate, we exercise our own function, without depending on anyone, neither on the judges nor on our clients and, even less, on power”.
Adding within it the following: “There is no company more worthy of attention and respect than that of assuming the defense of other men before justice, since there is none in which the character, conscience and heart function more, in which the lawyer arises and surrenders himself on more sides at the same time; it is not a violated freedom, an unknown right, a wounded conscience, those who rely on the right to defense: there is no justice without it”.
These phrases perfectly summarize the work of the lawyer in his professional activity in his day to day for this and for the great work carried out by all lawyers, men and women, whether as applicants, notaries public, imparters of justice or from the classrooms of the universities and law schools, I wish you a Happy Lawyer’s Day!
* Law degree, master in oral trials
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