Abstract
The Argentine legal profession has experienced, as in most Latin American countries, a rapid process of change since the return of democracy. The expansion of higher education associated with democratization has contributed to an increase in the number of lawyers and has diversified the social composition of this professional group in terms of gender, class, and geographic origin. This chapter presents an overview of these changes, focusing especially on the situation of an important segment of the profession: large law firms, oriented toward the corporate sector. The first part of this chapter outlines the political and economic changes the country has experienced since 1990. The presentation of trends in the legal profession starts by analyzing the expansion of large firms in the nineties and continues by describing large law firms’ responses to the 2001 crisis. It concludes by showing their efforts to adapt to a context of recurrent economic crises and marked changes in foreign relations.
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