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The criminal lawyer Carlos Arias placeholder image has been elected this Thursday new dean of the centennial Cordoba Bar Association, with 583 votes, replacing Jose Luis Garrido, who has been in office for more than ten years. Arias is the new dean after a tight election in which three candidates have run and were called to voter 2,340 collegiate to elect the 14 companions who will occupy the respective positions of the Governing Board for the next four years. In addition to Carlos Arias, Francisco García Calabrés and María Victoria García de la Cruz were opting for the position. The process has created great expectation, since a long stage closes and a new cycle begins in this prestigious collegiate institution.
The telematic vote, which could be exercised for the first time, already yielded a participation of 1,017 people, of which 941 are practicing and 76 non-practicing members, which represents a record participation in this voting modality.
The census electoral process for the renewal of the Governing Board is compound for 2,340 people, 1,828 are practicing and 512 are not practicing.
The criminal lawyer Carlos Arias López was the last to present his candidacy for the leadership of College from Lawyers from Córdoba and apply for the position of dean. To his 35 years of professional practice, Arias adds his participation in the governing board of the corporation and his position as Defender of the Collegiate. With that endorsement and with a heterogeneous team made up of 13 other members, he has attended the elections of this 20 from mayo under the motto The College with you. He defines himself as a “trench and ring lawyer” and has devoted practically his entire career to criminal law, assuming the defense of high-profile and public cases in our capital.
The first to submit her candidacy fEu María Victoria García de la Cruz, under the motto Advocacy Today. María Victoria García de la Cruz, vice dean in the up to now government team of José Luis Garrido, sent a letter to the collegiate lawyers in which he announced that he aspired to the dean to “be able to undertake in an exciting way new projects that will benefit everyone”, with a candidacy of 14 people under the name of Advocacy Today. A name that said that “it is not accidental”, but very thoughtful, to make an “open and dynamic School” that works to “achieve dignity” of the profession and “absolute transparency” in the management and activity of the school, in addition to seeking “the best training of the group” and encouraging the participation of all members.
Francisco García-Calabrés submitted a candidacy with the motto of join the change and well-known lawyers from the Cordoba legal world participate in it. Speaking to this newspaper, the lawyer explained that two basic ideas move him. On the one hand, “improving the legal profession, both in the field of training, conciliation, collaboration with the Administration of Justice and dignity “and, on the other hand, “open the school more, put it at the service of Cordoba society, which has more involvement in the society in which it operates “.
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