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On the threshold of the 2020s, the world of lawyers is undergoing spectacular change. Their number has been growing steadily for several decades, most of them have specialized in different legal fields, developing their offices according to ultra-liberal rules, in a wide variety of forms. Will the year 2020, marked by the big strike in defense of their pension system and the health crisis, have altered or even broken its dynamism? I don’t think so. The bar has an ancient history and an essential social function. Lawyers reinvent their profession at each era and will no doubt continue to do so in the future. However diverse they may be, they are united by a common value: the defense of their clients, and a certain idea of the law, of the rule of law.