On Wednesday 11 May 2022, an International Labour Law Seminar was held online under the auspices of Corporación Universitaria Republicana, with several WOLEP members participating and speaking. The moderator was Colombian lawyer William Fernando Buitrago Valderrama, who was joined by lawyers Sandra Delgado Rodríguez (Colombian WOLEP member working in Panama), Damián Bes (Argentina) and by Adelina Zapis, Head of Ne

The past two years have been tumultuous for the economy, with many businesses being forced to recalibrate their efforts and to rethink their development in order to survive. Moreover, the myriad problems brought on by the pandemic meant that legal assistance was more crucial than ever to secure vital postponements, debt delays, tax exemptions and to preserve jobs. We talked to several WOLEP members, specialists in Bu

In the first part of our conversation, Mr. Mohsen Souilah, a lawyer in Tunisia, talks about the judicial developments in his country and the new role of the Lawyer in society after the two major changes that occurred in the last decade: the Tunisian Revolution and the coronavirus pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic, which unfolded in late 2019 and throughout 2020, has fundamentally changed not only “the global village”, to use one of Marshall McLuhan’s oft-quoted phrases, but has also dramatically affected the status of the legal profession worldwide. What this means is that not only access to physical legal institutions, i.e. law courts and law firms has been disturbed, but also that legal professio