Just as to be a good writer you have to read a lot, or to be a great photographer it is useful to observe a lot of photography beforehand, to become a lawyer or, rather, a good lawyer, requires seeing many trials before jumping to the fore, in order to acquire a necessary tool for attack, defense, persuasion and inclusion, peace. Necessary tools that are acquired by paying attention, not only to other colleagues in the profession, but also to the rest of those involved in the trial, such as judges and parties involved.
Aware that the pandemic has entrenched itself in the learning of future visitors and cannot help the adequate recurrence of these visits, the Association of Young Lawyers (AJA) of Madrid, in collaboration with a team of professionals from courts and tribunals from different autonomous communities, has launched an initiative so that students of Law, the Master's Degree in Access and young collegiate students in training can attend live, virtually, judicial remarks on multiple topics.
Project
The aim is to offer at least 100 hours of trials to reinvigorate the training process of this group, with a project that is currently in the testing phase, but that will advance in different stages, making room for simulated trials, resolution of practical cases and sessions that improve the oratory, communication, writing and legal argumentation of the participants.
To put it into practice, the young Madrid legal profession has the complicity of a team of judges and magistrates deployed in much of the national territory. Through the Skype for Business, Webex and Zoom platforms, the participants will attend virtually on their social, commercial, criminal, civil or contentious-administrative issues, becoming familiar with the different transmission systems currently used.
Carlos Javier Galan from Algeciras; José María Aparicio Boluda from Alicante; Mariano López Molina from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Amparo Salom Lucas from Valencia; Ceuta Antonio Pastor Ranchal; María Isabel Lambés Sánchez de Vila-real; José Andrés Verdeja Melero from Ourense; José María Fernández Seijo from Barcelona; and Acayro Sánchez from Cantabria, facilitating telematic access to future lawyers to their separate judicial bodies, such as Julia Sauri from Barakaldo, Sylvia López Ubieto and Jesús Villegas from Madrid; Raquel Catalá Veses and Ruth Ferrer García from Valencia will participate in a subsequent simulation phase.
"We are currently contacting associations of judges and also the Dean of the Courts of Madrid so that other Justice professionals can join this project," says the president of AJA Madrid, Alberto Cabello. The Madrid group is in charge of coordinating the inscriptions and distributing the access links to the posters indicating the order of inscription and depending on the thematic preferences indicated to the participants in the inscription form. In addition to young lawyers registered in Madrid, the project is open to students of Law and the Master's Degree in Access to the Legal Profession.
More than 800 subscribers
With more than 800 people registered in this period, "the reception is being very good, and our idea is to incorporate this initiation into the catalog of activities that AJA Madrid organizes on a regular basis, such as workshops, congresses, institutional visits, welcomes of new collegiate or networking”, explained Alberto.
So far, three connection tests have been successfully performed. In the first place, more than 50 people virtually attended an immigration appointment in the Administrative Litigation Court No. 2 of Santander. Days later, about 100 students and lawyers in training witnessed through the screen a sober recognition of category in the framework of the General State Administration. The last test took place last week in the Mixed Court No. 5 of Ceuta.
In any number of participants, the object approaches a thousand, but at the last moment the previous one is conditioned by the limit of connections that each system allows. Eventually, it is expected that a greater number of judges will be incorporated to expand the offer, a rotating system will be applied to determine the people who will receive the link at each moment.
The project has the support and collaboration of the Madrid Bar Association.
Presentation act
The official presentation of this initiative will take place this Wednesday, February 16, at 18:30 p.m., and requires prior registration through the website of the Madrid Bar Association.
