Advocates will be able to indicate their best practices in their URAU profile
Amendments to paragraph 3.1.8 of the Procedure for maintaining the Unified Register of Advocates of Ukraine were made by the Bar Council of Ukraine during a meeting held on October 17 in the village of Plavya, Lviv region.
As a reminder, today, at the request of a lawyer, the following information can be entered into the URAU:
- additional work addresses, means of communication;
- assistants/interns;
- total length of service as an advocate;
- position held in lawyer self-government bodies;
- awards (honorary titles, distinctions, etc.);
- addresses of official pages on social networks;
- models and serial numbers of computer equipment used;
- characteristics and corresponding serial numbers of information carriers;
- transport;
- logo and/or name of the website of the law firm or law office where the advocate practices law.
This list has now been supplemented with the legal practices in which the advocate is engaged. Up to 5 items can be specified in the URAU. The option is expected to be technically available after changes are made to the URAU software. As a reminder, technical work is scheduled for this weekend.
Currently, the list of practices contains 59 items:
- GR (interaction with authorities)
- IT law
- M&A (mergers and acquisitions)
- White collar crime
- Copyright and intellectual property
- Agricultural and land law
- Administrative law
- Anti-corruption practice
- Antimonopoly law / Public procurement
- Banking and financial law
- Bankruptcy / Debt restructuring
- Exchange law
- Construction / Real estate
- Budget law
- Electoral law and political activity
- Military law
- Commercial law
- Contract law
- Traffic accidents
- Environmental law / Extraction of natural resources
- Energy law
- ECHR
- Housing law
- Business protection
- Consumer protection
- Investment law
- Information law and media
- Compliance
- Competition law
- Constitutional law
- Corporate law
- Criminal law and procedure
- Medical law
- Mediation
- Customs law
- Migration law
- International air law
- Private international law
- International public law
- International arbitration
- Maritime law
- Municipal law
- Patent law
- Pension and social security
- Tax law / Tax consulting
- Human rights
- European Union law
- Practice of recording and compensating for war damages
- Privatization
- Development of regulatory and legal acts
- Family law
- Sports law
- Insurance law
- Judicial practice
- Tender procedures and public procurement
- Transport law
- Labor law
- Stock market and securities
- Civil law and procedure
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