After years in which fewer and fewer lawyers were interested in the free justice service on the duty roster, the trend is beginning to change. The Bar Association of Catalonia (Cicac) had long ago linked the precariousness of work in this service with the decrease in registered lawyers, and now notes that this loss "is moderating significantly" although it continues to advance. All this coinciding with an agreement to increase by 11.2% the remuneration that lawyers receive for each action, such as advising a detainee at the police station and when they are brought before the court.

Era Cooperativa Jurídica was born in 2021 from the concern of two lawyers who not only wanted to focus on the technical and strategic part of their profession, but also wished to give it a social imprint and, at the same time, humanize the figure of the lawyer. Anna Vallejo and Enna Vera have not only achieved this goal, but with the recent incorporation of Eloi Orihuela to the team, they have further consolidated the three areas that focus their activity: housing law, workers' rights, and the fight against gender-based violence.

Elisa Mouliaá, who reported Íñigo Errejón for sexual harassment and has now been accused by him of slander, The Godfather”. We can tell them now, all sitting in a bar in Corleone, enjoying a “granita”, that “business” is not done like this. A matter of this magnitude requires, above all, discretion. Afterwards, if you have resolved what bothers you, you can say something like: “Put down the gun, pick up the cannoli.”

Free legal aid from the moment a child neglect case begins and limiting the time families have a risk file open and are monitored by social services. These are two of the proposals made by the Catalan Bar Council to improve and modernize the child protection system, which it considers obsolete and ill-adapted to current social needs.

Tax expert Joan Ramon Ramos has been proposed to be the new dean of the Barcelona Bar Association (ICAB), whose candidacy is defined as "that of real change" and which includes lawyers Sara Iglesias as a candidate for vice-dean and Carmen del Castillo as secretary. The list sets a profile against headed by civil lawyer Cristina Vallejo, followed by criminal lawyer Jorge Navarro, who are labeled as continuists. Both teams are preparing for the college elections on June 19 to take over from dean Jesús Sánchez, who has held the position since 2022 and will not seek a repeat.

Changes are coming to the governing board of the Barcelona Bar Association (ICAB), one of the largest professional organizations, given that membership is mandatory for the thousands of lawyers practicing in the region. The first to announce her intention to succeed Jesús Sánchez as dean—who arrived in January 2022 after years of involvement with the bar's government and is not seeking a repeat term—has been civil lawyer Cristina Vallejo. A partner and director of the VPG firm, which has five lawyers in total, she served as a member of the bar's governing board (2017-2021) and as training coordinator (2021-2024).