About Romanian Lawyers

The purpose of activating as a lawyer in the country is constituted by the promoting and defending the rights, liberties and legitimate interests of natural and legal persons.
A Romanian lawyer can only be registered in one Bar Association and can only exercise his/her profession through more than one professional types of organization (listed in this article).
Requests to register with the Bar can be done by the following
- those registering through an exam;
- those registering without an exam (doctors of law, a person who has been a judge, prosecutor, notary, legal counsel for more than 10 years)
- a member of a foreign Bar.
A Romanian attorney is able to offer a very wide range of legal services such as drafting contracts, legal opinions and reports, consulting services, assisting and representing clients before Courts of Law, Public Notaries, Public Administration and any kind of institutions and third parties. Romanian Lawyers can also ascertain the identity of parties signing specific documents, as well as assign an official date for the document and its content.

Other activities include: mediation, fiduciary activities in behalf of the client, offering a temporary registered office for companies.

Romanian lawyers can activate through the following legal entities:
a) an individual lawyer’s office
This must contain the name of the lawyer and can have other lawyers as collaborators.
b) an associate office;
This is basically a form of association between individual law offices, without having a common patrimony.
c) a professional association;
This is constituted of 2 or more lawyers which have a common patrimony. Other lawyers activating in this type of association can either be collaborators or employees.
d) limited liability professional association.
This is the most complex form of professional association and has certain specifics: it has at least 2 lawyers, its own legal personality and its own patrimony. Other lawyers activating in this type of association can either be collaborators or employees. Also this type of entity must have social shares of at least 10,000 Euros.