A COMMITMENT TOWARDS CHANGE IN LEGAL EDUCATION WITH A VISION TO ETHICS AND LEGAL DEONTOLOGY

Abstract

The professional practice of lawyers, as well as the number of professionals entering the labor market and the different specificities that arise around these variables, currently project a discouraging panorama full of restlessness that is reflected by figures that have broken trends of more than 13 years, such as, for example, the 1,597 professionals sanctioned by 2023. These figures reinforce the concern that various sectors and government directives have expressed, affecting the good name and credibility of the practical and legal practice carried out by lawyers. Within the countless efforts to try to recover that legal tradition of more than 50 years, the National Government issued Law 1095 of 2018 that seeks to validate the suitability of graduates of law programs. This exam, made up of 63 questions, addresses the following competencies: (a) legal diagnosis, (b) communication in the legal field and (c) defense of the Constitution and the ethics of the practice of law; measures that are not sufficient if we take into account that every day the number of IES programs that obtain the qualified registry to offer the law program is increasing (some of them in dual modality, presence and virtual); which leads to an oversupply that does not contrast with a devalued demand for professionals, where according DANE statistics for the month of January 2024, it generated a contraction of -64%. The universities who formulate the study plans and the teachers in charge of the transmissions of knowledge have a leading role in the training of upright professionals endowed with skills and professional values, which allow them to face the new challenges demanded by the new procedural systems and a harsher work world.